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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

VOL. 48, NO. 14

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 5, 1946

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Youth Rubbi Lands Soviets for
Germans Barred from 1 Is "Executed"
Med Student
Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Further Raich, on Jews

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NEW YORK (JTA) — The Soviet Government is
sincerely -interested ill uprooting anti-Semitism, it was
reportpd here this week by Rabbi Mordecai Nurok, a
leader of the World Mizrachi Organization and of the
World Jewish Congress who has just arrived in the
United States from the USSR where he had resided since

STUTTGART (WNS) — General Joseph T. McNar-
ney, commander of the United States Forces in the Euro-
pean theatre, this week issued an order rescinding the
authority of German police to enter Jewish displaced
persons camps until a complete investigation is made of
last week's clash, when a Polish Jew was killed by Ger-
man policemen raiding a camp for

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alleged black market activities.
The authority for the raid was
said to have been issued by the
American military detachment af-
ter German police had claimed to
be in possession of evidence of
black market activities In the camp.
Eight American military police-
men were assigned by Colonel
Dawson to accompany the Ger-
man raiding party of over 200.
Reaching the camp early in the
morning, the German police, us-
ing loud speakers on trucks, or-
dered all Jews to leave their apart-
ments. While the startled refu-
gees were leaving their homes,
they saw a number of German
policemen dragging a handcuffed
Jewish youth and beating Jewish
men and women with fists and
truncheons.
After the police authorized the
refugees to return to their homes,
a German policeman followed
Samuel Danziger, a Jewish refu-
gee who survived four years in
the notorious Oswiecim camp with
his wife and two children, and
began hitting him on the head .
Danziger fell, but when he arose,
a German policeman shot him
through the head at close range,
killing him instantly. Before that
five other Jews were wounded.
The German policeman who killed
Danziger was later identified by
Fola Friedman, who was with
Danziger at Oswiecim, as a for-
mer guard at the camp.
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Irving Hayett Meets
First Jew in Germany

ARTICLE XII

"Sholem Alechim!"

are all right now." I shall never
forget her eyes.
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They were wonderful words to
hear. I had met my first Jew in '
Germany. On my way to the
Schloss and the trial, I stopped
in at a little shop on a side street
to price a figure that had caught
my eye, made of brass and rags.
While talking to the storekeeper
in my Yiddish-German combina-
tion, I felt that I was being in-
tently watched. Her eyes were
looking right into mine as we
spoke and they were seeking to
tell me something. Suddenly she
came around the other side of the
counter and came up to me and
said, "Sig rind Jude, nein?" "Yes,"
I replied. "Sholem Alechim," she
said with a little catch in her
voice.
It was good to talk Yiddish
again, it was good to see a Jew
in Germany. We made an ap-
pointment for that evening. She
pleaded that I come to her house
and meet her (laughter Eva and
her husband David. Her name
was Mrs. Kreiger. That night,
after dinner, I filled my musette
bag with candy, gum, coffee,
crackers, chocolate, fruit juices,
soap and cigarettes and set out
for No. 13 Anlagen Street. There
I met Dr. Kreiger, a man of
about 40 with an almost bald
head, very deep-set eyes -- as
a matter of fact they were sunk-
en so deep they seemed half-
closed most of the time, and I
met Eva, their child.
Thin and Emaciated

Eva is a little Jewish girl of 14
years of age. She is thin and ema-
ciated and has a very thin, soft-
spoken voice. It was her eyes --
her eyes spoke of terror, blood-
shed, beatings, hunger and fear --
fear as only a child can show it
who has lived with it and known
it without end. When you looked
at her with her faint half-smile,
you wanted to take her in your
arms and stroke her hair and say.
"Don't be afraid, little girl, you

Julian Krolik Is
New President of
Detroit Federation

Brown Declares
Rescue of Jews
World's Obligation

Cecil Brown, famous radio com-
mentator and foreign correspond-
ent, told more than 800 women at
a rally of the Women's Division
of the Allied Jewish Campaign
on March 27 at Temple Beth El
that "we are still at war, a war
to win and maintain peace, and
our first obligation is to rescue
those who were victims of fascism
and aggression for twelve years."
Speaking on behalf of the na-
tion-wide $100,000,000 United Jew-
ish Appeal, Mr. Brown told the
Women's Division of the local $2,-
000,000 campaign that the des-
perate problems of Jewish sur-
vivors in Europe can be met only
by an unprecedented outpouring of
funds from American Jewry to
finance the • work of the Joint
Distribution Committee, the United
Palestine Appeal and the Nation-
al Refugee Service.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, presi-
dent of the Women's Division,
presided at the rally at which Mr.
Brown related the vast problems
of Jews in Europe to the com-
plex social problem that "must be
solved throughout the world by
all countries acting together for
peace and security."

