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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Penalties Urged Flight from Poland Ends for Refugees
for Curbs on GI's
JWV Finds Prejudice
Rampant in Colleges
Friday, December 20, 1946
pending with the children's par.
ents as late as 1939 or 1040.
2 Small Berlin Boys
Seek Uncles in U.S.
That is all the youngsters know
—except that the other members
BERLIN — Freddy and Henry of the family were killed by the
Taucher, two small boys who man- Nazis, and that the two uncles
aged by some miracle to hide out are their only remaining relatives.
'uccessfully in Berlin throughout
'he war, are desperately seeking
!heir uncles, Alfred and Felix Mu-
eller, who left for the U. S. In
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1936 or 1937, and HIAS location
service is conducting a search for
them.
NEW YORK — A charge that
thousands of Jewish GI's were be-
ing denied admission into col-
leges and universities throughout
The children remember that
the country for no other reason
their uncles are about 40 years
than their religion was ,made by
old, and that they were corres-
the Jewish War Veterans of the
United States.
The report, based upon a sur-
vey especially prepared for the
Arriving in San Francisco, Rabbi Abram Kaplinski, his wife, Ne-
51st annual encampment of the
ehoma, and their children, aged 8. 9 and 12, smile happily as they
JWV Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, was com-
prepare to entrain for the East. The family was among the second
piled from the confidential files
group of 313 refugees to arrive from Shanghai, where they were
of the organization in its corres-
stranded for more than five years following their escape from
pondence with Jewish GI's seeking
Poland. United Service for New Americans provided a complete
admission to colleges or profes-
program of reception care for the newcomers with the cooperation
sional schools.
of the San Francisco Committee for Service to Emigres and other
HYPOCRISY CHARGED
local agencies.
"The survey," said former Com-
personnel of both rabbinical col-
mander Maxwell Cohen, "reveals
leges will resume their studies and
an amazing degree of hypocrisy
rebuild their institution under the
on the part of the administrative
sponsorship of the Agudath Israel
officials of the nation's colleges.
Youth Council.
Seldom is a Jewish GI turned
NEW YORK — The surviving
down in a forthright statement teaching and student bodies of two
based upon religious discrimina- famous Czechoslovakian rabbinical
tion. Instead, well worn excuses colleges will be transferred to the
are detailed. In checking a large United States, according to ar-
number of cases, however, we have rangements worked out between
concluded that the Jewishness of the State Department and the
the applicant was the decisive fac- Refugee-Immigration Division of
tor in his rejection.
the Agudath Israel Youth Council
"We are convinced," Cohen con- of America.
tinued "that discrimination on the
The two Jewish institutions
basis of race, color or religion which will be transplanted intact
can only be stopped by legislation on American soil are the Rabbin-
that would deny federal funds to ical College of Neltra, whose 71
any college or university that surviving divinity students and
practices such discrimination.
five professors are en route
BARRED BY LEGION
to the United States, and the Rab-
"The American Legion, at its binical College of Sederheler, whose
recent convention in San Francis. total personnel was reduced by
co , passed a resolution along these war and persecution to 46 divinity
lines when It opposed 'discrimina- students and four professors.
tion against any veteran seeking
Upon arrival in this country, the
education under the provisions of
the GI Bill of Rights'. This is a
step in the right direction, but
we of the JWV believe that to
prevent discrimination Congress
must enact legislation forbidding
federal funds to any institution
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"Only with this punitive penalty
will some colleges and universities
cease the use of subterfuges to
practice discrimination on racial
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