Jews in Warsaw Ask Arms
and Food to Resist Nazis
Sufferers in Ghetto There Get Message Through; Survey
Reveals Nazis Giving Jews Only 20 Pct. of
Diet Needed to Maintain Life
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A message from the Jews in the
Warsaw ghetto, signed by several well-known leaders of the
Zionist labor movement in Poland, asking for arms to continue
resistance to the Nazis, was received here this week.
The message, addressed simultaneously to the World
Zionist Executive in London and to the labor movement in
Palestine, says that the Jews who still remain in the Warsaw
ghetto are putting up a vigorous fight against the Nazis "for
the sake of Jewish honor and the little that has been left." It
appeals for urgent aid to enable the Jews to acquire arms for
themselves and food for their children.
Another message reaching here from the Warsaw ghetto
states that unprecedented hunger prevails there. The message
concludes with sharp criticism of the Jews in the democratic
countries, especially the Jews of America, charging them with
indifference.
Jews Get 20 Pct. of Diet Needed to Live
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jewish population in Nazi-held
Europe today receives only 20 per cent of the diet required in
order to maintain life, while the German population is receiving
94 per cent of the diet established by the League of Nations as
essential to the maintenance of health, according to a survey
made public this week by the Institute of Jewish Affairs of the
American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress.
Of all the conquered peoples, the Czechs and the Dutch
alone approach the sound standard of diet, the survey shows.
The Dutch get 81 per cent of their required calories, the Poles
in Wartheland 72 per cent, the Belgians 67 per cent, the Poles in
the General Government 36 per cent, the Slovenes 20 per cent.
The Jews alone receive no meat rations whatever.
In the Reich and German-occupied territory, Jews receive
practically none of the essential protective and vitamin foods.
They get no meat, fish, poultry, milk, dairy products, fruit or
vegetables.
MORE WORLD NEWS ON PAGES 14, .15
Noted Radio Men
Urge Support of
UM Campaign
=Commentators In Joint Plea
Over Air for Immediate
Aid to Refugees
In a nationwide broadcast last
Saturday, three of radio's fore-
most commentators, Raymond
Gram Swing, James G. McDon-
old and Earl Godwin, joined in
urging support of the agencies
represented in the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
`Needs and Palestine, so that in
"defending democracy we might
also win the battle for humnai-
tarianism."
Mr. Swing said "If we are to
cheat Hitler of a victory over his
victims, the work of rescue and
mercy supported through the
United Jewish Appeal must be
intensified." He praised the ac-
tivities of the Joint Distribution
Committee, which, he said, had
saved 750,000 of Hitler's victims
during the past decade.
Mr. McDonald, Chairman of
the President's Advisory Commit-
tee on Political Refugees and for-
mer League of Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, urged
that steps be undertaken to pro-
vide for the immigration into
Palestine of large numbers of
refugees and urged a "sharp re-
vision" of the White Paper which
would end Jewish immigration
into Palestine in March, 1944.
Earl Godwin, discussing the
program of aid to refugees in the
United States, said:
"We have been the folks that
treated everyone the way we
wanted to be treated. And in this
system of free enterprise where
every fellow got a chance, it has
multiplied our strength and pros-
perity and material resources."
ORT in Switzerland
To Train Refugees
GENEVA (JTA)—The sum of
250,000 Swiss francs will be spent
by the ORT in Switzerland dur-
ing 1943 on various projects to
aid Jewish refugees, it was an-
nounced here by A. Syngalowski,
a member of the executive com-
mittee of the World ORT Union.
Mr. Syngalowski reported that
the ORT now maintains a num-
ber of workshops in Switzerland
where clothing and shoes are re-
paired for 2,500 Jewish refugees.
Ninety Jewish refugee boys have
been apprenticed to Swiss mas-
ters who are paid _ by the ORT.
Page Three
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 7, 1943
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
President Roosevelt hears soldier chorus
led by Jewish refugee, Pvt. Herman B.
Gelonka . . . Edgar Ansel Mowrer chal-
lenges Giraud right to abolish Cremieux
law .. . Catholics to revise anti-Semitic
footnote in civilian edition of New Testa-
ment . . . Grove to be planted in Palestine
in memory of Jewish girls in Warsaw .. .
Bill introduced in Senate would prohibit
racial discrimination in WAVES . . . Leon
Goldman, founder of Zionist Organization
of Canada, dies in New York at age of 79.
Attorney General Francis Biddle in-
formed that anti-Semitic and anti-British
leaflets flood war plants . . . Christian
worker indicated by X, hearing by New
York State Labor Department reveals .. .
Anti-Semitism continues to flourish under
Giraud, says Algiers correspondent of New
York Times . . . French military mission in
Washington says Giraud intends to end
bias . . . New York City Council gets anti-
discrimination resolution.
President Batista of Cuba expresses
sympathy for Zionist cause . . . Louis
Adamic fears American relief will be
"counter-revolutionary" . . . Judge Morris
Rothenberg honored for War Bond effort
. . . Conference of Christians and Jews
issues record of Christian protests against
persecution.
PALESTINE
Palestine Government and military
headquarters issue communique stressing
need for more soldiers from Palestine .. .
Archbishop Spellman visits Wailing Wall
• .. 165 immigrants from Yemen reach
Palestine.
OVERSEAS
Fourteen thousand deportees from Bel-
gium and Holland reach Nazi-occupied
Russia . .. British Christians plan fund
for Jewish children . . . Giraud restores
authority of rabbinical courts . . . Britain
to ban anti-Jewish newspapers . . . Nazis
demand half of property confiscated by
Rumania ... Budapest Kehillah organ says
Hungarian Jews would leave if haven pro-
vided . • Danes who see anti-Semitic films
to be blacklisted . • . Greek students carry
yellow flags to identify themselves with
Jews . . . Goebbels stresses Jewish angle
in Russian-Polish break . . . Swedish Red
Cross protests Nazi ban on aid to Jews .
Jewish money aids French war victims.
De Valera refuses to admit Jewish
refugees into Eire . . . Wounded Jewish
girl leads Soviet bayonet charge . . • Rus-
sian Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee gives
3,500,000 rubles to Red Army . . . Guer-
rilla fighters report thousands of Smolensk
Jews slaughtered by Nazis . . . Rumanian
Ministry of Propaganda charges Jewish
commissars killed Rumanian patriots .. .
Indian Moslem resolution condemns Zion-
ism . . . Belgian Catholics reported aiding
Jews . . . Russian synagogues conduct
memorial services for massacred Jews .. .
De Gaullists denounce abrogation of Cre-
mieux decree.
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