Fir.;lay, June 18, '1.943
Sgt. Cohen, RAF Pilot,
`Captures' Lampedusa
Italian Garrison Surrenders to a Tailor's Cutter From
Britain After He is Forced Down on Island—
Enemy Waves 'White Flag'
NEW YORK (JPS)—A former tailor's cutter, 22-year-
old Sgt. Sidney Cohen of the R.A.F., was the recipient of
Lampedusa's surrender.
Sgt. Cohen, the pilot of a plane on a rescue mission
southwest of Malta, ran short of fuel and made a forced land-
ing on the Italian island. With him were a Scottish navigator
and an English wireless operator and air gunner.
He has become known as "King of Lampedusa".
"As we came down on a ropy landing field, we saw
burned hangars with burned planes all around them," Sgt.
Cohen said. "White sheets were being waved by the people
on the edge of the field. Two Italian officers came over,
followed by a crowd of civilians. .
"We demanded to see the commandant of the Island
and we were led to him. He received us immediately in a
crowded office."
At that point another raid started d the Italians, in-
cluding the commandant, made a dash r cover. The three
fliers pursued the commandant to an operations room 75
feet below ground level, where he gave Sgt. Cohen a scrap
of paper with his signature on it. He requested that the paper
be delivered to the authorities at Malta, telling them that
the island of Lampedusa had surrendered.
Sgt. Cohen delivered the surrender slip to an American
camp near Tunis.
Persecution of Greek Jews
Arouses Greece to Protest
Athens University's Petition Rejected by Occupation
Authorities; First Batch of 3,500 Salonika
Jews Deported ho Poland in March
LONDON (JTA)—The German persecution of Greek Jews has
aroused the indignation of all circles within Greece, it was disclosed
here this week in a statement issued by the Greek govrnment-in-
exile, revealing that recently the council of Athens University peti-
tioned the Nazis to treat Jews as they did all other sections of the
Greek population.
"This petition was rejected by the Nazi occupation authorities,"
the statement says, "and early this year the deportation of Jews
from Salonika began." Simultaneously, all Jews living in the center
of the city were ordered to move to outlying districts. They were
not permitted to take along any of their household goods, which
were confiscated by the Germans.
"The first batch of 3,500 Salonika Jews were deported to Poland
at the beginning of March," the statement continues. "Men, women
and children were herded into sealed cattle cars, which had only
one small window for ventilation and which were provided with
only one can of water, each, for the entire journey. Additional de-
portations have been ordered," the statement concludes.
Nazi Press Voices New Charges Against Filderman
ZURICH (JTA)—The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the
largest German newspapers, reaching here this week from Berlin,
carries a series of charges against Dr. William Filderman, prominent
Rumanian Jewish leader, who was arrested recently in Bucharest
and -whose deportation to Transdnestria has been ordered by the
pro-Nazi Rumanian Premier Ion Antonescu. The charges are:
1. Dr. Filderman was in close touch with the American legation
in Bucharest, maintaining contact with the first secretary of the
legation, prior to the severance of diplomatic relations between the
United States and Rumania.
2. Dr. Filderman received, through the American legation, aid I
for Jews in Rumania sent to them by Jewish groups in America.
3. Dr. Filderman sent -a memorandum to Jewish organizations
in New York complaining of the lack of interest displayed by the
American leagtion in the position of the Jews of Rumania.
change for which the American legation received extensive material
4. Dr. Filderman supposedly received thirty million lei in ex-
dealing with German cruelties against Jews in Rumania, including
a film and photographs.
5. Dr. Filderman "lavishly supported a great press campaign''
against National Socialism in Rumania.
One-hundred and thirteen additional Czech Jews have been de-
prived of their citizenship and their property has been ordered
confiscated this week by the Nazi authorities in Prague, it was
reported in Czech newspapers reaching here.
Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Losing Effect on Germans
They're; Beginning to See Through Goebbels' Renewed
" Drive Against Jews as Attempt to Make Them
Forget Reverses at the Front
ON A GERMAN FRONTIER (JTA) — Anti-Jewish
propaganda within the Reich is losing its effect upon the
people of Germany, who are finally beginning to realize that
articles against the Jews are merely a Nazi maneuver to
distract the attention of the population from the reverses
at the front.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
ported to have submitted a memorandum
OVERSEAS—
to the French National Committee recom-
The large-scale deportation of Jews
mending that the Jews residing in Moroc-
from Greece to Poland has begun, it was
can towns should be given French citizen-
reported in London by Reuter's. More
ship and not be considered subjects of the
than 3,500 Jews were sent in one batch
Sultan. Considerable surprise was ex-
from Salonika, the agency stated. The
pressed
at this move on the part of a man
Greek Government-in-Exile in London re-
whose past actions have followed Vichy
ports that the University of Athens sent
lines.
a petition to the Axis occupational author-
It is learned in Kuibyshev that the
ities requesting them to cease persecuting
Nazis exterminated the Jews of Tiberia
the Jews. •
before they withdrew from the city.
Prior to his resignation as governor-
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general of Morocco, Charles Nogues is re-
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