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Friday, Juiy 17, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

Nazis Drown
Hundreds of
Russian Jews

Eye - Witness, Back From
Guerrilla Campaign, Tells
of Mass Murders

By SAMUEL WOLKOWIECZ
(JTA Correspondent)
KUIBYSHEV (JTA) — Stories
of the drowning of hundreds of
Jews by the Nazis in rivers of
the Minsk district were told here
this week to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency by Jacob Uzd-
zinski, a Jewish guerrilla fight-
er, who reached Kuibyshev after
spending six months in the rear
of the German armies destroying
their munition stores, and blow-
ing up Nazi military trains and
bridges.
Uzdzinski, who personally wit-
nessed the murder scenes, related
how the Nazis herded about 500
Jews in Jelsk onto a barge which
they anchored in the middle of a
river without any food.
12 PEASANTS EXECUTED
"A peasant from the neighbor-
ing collective farm," he said,
swam over at night with bread
for the victims, but the Nazis
discovered him and executed 12
peasants from the farm as pun-
ishment. On the sixth day the
Nazis exploded the barge and all
Jews on it were drowned.
"A similar case occurred in the
city of Mozyr. near Minsk, where
the number of Jews drowned
could not be established. In the
city of Stolin, the Nazis opened
a brothel with Jewish girls. In
the village of Tonisch they exe-
cuted 46 Jews. All we succeeded
in saving was one woman and
one boy.
MOTHERS, BABES KILLED
"In Viatka they executed 96
Jews, including mothers with
babies in their arms.
"The most horrible scene I ever
witnessed was when our guerrilla
detachment entered the township
of Leltschice. About 750 Jews
flieTe, held in a barbed wire en-
closure, were machine-gunned."
24,000 SLAIN IN VITEBSK
Four Jewish women who suc-
ceeded in escaping from the
Nazis in Vitebsk this week re-
ported that of the 24,000 Jews
who remained in that city after
the Nazi occupation only 11 were
left alive. The remainder were
all massacred by the Nazis. The
11 owe their lives to the fact that
they were doctors and pharma-
cists whom the Nazis needed for
medical work.
The Soviet authorities were
able to evacuate only 76,000

Local Army and Navy Committee
Of Jewish Welfare Board Seeks
Record of Men in U. S. Service

. The Detroit Army and Navy Committee of the
Jewish Welfare Board is compiling a directory of
all Detroiters serving in the armed forces of the
United States.
Relatives and friends of men in thelervice are
urged to send names, addresses, ranks Ind names
of nearest relatives of men in the service to the
Detroit Army and Navy Committee of the Jewish
Welfare Board, in care of the Jewish Community
Center, Woodward and Holbrook, Detroit.
The Jewish Center is the local supervising
agency of the Jewish Welfare Board. Henry Meyers
is chairman of the Detroit Army and Navy Committee.
The Jewish Welfare Board is one of the agencies
included in the United Service Organization (USO)
The other agencies are : National Catholic Community
Service, Young Men's Christian Association, Young
Women's Christian Association, Travelers' Aid So-
ciety and Salvation Army.

Palestine Jews Must Form
Defense Wall Against Nazis

Challenge to Yishuv Calls Upon All to join Total War Mo-
bilization; Auchinleckis Forces Praised; Shertok
Demands Arms

JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor)—The Jews of Palestine
must "form a wall of defense" that will hurl back the Axis
forces if they should reach the borders of the Holy Land, it
is declared in a joint appeal issued to the Yishuv by the
Jewish Agency Executive and the Vaad Leumi, calling
upon all to take their places at once in the total mobiliza-
tion for war.

eral of the Palestine' adrninistra-
tion . ..

