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THE JEWISH

NEWS

Friday, Sepforaber 18, 1942

World Wide News at a Glance

In Nazi-Occupied Countries

Laval Warns French Against
Pitying Jews; Scores Clergy

Bread Ration Cut Further in Rumania

ISTANBUL — The Bucharest radio announced a
further reduction of 20 per cent in the bread ration
for Jews in Rumania. The reduction is to go into effect
immediately. A Bucharest broadcast also announced
that "all Jewish enterprises throughout Rumania have
either been liquidated or have passed into Rumanian
hands."

LISBON (JTA)—World-wide criticism of the
Vichy regime for the merciless deportation of Jews
from unoccupied France to Nazi-held territory this
week provoked an answer from Pierre Laval, chief
of the French government, who is held responsible
for these deportations.
An article in Laval's newspaper, Le Moniteur,
believed to be written by Laval himself, warns the
leaders of the Church in France that their de-
termined opposition to the deportation of the Jews
from the country "is only harming the task of
France's recovery undertaken by Marshal Petain."
The same article warns the people of France to ab-
stain from "showing pity" for the Jews.
The British radio announced that riots followed
the dismissal by Laval of the Military Governor of
Lyons for refusing to let his troops aid in the mass-
arrests of Jel.vs in his district.

Only 17 Jews Escaped Nazi Massacre

KUIBYSHEV—A harrowing account of how the

German occupation forces in the town of Velizh, in the
Vitebsk district, used machine guns, the noose and fire
to murder all but 17 of the 1,440 Jewish residents of the

village is related in a letter from one of the 17—a young
half-Jewish girl — shown to this correspondent this
week. The letter, written by Lida Grigorieva to her
father, a Red Army man at the front, tells how the
Germans drove all the Jews of the town into a ghetto
as soon as they occupied Velizh. Nine hundred of them

Priests Arrested for Aiding Jewish Children

were confined in a pigsty. When the Nazis were forced
to abandon Velizh, they locked all the Jews in the pig-
sty, sprayed kerosene over it and set it afire, the letter
discloses.

LONDON (JTA)—Fighting French headquarters
here reported that Laval has ordered the arrest of
a number of Catholic priests in unoccupied France
charged with hiding Jewish children seeking to
escape deportation to Nazi-held territory.

Palestine Hears of Nazi Massacres

Relief Workers Seized in Unoccupied France
BERN (JTA)—The Swiss press reports that a

JERUSALEM—Unverified reports of renewed Nazi

number of Jewish Relief workers who were con-
ducting Swiss relief work in a camp for Jewish
children in unoccupied France were suddenly ar-
rested by armed French gendarmes and taken to an
unknown destination. The arrested persons included
a Jewish doctor, M. Peters, his wife and two Jewish
girls who worked as his assistants.

massacres in the ghettos of Poland which have reached
here during the last few days through neutral sources
prompted the central committee of the new Zionist Or-
ganization here to send a cable to Gen. Sikorski, Polish
Premier, urging him to do everything he can "to rescue

Polish Jewry." "'The Polish Government will do every-
thing possible for the Jews in Poland," was the immed-

iate reply from Gen. Sikorski. The Polish Government-
in-Exile is now planning the appointment of a special
minister for the Middle East with headquarters either in
Palestine or in Cairo, to take care of refugees from Po-
land now scattered all the way from Persia to Palestine.

In Democratic Countries

Britain Permits Food Shipment to Poland

LONDON—The first consignment of food parcels to
be sent from England to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
with the permission of the British authorities will leave
London within the next fortnight. The British author-
ities will permit the shipment from here of 10,000 parcels
monthly to Jews in the Polish ghettos. It was stipulated
that the total value of all food packages sent must not
exceed $12,000. The shipments will be financed private-
ly and the funds required for the next three months
have already been secured. A small committee which
includes Prof. Zelig Brotietsky, Dr. Ignacy Schwartz-
hart, Samuel Zvgelbaum and representatives of the
World Jewish Congress and the Agudas Israel, will
supervise sending the parcels.

