THE JEWISH NEWS
Pogo Two
Friday, August 21, i
World Wide News at a Glance
Paris Police Fired for Refusing
To Arrest Jews for Deportation
LONDON (JTA)—A number of French policemen
in Paris have been suspended by order of Nazi au-
thorities for refusing to round up Jews for deporta-
tion to Nazi-held Eastern territories, the British radio
reports. The Nazis stamped the identity cards of the
dismissed police officials, "Jewish Sympathizer."
The people of Paris, according to the broadcast,
made clear their indignation at seeing Frenchmen
carry out the order of the Germans to seize Jews
for expulsion.
The arrested Paris Jews have been informed that
the men would bd deported to Bessarabia, the women
to labor camps and the children would be confined
to houses of correction. Despite warnings of the
Gestapo, many French non-Jews have given shelter
to Jews in Paris to save them from being seized.
Mass-executions of Jews have taken place
throughout occupied France during the last few
days, according to the British radio. The executions
were ordered by the chief of the Paris Gestapo on
the pretext that those executed were "in the pay
of Britain" and participated in anti-Nazi terrorist
.Nsc.ts.
On the American Front
NEW YORK—
Synagogues and churches of 15 communions and
creeds will hold a joint campaign for financial assist-
ance on a nation-wide basis for the first time next
fall and winter, it was announced by the United
Church Canvass Committee. The Synagogue Council
of America, representing leading rabbinical and con-
gregational organizations, is to participate in the
national drive which is scheduled to open on Nov. 15.
A conference to discuss the effects of the war,
persecution, famine and epidemics on the health of
the Jewish population in European countries will be
held this Fall in America, it was announced this week
by the American Committee of the OSE, Jewish
Health Society. The conference will be attended by
leading Jewish physicians interested in studying the
health problems facing European Jews after the war.
The representation of Polish Jews in America this
week announced that Sept. 1, which marks the third
anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, will be
observed as a "Day of Polish Jewry" throughout the
United States. Mass meetings will be held on that day
in New York and other cities commemorating the
thousands of Jews in Poland who have been massacred
by the Nazis and asking that mercy food shipments
be sent from - America to the starving Jews in the
ghettos with the permission of the United States
government.
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WA S HINGTO N-
Statements of the American Christian clergy con-
demning the persecution of Jews in Europe are pub-
lished in the Congressional Record, inserted by Sam-
uel Dickstein, member of the House of Representatives.
Congressional circles this week discussed the ques-
tion as to what can be done for the starving Jews and
Poles in Nazi-held Poland, following an impressive
speech delivered in the Senate last Thursday by Senator
James M. Mead on Nazi atrocities in Poland.
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Approximately 50 Jews who are considered Ger-
man nationals arc now confined in American inter-
ment camps, it was learned here following efforts on
the part of Jewish organizations to obtain their re-
lease. These Jewish internees hail from various coun-
tries in the war. Attacks of Nazi internees on the
Jews in Camp Blanding, Florida, resulted in the
transfer of the interned Jewish refugees from that
camp into an interment camp in Texas, where they
were given separate quarters but must still associate
with the Nazi internees during the daylight hours.
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ALBUQUERQUE AIR BASE, NEW MEXICO—
Preparations for religious services for the Jewish
High Holidays, in accordance with the extensive pro-
gram for religious guidance for the men of the Army
Air Forces, were started here when the military
authorities permitted Dr. S. E. Starrels of Temple
Albert to instruct four of the Jewish men stationed
here to assist him at the Rosh Hashanah ceremonies.
In Nazi-Held Territories
FRANCE—
About 35,000 Jewish-owned enterprises in occupied
and unoccupied France have already been "aryanized"
and liquidation of these businesses is proceeding
rapidly, it was announced by a Nazi 'broadcaster on
the Paris radio. The announcement disclosed that
31,700 Jewish-owned firms have been taken over by
the German authorities in the occupied zone, 24,914
of which were in Paris. In the unoccupied area, the
Vichy Government has "aryanized" 3,000 enterprises.
In addition, 298 parcels of land belonging to Jews
have been sold to Aryans by the Nazi authorities.
The deportation from Paris to Poland and Nazi-
occupied Russia of the first group of 28,000 Parisian
Jews will be completed this week, according to a report
published in the Swiss newspaper Schaffhausener
Arbeiterzeitung. •
Exit visas for Jews desiring to emigrate from un-
occupied France will hereafter be issued by the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs instead of the local police
authorities, as hitherto issued, it is reported from Vichy.