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INFORMATION FRONT:
Heartiest congratulations to
Jacob Landau, founder, builder
and managing director of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency • . .
He was 50 years old this week,
but forgot all about it, being
busy as usual between New
York and Washington . . . His
50th birthday coincides with the
25th year of the existence of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency . . •
Our birthday congratulations go
also to Abraham Cahan. veteran
editor of the Jewish Daily For-
ward, who has won renown both
as an English novelist and as
editor of the largest Jewish daily
newspaper hi the world . .. Mr.
Cahan celebiated his 82nd birth-
day this week by working as
usual . . .

High tribute is paid to the Brit-
ish forces under General Claude
Auchinleck, while the Jews of
Palestine are reminded that "the
eyes of the entire Jewish world.
rest upon us in deep concern."
The effective strength of the
Jewish defense of Palestine de-
pends upon arms and not merely
on the number of men, it was
pointed out by Moshe Shertok,
political chief of the Jewish
Agency Executive, in addressing
a session of the Smaller Actions
Committee. The meeting had
been called to discuss the threat
to Palestine represented by de-
velopments on the Middle Eastern
front and the precautions that
Jewish Palestine must take to
cope with the situation.
Mr. Shertok concluded by re-
iterating his demand for enlist-
ment for training even with' .
the present framework of the
defense organization. In the firs •
six days of July over 200. Jews
and 100 Jewesses joined the army.

years the High Commissioner for
Palestine has invited Moshe
Shertok and Isaac Ben-Zvi to
YOU
dinner . . . During these past
two years, Jewish leaders in
Palestine were not received by'
By Ben Lewis
the High Commissioner, except
Copyright, 1942,
on rare occasions of high politi-
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc
cal importance . . . Most of the
dealings between the executive
of the Jewish Agency for Pal-
THE POLITICAL FRONT:
estine and the Palestine Govern-
That President Roosevelt is in- ment were conducted through
terested in the defense of the MacPherson, the secretary gen-
Jews of Palestine is obvious
from the fact that he received
Dr. Weizmann this week . . . It
is understood that President
Roosevelt was especially inter-
ested in finding out from Dr.
Weizmann what the latter per-
sonally thinks of the problem of
a Jewish Army . . . The moder-
ate views of Dr. Weizmann on
this subject are known to the
State Department on the basis
of his recent speeches in Am-
erica . . . The State Department,
it is believed, is in possession of
information that the British
military authorities in the Near
East would like to see the Jews
in Palestine formed into a Home
Guard, but that the Palestine
Government is opposed to it . . .
FOR THESE LEADING
Proof to this effect also reached
a numbet of important Ameri-
can personalities this week who
may make an issue of the mat-
ter . . . It will be interesting
for American Zionists to learn
that for the first time in two

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NOTICE

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New Store Hours

For July and August

12th Street Merchants

Jews from Vitebsk when the
Nazi invasion started, the escaped
Jews related.

OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 P.M.

TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS to 6 P. M.. .. SUNDAYS to 2 P. hir.

12th Street Merchants Have
Been Pioneers In The Retail
Selling • of Bonds and Stamps!

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Available in Every Store!

A. ■ iko

Davis" lialperi's

9021-12th Street

9022-12th Street

8950-12th Street

M. Greenberg

Znroff's

Janet's Shops

Ladies' & Children's Apparel

Keep Our Flag
Flying—
Liberty's Torch
Shining

Devote 10 percent of
your pay every payday
to the purchase of
War Savings Bonds
and Stamps. It's like
money In the bank—
earning' interest, PLUS
FREEDOM FOR THE
ENTIRE WORLD!

THIS

SPACE

Jewelry
8931-12th Street

Thom lick Shoes

8825—i 2th Street

Furniture

8810-12th at Gladstone

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Lmsky's Shop

Apparel for the Family
8730-12th. Nr. Gladstone

Shims

Jack Halperin

Clothing and Furnishings

8945-12% Street

Fogel's Boot Shop

8709-12th St. at Blaine

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Curtains, Drapes, Domestics

8930-12th Street

Chic Dress Shop

9035-12th Street

Mee's Men's Skip

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