riciey, July 23, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA—
The establishment of the Raymond
Blank Memorial Hospital for Children, a
modern hospital for children up to 14
years of age to be constructed in Des
Moines, Ia., as soon as materials are avail-
able, was made possible by the gift of
$125,000 by Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Blank,
according to a report in Hospital News,
organ of the Iowa Methodist Hospital .. .
Mr. and Mrs. Blank are giving this new
hospital to the community in memory of
their son, Raymond, who died last March
.at the age of 33.
A letter written by the Managing
Board of the Association of Jewish
Settlers at Sosua, in the Dominican Re-
public, and published in the current issue
of the New Palestine, reveals that in the
agricultural settlement "where approxi-
mately 500 people are living, originally all
of them Jews," only a small minority is
actively conscious of its Judaism and all
efforts to keep Jewish life going meet
with "rapidly decreasing" success.
Mayor LaGuardia, of New York, who
likes to be known as a two-fisted liberal,
is charged by the newspaper PM with
having appointed to the office of Corpora-
tion Counsel for New York City a pro-
Fascist who was previously associated
with the pro-Franco elements.
The elimination of prejudice as regards
race Or religion is stressed in the listing
of four freedoms for which to fight on the
home front by Mrs. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt in an article in The New Thresh-
hold, publication of the United States Stu-
dent Assembly. Equal opportunities in the
fields of justice, education, economics and
expression are urged by the First Lady
as a supplement to the four world free-
doms named by President Roosevelt, free-
dom of speech, freedom of religion, free-
dom from want and freedom from fear.
Prizes for excellence in the study of the
Hebrew language and literature in New
York high schools have been awarded to
182 students in 12 high schools, it was an-
nounced by Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin,
executive director of the Jewish Educa-
tion Committee. The awards, in the form
of a "golden ayin (the first letter of "Iv-
rith")," were made by the Jewish Culture
Council for the two terms of the school
year that has just ended.
PALESTINE
The Jewish Agency, the Vaad Leumi,
the Keren Hayesod and the Keren Kaye-
meth have agreed to inscribe the name of
the late Lt. Col. Victor Cazalet in the Gol-
den Book as a "servant of humanity and a
friend of Israel." Col. Cazalet, an ardent
champion of Zionism in the British Par-
liament, was killed recently in a plane
crash which also took the life of Polish
Premier Wiadyslaw Sikorski.
OVERSEAS
Asserting that it is not "possible to build
a peaceful Palestine or to solve Jewish
difficulties in Europe" on the basis of the
White Paper, which he characterized as a
"degrading document," James de Roths-
child, Liberal M. P., declared in the House
of Commons that "the question of Pales-
tine has become one of such importance
and interest that it can only be settled at
the Peace Conference after the war."
Ninety-five per cent of the Jews of Lat-
via have been massacred by the Nazis, ac-
cording to a report by non-Jews from
Latvia who arrived in Stockholm, it is
stated in the Afton Tydningen. The re-
maining five per cent are forced laborers
who receive starvation rations. Many of
them die of hunger or exhaustion, the eye-
witnesses declared.
The Chief Rabbi of the British Empire,
Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, conducted a memorial
service for the late Polish Premier Wla-
dyslaw Sikorski. Many prominent British
Jews and non-Jews as well as representa-
tives of Polish Jewish groups attended the
gathering.
The Budapest Socialist Napsala scores
the Hungarian Chamber of Actors which
prohibited the engagement of Jewish ar-
tists in the theaters and then expelled
Jewish members of the organization be-
cause they were not employed.
Eight thousand Jews deported from
Sofia haVe been impressed into forced la-.
bor in the swamps of Axis-occupied
Thrace.
The Jews of Paris were prohibited by
order of the Nazi authorities from leaving
their houses on Bastille Day.
The Finnish Chief-of-Police, M. Antho-
ny, is collaborating with the Gestapo in
terrorizing the Jews of Finland, according
to a letter from a Finnish notable who is
now in Sweden which was published in the
Stockholm Afton Tydningen. M. Anthony
is said to be deporting large numbers of
Jewish refugees back to Germany.
An exhibition of Duch paintings in
Amsterdam indicates that the artists are
in sympathy with the Jews, it is charged
by the pro-Nazi organ Storm. Most of the
paintings depict heartrending scenes in the
Amsterdam ghetto, it is stated. On the
other hand, the few canvasses dealing
with Nazi subjects betray only ridicule,
Storm complains.
