Hundreds of Polish Towns
ludenrein,' Nazis Boast

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

UNITED STATES—
Warsaw Has Only Ghetto Left in Central Poland; Beilin
While Department of Justice is busy
accumulating evidence against 28 persons
Report Fails to Reveal Victims' Fate; Russia Warns
indicted for conspiracy to undermine the
Hitler of 'Severe Revenge'

(JTA)—Hundreds of towns, large and
small, have been made "judenrein" by the Nazis in occu-
pied Poland during the last few months, it is disclosed in
an official report published by the Nazi government in
Berlin newspapers which reached here this week.
The report, issued by the Secretary of State for Se-
curity in the Government General, reveals that the huge
ghettos in Radom and in Lublin have been abolished be-
cause not a single Jew remains in those cities, where tens
of thousands resided during the first months of the Nazi
occupation, in addition to the Jews from Germany and
other Nazi-held countries who were deported to the Lub-
lin ghetto by the thousands.
The Warsaw ghetto is now the only ghetto left in
Central Poland, in addition to 12 ghettos in Galicia, the
report states.

ZURICH,

Russia Issues Statement On Massacres

MOSCOW, (JTA)—The Soviet Government this week
published an official statement reviewing the Nazi mas-
sacres of Jews in occupied territory and warning Hitler
and his followers of "severe revenge."
The review confirms that tens of thousands of Jews
have been executed by the Nazis in the cities of Vilna,
Brest-Litowsk, Bialystok, Minsk, Baranowice, and other
cities. Sixty thousand Jews were massacred in the two
cities of Kiev and Dniepropetrovsk. More than 60,000
Jews have been executed in Riga where there are only
400 Jews left at present; 20,000 Jews were massacred by
the Nazis in Luck, Wohlynien, in the course of two days.
More than 32,000 Jews were executed in Sarny; 1,600 in
Rakitna; 1,250 in Beresna; 1,400 in Kostopol ; 1,500 in

Zdolbunovo and other thousands(•\
in various towns in the Wohly-
nien district.
Hungry Jewish Women Lashed
to Death
Twenty-five Jewish women
were lashed to death by the Nazi
police authorities in Khariton-
ovski, because, driven by hunger,
they picked wild mushrooms
without first securing permission,
it was revealed this week in the
Soviet press on the basis of re-
ports brought by guerrillas.
In Zaitseva, the partisan fight-
ers report, the Nazis killed all the
Jews, burning .40 of them alive.
In other small villages in the
Orlov district the Jews were also
massacred, some being hung,
others shot . and still others
burned.
In Starobin 700 Jews were
crowded into a slaughter house
which had been drenched with
kerosene and were burned alive,
Pravda reports.

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Immediate practical measures to aid
Nazi victims was demanded by the Vaad
Leumi. . . Seventy-nine men and women,
the largest number of graduates of any
year to date, received Master of Arts and
Master of Science degrees at Hebrew Uni-
versity on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. . .
82 friends of Henrietta Szold contributed
82 pounds each on her 82nd birthday to
the Child and Youth Welfare Fund which
she established in 1941. . . Palestine's first
tuberculosis hospital was formally opened
at Mekor Haim. . . Palestine's Paper Con-
troller has granted ten tons of paper for
publication of Hebrew books. .. The Jew-
ish agricultural settlements of Palestine
are ready to receive 10,000 refugee chil-
dren. .. Christmas gifts were brought by
Jewish children from all parts of the Val-
ley of Jezreel to wounded soldiers of the
United Nations' armies at military hospi-
tals in Nazareth.

OVERSEAS—

Jewish leaders in North Africa have
asked for an American delegation to come
there and to help stabilize their position
. . . Norwegian circles report that Nazis
are intensifying • pogroms as their military
situation gets worse. . . A report from
Sweden states that 100 Jewish refugees
have been kept in a Helsinki prison for
over a year with no prospect of release. . .
The Jewish Agency is negotiating with
important non-Zionist quarters in London
for a unified policy concerning the rescue
of refugee children.

1943:

41\

Soldier Sends UJA
Half of Year's Pay Ac

A 20-year-old private in the
U. S. Army sent six months' pay
as his contribution to the cam-
paign for the United Jewish
Appeal, and with his check came
a letter in which he said:
"I am a Jewish boy in the
armed -forces, and yet, even with
the strenuous training schedule.
I take a few moments to stop and
think of all the things I have to
be thankful for. One cannot pick
up a paper without reading of
appalling conditions of the Jews
in Europe today. What is the
value of a dollar in comparison
to -the saving of a life?"
This was the message which
Leonard Fruchtman sent from
Ft. McClellan, Ala., to Rabbi
Morton Goldberg in Toledo, his
home town, as he made his con-
tribution to that city's 1942
campaign.
Almost simultaneously, from
"somewhere in the Pacific," Rab-
bi Goldberg received an equally
large contribution from Lieut.
Stanford Goldman, son of Nathan
Goldman, chairman of the To-
ledo drive.
The incident in Toledo, the
U. J, A. revealed, is typical of
what has been happening in other
communities in various parts of
the country.

armed forces, the Washington Times-Her-
ald, of the McCormick-Paterson chain, is
busy "exposing" those who brought about
the indictment, and it is believed that its
slur against "a super defamation organiza-
tion" is aimed at the Anti-Defamation
League. . . The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
League has undertaken to distribute 500,-
000 circulars "warning against supporting
the Daily News, New York tabloid owned
by group that controls Washington Herald-
Times and Chicago Tribune. . . The J. D. C.
has provided an initial grant of $26,000 to
assist 1,500 refugees interned in Morocco
and Algiers . . . William Green of A. F. L.
and Philip Murray of C.I.O. have made
statements vowing retrilbution for Nazi
"butchers". . • An inquiry into Nazi van-
dalism in New York has been ordered by
Governor Poletti. . . The 70th anniversary
of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky's first public ad
dress will be marked by the establishment
of a Chair in Midrash at the Hebrew Uni-
versity, Louis Lipsky announced in New
York. . . The proposed banquet in honor
of Mr. Masliansky was postponed due to
the death last week of Mr. Masliansky's
son, Philip, a prominent New York impor-
ter and manufacturer, at the age of 61. . •
A statement issued by Fellowship for
Southern Churchmen, at Black Mountain,
N. C., declared that "there can be no free-
dom for Gentiles, only fear, so long as a
Jew is sPr\i—e.r1

PALESTINE—

Resolution for

MORE WORLD NEWS
ON PAGES 10 AND 14

"Least I Can Do," Private
Writes; Others Send Dona-
tions from All Over World

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Friday, January 1, 1943

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