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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 8, 1946
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Welcome Council of Federations
“Planning for 1946" is Theme of 1946 War Secretary
Assembly of Council of Federations, Praises Jewish
With unprecedented needs overseas and major ad- Heroes in Battle
justments at home, "Planning for 1946" will be the
theme of the 1946 General Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds opening today, at
the Statler Hotel, and continuing through Monday, Feb.
11. With the exception of the Sat-
urday evening session which is
scheduled for the main auditorium
of Temple Beth El, all of the
meetings will take place at the
Statler and a record attendance
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DR. WILLIAM HABER
from all parts of the United
States and Canada will gather in
Detroit to consider common com-
munity jaglijezies and responsibili-
ties and to lay the ground work
to meet them effectively.
Joint Session
The feature program of the as-
sembly, of special interest to Jews
of Detroit, will take place on Sat-
urday evening at Temple Beth El
where the Jews of Detroit are be-
ing invited by the officers of the
Council of Jewish Federations, in
cooperation with the United Jew-
ish Appeal to participate in a
joint session with the delegates
and to hear reports on the Ameri-
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can task, needs and programs in
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Europe, and the role of Palestine.
Among the speakers will be Mrs.
Adele Rosenwald Levy, National
Women's Chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, just returned from
a mission overseas; Dr. William
Haber, Professor of Econdmics at
the University of Michigan, and
former Director of the National
Refugee Service, and Dr. James
G. Heller, distinguished Cincinnati
rabbi and one of the chairmen of
the United Jewish Appeal. The
subject of the session will be
"Community Planning for Over-
seas Needs," and first hand re-
p ports will be submitted on the lat-
est developments at home and
abroad affecting Jews everywhere.
Care of Aged
The Friday morning opening
session, at the Statler, was devoted
to a discussion of programs and
care of the aged and chronic sick.
Joseph Folkoff, superintendent of
the Levindale Home for Aged, Bal-
timore, offered a general analysis
and evaluation on how we are or-
ganized to care for the aged, the
developing needs of the aged in
relation to available governmental
and other facilities for their care;
t he inter-relationship of local
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Greece First to
Give Up Jewish
Heirless Property
NEW YORK — Greece recently
was reported to be the first Euro-
pean country whose government
has taken legal measures to sur-
render to the Jewish community
the heirless properties of exter-
minated Jews and to earmark them
for Jewish reconstruction.
This information comes in the
release of a cable to the head-
quarters of the World Jewish
Congress from the Central Board
of Jewish CommunitieS in Greece,
through its president, Ascher Mois-
sis, representing 10,000 surviving
Jews in his country.
The new law has abolished the
hereditary right of the Greek Pub-
lic Treasury to hold any lien on
masterless Jewish properties and
cedes these properties to a special
fund for Jewish reconstruction.
This move is the first practical
application of the resolution on in-
demnification which the WJC in-
troduced at its 1944 meeting in
Atlantic CitY—and, whieh it offered
to the United Nations for con-
sideration.
One-Tenth of All
Jewish Children
Alive in Europe
NEW YORK (JTA) — Only one-
tenth of the Jewish children of
Europe are alive today and of
those more than half are orphans,
Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman
of the national women's division
of the United Jewish Appeal, who
returned from a month-long study
of the conditions and problems
confronting the Jewish survivors
in Europe declared.
Nine out of every ten Jewish
children perished in Nazi death
camps and gas chambers, Mrs.
Levy reported. There were an es-
timated 1,500,000 Jewish children
in pre-war Europe. Today there
are no more than 150,000. ''Euro-
pean Jewry is almost childless,"
she emphasized, "and that repre-
sents the greatest threat to its fu-
ture existence. If we fail to help
adequately, we may be faced witn
the tragic prospect of the disap-
pearance of the Jews of Europe."
Mrs. Levy offered two "possible
solutions" to the problem of the
Jewish children in Europe: "(a)
They must be helped to emigrate
to Palestine and the United States,
or (b) the governments concerned
must find the means to stabilize the
existence of these youngsters and
integrate them into the general
economic social framework." She
explained that "this has been par-
ticularly difficult in France where
the Jews are despairing and los-
ing hope of early rehabilitation.
