THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Two
Friday, July 3, 1942
Nazis Massacre 700,000 Jews Bravery of Jews on Russia
In Poland ; Gas Adds to Horror Front Praised in Dispatche
One-Third of Entire Jewish Population Slain, "Underground"
Report Reveals; Lethal Chamber Trucks Used
to Speed Mass Executions
Leader Killed, Son of Jewish Colonist Took Command, Be
Off Two Violent Nazi Attacks on Sevastopol,
Moscow Reports as Example
Compiles Job Data
Cable dispatches from all war fronts relate stories
heroism displayed by Jews. .
In Russia and in Palestine, as well as in Libya, Je
in the military forces of the United Nations are playin
an historic role in the struggle to defeat Nazism.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency cable from Mosco
LONDON, (JTA)—More than 700,000 Polish Jews
—a third of the entire Jewish population—have been
massacred by the Nazis in Poland since last summer, it is
charged in a detailed report received here through under-
grotind channels by Samuel Zygelbaum, Jewish member
of the Polish National Council.
Thousands of these victims /->
were killed by gas, the report
revealed. In the city of Lodz
alone 35,000 Jews were executed
in gas chambers carried on trucks.
Five thousand Jews were exter-
minated in mobile gas chambers
in the towns of Kolo, Bugaj and
Isbica.
Describing horrible scenes of
the mass-slaughter of Jews in
Eastern Galicia, the report states
that the pro-Nazi Ukrainian po-
lice "cooperated" with the Nazis
in rounding up Jews between 14
and 60 years of age.
300,000 EXECUTED IN VILNA
AND KAUNAS DISTRICTS
The report also estimates that
300,000 Jews were massacred by
the Nazis in Lithunia and in the
Vila district since last October.
It states that 15,000 Jews were
murdered in the city of Rowno,
Wolhynien, in the course of a
pogrom which lasted three days
and three nights. The victims
included men, women and chil-
dren. About 6,000 Jews were
massacred in the small town of
Nancewicze, near Baranowice.
In the city of Lwow, capital of
Eastern Galicia, no less than 35,-
000 Jews were executed, the re-
port estimates. About 15,000
Jews were slaughtered in Stanis-
lawow, 5,000 in Tarnopol, 2,000 in
Zlochovv, 4,000 in Brzelan y.
Thousands of Jews were also
massacred in the Galician towns
of Zborow, Kolomja, Sambor,
Stryj, Drohobyvz, Rawa-Ruska,
Zbaraz, Przemysl, Kuty, Sniatyn,
Stalezczyki and Brody.
DAILY QUOTA OF VICTIMS
DEMANDED OF JEWS
In many places the Jewish
community councils are forced
by the Nazis to select daily a
number of local Jews for execu-
tion, the report states. The vic-
tims are then picked up by
Gestapo men and by pro-Nazi
Ukrainian auxiliary police, and
REPRISALS BY UNITED
NATIONS THREATENED
LONDON (WNS) — The.
United Nations are consider-
ing strong reprisals against
Nazi Germany for the mas-
sacre of 700,000 Jews in Nazi-
occupied Poland, which has
shocked the entire civilized
world, it was disclosed here
in a special broadcast to the
Jews of Poland.
The broadcast, which was
repeated later by the British
Broadcasting Corp., in. all Eu-
ropean languages, assured the
Polish Jews that the United
Nations are seriously consider-
ing a system of reprisals
aginst the Nazis. Details of
the Nazi mass murders of Jews
were broadcast in all lan-
guages every day for a week.
Helen Raebeck, specialist in oc-
cupational research, who wrote
"Jobs in the Civil Service," a new
36-page study of offerings up-to-
the-minute pertinent data on ex-
aminations, appointments, salaries
and promotional possibilities in
the Civil Service, which was pub-
lished this week by the Bnai
Brith Vocational Service Bureau.
transported on trucks to their
death.
In Cracow, 50 Jews were shot
on the doorsteps of their homes.