The Russian High Command has ap-
proved an invention by Lt. Jacob Mintz
which makes possible the use of anti-tank
rifle fire against airplanes and increases
the mobility of anti-tank weapons.
The Japanese authorities have confis-
cated all deposits made by Jews in the
banks of Burma, Hongkong, Singapore,
Dutch Indies and other occupied areas.
Jewish Socialist Appointed
To New Polish Cabinet Post
.
Page Three
Reports Interned U. S. Jews
Are Mistreated in Rumania
Industrialist Who Fled from Bucharest Says Germans"
Continue to Press Government for More
Drastic Anti-Jewish Action
ZURICH, (JTA)—A number of American Jews who did
not succeed in leaving Rumania together with the last group
of American citizens, which included the U. S. Consular
staff, are now being badly treated as "enemy aliens" by Ru-
manian authorities, it was reported this week by a Jewish
industrialist from Bucharest who arrived here after many
trials and tribulations which took him from Rumania through
Germany to Switzerland.
This Rumanian Jew disclosed that the Nazi authorities
in Bucharest continue to press the Rumanian government
for more drastic anti-Jewish action. They are especially dis-
satisfied that the present severe • anti-Jewish legislation "is
not driving the Jews of Rumania to suicide to the same extent
as in the Reich."
"Those Jewish leaders in Bucharest who have not yet
been deported to Transnistria live under constant fear of
deportation," he reported.
Rumania Starts Deporting Jews to Odessa
GENEVA, (JTA)—Groups of Jewish deportees continue to ar-
rive in the city of Mohilev, the administraitve center of Transnistria,
the. Rumanian-held section of the occupied Ukraine, it is disclosed
in information reaching here this week from Bucharest. The Ru-
manian authorities have also started deporting small groups .of Jews
to Odessa, the report reveals. -
At present, the report says, there are about 12,000 Jews in
Mohilev crowded into a few buildings of the devastated city, with
an average of 15 persons to one room.
.
A similar situation exists in the city of Balta, in Transnistria,
where about 4,000 Jews are confined in a ghetto -restricted to a few
small streets. Sanitary conditions are so bad that the Rumanian au-
thorities have consented to enlarge the ghetto, the report declares.
Several hundred French Jews belonging to old families were
reported this week to have been deported last week from Aix-les-
Bains and other localities in the Savoy department of France. They
are believed to have been sent to the Lublin region of Poland.
When They Cut Down The
Old ELM Tree—
They removed a land mark
that stood in front of my
store for years. Little did
I realize that so many people
remembered that "ELM"
and my slogan "Opposite
the Elm Tree," until I men-
tioned it in these ads.
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Dr. Ludwig Grosfeld, Noted Lawyer in Poland, Is Named
Minister of Finance; Separate Jewish Units in
Polish Army Denied by Sosnkowski
LONDON—Dr. Ludwig Grosfeld, Jewish Socialist, has been
named minister of finance in the newly formed Polish cabinet, it
was announced here by President Wladyslaw Raczkievicz of the
Polish Government-in-Exile. Dr. Grosfeld was a well known lawyer
in Poland and one of the leading personalities in the Polish So-
cialist Party.
Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski, new Polish Commander-in-Chief,
will shortly issue a statement reaffirming that the policy of the
Polish goVernment and Army as regards the Jews remains as it was
under the leadership of the late Premier Sikorski,. it was learned
here this week.
At the same time Polish official quarters issued a statement to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency denying a report credited to Kazi-
mierz Armin, Polish Consul in Johannesburg, to the effect that the
Polish government had planned to organize Jewish military units
composed of Polish citizens in Russia but that Jews opposed the
project.
Comparing the heroism of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto with
the heroic defer se at Stalingrad, Lord Strabolgi, at a dinner last
week arranged by the Committee for a Jewish Army, said that the
Jewish resistance to the Nazis in •the Warsaw ghetto has not been
well publicized among non-Jews. "Jews should be given a chance
to fight, since they are begging for it," he declared.
Plight of Jews in Poland Pictured by Relief Official
NEWTON, Mass. (JTA)—Describing the desperate plight of the
Jews in Nazi-held Poland, Miss Margaret Frawley, associate secre-
tary of the American Friends Service Committee, this week urged
that the United States start shipping food to Europe "to feed all
who are starving abroad."
"Jews in Poland are allowed only 300 calories a day and the
remainder of the population is expected to survive on only 600
calories," she said addressing members of the New England Insti-
tute of International Relations. "This country has a grave responsi-
bility to make more effort—and promptly—to feed Europe, to help
save the present civilization and help in post-war work."
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