1939, after Latvia, of which he
was chief rabbi, became a part of
the Soviet Union.
Rabbi Nurok, who was a mem-
ber of the Latvian parliament,
addressed a press conference ar-
ranged by the World Jewish Con-
gress at which Louis Segal and
Dr. Zoroch Wahrhaftig reported
Julian H. Krolik, prominent on conditions of Jews in Poland,
community leader, was elected from which they returned this
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit at a meet- week. "It must be emphasized
ing of the Federation Board of that several hundred thousand Po-
Governors on Thursday, March 28, lish and other Jews found a hav-
at the Hotel Tuller following dis- en from the Nazis in the USSR,'
cussion of a proposal to broaden he stated. He also pointed out
community representation on the that there are many Jewish gen
Board by adding 25 representa- erals in the Soviet army and that
tives of trade, professional and there is complete equality of
junior service groups, the Wo- rights for Jews in Russia.
Mr. Segal and Dr. Wahrhaftlg
men's Division and local Jewish
reported that an average of 1,500
organization.
Jews weekly are now being re.
Theodore Levin and Harry Frank patriated to Poland from the
were elected vice-presidents of the USSR.
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Federation. David Wilkus was in urgent
chosen to serve as treasurer and and medical aid. The arrival of
Isidore Sobeloff was elected sec- the Polish Jews from the USSR
retary.
does not increase the total num-
Judge William Friedman became ber of Jews in Poland, since an
equal number of Jews leave Po-
the new chairman of the Board
land regularly for the U. S. zone
of Governors after a vote of grat- in Germany, Siegal said.
itude by the Board for his serv-
He emphasized that the Polish
ice during the past year as presi- Government IS doing all it can to
dent. Judge Friedman presided at curb anti-Semitic feelings in the
the meeting at which the report country, but said that the major-
of the Nominations Committee, ity of the Poles are making life
headed by Mrs. Joseph H. Ehr- unbearable for the surviving Jews.
The only solution to the Jewish
lich, was accepted unanimously.
A report on the "good progress problem in Poland is emigration,
Segal declared.
of the Allied Jewish Campaign as
reflected in the highly favorable
community feeling and the en-
couraging number of volunteer
campaign workers was presented
to the meeting by Mr. Sobeloff,
Governors of twenty states
campaign leader and executive
joined in a plea to Americans of
director of the Federation.
all faiths for help in the rescue
of 1,500,000 Jewish survivors of
Nazism in Europe who are "home-
less, sick and helpless."
Specifically, they asked for sup-
port of the nationwide $100,000,-
000 campaign of the United Jew-
NEW YORK --- Elmo Roper, ish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine.
noted public opinion analyst and
Governor Dewey declared that
assistant professor at the Colum- America's battle of liberation
bia University School of Journal- would be left unfinished if we
ism, endorsed the $100,000,000 cam- failed to rescue Jewish survivors
paign of the United Jewish Ap- "from the plight which has fol-
peal for Refugees, Overseas Needs lowed in the wake of war and
persecution."
and Palestine.
In a message that was accom-
ponied by an unsolicited contribu- DISCORD FOSTERS FASCISM
tion to the nationwide drive, Mr. . Any disagreement between Ruc-
Roper emphasized that the des- sia and the Western powers is
"particularly dangerous" because
perate plight of Europe's 1,400,- it encouroges surviving Nazis in
000 Jewish survivors constitutes Germany and Fascists of Europe
"not just a Jewish problem, but to attempt a comeback, Asbassa-
a human problem."
dor Oskar Lange stated.

"EXECUTED" YOUTH
Majlech Elencwajg, a displaced
person from Radom, Poland, to-
day is a medical student at the
University of Marburg, Germany,
by grace of an UNRRA scholar-
ship and a freak of fate.
According to a dispatch from
UNRRA's Central Headquarters in
Germany, where UNRRA takes
care of 850,000 DP's, the youth
was "executed" in 1944 by a Nazi
firing squad and was buried under
a thin layer of dirt. The bullet,
however, had glanced off his skull
and did no more than knock him
out temporarily. Regaining con-
sciousness, he dug himselg out of
the grave and was concealed by
other prisoners until the S.S.
guards were changed and he was
able to resume his role of just
another prisoner.
Today Elencwajg, with some 90
other young DP's to whose rehab-
ilitation UNRRA is pledged, works
hard at the University of Mar-
burg. He is a man with a future
in medicine — and a bullet scar
on his forehead as a grim re-
minder of his past.

