THE JEWISH NEWS
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News at a Glance
World
Belgian Theaters Bar Jews;
I'Vf>lst Ride 'Jim Crow' on Cars
ZURICH, (JTA)—Hard on the heels of the re-
ports from Holland concerning the deportation of
Dutch Jews, information was received here this
week of new rigid restrictions on the Jews of .Bel-
gium.
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Jews in Antwerp are forbidden, under the new
regulations, to enter theaters or cinemas or to at-
tend concerts, lectures or public meetings. Both in
Antwerp and Brussels, Jews are now compelled to
ride in special "Jim Crow" sections of street cars,
usually the front platforms of the cars.
In Nazi-Held Territories
SLOVAKIA—
Fifty-five thousand Jews have already been deported
from Slovakia and sent to the Government-General
section of Poland, some having been sent to forced
labor camps at Sawin and Koyszow, the reports state.
The remainder have been concentrated in the cities
of Lukow, Cholm, Miedzyrzecz-Podlaski, Lubartow, Os-
trow, Rejowieez, Kamionka, Firlej, Opole, Naleczow,
Zamosc and Oswiecim. Reports on the Bratislava radio
this week indicate that the population of Slovakia is
still opposed to the persecution of the Jews.
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GREECE—
The 60,000 Salonika Jews who were instructed by
the Nazi occupation authorities to assemble in the town
square of the city last week were ordered to gather
there so that they might be registered for forced labor.
The Nvai decree provides that all male Jews between
the ages of 18 and 45, except those engaged in war
work, will be forced to labor on public works. Already
7,000 Salonika Jews have been placed at forced labor
on road construction, the Italian broadcast stated.
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BULGARIA—
A ghetto area has been established for Bulgarian
Jews in an undisclosed portion of Thrace, according to
a Berlin radio broadcast. The measure appears to be
a result of the "Nuremberg" laws recently adopted by
the Bulgarian Parliament over considerable opposition.
Bulgarian Jews will be required to wear a red circle
on the left side of their clothing, the Berlin announcer
noted, and businesses in which they retain an interest
will be similarly marked. This badge was first assigned
to Jews by a church assembly at Offen, Germany, in
the year 1279. Jews in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria,
whose ouster from the city was decreed last week, will
probably be confined in a large ghetto in one quarter
of the city instead.
The Bulgarian Government, which has embarked
on a wide-spread anti-Semitic campaign affecting both
the cultural and economic life of the country, since
the passage by the Bulgarian Parliament earlier this
month of a series of "Nuremberg laws," this week
issued the latest of a series of anti-Jewish decrees.
Tlie"Mfia radio announced that JeWish religious and
educational organizations are no longer permitted to
own, any kind of real estate.
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HOLLAND
Large-scale mass-deportations of Jews from Hol-
land to Poland and occupied sections of Russia began
this week. Special trains, each carrying 600 Jews,
are reported to be leaving Amsterdam daily for East-
ern Europe.
The mass-deportation of Dutch Jews to Eastern
Europe was denounced this week as "a crime against
all patriotic Dutchmen" by Peter Gerbrandy, Premier
of the Netherlands Government-in-Exile, broadcasting
to the people of Holland from London.
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FRANCE
The French people are actively opposed to the de e
portation of JOWS by the Nazis, it was indicated in au
article in the Swiss newspaper Basler Nachrichten.
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RUMANIA -
The vast network of primary and secondary schools
ich were maintained in Bucharest by both the
Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities have been
taken over by Antonescu Government, under the de-
cree which placed all Jewish-owned property "at the
disposal of the government." The schools were housed
in modern well-equipped buildings.
On the American FrOnt
LONDON, (JTA)—"That the British Gover
ment should seek to deny the Jews the right to '
as a fighting people seems to me to be one of th
most tragic relics of an outworn, indefensible poli
of appeasement," . Harold Laski, famous Brit'
economist, stated this week in a message addres
to a trade union conference which is to be held
.-Liverpool, Sunday, to support the demand for
Jewish military force and a home guard in Pales
tine.
Messages also were sent by Lord Strobolg'
James Walker, British Labor Party leader, and b
several members of parliament, including A. Creec
Jones and Miss Eleanor Rathbone.
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In Democratic Countries
ENGLAND—
Negotiations for the purpose of arranging the sh'
ment of food to the starving Jews in the ghettos
Nazi-occupied Europe through the facilities of the Int
national Red Cross are approaching their final stag -
A plan has been prepared under which a month
quota of at least 1,000 packages of food would be d
patched from Britain alone. Quotas would be alto
to Jewish organizations in other democratic counte
that wished to send food.