Zionist Leaders
Assail Regime
of British Terror
NEW YORK — The new "de-
fense regulations" announced by
the British Government in Pales-
tine were branded as part of a
"regime of terror" which has placed
Palestine out of the.....bounds of
fundamental human rights," in a
statement issued by Dr. Abbe
Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, Joint Chairmen of the Am-
erican Zionist Emergency Coun-
cil, which speaks for the entire
Zionist movement in the United
States.
Speaking for American Zionism
and the overwhelming majority of
American Jewry, we not only pro-
test against the new regulations of
lawlessness in Palestine, but we
also warn the British Government
that if this is the regime which
it proposes to impose on Pales-
tine, henceforth Jews throughout
the world will stand firm in sup-
port of any act directed against
the maintenance and implementa-
tion of these inhuman laws," Dr.
Silver and Dr. Wise declared.
UNRRA Helps
Locate Children
Lost to Germans
UNRRA officials, Allied liaison
officers, and Army representatives
of the three occupation zones of
Western Germany have laid the
groundwork for a drive to locate
and repatriate United Nations chil-
dren who have been absorbed into
German families, UNRRA's Wash-
ington headquarters announces.
At an all-day conference at
Hochst, delegates agreed to in-
tensify a search already initiated
by UNRRA to reveal the location
of children brought to Germany
by the Nazis and placed in Ger-
man homes.
An USFET (U. S. Forces Euro-
Polish Jewish infiltrees. Among the pean Theatre) directive of Janu-
fugitives "from real or threatened ary 8, 1946 provides that special
terror," he said, he found one man attention be given to reporting
who had left his home a few children up to and including the
hours after his neighbor had been age of 15. Similar directives have
found decapitated. been issued in the British and
Rabbi Lookstein praised Army French zones on the basis of an
authorities for permitting infil- Allied Control Council directive.
trees to enter the American zone. Nurenberg trial authorities will
He said conditions in the displaced question war criminals in an effort
persons camps were improving to disclose the Nazi officials re-
and the Army was manifesting "a ' aponsible for bringing the chil-
sympathetic understanding." dren into Germany.
Polish Jews Infiltrating U. S. Zone
Ragged and Starving, Envoy Reports
PARIS (JTA) — The Polish Jews
indltrating into the American zone
are ragged and starving and are
not in good health nor wealthy as
charged by Lt. Gen. Sir. Frederick
Morgan, Rabbi Joseph H. Look-
stein, of the vatIonal Jewish Wel-
fare Board' ous Activities
Committee, said he e this week.
Rabbi Lookstein has just com-
pleted a six-week tour of the
American zone In Europe and per-
hc priallY saw several transports of
NEW YORK (JTA) — Declar-
ing that Jews "are well represent-
ed in every military cemetery
where American fighting men have
been laid to rest after their last
battle," Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson said in an address to
the 39th annual meeting of the
American Jewish Committee: "We
achieved unity in war. We must
maintain unity now. Tolerance is
its foundation."
Describing his recent visit to the
military cemetery in Luxembourg
where Gen. George Patton lay
buried, Mr. Patterson said: "Gen-
eral Patton lies peacefully among
comrades who worshipped a uni-
versal God in their separate ways.
Among the rows upon rows of
simple, white crosses, I noticed , the
familiar Star of David, the sym-
bol of Jewish faith. You were well
represented among those 8,000
dead in the American cemetery in
Luxembourg. You are well repre-
sented in every military cemetery
where American fighting men have
been laid to rest after their last
battle. There they rest equal in
death as they were equal in our
American life and equal in their
devotion to their country's cause."
Scientific Method of Endin g
Anti-Semitism Proposed
A novel method of studying what makes an anti-
Semite for the purpose of being able to unmake him, a
method which may turn out to be a laboratory technique
for changing attitudes of people was set forth by Henry
Epstein, Chairman of the Commission on Community
Interrelations of the American
Jewish Congress at a luncheon of
the Business and Professional
Group last Friday.
Epstein's talk, "A Laboratory
HENRY EPSTEIN
Approach to Democracy," dealt
with group tensions, of which an-
ti-Semitism is one, and how to get
rid of them. He proposed to im-
munize whole communities against
the virus of group hatreds in the
same way as these communities
might be immunized against a
plague of cholera.
