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Friday, February 12, 1943

Half Milli Jews Reported
Wiped Out of Warsaw Ghetto

Mass Executions in Poland Increased in Recent Weeks; Only
4,000 Remain in Cracow; Nazis Murder 99 Per
Cent of Yugoslavian Jews

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The city of Warsaw where
the Nazis concentrated 500,000 Jews in the first. Jewish
ghetto established in occupied Poland, is now complete-
ly- "judenrein," according to information reaching here
this week.
Not a single Jew remains in the Warsaw ghetto, the
report received this week from Poland stated. The several
thousand Jewish artisans there who were permitted to
remain after the mass-deportation of hundreds of thous-
ands of Jews, because they were considered "valuable"
to German war industries, were all deported from the
city in the middle of last month.
The report reveals that mass executions of Jews in
Poland have assumed new proportions during the last few
weeks. It states that there are at present only 17,000 Jews
left in Sosnowiec where tens of thousands of Jews were
driven from various cities in Central Poland, and that no
more than 4,000 Jews now remain in the Cracow ghetto.

85,000 Jews Annihilated In Yugoslavia
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Ninety-nine percent of the
80,000 Jews of Yugoslavia and the 6,000 Jewish refugees
who found asylum there before the outbreak of the war
are now dead as a result of atrocities by the Nazis and
their puppet-governments in Croatia and Serbia, it was
reported here in a statement by diplomatic representa-
tives of the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile.
The statement declared that no more than about
1,000 Jews remain alive in Yugoslavia, while only about
220 have succeeded in fleeing. Those still in the country
are practically interned and live in imminent danger.
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Poles in Zion
Anti-Semitic

Charged With Physical Vio-
lence and Murder of Katz-
nelson's Brother-in-Law

NEW YORK (JPS) — Grave
charges of anti-Semitism, going
Lo the extent of physical violence
- against Jews, are registered
. against many Polish soldiers sta-
tioned in the Jewish homeland in
an article in the current Yid-
disher Kaempfer, weekly organ
of the Poale Zion. The brother-
in-law of Berl Katznelson, out-
standing Palestine labor leader,
is alleged to have been murdered
by such a Pole in the all-Jewish
city of Tel Aviv.
The charges are compiled by
Jacob Lestchinsky, noted econ-
omist. on the basis of private
communications which he has re-
ceived despite the censorship. Ac-
cording to him, the Jews of Pal-
estine are on a basis of greatest
friendship with the troops of all
the United Nations stationed in
Palestine—with the exception of
the Poles. Frequent clashes are
reported between Polish soldiers
and the Jewish natives. The
murder of Berl Katznelson's
brother-in-law is cited as one of
these incidents. The situation is
said to have become so serious
that at one period the Tel Aviv
Municipality had to issue a regu-
lation making the Tel Aviv
streets out of bounds for all Pol-
ish soldiers for three days. There
are thousands of Poles who have
found haven in Tel Aviv since
their country was invaded by the
Nazis. That anti-Semitism prac-
ticed in Poland should be import-
ed to the Jewish-created city
which is giving a refuge to Poles
left a profound impression.

Chief Rabbi to Seek
Jewish Troop Units

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Chief
Rabbi Herzog this week began a
country-wide tour to stimulate
the enlistment of orthodox Jew-
ish youth in Palestine in the
British armed forces. He advo-
cates the establishment of spe-
cial Jewish orthodox units in the
armed forces along the same lines
as those established in the special
police forces. This would give
Jewish orthodox soldiers the op-
portunity to observe Jewish re-
ligious laws without having the
army training interfere with
their observances.

JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

The inclusion of Jewish social service
and similar communal workers in the
benefits of the Federal Old Age And
Survivors' Insurance section of the Soc-
ial Security Act has been endorsed by
the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, it was revealed in Wash-
ington by Senator David Walsh of
Massachusetts in submitting an amend-
ment to the Social Security Act provid-
ing for the extension of insurance bene-
fits to employes of religious and charit-
able organiaztions hitherto excluded
from the Act. . . Back in 1935 when
the Act was first discussed, many Jew-
ish charitable groups, along with repre-
sentatives of churches, colleges and
hospitals urged that their employes
should be exempted from the Social Sec-
urity Act.
The Keren Hayesod, fund-raising
arm of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
in the United States, will co-ordinate
the activities of all American-Jewish
bodies to facilitate the entry into Pales-
tine of 4,000 Bulgarian Jewish children
and 40 adults for whom immigration
certificates have been available by the
British Government, it was announced
here by Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Presi-
dent of the Palestine Foundation Fund.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver has been nam-
ed National Chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal for 1943, the sixth
year of service he has given to that or-
ganization.

Jewish Air Hero
The story of a former Garfield, N. J.
salesman who has become one of Am-
erica's great air heroes in the North
African combat, having won three
medals as a Flying Fortress navigator,
was recounted in New York by the Jew-
ish Welfare Board in its latest issue of
the Honor Roll of American Jews rend-
ering distinguished service in the armed
forces. . . . The man who holds the Air
Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters is
Lt. Morris Berenson, 24, who has to
his credit considerable havoc to Nazi
installations at various ports in North
Africa, and who previously shared in
the assaults by American fliers on Rot-
terdam and Lille. Friends of Lieut. Ber-
enson suggest that his great proficiency
at ping pong, in which he held a 7-state
title, enabled him to lead his great com-
bat ship right over the Axis targets.
The fate of the Jews in the United
States may well depend on what hap-
pens to the Jews of North Africa, it was
asserted in Seattle, Wash., by Dr. Robert
Mossey, formerly professor at the Uni-
versty of Grenoble in France and more
recently with the Board of Economic
Warfare in Washington. Dr. Mossey's
views were expressed in an interview
with the Seattle Transcript, to whom
he declared that "there is a great deal
more anti-Semitism in the ,United States
than there was in France before World
War II."

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