The rising tide of Nazi terror in the occupied co
tries of Europe, highlighted by the recent disclos
that at least 700,000 Jews have been massacred
Poland alone, has prompted the heads of eight of t
governments-in-exile to send an 18-page memorand
to President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchi
Premier Stalin and Pope Pius. Attached to the mem
randum is a note requesting the governments of
United States, England, the Soviet Union and t
Vatican to do all in their power to check the reign
terror which the Germans have instituted for t
civilian population of the occupied countries.
memorandum and note were signed by the leaders
the governments of Poland, Belgium, Holland, Gre
Norway, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and by the Fight'
French.
The contributions to the Allied war effort that ha
been made by Jews throughout the world and
activities of the Jews of Palestine, in particular ; - w
lauded this week in an editorial appearing in
newspaper "France," official organ of the Figh
French, commenting on the meeting to protest N
atrocities held in Madison Square Garden in New Yo
on July 21.
The British Labor Party may soon launch a m
campaign in connection with the drive to have
Allied Governments exert pressure on the Germ
Government, aimed at checking the atrocities bei
inflicted upon the Jews of Nazi-occupied. Europe.
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BALTIMORE—
Harry Greenstein, executive director of the Jewish
Welfare Fund of Baltimore, has been appointed Regional
Evacuation Officer of the. Third Army Corps Area,
comprising the states of Maryland, Pennlyvania, Vir-
ginia and the District of Columbia, it was announced
by James M. Landis, national director of the Office of
Civilian Defense. •
In the Palestine Homeland
PALESTINE—
The Jewish National and University Library, which
is located on the Hebrew University grOunds on Mt.
Scopus, is now the largest library in the . Middle East,
it was stated this weak by Chief Librarian Prof. Gott-
hold Weil, at a press conference on the occasion of the
institution's fiftieth anniversary which was celebrated
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brands Denial of Jewish
Army Relic of Appeasement
NEW YORK—
Messages of leading Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
clergymen expressing sorrow and indignation over the
Nazi massacres of Jews and other civilian peoples of
occupied Europe, have been received by the Synagogue
Council of America, central body representing all re-
ligious groups within American Jewry.
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British Jewry this year doubled their contributions to
the Palestine Foundation Fund, despite war-time con-
ditions, it was disclosed by Mrs. Archibald Silverman -
of Providence, R. I., prominent Zionist worker who
returned from an eight-week tour of the United King-
dom and Eire. About a half-million dollars was raised,
she said.
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A nation-wide Blood Donors' Day will be sponsored
early in September by the Mizrachi Women's Organi
zation of America, the national religious women's Zion-
ist movement, Mrs. Samuel Fasten, national defense
chairman of the organization, announced this week.
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The newly-disbanded Independent Hungary Move-
ment, established here by Tibor Eckhardt, right-wing
Hungarian politician, had neither the "silent blessing"
nor "tacit approval" of the United States Government,
Undersecretary of State Sumner - Welles declared in a
letter made public here this week by the Jewish Labor
Committee.
Emphasizing that the Axis armies in Egypt stilt
present a very grave threat to the security of Pales-
tine, David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the executive of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine, demanded the "im-
mediate and full mobilization of all Jewish manpower
in Palestine, without preference and without discrim-
ination, on a basis of equality with all other people."
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The War Department was urged to relax its bars
against German-born doctors in the United States in a
letter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson sent by
Hugh De Lacy, national chairman of the American
Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. The letter
was sent to the Secretary of War immediately following
the War Department anouncement that it has under-
taken a campaign to obtain 20,000 additional doctors
for the United States Army this year.
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WASHINGTON—
A bill that would give the President's Committee on
Fair Employment Practice power to stop discrimination
in war industries was introduced in the House of
Representatives by Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New York.
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Rep. Samuel Dickstein, Democrat of New York, speak-
ing on the floor of the House of Representatives this
week, repeated his proposal that his committee on immi-
gration be given broad powers to investigate enemy
aliens. The House voted down his earlier resolution,
200 to 96, on June 18.
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The President's Committee on Fair Employment
Practice this week heard representatives of the Carl L.
Norden Co. of New York and the Titeflex Metal Hose
Co. of Newark argue for a reversal of the committee's
earlier finding that they had discriminated against Jews.
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Nationals of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, who
have become "enemy aliens" as a result of the United
States' declaration of war against those countries, will
not be subject to all the restrictions affecting aliens of
German, Italian or Japanese nationality, it was pointed
out here this week by the Department of Justice.