Jewish Homes
Looted By Mobs

By GUSTAV HERZOG
(JTA Correspondent)
VIENNA (JTA) Anti-Jewish ri-
ots are reported to have occurred
in the towns of Ozd and Sajos-
zentpeter, in Hungary, during
which Jewish houses were looted
and Jews attacked by mobs shout-
ing anti-Semitic slogans.
The communal kitchen main-
tained by the Joint Distribution
Committee for the needy Jews of
Ozd was plundered by the mob,
which was incited by former Nazi
sympathizers. Local police made
no attempt to protect the Jews.
In Budapest the Hungarian Sec-
retary of State told the corres-
pondent of the JTA that the po-
lice in Ozd took immediate action
against the hooligans and that
the ringleaders of the riot, all
former Nazis now active in other
parties, were arrested. "About for-
ty persons are now under arrest
awaiting severe punishment," he
said.
Ozd is a small industrial town
known for its iron works. Prior
to the mass deportations of Jews
from Hungary, it had about 1,200
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
Jewish inhabitants. There are only
215 Jews left. The majority of
WASHINGTON (JTA)
Pres- them returned from Nazi camps in
ident Truman in a letter to Her- Germany. Almost all of them are
bert H. Lehman, retiring Director in need of relief.
General of UNRRA, expressed
gratitude for Mr. Lehman's exe-
cution of this "humane task of
world-wide proportions." He
thanked him for laying the foun-
dation for UNRRA, and for giv-
ing "without stint" of his time
and energy.
"You brought to this task the
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Gen-
rich background of your years of eralissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-
selfless service in the fields of Shek have donated $4,000 to the
philanthropy and of public office Hebrew University towards erec-
as Governor of the State of New tion of a building in memory of
York," the President wrote. "The Brigadier Orde Wingate, pro-Zion-
people of the United Nations, no ist British general who died in a
less than those receiving UNRRA plane crash in Burma during the
aid, he concluded, will be grate- war, it was announced here. The
ful to you for your part in mak- contribution was accompanied by
ing possible this collaboration in a message from Mme. Chiang to
the interests of lasting peace."
Brigadier Wingate's widow.

President Thanks
UNRRA Head

Chiang Kai-Shek
Donates $4,000 to
flebreiv College

Governors Urge
Support for Jews

Analyst Endorses
UJA Campaign

Nazi Plaits to Stir Up Anti-Semitism
In U. S. and East Are Shown at Trial

By MOSES SCHOENFELD
(JTA Correspondent)
NUREMBERG (JTA) - As re-
cently as April, 1944, on the eve
of the Allied invasion of Europe,
Nazi diplomats from all parts of
the world were summoned to a
special conference in Germany at
which they discussed means of
intensifying anti-Semitic activities
in America and the Far East, as
well as in Europe, it was reveal-
ed before the International Mill.
tary Tribunal.
British prosecutors submitted a
German Foreign Office report on
the meeting, which was dubbed
a "Conference of Consultants on
the Jewish Question," Nazi rep-
resentatives in China and Japan
were among those present, and
one of the chief items on the
agenda was a discussion of the
20.000 Jewish refugees in Shang-
hai.
One of the diplomats, calling for
the complete extermination of the
Jews, said that "the physical elim-
ination of Eastern Jewry would

deprive Jewry of its biological re-
serves." He added that the "Jew-
ish question must be solved not
cfnly by Germany, but interna-
tionally."
A certain Von Thanden, the Fo-
reign Office specialist on Jewish
questions, urged intensification of
the work of spreading anti-Jew-
ish propaganda through diploma-
tic channels in various countries.
Numerous speakers at the con-
ference stressed the importance
of disseminating anti-Semitism in
such a fashion that it would not
appear to be of German origin.
Another document, dated Oct. 2,
1942, linked the Gestapo and the
Foreign Office to Rumanian Prem-
ier Ian Antonescu's anti-Jewish
activities. A Gestapo memorandum
to Von Ribbentrop's office report-
ed that on that day 110.000 Jews
were evacuated from Bukovina
and Bessarabia to two forests near
the Bug River. Deportation of
these Jews, the report stated, was

being carried out at Antonescu's
orders for the purpose of "li-
quidating" them.

