Friday, December I 1, 1942 Drunken Nazi Beasts Rape, Kill Jews in Russian Ghettos Borisov Refugee Tells of Nightly Sprees, Mass 'Murder, Looting in Towns from Smolensk to Polish Border; Only Pretty Girls 'Spared" KUIBYSHEV, (JTA) — Harrowing details of the looting, murder and rape perpetrated by the Nazis upon the Jewish population of the city of Borisov in occupied White Russia, which is on the road from Smolensk to the former borders of Poland, were reported here by Eugene Kulik, who recently succeeded in fleeing the city. "The plundering of the ghetto<:, was carried on systematically," the U. S. since the Board of Ap- Kulik stated. "The Nazis got peals on Visa Cases was created, drunk every night and then, armed with guns, broke into Dec. 3, 1941, total less than one- Jewish homes, stole the last few tenth the number admitted in a rags the Jews had and ravaged comparable pre-war period. It any young women they could has passed on 6,152 visa applica- find. tions, representing more than - Young Girls Sacrificed twice that many individuals. "The Jews in the city of Pruz- han in Nazi-occupied White Rus- Soldiers To Get Papers sia were ruthlessly exterminated NEW YORK, (JTA) — The by the Nazi occupation forces U. S. government will send spe- and young Jewish women were cial representatives to various subjected to brutal indignities. theaters of war to confer citizen- "The only Jews that Nazi ex- ship on soldiers in the American ecution squads were careful to armed forces who were born in spare were • young and pretty other countries, regardless of girls who were taken to the their nationality or race, it was quarters which a Nazi major, announced this week by Earl G. Albrecht Austein, had set up in Harrison, • Commissioner of Im- a monastery." migration and Naturalization. 5,000 Jews Murdered Refugee Child Problem The massacre of 5,000 Jews by Central Jewish organizations the Nazis in Dniepro-Petrovsk, in the Ukraine, in April of this in Argentina are now studying year, has been revealed by a ways and means 'of transporting Jewish doctor, Moishe Friedman, 1,000 Jewish refugee children who succeeded in escaping after from Nazi-held territory to Ar- having been left for dead by the gentina, it is reported here by the Hias-Ica Emigration Associa- Germans. tion. Permission for them to en- Rabbi Joins Russian Band An aged rabbi from a small ter has been granted by the Ukranian town invaded by the President of the Argentina Re- Nazis recently joined a partisan public. band in order "to avenge the Sholom Aleichem's Widow Dies atrocities which have been com- Funeral services were held mitted upon Jews," it was re- here this week for Mrs. Olga ported here this, week by the Rabinowitz, widow of the famous Jewish Anti-Facist Committee. Jewish writer who wrote under the pen-name of Sholom Alei- chem, and who was known as Switzerland Defies Nazis WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The "the Jewish Mark Twain." Mrs. Office of War Information has Rabinowitz died in her home released a report quoting the here at the age of 77. She was Swiss newspaper Volksrecht to buried near her husband at the the effect that Nazi Germany cemetery of the Jewish Work- is trying to force its anti-Jewish men's Circle. She was one of the first wo- laws upon Switzerland. Answering an article in Hitler's men dentists in her native Rus- own newspaper, the Voelkischer sia. Weizmann is Confident. Beobachter, which attacked Switzerland for giving shelter to Russian and American Jews refugees escaping from Nazi ter- were urged to cooperate in the ritories, the Swiss newspaper de- solution of Jewish post-war prob- clared that as long as Switzer- lems, in rebuilding the devastat- land remains independent, the ed Jewish communities in Eur- ambitions of the Nazis to see an- ope and in the building of a ti-Jewish measures in the coun- Jewish National Home in Pale- try will never materialize. stine, in a declaration adopted Immigration Drops this week at a Unity Conference The Office of War Information held at Carnegie Hall under the reports that aliens admitted to auspices of the Committee of Jewish Writers and Artists. More than 800 delegates representing various Jewish groups participa- ted. - • Dr. Chaim Weizmann, in a Histadruth Ivrith of America, message read by Dr. Israel Gold- for 20 years the central body in stein, expressed the belief that this country for the dissemina- "when the Soviet people see tion of the knowledge of Hebrew what the Jews have achieved in language and literature, has is- Palestine, they will extend their sued a "Call to the Friends and full support and cooperation to Lovers of Hebrew" asking them the upbuilding of the Jewish Na- to rally to the organization which tional Home." is now embarking upon a more Rumanians Oust Jews extended program of activities. ZURICH, (JTA) — The Nazi Through a program designed to embrace the home, the club, the paper Bukarester Tageblatt school, the synagogue, and every which reached here this week form of Jewish living, the His- from Rumania carries a report tadruth hopes of strengthen stating that "Aryan" inhabitants in the slums of the city of Czer- existing activities and promote nowitz were officially told to projects that will make Hebrew move into any Jewish home they articulate in every phase of Jew- desire, after first ordering the ish endeavor. Jewish dwellers to leave. The call to support Hebrew culture and to advance Hebrew Noted Psychiatrist Killed creativity by joining the Hista- LONDON; (JTA) — Informa- druth is signed by the following tion has reached here from officers of the organization: Dr. Russia, that Prof. Abraham Bal- Solomon Goldman, honorary aban, noted Jewish psychiatrist, :president; Dr. Israel Efros, presi- has been murdered by the Nazis dent; Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, in the city of Simferopol, in oc- Rabbi Samuel K. Mirsky and cupied Crimea. Menachem Ribalow, vice-presi- dents; Samuel J. Borowsky, 3 Faiths Mingle at Camp chairMan of executive committee; FORT RILEY, Kansas, (JTA) Shemeon Pollac k, secretary; —Freedom, tolerance and broth- Harry P. Fierst, treasurer; Rabbi erhood were pointed out as the • Israel N, Levinthal, chairman of thre basic principles of American Hadoar Committee; Boris Mar- life by chaplains of three faiths golin, chairman of finance corn- as men of the entire Fort Riley ) i mittee, and Dr. Azriel Eisenberg, area met for the first interfaith chairman of organization commit- prayer meeting ever held on this military reservation. . tee. Histadruth Ivrith Asks Hebrew Revival THE JEWISH NEWS Pe.ge Three Colin P. elly didn't have to do it! * There is nothing in the Regulations of the armed forces of America that requires a man to fling away his life deliberately. * He's supposed to take chances, for that is war, but it's entirely up to his own judgment what chances he takes. * Colin Kelly could have taken his chance of a hit or miss from a high altitude and lived to tell the tale, instead of diving into the target head-on. * And even if he had missed the HARUNA and come through the war unscathed, he would still have been a hero "when the boys come marching home." He could have "played safe" . . . and lived! Instead ... he "played safe" . . . and died!. * Colin Kelly "played safe" for Arnerida and not for Colin Kelly!! And he didn't have to do it! It wasn't in the Regulations * And doing more than we are required to do isn't in the Regulations for your job for ours * We can "play safe" within the Regulations and get by .. . or we can "play safe" beyond Regulations and get results. * Colin Kelly simply demonstrated that the highest duty in war is the willingness to exceed it . . and that applies to a civilian as well as a soldier. * We shall win this war, not by doing merely what we are told to do, but by doing all that we are able to do and all that we can find to do, and that is the least that we can do for those who are doing more than we can ever hope to do the longest day we live ! Buy U. S. Stamps and Bonds and Avenge Pearl Harbor WOODWARD AT GRATIOT . . CHERRY 9500 Monday Store Hours: 9;45 A. M. to 9 P. M.