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• Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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VOL. 47, NO, 51

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1945

AJC Asks U.S. 6,000,000 Jews Murdered,
To Admit Jews Nazi Police Head Admits

UJA Drives For One
Hundred Million Dollars

ATLANTIC CITY (JTA) — A drive for one hundred
million dollars in 1946 to aid the Jews in Europe, and to
finance the development and settlement of Palestine, wa3
adopted here at the national conference of the United
Jewish Appeal, which opened this week at the Hotel
Chelsea, with more than 600 Jewish leaders from all over
the country participating.

Speakers at the conference,
among whom were Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, Paul Baerwald, hon-
orary chairman of the JDC, Earl
G. Harrison, American member of
the Inter-Governmental Committee
on Refugees, Dr. Joseph Schwartz,
JDC European director, and
Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency, stressed that 1946
will be a critical and decisive year,
and one that will decide the fate
of Jewry for many years.
Dr. Weizmann, in his address,
(Continued on page 8)

Council Presents
44 Fifth Successful
Annual Institute

10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year

Fears Increasing
Anti-Semitism In
Britain, Warning

NEW YORK (JTA) — Voicing
his personal anxiety over the
growth of anti-Semitism in Great
Britain, Rev. William W. Simp-
son, who arrived here from Lon-
don to discuss plans for an inter-
national conference of Christians
and Jews, told a press conference
that he welcomed the formation
of the Anglo-American inquiry
committee on Palestine as a pos-
sible solution to the problem. He
also stated that he is in accord
witn the recent statement of Brit-
ish Foreign Minister Bevin in
Commons since it states that the
complete solution of the Jewish
problem does not lie in Palestine.
There is a danger, Rev. Simpson
said, that violence such as cropped
up in the Sharon settlements re-
cently, could boomerang and tend
to aggravate whatever anti-Semi-
tism there may be in England. He
was aware, he said, "of the emo-
tions of the Jews in these troubled
days, but there must be clear
thinking and understanding on
both sides."

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee an-
nounced that it has sent a letter
to Secretary of State Byrnes ask-
ing that unused U. S. immigra-
tion quotas should be utilized for
the admission of stateless and un
repatriable European Jews.
The letter was sent to the State
Department following a recent vis-
it to Mr. Byrnes by Jacob Blau-
stein, chairman of the executive
committee of the organization, and
John Slawson, executive vice-pres-
ident, the announcement said, add-
ing that during the visit, the Sec-
retary of State had invited the
Committee to submit information
on the question.
Mr. Blaustein pointed out in the
letter that not more than six per-
cent of the available U. S. immi-
gration quotas for the European
area were filled during the fiscal
year 1944, and estimated that the
figure for the fiscal year 1945 will
be equally low if not lower. The
number of Jews in the American
and British occupation zones ex-
ceeds 100,000, the letter pointed
out, adding that the majority are
unrepatriable to their countries of
origin. Under the United States
National Origins Law, the Com-
mittee stated, approximately 42,-
000 visas are available yearly to
German, Czechoslovakian, Polish
and Rumanian nationals.
Regarding possible transporta-
tion difficulties, the letter suggest-
ed to Mr. Byrnes that the shipping
shortage will end soon, and that
the issuance of visas against the
time when transportation is again
available would go a long way to-
ward sustaining the battered mor-
ale of the displaced persons.

By WILLY BRANDT (JTA Correspondent)

NUREMBERG (JTA)—A German secret police report
estimating that the Nazis murdered 6,000,000 Jews in
Europe wa3 submitted this week to the International War
Crimes Tribunal.

Jews Escaping
From Pogroms
Reaching Munich

By Arthur Gaeth
(JTA Correspondent)
MUNICH (JTA) — This capi-
tal of Bavaria almost overnight
has become the center of contin-
ental European Jewry. Pogrom
conditions in Poland, the un-
friendliness in Hungary and the
fear of further persecutions of
those Jews who survived Hitler
and returned to their countries all
have caused thousands to leave
and to converge on Munich.
The reason for the selection of
this city is because the grapevine
has spread the story that the way
to Palestine leads from Warsaw
to Prague, by way of Munich, or
through Munich to Vienna and
Salzburg. Refugees from eastern
Europe, including those from the
Russian zone, have been arriving
at the Deutsches Museum, the
American Army transient center
in Munich, at the rate of 300
daily. The huge museum building,
which was partly destroyed by
bombs, has been turned into an ex-
tensive barracks with some 500
beds and 300 cots.
One night last week, 1,060 people

(Continued on Page 16)

'This)Very Simple Problem In Mathematics
m% Is Putting Civilization Onahe Brink Of Insanity

J. D. C. Chart Shown At Annual Meeting

SURVIVING JEWISH POPULATION OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE

EACH FIGURE REPRESENTS 0000 JEWS DARK FIGURES REPRESENT THE NUMBER IN INDICATED COUNTRY TODAY. LIGHT FIGURES, EXCEPT FOR THE 400,000
WHO EMIGRATED OR FLED SINCE 1939, REPRESENT THE 4800000 WHO PERISHED AT THE HANDS or THE NAZIS IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE (ExlusAy of the Scw# Unen)

