Friday, February 26, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Nazis Slaughter Jews
During Rout in Russia

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War Reporter Discovers Evidences of Wave of Terror
and Killings by Retreating German Soldiers,
Stories from Liberated Villages Say

MOSCOW, (JTA)—Russian war correspondents attached
to the armies that are advancing along the front from Mos-
cow to the Sea of Azov are reporting evidences of Nazi
terror against Jews discovered in the liberated towns and
villages.
The murder of tens of thousands of Jews by fire, elec-
tricity, poison, machine-guns and the noose is revealed in
authenticated stories appearing daily in the press here and
elsewhere throughout Russia. The following accounts are
merely a "sampling" of hundreds of similar reports:
In Remontnoye, in the Rostov district, one correspondent
was told how the Nazis placed the entire Jewish population,
mainly refugees who had fled from the Ukraine, in a spe-
cially constructed barbed-wire enclosure where scores of
old men, women and children were forced to walk over
wire which had been electrified and were electrocuted.
In Remontnoye the score was 300 dead.

93 Families Shot, Poisoned

In Elista, all the Jews were taken outside the town,
where all the adults were shot. The children were given
poison. Here the Nazi score was 93 families, comprising
more than 300 individuals.
In another village, Zhutovo, in the Stalingrad district,
hundreds of Jewish evacuees from the Ukraine were driven
into lethal gas chambers and suffocated.
In the village of Zaventoye, it is known that the Nazis
killed 200 Jews, after first harnessing them to carts and
forcing them to drag heavy loads.
In Shenfeld, in the Stepanov district, a group of S. S.
men killed 60 Jewish women after assaulting the younger
women and girls.

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

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(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA
A luncheon that the gracious First

Lady did not describe in her column, "My
Day," was one she had last week with
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine. Mrs. Roose-
velt is understood to have expressed a
keen desire to know more about the Jew-
ish development of Palestine.
On behalf of the nation, President
Roosevelt has honored the memory of the
late Supreme Court Justice by naming a
10,000-ton Liberty ship the Louis D. Bran-
deis, it was revealed as Mrs. Susan Bran-
deis Gilbert, daughter of the Jurist, per-
formed the launching ceremony at the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding yards in Balti-
more.
George Backer, former publisher of the
New York Post and president of the Ort,
is planning to fly to North Africa, it was
learned in Washington.
Moshe Shertok, political chief of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, who has
been spending the past few months in
London in important political negotiations,
arrived in the United States by Clipper
after a 10-day trip from England.
Sgt. Irving Strobing, the radio operator
who sent out the now classic last message
from Corregidor only a moment or two
before the Philippine fortress fell, is a
prisoner of the Japs and not missing, as
reported nine months ago, it was revealed
in Brooklyn to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Strob-
ing by the War Department.

PALESTINE

After many months of wandering from
Poland to Asiatic Russia and months of
waiting in Iran, 858 Polish-Jewish child
refugees finally arrived in Palestine from
Teheran. There were 453 boys, 399 girls
and several infants, accompanied by 369
adults, including 60 instructors.
Soldiers from Jewish transport units in
Libya have contributed 500 pounds to the
fund to rescue the Jews of Europe.
A "Fight and Work" exhibition organ-
ized by the Keren Hayesod has opened at
the Tel Aviv Museum Hall.
Dr. Bernard Joseph, acting political
chief of the Jewish Agency during the
absence of Moshe Shertok, declared at a
press conference in Jerusalem, that there
will be "no difficulty in obtaining Pales-
tine certificates to the extent to which
Jews can be evacuated," from Europe.

OVERSEAS

A petition forwarded to the Pope in
Rome, to the International Red Cross and
to the heads of the Catholic and Protes-
tant churches asking them to intervene
with the German government to cease the
extermination of the Jews, was signed
by 144 leading Swiss personalities, includ-
ing statesmen, writers, scientists, teachers,
labor leaders and molders of public
opinion.
Travellers reaching Switzerland report
that there are about 4,000 Jews left in
Vienna, most of them old and sick people
who could not be deported.

Probe Offer
By Rumania
To Move Jews

Dr. Wise Says Investigation

is Being Made on Report
To Release 70,000

Denial that the payment of $50
for each Jew to the Rumanian
Government would bring about
the release of 70,000 Jews was
made in New York in a statement
by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
of the American Jewish Con-
gress.

Dr. Wise pointed out that there
is no confirmation that the Ru-
manian Government actually is
ready to permit 70,000 Jews to
leave Rumania. He emphasized
that the responsible Jewish orga-
nizations are investigating the
authenticity of the offer and the
possibility of obtaining refuge for
these Jews if the offer is substan-
tiated, either in Palestine or in
other countries.
Until the situation has been
clarified, Dr. Wise pointed out,
no collection of funds would
seem justified.
The Board of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews and the World Jewish
Congress expressed wonderment
over the reported Rumanian plan
to release the 70,000 Jews now in
the Ukraine district to Palestine
or any other refuge the Allies
may choose, the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency reports.
Plan Held 'Unlikely'
The report has not been con-
firmed by any authoritative
source. British Jewish leaders
who would be in a position to
know about the reported offer'
declared that such a proposal is
"most unlikely." They shared the
scepticism of Washington offi-
cials, pointing out that even if
the Rumanian government were
inclined to transport Jews on its
ships for the sake of the $14,000,-
000, which it could realize on
such a deal, the Nazis would
never permit it to send any of its
ships out of the Black Sea into
Allied-controlled waters.

Called a Nazi Hoax
WASHINGTON (JPS) — The
likelihood that the report of Ru-
mania's willingness to release 70,-
000 Jews for settlement in Pales-
tine, is a great Nazi hoax was
conceded in informed circles

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