Prominent Lithuanian Jews in Siberia

LONDON — A number of prominent Lithuanian
Jews whose whereabouts have been unknown for a
longtime, are safe in Siberia to where they were evacu-
ated by the Soviet authorities, according to information
received by the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund here. The
list includes the names of Dr. Joel Brutzkus, brother
of Dr. Julius Brutzkus, and former principal of the
Kaunas Hebrew Gymnasium; Dr. Benjamin Berger,
chief physician of the Bikur Cholm Hospital in Kaunas
and Vice-Chairman of the Zionist Central Committee in
Lithuania; Boris Bernstein, General Manager of the
Lithuanian Commercial Bank and Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the daily "Yiddishe Stimme";
Benzion Brudni, General Manager of the Union of Jew-
ish Co-operative Banks in Lithuania; Captain Breg-
stein, Chairman of the Jewish War Veterans' Asso-
ciation; Dr. Isaac Dubrovitch, Chairman of the Jewish
State Pnrty; Dr. Leib Heshelson, Vice-Chairman of the
Party; Rabbi Hojptstodt; Dr. Isaac Levitan, Chairman
of the General Zionist Group A and chief of the gyne-
cological department of the Kaunas Jewish Hospital, as
well as three members of the Zionist Central Commit-
tee, Nissan Misler, Meyer Kanterowicz, and Leon
Cernes.

Zion Colony Named After Huysmans

LONDON—Establishment in Palestine of a settle-
ment named after Camille Huysmans, Belgian Socialist
leader and former president of the Belgian Chamber
of Deputies, which will be colonized by demobilized
Jewish veterans of the Dutch and Belgian armies, was
announced at a reception to Huysmans here, sponsored
by the Jewish National Fund and Haatid, the Belgian
Zionist association.

"Blood Bath in Rumania"

NEW YORK—A documented account of the horror
that has been visited upon the Jews of Rumania since
the ascension to power two years ago of Marshal Ion
Antonescu, was published this week by the United Ru-
manian Jews of America under the title "Blood Bath in
Rumania." Most of the documentary material appearing
in the volume has been taken from an official report
published by Antonescu Government, entitled "At the
Brink of the Abyss", smuggled out of Rumania by an
exiled official.

Jews Compelled to Obey Nazi Laws

STOCKHOLM—Pressed by the Gestapo, the Jewish
Council in Amsterdam has issued a Rosh Hashanah
appeal to the Jews of Holland to obey the Nazi anti-
Jewish regulations emphasizing that "violation of these
regulations, even when due only to carelessness or
ignorance, will result in punishment of members of the
Jewish Council."

Deportation of 300,00 Jews Reported

GENEVA—The deportation by the Nazis of 300,000
Jews from the Warsaw ghetto—about one-half of the
entire Jewish population in the ghetto—was reported
here this week. Jewish organizations here expressed
fear for the immediate future of all the Jews in Nazi-
occupied Poland in view of unconfirmed alarming in-
formation reaching Switzerland that the Gestapo is de-
manding the annihilation of all Jews in Poland as "ele-

ments detrimental to the security of Germany's interests
in Eastern Europe."

Bulgaria Freezes All Jewish Assets

ZURICH—Estimating the value of Jewish property
in Bulgaria at 8,000,000 lewa (about $96,000,000 at pre-
war rates), Dr. Alexander Beleff, Bulgarian Commis-
sioner for Jewish Affairs, this week announced over the
Sofia radio that all Jewish assets in the country will be
placed under his jurisdiction. The funds realized from
the sale of these assets, he said, will be used to create
a fund to meet future requirements of Jewish charitable
institutions.

Pattern of Terror

Twenty Years Ago This Week

Compiled From the Records
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

JERUSALEM—In a brilliant ceremony on the

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Mount of Olives Sir Herbert Samuel was sworn in
as High Commissioner for Palestine. In his address
Sir Herbert expressed the hope that "after 25 years"
the Mandatory power will leave Palestine where
there will be "a prosperous people, the Arab and
Jewish cultures flourishing side by side."

GENEVA—A petition drawing the attention of
the League of Nations to the precarious position of

the Jews in Hungary was submitted to the League
Council, which is now in session here considering
the application of Hungary for entrance into the
League. It is demanded that Hungary pledge fair
treatment of minorities before being admitted.

NEW YORK—Max Warburg, noted Hamburg
banker arrived here on board the "Resolute" in the
company of his brother, Felix Warburg. In a state-
ment to the press the latter, who is chairman of the
Joint Distribution Committee, revealed that the JDC
has been helping to feed 2,000,000 .daily in Russia.
Thousands of orphans are being cared for, he said.
It was also announced here that 47 Jewish orphans
from the Ukraine are being brought to America by
the JDC where they will be reunited with relatives.

