Page Fourteen
Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
THE JEWISH SCENE OVERSEAS
(Continued from page 4)
11 voluntarily contributed to a
fund to provide food and other
necessities for them. Otherwise,
the "freed" women would have
starved.
Leon Gould, writing in PM,
from Piene, in Central Germany
on June 2, describes the menu
for displaced persons in that
area's camps as follows: break-
fast, a cup of coffee, lunch, a
thin soup of vegetable greens,
dinner, milksoup; one loaf of
bread per day for 8 men; milk
for children, but in ever dimin-
ishing quantities. When inter-
viewed, Lt. A. Cantreuil showed
him the ration allowance for dis-
placed persons which had been
prepared by SIIAEF. It looked
nice on paper: meat fats, bread,
sugar, marmalade, cheese, coffee,
milk, eggs. Gould says the lieu-
tenant was surprised to learn
what the displaced persons were
actually getting. Then Cantreuil
explained that the burgomeister
(mayor) of the town must fur-
nish the food, which is "donated"
according to ration requirements
by German civilians. "Obviously,"
adds Gould, "the 'donation' sys-
tem isn't working."
Jewish women, numbering 1,-
070 between 15 and 30 years old,
were reported still in Camp Lin-
gen, near Wilhelmshaven, and in
desperate need of food and clo-
thing. Every day brings reports
of new camps with thousands of
Jewish slave workers being "dis-
covered."
Said one Jewish survivor of a
German concentration c a m p:
"The Germans murdered us and
now our remaining will power and
faith in life are being murdered
as we are not allowed to go to
Palestine."
Harry Greenstein, former dep-
uty director of the Welfare Di-
Vision of UNRRA, who recently
returned from Europe and Pales-
tine, said: "The Jews of Europe
have been liberated, but they
have no sense of freedom and
no seise of security."
Clarence B. Odeall, head of the
population section of the U. S.
State Department, and Robert H.
Biligmeir, population analyst, rec-
ognized, in the current State De-
partment Bulletin, that the prob-
lem of displaced Jews while only
a small part of the displaced
European nationals is, neverthe-
less, "a matter of international
importance and concern."
An American eyewitness in
Germany records an incident
which ocurred in Luebeck toward
the end of May, and which makes
clear the reasons for the em-
phatic desire of most Polish Jews
not to be repatriated. Some Poles,
Jews and non-Jews, were evacu-
ated by the military government
from a concentration camp to
former marine barracks in Lue-
beck. There, the gentile inmates
"outdid their own suppressors in
inhumanity against their Jewish
landsleute," the observer writes.
"The fact that even the horrors
suffered together in concentra-
tion camps have not been able
to remove the antagonism be-
tween the . . . racial groups is
one of the most unpleasant ex-
periences in this human tragedy,"
he adds. Capt. Leon Peretz, Jew-
ish chaplain in the Polish Army,
who was liberated from a camp
in Bavaria by American troops,
charged that anti-Semitic Polish
students had cooperated with the
Germans during the occupation
and had delivered many Jews to
the Gestapo.
Symptomatic of the despera-
tion of Jewish survivors in Ger-
many is the unconfirmed report
that 300 of them in Buchenwald
became converted because they
saw their Christian neighbors be-
ing released through the efforts
of non-Jewish and non-sectarian
agencies, while they waited in
vain for assistance.
The chief obstacle in the way
of the release of Jews from the
barracks and concentration areas
is that they have no place to go,
and few officers to take care of
their needs. Allied military au-
thorities have announced that
displaced Jews will not be com-
pelled to return to Poland, Czech-
oslovakia, Austria and Hungary,
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but they have not announced, nor
are they in a position to say,
what countries they can emigrate
to.
An advisory and relief office
for Jews whose status was ef-
fected by the Nuremburg laws
has been established in Munich.
Abolition of these laws was an-
nounced immediately upon Allied
occupation.
A provisional community coun-
cil has been set up for the 6,000
Jews already in Berlin. An on-
the-spot correspondent gives his
impressions on meeting some of
these Jews on Berlin's famous
Kurfuerstendamm. Most of them
were married to non-Jews, or
had one "aryan" parent; some
had friends who had risked their
lives to prevent their falling into
Nazi clutches. In a small an-
tique shop on the thoroughfare,
the newspaperman found and
purchased a brass menorah, prob-
ably stolen from a Jewish family.
Various German municipalities
have broadcast their intention to
organize convoys to bring back
the Jews from Theresienstadt,
where many Jews from Germany
were quartered. But the bulk of
the Jews who formerly lived in
Germany have no desire again to
become the stepchildren of any
successor to the Third Reich.
Although some attempts have
been made to counteract the ef-
fects of Hitlerite indoctrination,
the German population remains
sullen and apathetic. Residents of
Bad Nauheim who participated in
looting the city's synagogue have
been compelled by their mayor
to contribute to its reconstruc-
tion. Berlin authorities have sent
out a request for a rabbi to min-
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theirs, through the reconstructi on
of the Jewish Commonwealth of
Palestine.
May the New Year mark an
end to the bitterness of th,
to the sacrifices and hardship,'
that have been endured by all
peace-loving and democrati c peo-
ples. May it bring to the .Je wish
people the realization of ti„,j r
Dachau, a name whispered in ancient aspirations.
dread during the long reign of
Nazi terror, was the scene of a
memorial for thousands of our- I
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tiered Jews on June 12. Blue and
white Jewish flags, draped in
black, flew over the services. A
tall stone column surmounted by
a Mogen Dovid and a twin col-
umn topped with a cross are be-
ing erected at the camp to mark
the mass graves of the extermin-
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be paid for by German funds;
the project will . be the work of
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where the Nazis held their mon-
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On the other hand, Nazi teach-
ings seem deeply rooted in the
minds of the young. "Jews stirred
up the war" was the answer giv-
en to American interviewers by
half a dozen German boys be-
tween the ages of 14 and 17,
when they were questioned on a
street in a central German town.
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Ten J.D.C. relief teams have
been organized with their first
care for thousands of children
objective to provide shelter and
liberated from concentration
camps and found wandering alone
in German cities. Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, European director of
the Committee, who has just re-
turned from the field stated that
agreements had been reached
with the governments of France,
Switzerland and England to ad-
mit children for temporary care.
France has already accepted 515
boys and 20 girls from Buchen-
wald and will take another 1,000.
Switzerland will receive 2,000
and England 1,000. It is hoped
that Sweden may open its doors
to some of the children.
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