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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 14, 1943
31,300 Jews Win Freedom
As Allies Capture Tunis
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
"There must be positive assurance now
that the homeless Jews of Europe who sur-
vive this dreadful conflict can look for-
ward to a homeland of their own," it was
The Allied victories in North Africa, and the mopping declared by Wendell L. Willkie, in a mes-
up of the remnants of Axis soldiers and pro-axis followers in sage to the mass meeting for the perse-
Tunis this week, brought freedom to 30,000 Jews in Tunis and cuted Jews of Europe held at Boston Gar-
1,300 more in Bizerte, according to reports from headquarters den.
in North Africa.
A total of 319 Jewish refugees arrived
The 31,300 Jews in that area, who have been waiting from Lisbon on a number of boats during
eagerly for reports on Allied progress, each hour meaning the past week, it was announced by HIAS.
they were that much closer to liberation, shook the cruel The organization stated that 119 were
yoke of Nazi torture the moment the American, British and cleared from three boats arriving at Phila-
French troops set foot in Tunis and Bizerte a week ago.
delphia while 200 others were still under
Half-starved and blackmailed, the Jews in that area are immigration inspection at another port.
now seeking to regain their homes, lands, businesses and About two score children were included
among the passengers.
everything the Fascists had taken in the past decade.
The 1942 Pulitzer Prize, newly estab-
Families Emigrated from Italy
lished
coveted award in the musical world,
The Tunis Jews, most of whose families emigrated from
Italy hundreds of years ago, were placed in the ghetto by the was granted to William H. Schuman, 33-
Nazis, were compelled to pay large fines and reportedly were year-old native New Yorker, who won the
$500 prize for his composition, "Secular
forced to wear the yellow star of David.
Cantata No. 2, A Free Song."
The Jews of Tunis paid in blood and sweat under the
Despite the war, hostility to the use of
fascist order to work on the military defenses. Besides, they
refugee
physicians was manifested in Buf-
were forced to turn over 1,500 homes to soldiers for quarters.
Four to five thousand men, women and children were put to falo at the annual meeting of the House
of Delegates of the New York State Medi-
work on Tunis defenses.
cal Society which adopted a resolution
The French, like the Jews, also were made to suffer. calling for the restriction of the rights of
Some French managed to escape to Allied territory after the non-citizens to practice medicine in this
invasion of North Africa.
State.
Jews were active in wheat and oil businesses and many
Edward James Smythe, recently re-
major exports and imports in Tunis in pre-facist days.
leased on bail after spending three and a
half months in jail in Washington under
Jews' Position Has Been Worsened, Gen. De Gaulle Says indictment for sedition, has renewed his
LONDON, (JTA)—Gen. Giraud's orders have worsened the
anti-Jewish activities with the formation
position of the Jews in North Africa, it was emphasized here this
of a "National Council for Civil Liberties,"
week by Gen. De Gaulle, who indicated that he is dissatisfied
with the abrogation of the Cremieux decree.
it is reported by the Non-Sectarian Anti-
"We have seen in North Africa a period in which racial laws
Nazi League.
have been solemnly condemned, while the regime applied to
The number of Jewish farming families
the Jews there has become at the same time more rigorous than
in Canada has increased 20 per cent since
before," the leader of the Fighting French declared at a recep-
tion at which he discussed the Nlitical atmosphere surrounding
1931, according to a statement by the Uni-
his proposed meeting with Gen. Giraud.
ted Jewish Refugee And War Relief Agen-
This was the first public statement made by Gen. de Gaulle
cies in Montreal, which has just completed
concerning the treatment of the Jews under Giraud's administra-
a study of Jewish refugee settlement in
tion.
Canada.
A postal card addressed to a Pittsburgh
inductee and bearing anti-Jewish and anti-
Allied statements has resulted in the ar-.
rest in Pittsburgh of Dr. Franz Ernst Paul
Fiedler, 59-year-old decorated German
veteran of World War I, it was announced
in Washington by Attorney General
All • Deported to Unknown Destinations, State Reports
Francis Biddle.