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Nazis Deny 7,000,000 Jews
The Right to Greet New Year

NEW YORK (JTA)—Seven million Temis under
Nazi rule, already the victims of a brutal war which
menaces their very existence, were denied even the
solace of practicing their religion this Rosh Hashan-
ah, as the culminating act of the Nazi campaign to ex-
terminate religion as a whole and the Jewish re-
ligion in particular.
A documented record of the Hitler attempt to
extirpate the institutions of the Jewish religion has
been published here by the Institute of Jewish Af-
fairs of which Dr. Jacob Robinson is director. The
record indicates that the war against the Jewish
religion began, in its accelerated form, on that
November night in 1938 when more than 431 syna-
gogues were destroyed in a single night in Germany
alone. Its present tempo, moving toward the goal
of total extermination, was established in September,
1939, when the Nazis launched their new attack

upon the Jewish religion during the High Holyday
services of the Jews during the invasion of Poland.
The methods and the tempo established in Poland

have now travelled to and have been dulpicated in
every country of Nazi occupation.

In the Palestine Homeland

Astonishing Feat by Jewish Soldier

JERUSALEM—A Jewish soldier who was tak
prisoner at Tobruk, not only succeeded in escaping fro
the Germans, but even managed to bring a Ge
tank back to the British lines, it is revealed in a re
published in the "Egyptian Mail". The soldier, Priva
A. N. Goldman of a South African unit, after escap*
in the German tank was stopped in the desert by
German mobile patrol. He killed the driver of the patio
car, took the accompanying German soldier priso
and arrived in a British military camp with the t
and the captured German.

16,000 More to Be Mobilized in Zion

TEL AVIV—A resolution to mobilize 16,000 mo
Histradruth members for the British forces and th
internal defense units in Palestine was adopted her
this week at the closing session of the forty-seven
Histradruth conference, which devoted the major p
of its deliberations to issues revolving about the
and the security of the country: The resolution on en
listment asked that 10,000 more members join th
armed forces, 5,000 go into the police units, which
have a military status, and .1,000 form a nucleus
the Jewish infantry battalions which are to be form
as part of the new Palestine Regiment

On the American Front

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Servicemen Observe Rosh Hashanah

NEW YORK—Thousands of American Jews in
armed services greeted the Jewish New Year 5703
attending religious • services in hundreds of camps •

communities adjacent to military posts, and at 18 over
seas stations, it was announced by the National Je •
Welfare Board.
High Holy Day supplies, including 29,000 Rosh Has
hanah prayer books and 50,000 New Year greeting c
were sent by the Jewish Welfare Board to 16 ov
points. Soldiers and sailors stationed in the Uni
States received 30,000 prayer books and 85,000 gree •
cards. Additional materials sent included abrid
bibles, hymnals, Hebrew prayer shawls, phylacteri
Hebrew Scrolls of the Law, and books. Wherever
sible, gift kits, games, comfort articles and refreshmen
also were sent.
In England, services were conducted for Jewish
with the American forces by three U. S. Jewish
Chaplains. The Senior Jewish Chaplain with the Brit
ish forces also cooperated with the Board in provi
opportunities for worships for Jewish men who co
not be reached by U. S. Chaplains. In London, th
Church of Scotland was the scene of Rosh Hashan
services conducted by Chaplain Earl Stone. In North
ern Ireland the headquarters of the Presbyterian Ch
of Ireland, the assembly building in Belfast was giv
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over to the Jewish Chaplain for Rosh Hash
services.

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Avenge Murdered Kinsmen,
General Urges Soviet Jews

KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—A call to Jewish soldiers
in the Red Army and to Jewish guerrillas behind
the Nazi lines to fight "even more ruthlessly against
the savage animal in order to avenge the blood of
Jewish daughters, mothers and infants" was voiced
by Maj-Gen. Jacob Kreiser, Soviet commander and
one of the best loved heroes of the Russian people,
in an address delivered at a mass meeting at Ufa in
the Bashkirian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re-
public.
. Gen. Kreiser paid tribute to "the hundreds of
thousands of Jewish fighters in the Red Army who,
together with other Red Army men, are manifesting
unprecedented examples of heroism in this patriotic
war."
"Remember:: he said, "that upon the heroic
fighters of the Red Army depends the destiny of
all the peoples in the Soviet Union—particularly the
Jewish people. As a general bf the Red Army and
as a son of the Jewish people I vow not to put down
my sword until the last fascist shall be wiped off
the face of the earth."