Research Institute Set Up
A Research Institute has been
set up under the leadership of
Kurt Lewin, underwritten by the
AJC and working with Research
Institute of Dynamics of the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
The program is still in the experi-
mental stage and has five years
to go.
The Institute was first called
into play when a grave racial in-
cident set Brooklyn all agog. Four
Italian youths gathered outside a
synagogue on Yom Kippur eve
and began to taunt the cantor.
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Palestine Quota to
Be Extended for
2 More Months
JERUSALEM (JTA) The four-
month 1,500 monthly immigration
quota announced last week by
High Commissioner Sir Alan Cun-
ningham will be extended to six
months, with the starting date as
of last Nov. 1, it has been learned.
However, if any of the 9,000 new
visas remain unused at the end of
April, they will be withdrawn.
The Jewish Agency, it is under-
stood, is attempting to have the
starting date advanced to Jan. 1
and is also asking that all the
visas be assigned to Jews. Accord-
ing to present plans, a few of the
immigration certificates would go
to non-Jews.
The visas will not be distributed
through the Jewish Agency, as
were the bulk of those available
under the White Paper, but will
be assigned through British dip-
lomatic representatives abroad.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Arab
Higher Committee has appealed
to the UNO against the decision
to admit more Jews to Palestine.
In a cable to Paul Henri Spaak,
president of UNO's General As-
sembly, the committee described
this decision as "an attack against
the rights of small nations and
their interests."
A police communique said that
there were no incidents during
last Saturday's Arab strike to pro-
test the new immigration quota,
and the entire country was quiet.
The curfew imposed upon the
Jewish district of Jerusalem 15
days ago was lifted on Monday.
Rumanian Paper
Now Suppressed
BUCHAREST (JTA) — The
newspaper "Ardealul," suspended
on Jan. 16 for 15 days on a charge
of publishing anti-Semitic articles,
has now been permanently sup-
pressed, it was announced here.
Jewish Agency Representative
Arrives in Poland; Opens Up Office
By ARON HERMAN
have been killed by anti-Semitic
and anti-Government elements in
(JTA Correspondent)
various sections of Poland.
WARSAW (JTA) — Dr. Moses
Although the government is se-
Jassi, representative of the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine, arrived verely punishing anti-Semitic lead-
here this week to organize a Pal- ers, the terror is creating nervous
estine Office which will be opened tension among Jews and many of
at the end of this month to facili- them seek emigration, a spokes-
tate the emigration of Jews to man of the Central Committee
said. He estimated that about 20,-
Palestine.
000 Jews left Poland since the
The Polish Press Agency has re- country was liberated.
ported that Adolf Berman, one of
The Manchester Guardian has
the leaders of the Central Jewish reported from Warsaw that ritual
Committee in Poland, was awarded murder propaganda against Jews
the Warsaw Medal for his heroic "is being circulated freely in Po•
activities during the uprising land ever. now." The correspond-
against the Germans in the War- ent said that the Jews in Poland
saw ghetto.
feel they will not be able to lead •
The Central Committee of Polish a life free of hatred. He quoted
Jews has announced the estab- Merck Bitter, vice chairman of the
lishment of "repatriation posts" in Central Jewish Committee, 4i*.; stat-
Lodz, Cracow, Kattowice, Bialy- ing that most of the 353 Jews kill-
stok, Przemysl, Chelm and War- ed in Poland during 1945 by the
saw to receive Polish Jews being, anti-Semitic underground move-
repatriated from the Soviet Union. ment were murdered in the War-
Units of the committee's repat- saw and Kielce districts.
nation department will meet the
Gen. Joseph T. McNerney, com-
repatriates and provide food and mender of American forces in Eu-
temnorary lodging until they can rope, stated in his monthly report,
continue to their eventual destine- released in Frankfurt, that Jews
tions. Most of the returning Jews from Poland are continuing to flee
are being directed to tipper Silesia Into the American zone In Ger-
for resettlement.
many and that the Influx appears
Leaders of the Committee have to have been caused by tear of
revealed that more than 350 Jews persecution.