From Stockholm; Refugees Claim Remaining
Reuben Guskin, director of the Jewish
Actors' Union, was elected president of the
Jews Continuing to Resist Nazis
"Arbeiter Ring", Jewish fraternal work-
LONDON, (JTA)—The complete liquidation by the Nazis
ers' organization, at the closing sessions of
of the ghetto in the city of Vilna, Poland, is reported this the 43rd convention held in New York.
week from Stockholm. The report quotes the Svenska Dag- Frank Epstein was named vice-president,
bladet, one of the largest Swedish newspapers. The Dagbladet
says that at the end of 1941 there were still about 50,000 Jews
in the ghetto, bait they were all deported to unknown desti-
nations during 1942.
S. Adler-Rudel, Jewish social worker who recently re-
turned to London from a visit to Sweden for refugee relief
work there, reported at a public meeting here that while
abroad he spoke to people who recently succeeded in escaping
from occupied Poland. "They all confirmed the latest press
reports that Jews are actively resisting the Nazis and that
Zionism is still a living force in the ghettos," he said.
The Archbishop of York, addressing 2,500 in St. Paul's
Cathedral, at an intercession service in the celebration of
Polish Constitution Day, cited the Jews as an example of
courage and confidence in the future for all other enslaved
nations.
"History often tells of nations like the Jews who appear
to have been destroyed, but whose soul is still alive and free
because it is united by great heritage of ideals," the Arch-
bishop said. The Polish Premier Gen. Sikorski was among
those attending the services.
Half-Starved and Blackmailed Victims of Fascism Hail
Arrival of American, British and French Troops;
1,300 Also Liberated in Bizerte
.
50,000 Disappear in 1942
From Ghetto in Polish City
Nazis Remove Metal from Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Nazi leaders visited two Jew-
ish cemeteries in Vienna recently, and since then all copper
and bronze statutes have been removed "for war use," in ad-
dition to one copper roof, and all the lead and iron from the
tombs, the Swedish periodical, "Trosts Allt", declared in an
article reported to the Office of War Information. In particu-
lar, the tomb of a well-known court singer, Elisa Elizza, was
"robbed of its bronze relief," the Swedish magazine said, and
a fountain dating from 1756 was removed.
Benjamin Levitan, treasurer, and Nathan
Freiman, recording secretary.
Nazis being treated at a British tent
hospital base in Tunisia demand that no
"non-Aryan" blood be used in blood trans-
fusions for them, according to a report
received by the United Press. "They de-
mand assurances," says the dispatch from
central Tunisia "that they will leave the
hospital still pure members of the therren-
yolk' (master race)."
A Jewish Lieutenant Colonel in the
United States Army who led a flanking
unit in the invasion of French Morocco in
November, 1942, was honored for heroism
in a citation made public by the War De-
partment in announcing the awards of the
Silver Star to Lieutenant Colonel Rafael
L. Salzmann of New York.
PALESTINE
In the eight months ending April 30,
1943, $1,287,900 was contributed to the
Yishuv War Needs Fund by the Jews of
Palestine, it was reported by Dr. Aaron
Barth at the War Needs Fund rally in
Haifa.
Efforts are being made by Hapoel, the
Histadruth sports association, to enable a
group of Russian football players to come
to Palestine to meet local teams.
OVERSEAS
The wartime growth of anti-Semitism in
Great. Britain was noted and condemned
in a resolution adopted in Manchester at
the annual meeting of the Unitarian Free
Christian Churches . . . Pointing to the
flare-up of anti-Semitism as contrary to
the things for which the country is fight-
ing, a resolution was adopted calling upon
the Government to take action against any
person making false and malicious state-
ments against the Jews.
Latvia and Lithuania are completely de-
void of Jews, it is reported by the Stock-
holm "Svenska Dagbladet", which adds
that those who were • not killed were sent
to Nazi-occupied Russia to do forced labor.
Fifteen hundred Jews in the American
forces participated in seders arranged by
the Casablanca Kehillah during Passover,
Monuments and tombs in the two Jewish
cemeteries of Vienna are being demolished
in order that the iron, copper, bronze and
lead in them may be utilized by the Nazis,
it is reported by the Swedish newspaper,
"Trotsalt."
Court proceedings to declare the bank-
ruptcy of Jewish deportees have been in-
stituted by the Nazis in Norway, accord-
ing to the Swedish press.
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