In the city of Slonim, 9,000 Jews
were massacred. No Jew was left
alive in the townships of Zyro-
wicv, Lachowice, Mir, Kolow and
other towns in the Slonim dis-
trict.
East Central States Regional
Massacres of Jews on a smaller
Conference to be Held in
scale are being carried out in the
Cleveland, Oct. 10-1 I
Warsaw ghetto.
Welfare Leaders
Prepare Program
On War Planning
NAZIS EXECUTE 16,000
JEWS IN PONIEWIESCH
KUIBYSHEV, (JTA) — More
than 16,000 Jews were massacred
by the Nazis in a three-day pro-
gram which took place in Ponie-
wiesch, Nazi-occupied Lithuania,
according to a report brought
here by a Russian military com-
mander who succeeded in escap-
ing from the Germans.
July 4 Has Special Meaning for Them
Members of the program com-
mittee of the East Central States
Region of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds,
met in Cleveland June 24, to
make plans for the East Central
States Regional Conference to
be held in Cleveland Oct. 10 and
11. Several hundred Welfare
Fund and Federation leaders
from Indiana, Kentucky, Michi-
gan, Ohio, Western Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia will be
present.
The theme of the Conference
will be: "War Planning for the
American Jewish Community."
The conference will open Satur-
day night, Oct. 10, with an ad-
dress by an outstanding person-
ality.
The Sunday morning session
will open with two concurrent
meetings, one devoted to local
planning in the larger commun-
ity, with emphasis on the place
of the Federation, and the other
dealing with the local commun-
ity program of the smaller cit-
ies. A general session will be
held Sunday afternoon to dis-
cuss war financing of welfare ac-
tivities, including war chest
drives.
The meeting on June 27 was
under the chairmanship of Wal-
ton Strauss of Erie, Pa. Miss
Hannah G. Ferman of Detroit,
was among those attending. Mrs.
Melville S. Welt of Detroit is a
member of the program com-
mittee.
Riegelman Named
Chairman of NRS
These refugees, who have found a new home in this country,
have good reason to appreciate the significance of Independence
Day in free America. The newcomers taking the oath of alle-
giance to the flag (top), are students in a class in English
sponsored by the National Refugee Service, which, with the
Joint Distributing Committee and United Palestine Appeal, is
financed by the United Jewish Appeal. (Bottom) Vacations at
camps and elsewhere will be provided for 1,000 youngsters
through arrangements by the N.R.S.
Charles _A. Riegelman of New
York was, elected chairman of
the executive committee of the
National Refugee Service, prin-
cipal service agency for refugees
in the United States, at a meet-
ing of the executive board, at the
agency's offices at 139 Centre St.
New York City.
An attorney, Mr. ygelman
Succeeds David H. S zberger
who has occupied the post since
the agency's inception in June,
1939. Mr. Sulzberger will serve
as vice-president of the organiza-.
tion.
describes instances of Jewish
heroism in the besieged city of
Sevastopol. It quotes the Moscow
press on the bravery of Israel
Gribin, son of a Jewish colonist,
as an example of determination
and courage.
When the commander of the
detachment in which Gribin was
fighting was killed by an enemy
gun, the young Jew from the
Kalinindorf Jewish settlement in
the Crimea took over the com-
mand under the enemy's fire and
repelled two violent Nazi attacks,
inflicting heavy losses upon the
Germans. Three times Gribin-car-
ried out reconnaissance deep in
the rear of the enemy bringing
valuable information, the Mos-
cow newspapers state.
HEROES JOIN IN APPEAL
Maj. Gen. Jacob Keiser, one
of the most beloved heroes in
Russia, this week asked the Jew-
ish Anti-Fascist Committee to
add his name to the list of those
who have appealed to the Jews
in democratic countries to help
raise a fund to purchase 1,000
tanks and 500 bombers as a gift
from the Jews of the world to
the Russian army. Captain Israel
Fisanovitch, Jewish submarine
commander, who is credited with
sinking eight Nazi transports and
who is famous for his daring
raids on Nazi ships in well-pro-
tected German harbors, also
ed the committee to add his na
to the appeal.