Condensed from Cables of the
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"RUSSIA—
Hundreds of thousands of Jews evacuated from -%
ious sections of Nazi-occupied Russia have been settl
throughout the Soviet Union where they have the po
bilities of continuing their lives as "Soviet citizens an
Jews," it was stated this week -by Jacob Sternber
Soviet-Jewish writer who recently returned from
tour of many of the regions where the news have bee
settled. What makes this evacuation different from th
of 1914 when many Jews were forced to leave the sari
areas, is the fact that today 'the Progressive and
tional culture of the Jews" accompanies
them, Ster
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berg pointed out.
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Miniature centers of the - leading yeshivoth that we'
formerly in Poland and Lithuania have been est
lished in isolated villages in = Siberia -where many
the Polish-Jewish refugees, in Russia are concentrate
July 29. The library now -contains more than 400,0
volumes, including the world's largest collection o
Hebraica, as well as one of the largest collections' .
Hebrew incunabula, and an extensive collection
medical works. Included in the collection of Hebrai
are 95 per cent of the volumes printed in Hebre
throughout the world' during the last five centuri
including a unique haggada published in 1422 and on
published in 1941 with illustrations by the noted PO
ish-Jewish cartoonist Arthur .Szyk.
Approximately 50.000 Jews from all parts of PaleS
tine visited the Wailing Wall during the observan '
of Tisha B'ab on Thursday, the Jerusalem Hebre •
press estimated.
USO to Move Its Downtown Michigan History Fresh Air Camp Given Fla
Center to Larger Quarters In Encyclopedia By Jewish War Veterans
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New
Center to Be Eight
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ent Headquarters
Foreseeing a doubled load by
winter, the Metropolitan Detroit
USO has begun the renovation of
the Security Building, at 735
Griswold, opposite the City Hall,
and hopes to move its downtown
center from the Hammond build-
ing to the new location within
six weeks.
The new downtown center con-
tains four floors and a full base-
ment, and will put 25,000 square
feet of space at the disposal of
service men instead of the 3,200'
now being used at the Hammond
building.
EXPAND SERVICES
Detroit is the only city in the
;ountry that undertakes to pro-
vide all its services—food, enter-
tainment, swims, transportation,
overnight lodging — without a
penny of cost. The new building
will permit these services to be
still further expanded.
On the ground floor will be a
reception lounge, stage, canteen
and private visitors' rooms; 2nd
floor, writing desks, library and
newspapers; 3rd, offices; 4th,
games room; basement, showers.
The Detroit Trust Company is
loaning the building to the USO
without charge, and the City
Council last week voted the USO
a donation of $6,000 against the
1942 taxes, which total approxi-
mately $11,000.
Currently the USO's downtown
center entertains more than 45,-
000 men a month, and this load
is expected to be doubled by
Christmas.
Latest Volume Contains Im-
Harry Nathan, adjutant of th
Under sponsorship of the Law-
portant Jewish Literary
rence H. Jones Post 190, of U. S. post, was master of ceremoni
Series
The history of the Jews in
Michigan, written by Philip Slo-
movitz, editor of The Jewish
News, is the article of chief in-
terest to readers of the seventh
volume of the Universal Jewish
EncycTopedia which came off the
press this week.
Michigan's representative of
the Universal Jewish Encyclo-
pedia is Albert Friedeberg, 115
Worcester Place, Detroit, TO.
9-2963.
Among the important articles
in this volume are interesting
essays, all by authorities in their
fields, on Mixed Marriages, Mar-
ranos, Manuscripts, Libraries,
Liturgy, Medicine, Mental 'Di-
seases, Minority Rights, etc., etc.
Outstanding world persona
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Jewish War Veterans, a flag pre-
sentation and Americanism pro-
gram was given at the Fresh Air
Camp Sunday, July_ 26, at 2:30
p. m. A crowd of 500, consisting
of the children at the camp, their
parents and the camp staff, were
present.
The Hartland Civic Band, spon,
sored by Sam's Cut Rate, play
during the parade on the groun •
use of the band having bee
made available by Herman 0
nos. Robert Hirsch led the emit'
selor's choir.
The introductory address w
delivered by Alex Schreiber
president of Fresh Air Camp
Brief talks were given by Day
Swartz, Joe Jones, Ben Cowan
Mrs. Cowan, Mrs. Herbert Wal-
lace, Mrs. Ginsherg, Danny Co'
hen. - -
The flag pfe'sentation was Mad
by Nathan Goldberg, commander
of Post 190. Irwin Shaw accepted
the flag for - the camp. Nathaniel
ities are listed in biographical
sketches. The Luzzattis, Litvinoff
and hundreds of other historical
characters are described.
Beautifully illustrated and ex-
cellently printed, Universal Jew-
ish Encyclopedia fills an import-
ant need for English-speaking
Jewries.
The last three volumes will be
published,shortly. _
Goldstick waegnest speaker. •