BELGIUM—
An ingenious device by which Belgians are aiding
Jews in the country, the majority of whom are im-
poverished as a result of being barred from most
trades and professions by the Nazi occupation authori-
ties, was revealed in Stockholm in reports received
from underground circles in Belgium. Many Jewish
children roam the streets of the larger cities selling
photographs of Jews wearing yellow stars. Belgian
passersby buy the cards, paying large sums for them
as a means of giving financial assistance to the needy
Jews.
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THE BALKANS—
Reports from the Nazi-dominated Balkan countries
indicate intensification of the drive to purge Jews
from the economy of these nations. Premier von Kal-
lay of Hungary, addressing a group of peasants in
the trans-Danubian area seized from Yugoslavia,
promised them that under the recently adopted anti-
Semitic land laws large tracts of land would be
"restored" to the peasants . . . In Bulgaria, the Min-
istry of the Interior has decreed that all land pur-
chased by Jews from local communities, but not yet
officially registered as the property of the Jews, must
be returned to the communities, without the pur-
chasers receiving any compensation . . . The Rumanian
Government has issued a new series of decrees which
bar an additional 1,327 Jewish workers from contin-
uing in their trades.
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CROATIA—
The town of Ruma, Croatia, is now "judenrein"
following the expulsion of its last 156 Jewish in-
habitants on July 27, the Zagreb radio reported. The
pro-Nazi puppet government of Croatia ordered the
removal of the 156 Jews from Ruma to a concentra-
tion camp near Vincovic, the broadcast announced
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DENMARK—
The pro-Nazi newspaper Faederlandet severely at-
tacked the opposition of the Christian church to anti-
Semitism, which is reflected in official Danish church
organs. The attack was especially provoked by an arti-
cle in the local church gazette of Sonderbourg which
stated that no decent Christian would lend his hand to
any of the Nazi anti-Jewish laws.
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RUMANIA-
Anti-Jewish pogroms still continue in various parts
of Rumania, according to a broadcast over the Berlin
radio. Jews are being "eliminated" in the rural dis-
tricts "in order to prevent the exploitation of the
Rumanian peasants by Jewish merchants", the Nazi
radio declared. A broadcast in English from Moscow
this week esimated that the Jewish population in Ru-
mania is decreasing at the rate of at least 1,000 a day.
The Moscow radio quoted the Rumanian newspaper
"Bessarabia" as admitting that pogroms have been car-
ried out in Moldavia daily during the past three months.
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POLAND—
The demolition of synagogues by the-Nazis in occu-
pied Poland and the execution of rabbis there is de-
scribed in a report issued this week by the Inter-Allied
Information Committee in London.
The expulsion of the entire Jewish population from
the city of Kalish, in occupied Poland, to the ghetto in
Lodz is indicated in reports from Cracow. According
Nazis' Mass Deportations
Panic Warsaw Ghetto
Community President Commits Suicide Rather Than Yield
to Demand to Name 100,000 for Expulsion; Fate
of Victims Is Mystery
By OTTO SCHICK
J.T.A. Correspondent in London
LONDON, (J.T.A.)—Mass-expulsion of Jews from
the Warsaw ghetto to "an unknown destination in the
east" has been begun by the Nazis, according to reliable
information reaching the Polish Government-in-Exile here.
At least 7,000 Jews are being deported from Warsaw
daily, the report said.
Dr. Cherniakov, president of
the Jewish Council in the War-
saw ghetto, committed suicide
rather than acquiesce in the or-
der of the Nazi authorities that
he submit a list of 100,000 Jews
to be deported. He had been the
head of the Jewish community
in Warsaw since the outbreak of
the war in 1939. Remaining in
the same office following the
Nazi occupation, he was held
personally responsible by the
Nazi administration for the ac-
tivities of the Jews in the ghet-
to.
3 Try To End Lives
Three other members of the
Jewish Council in the Warsaw
ghetto are reported to have at-
tempted suicide as a result of
the pressure of the Nazi author-
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Army Fund. Gets
Cool Half Million
From Berlin Show
First Initallment for Emer-
gency Relief Sets Record
in Philanthropic History
NEW YORK (JPS)—A record
in philanthropic history was set
here thii week with the an-
nouncement that Irving Berlin is
turning over a check for $500,-
000 to the Army Emergency Re-
lief Fund as the first installment
of the proceeds of his Broadway
show, "This Is the Army." Half
of the amount is represented by
a $25,000 payment by Warner
Brothers for screen rights to the
production, on which the motion-
picture producers will make no
profit.