Answers to this appeal hav
already been received by th
committee from the Federatio
of Synagogues in Sydney, an
also from Jewish organizations i
the United States, England an
Brazil.
NAZIS KILL 800 JEWS
KUIBYSHEV, (JTA)—All b
one of the 800 Jews who remai
ed in Chernigov, in the Ukra -
after the Nazis occupied the ci
were herded together in the mar
ket place and machine-guns
to death, it was related here
week by Abraham Wanniko
the lone survivor.
Transports of matzohs an
medicaments sent by the Ameri
can Joint Distribution Commit
tee for distribution among Pol .
refugees in Russia reached Mur
mansk this week, according
the Polish Embassy.
The shipments left the Uni
States in February. Although th
matzohs, which were originall
intended for Passover, were d
layed in transport, they will
of great aid when distribut
among the refugees in remo
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World News at a Glance
(Condensed From Cables of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency)
SWEDEN—
The Swedish parliament this week unanimously adopted a re-
port submitted by its Law Committee which recommends making
racial propaganda a punishable offense.
POLAND—
Nearly 200 Jews perished in mass-executions carried out by the
Gestapo in the city of Baranowicze, Eastern Poland, according to a
report reaching London.
Nine Poles and Jews were executed by the Nazis in Poland for
giving food to starving Jews, according to information received in
London by the Polish Government-in-Exile.
A cholera epidemic has bbroken out in Vilna, where the Nazis
are reported to have slaughtered 60,000 Jews last month. Cholera
epidemics were reported to be raging also in the Latgalian province
of Nazi-held Latvia.
HUNGARY—
Citing the expulsion of Jews in Bulgaria from their apartments
as an example, the Nazi-dominated press in Hungary and in occu-
pied Yugoslavia has opened a campaign to have all Jews in these
two countries ousted from their dwellings into special segregated
areas, according to the Donau Zeitung, Nazi newspaper for the
Balkan countries.
More than 3.200 Jews in Budapest lost their jobs this week as a
result of the order issued recently in Hungary prohibiting Jews
from holding positions as managers of buildings, hotels, and as hotel
clerks, it was reported here.
PALESTINE—
Mass meetings dedicated to Soviet Russia were held throughout
Palestine on June 22, the first anniversary of the Nazi attack on the
U. S. S. R. Collection of funds for Russia's war effort were also
conducted on that day throughout the country as an expression of
the Yishuv's interest in a Russian victory over the Nazis.
Creation of a Jewish home guard in Palestine, consisting of
40,000 to 50,000 men, was demanded in London this week in view
of the imminent danger to Palestine as a result of British reverses
in Libya.
A Torah captured by the British forces when they were attack-
ing Derna in Libya several months ago has been turned over to the
Tel Aviv rabbinate.
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RUMANIA—
The Bucharest radio announced this week that 70 Jews were
arrested m the capital of Nazi-dominated Rumania under the pre-
text that they aided Jeirai to escape from the labor camps.
Approximately twenty five per cent of the 70,000 Jews from
Bessarabia and Bukovina interned in the Mohilev area of Axis-
occupied Russian territory have died, according to an uncensored
appeal from the city of Mohilev.
RUSSIA—
More than 200 Jews were included in a list published in the
Soviet - press of heroes who have been awarded decorations for
personal sacrifices for the Russian war effort and for fighting on
the front against the enemy.
BULGARIA—
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The expulsion of the entire Jewish population of the Bulgarian
cities of Sofia, Varna, Plovdi, Rustchuk and Burgas, where the
majority of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews reside, is reported from Sofia.
BOLIVIA-
-- Initial steps in the establishment of a technical training school
by ORT—Organization for Rehabilitation through Training for
refugees in La Paz, Bolivia, are announced , in - a communication
received _this week from the Latin-American ORT Federation by
the American ORT Federation.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA-
' • Nazi authorities in the Czech Protectorate this week started al
campaign to force anti-Semitism upon the Czech churches and
schools.
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