LAWRENCE W. CROHN

Open discussioni in which dele-
gates and local workers had the
floor throughout the day featured
the annual Jewish Community
Council Institute which was held
last Sunday. Approximately 300
people attended the afternoon and
evening sessions.
Because of storms which inter-
fered with transportation, Dr.
Samuel C. Kohs, director of the
Bureau of War Records, who was
scheduled to be the guest speaker
at the evening session, was unable
to reach Detroit in time. The pro-
gram committee substituted a sym-
posium on the subject "The Or-
ganized Jewish Community of the
Future" in which Lawrence W.
Crohn, James I. Ellmann, Rabbi
Leon Fram, Isaac Franck, Irv-
ing W. Schlussel and Harold Silver
participated.
The afternoon session opened
.vith a keynote address by Mr.
Crohn, chairman of the Program
Committee. Mr. Crohn expressed
the view that the Community
Council was developing towards
the kind of democratic Jewish
community organization envisaged
by its founders. There were still
too many people in the community
who did not know clearly what the
Council's objectives and accomp-
lishments were. He urged that the
enrichment of Jewish values, not
only joint action on Jewish diffi-
culties, should be the basis of or-
ganization. We have to carry on
community work with the aid of
those who are devoted to Jewish
ideals, and in spite of those who
are seeking to escape from Jewish
life.
In the discussion of the work of
the Council in the field of com-
batting anti-Semitism and develop-
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Hoettl said that his estimate was
based on figures submitted to him
by Adolph Eichman, Palestine-
horn Nazi who was the chief ex-
t erminator of Jews for the secret
nolice. He also revealed that Ges-
tapo chief Heinrich Himmler
thought that the Eichman figure
was too low.
Major Frank Walsh, Assistant
(Continued on page 8)

Eisenhower Gets
Annual American
Hebrew Medal

NEW YORK (JTA) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower has been
awarded the 1945 Medal for Pro-
motion of Better Understanding
between Christian and Jew in
America, which is presented an-
nually by the American Hebrew
magazine in recognition of the
year's outstanding contribution to
the progress of inter-faith accord
in America, it was announced by
Joseph H. Biben, editor and pub-
lisher of the magazine.
General Eisenhower was cited
for the honor chiefly upon his rec-
ord in Europe, particularly in re-
lationship to his attitude towards
Jewish refugees, war prisoners and
displaced persons; also because of
his consistently enlightened and
vigorously democratic stand during
his administration of American-
occupied Germany; and for his
brilliant leadership in helping to
attain victory over Germany. The
name of General Eisenhower was
chosen from a list of candidates
submitted to the American He-
brew's committee of judges, com-
posed of 65 eminent Americans of
the three faiths.

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fore the court an affidavit by Wil-
heml Hoettl, assistant to Ernst
Kaltenbrunner, who was former
Chief of the Nazi Security Po-
lice, stating that "approximately
.1,000,000 Jews have been killed
in the various extermination
camps, while an additional 2,000,-
000 met death in other ways, the
major part of which were shot by
operational squads of security po-
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Russia."

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This chart of the surviving Jewish population of Europe, based on surveys conducted by the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, indicates that less than 1,500,000 Jews ri•main alive on the continent out of a pre-
Hitler population of over 6,000,000 (exclusive of the Soviet Union). The greatest number of Jews live in
Rumania, Hungary and France, scene of extensive relief and rehabilitation activities provided by the
J.D.C. for distressed Jews.

Stark tragedy, painted in terrifying simplicity, is
revealed in the chart above. Horrors for a hellish
nightmare, hideous terrors for a world gone mad
are painted in clear black and white.
There is no sentiment in mathematics. There is
no poetry in numbers. There is only foul murder.
There is only shuddering insanity.
Let the world read this chart. Let every human
being on this planet come to his senses. Let all peo-
ples of the globe be sick at the stomach. Let their
brains reel at the depths to which the world has
plunged. Let this chart be a towering monument of
man's inhumanity to man.
Then let the whole world beg for forgiveness. Let
the high and the mighty and the weak and the low-
ly alike realize to what Inhuman depths mankind

has fallen.
In ages to come, people with a spark of humanity
in them will not be able to look at this chart with-
out retching. It is almost inconcievable. These are
simple numbers. It is a simple problem in arith-
metic. Six million minus one and a half million
leaves four and a half million.
Yes, that is it. Four and a half million are slaugh-
tered. Just a number.
But these were men and women and children.
Their pulses beat with life. They looked up at the
light. They rejoiced in the open air. And now they
are dingy figures on a chart.
Look, world! Look! This is what is left! Lsok!
Understand! Realize! Then bend the knee and bow
the head.

Jewish Tragedy
Ignored, Charge

Dean Earl G. Harrison, whose re-
port to President Truman re-
vealed the shocking conditions at
the Jewish DP camps in the Amer-
ican occupation zone in Germany,
characterized as "poignantly disap-
pointing" the reaction to his re-
port. He scored the indifference
'If many Americans to the "bar-
baric persecution of the Jews," de-
claring that despite reassurances
-iven after publication of his re-
port to President Truman, the fact
remqined that the "saddest picture
on the Continent today continues
to be that of the persecution of
this minority."
Pointing out that the trial of the
Nazi leaders at Nuremberg did
"not discharge our responsibilities
toward their victims," Dean Har-
rison stressed that America "must
take aggressive leadership in the
lone: task that will he involved in
replacing hate and destruction
with friendship and real help to-
ward rehabilitation."
Calling the $100,000,000 United
Jewish Appeal drive for 19.16 "the
greatest humanitarian camnain
in the history of the world," Mr.
Harrison stressed that "whether
we can meet the opportunity for
real peace will depend in large
measure upon how much we can
do for those victimized by w*•
and aggression."

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