Page Two 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 Season's Greetings 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'. 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