Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
OVERSEAS
June 13 has been fixed by the Vaad Leu-
mi as a "day in observance of the heroic
martyrdom of European Jewry. . . . The
Vaad Leumi took special note of the fact
that the day will coincide approximately
with the election in the United States of
delegates to the American Jewish Con-
ference, whose tasks will include consid-
eration of the problem of European Jewry.
Prof. Leo Ary Mayer, who holds the
Chair in Near Eastern Art and Archeolo-
gy at the Hebrew University, was elected
Rector of the university for the ensuing
two-year period.
The "Evening Standard," in an editorial
eulogizing the heroes of the Warsaw ghet-
to, declares that the democratic world
owes a debt of undying gratitude to the
Jews who fought so well against a modern
military force and inflicted hundreds of
casualties on the Nazis.
AMERICA
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz of New York
City and Kurt Peiser of Philadelphia, ar-
rived in Lisbon enroute to North Africa,
where they will launch the organization of
Jewish relief and rehabilitation work, it
was announced in New York by the Joint
Distribution Committee.
A demand that the United Nations take
positive action to rescue the Jews of Eur-
ope by granting them access to democratic
countries was voiced by New York Reps.
Samuel Dickstein and Andrew L. Somers
at a meeting here under the auspices of
the Committee for a Jewish Army of
Stateless and Palestinian Jews. The im-
portance of Palestine as a haven of refuge
was emphasized.
A resolution urging that the United
States inaugurate at once a program, in
co-operation with the other United Na-
ticins, to save the children in Axis-occu-
pied countries from starvation has been
introduced in the House by Homer D. An-
gell of Oregon.
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Cleveland,
Administrative Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Army and Navy Activities of the
Jewish Welfare Board, was one of seven
religious leaders, the others Catholics and
Protestants, who left here together in an
Army transport plane to visit training
centers of the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort
Oglethorpe, Georgia "to observe at first
hand the attention given to religious life
by WAAC officers and enrolled members
of the corps." .
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday; June 11, 1943
It is disclosed by the Swiss press that
the recent suicide of the widow of Max
Lieberman, famous German Jewish pain-
ter, in Berlin occurred when the 84-year-
old woman was ordered by the Nazis to
prepare for deportation to Poland. Having
been given a half hour to make her prep-
arations, she used it to take her life.
A thousand Jews were killed in the
streets of the Cracow ghetto before the
Nazis proceeded with the deportation of
the residents to the Oswiatzem concentra-
tion camp, according to a report in the
"London Times," which states that similar
massacres preceded the deportations from
Radomsk, Krasnik, Radzymin, Sobolev
and Lukov.
Marcel Peyrouton, the former Vichyite
and initiator of the Vichy anti-Semitic
laws whose removal from the post of Gov-
ernor-General of Algeria had been de-
manded for months by General De Gaulle,
submitted to the latter and to General Gi-
raud his resignation from that office. Pey-
routon, during the time that he served as
Vichy Minister of Interior, signed Nazi-
model laws against the Jews, denounced
stateless refugees as "dangerous aliens,"
established the first concentration camps
in France and set up the equivalent of a
Gestapo there.
Non-Jews Fight Bulgaria's
Mass Deportation of Jews
Many Thousands Already Are "Settled" in Townships but
Are Restricted; Resistance Delays Final
Deportation from Sofia
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—The Bulgarian government this week
announced that the deportation of the Jews from Sofia will be com-
pleted "by the end of June." The last of the 25,000 Sofia Jews were
to have been expelled by June 7 under a previous order. The re-
sistance displayed by the non-Jewish population has slowed up the
deportations, it is reported.
The announcement of the Bulgarian government, cabled from
Sofia by correspondents of Swedish newspapers, adds that many..
thousands of Jews already deported from Sofia have been "settled"
in the townships of Karnobat, Vidin and Pleven. Restricted shop-
ping hours for the expelled Jews have been proclaimed in the vil-
lages. No Jew is allowed to possess a radio and to enter motion-,
picture houses, parks and bathing places, the Swedish paper Nay
Daglight Allehanda said in its report from Sofia.
Jewish Congress Says Britain Can Save Bulgarian Jews
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A call for immediate action, to be taken
by Britain on behalf of the United Nations, to save the Jews of Bul-
garia from deportation "to certain death in the East" was issued this
week by the World Jewish Congress.
"There is a place for the Bulgarian Jews to go," the World Jew-
ish Congress points out, "29,000 permits to admit Jews to Palestine
are already promised; of these, 13,000 have already been made avail-
able since March—but not yet used.
Filderman Asked for Anglo American Aid, Nazis Say
ZURICH, (JTA)—The Nazi news agency DNB this week re-
ported froni Berlin that Dr. William Filderman, prominent leader of
Rumanian Jewry, was arrested not only because he urged Jews not
to pay the special tax which the Rumanian government imposed
upon the Jewish population, but also "because he incited the Jews
to resist the anti-Jewish laws and called for Anglo-Ainerican aid."
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SUNDAY, JUNE 20
The Belgrade Nazi "Donauer Zeitung"
alleges that the plan sponsored by the
Italian Fascist Party for the creation of a
huge ghetto in Venice in which all the
Jews of Italy would be interned has been
dropped as a result of the strong opposi-
tion of the Italian aristocracy.
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Leon Blum is still in prison in Germany,
the Italian semi-official News Agency de-
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Premier of Republican France was trans-
ferred to a camp in Poland.
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theory, Nazi authorities are now using blood from 40,000
Jewish children in occupied countries for transfusions for
German soldiers wounded on the Russian front, it is reported
here this week. The report reveals that Jewish children from
Western Europe and occupied Poland have been concentrated
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Nazis Kill Jews in Groups of 500 in "Steam Chambers"
LONDON, (JTA)—Thousands of Jews in Poland who are being
deported by the Nazis to "unknown destinations" are actually being
extermiated by suffocation in groups of 500 in special "steam cham-
bers" in several concentration camps, it was learned here this week.
Japan Seizes 100 Jewish Refugees as Hostages
• LONDON, (JTA)—One hundred prominent Jewish refugees in
Shanghai have been seized as hostages by the Japanese there, while
many others have been arrested, a reliable report reaching here
discloses. The Japanese mobilized all Jewish mechanics and skilled
laborers for forced labor. Jewish doctors and dentists were ordered
to report for work in Japanese hospitals.
Jewish Commander of Russian Parachutists Killed
KUIBYSHEV, (JTA)—Maj. Caesar Kunnikov, a Jewish com-
mander of parachute troops and former editor of a Moscow paper,
was this week awarded, posthumously, the title Hero of the Soviet
Union for a foray in the rear of the Nazi lines. Maj. Kunnikov was
dropped with 200 men behind Nazi lines in an attempt to halt the
German retreat until the Red Army could catch up. Despite over-
whelming odds, Kunnikov's detachment killed 2,000 in a six-day
battle.
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Palestine Gives
a's Fund
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—Over £21,u,,, as already been
pledged by the Jews of Palestine for the Refugee Jewish Children's
Fund, it was announced here. The campaign is being conducted
through the Keren Hayesod, which reported that the bulk of the
pledges was in cash.
Can Bring 4,000 Refugees From Spain
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—That there is a possibility of bring-
ing to Palestine 4,000 Jewish refugees from Spain "even though a
long arduous journey faces them," was announced at a press con-
ference here by Eliahu Dobkin, deputy member of the Jewish
Agency Executive in charge of immigration.
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