Bonds Today Will Keep
Bombs Away Tomorrow
Condensed from Cables of The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
500 Hebrew "U" Students Enlist
In Armed Forces to Save Zion
NEW YORK (JTA)—More than 500 students
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have enlis
for military service with the armed forces on
Middle-Eastern front; it is disclosed in a statem
issued by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of
American Friends of the Hebrew University.
The statement, based on the annual report of
Hebrew University just received here, says that
university has greatly increased its research progr
during the past year and is taking a leading role
helping to solve war problems in connection wi
the allied war effort in the Near East. The universi
is cooperating with the military authorities and
War Supply Board established by the Governm
of which Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of
university, is chairman_
New processes have been devised by universi
scientists fat the manufacture of materials hithe
imported and surplus crops are being utilized
war uses. Precision instruments and medical ap
atus, such as X-ray tubes which can no longer
obtained from Europe, are being constructed
repaired in the university laboratories.
In Democratic Countries
CANADA—
A statement released by the War Efforts
mittee of the Canadian Jewish Congress reveals
the total number of Jewish casualties (killed or
ing only) in the Canadian armed forces during
was 52. This number includes members of the-
Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the R
Canadian Air Force. Fully three-quarters of the .1
ish casualties occurred among -the members of the
force. A number of Jews have been killed or
missing in Hong Kong.
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RUSSIA—
For the first time in the history of Soviet R
Jews joined the Jews of the world in a Day of
and Prayers proclaimed by the Union of Orth
Rabbis of the United States and Canada. Samuel
brutsky, president of the Moscow Jewish Comm
which has its offices now in Tathkent, cabled to
Union of Orthodox Rabbis in New York that he
undertaken to see to it that Jews in Russia are
formed of this week's world-wide Jewish Day of
and Prayers and are enabled to observe it.
In the Palestine Homeland
Arab guests at a new Jewish settlement were
vised by an Arab District Officer not to con
themselves with merely exchanging calls with
Jewish neighbors, but to study their agricult
methods. The occasion was the establishment
"Doroth," a new settlement in the South of Pal
Sheikhs and Mukhtars from neighboring villages,
settlers from other cooperative settlements- joined
a festive lunch to mark the occasion, the D'
Officer, Aref effendy el Aref, taking the chair.
A stone bench was unveiled in the Friedlae
Memorial Grove on the Hebrew University gro
in memory of the late Professor Israel Friedlae
of New York, who was murdered in the Ukraine
1921, while on a relief mission for the American J
Distribution Committee. Addresses were delivered
Dr. J. L. Magnes and Mrs. Friedlaender. The G
is the gift of the Israel Friedlaender Classes of
Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.
those who planted the first trees in May, 1941,
the late M. Ussishkin and the late Prof. David Ye
to these reports, the Jews have also been depo
from the city of Tarnopol, Galicia. A "Jewish tra
carrying 600 Jews deported from Belgium, reac
Cracow this week under special Gestapo guards.
majority of the deportees are over 50 years of age.
HOLLAND--
An order prohibiting Jews in The Hague from
pearing on any of the streets in the central part of
city has been issued by the Nazi occupational auth
ties in Holland, according to a report published in
Nederland, organ of the Free Dutch in England.
$75,659,000 U.S. War Che
Budget is Recommended
United Jewish Appeal :and Jewish Welfare Fund Quo
Not Included, But Local Communities Are Asked
to Give Them Consideration
The National War Budget Committee for War
peals has recommended a nation-wide war relief bud
of $75,659,000 for 10 major war relief organizations.
total is $10,000,000 less than the original estimates ma
last month.
In its report, the committee made the following
erence to the Jewish war relief and welfare funds:
"This total war appeals bud-
get does not include anything
for the United Jewish Appeal
or the Jewish- -Welfare Fund.
The National Budget Commit-
tee strongly recommends that
local chests and communities
give the most careful consid-
eration to as inclusive a bud-
get as possible for Jewish ap-
peals. Jews have longest been
the victims of Nazi tyranny
and are. the direst war victims
in the world.
"Just what items of the •Je
ish Welfare Fund should
included in the local w
chests is a matter for local d
termination. The eommi
will be prepared in the F
to furnish to war chests, whi
include the United Jewish A
peal, the necessary informati
with respect to that agency.
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