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Friday, August 6, 1943

Nazis Kill 1,800,000 Jews
In Poland Up to May, 1943

Almost as Many Poles Were Slain During Same Period,
New Polish Cabinet in London Learns in Reports
From Underground

LONDON (JTA)—More than 1,800,000 Jews had been
exterminated by the Nazi occupation authorities in Poland
up to May 1, 1943, Wladyslaw Banaczyk, minister for Home
Affairs in the new Polish cabinet, announced here this week
on the basis of reports from Polish underground groups.
These same reports reveal that 1,400,000 Poles were mur-
dered in the same period, he stated.
Underground information, he said, disclosed a recent sub-
terfuge used by the Nazis to lure fugitive Polish Jews to their
death. The German press in Poland publishes reports that
certain ghettos still exist in specified towns. Since a Jew
caughc in a city from which Jews have been barred or found
wandering in the forests or countryside almost automatically
is executed, the Jewish fugitives attempt to reach ghettos,
where there is less chance of their being discovered. When
they arrive they are rounded up by the Nazis.
A special statistical department of the underground, Mr.
Banaczyk said, is now at work compiling figures concerning
the number of Jews and Poles killed by the Germans. This
department, he added, is also checking the number of Poles
and Jcws left in cities and towns. In addition to the civilians
killed without any charges being placed against them, Nazi
military tribunals have executed 140,000 Jews and Poles since
the invasion, the underground report said.

Report Italian Minister
Was in Contact with Jews

Apostolic Delegate in Britain States Pope Has Intervened
in Behalf of Italian Jews; Axis Blamed for Delay
in Moving Jews From Balkans

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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A reliable report received here from
Ankara this week discloses that the new Italian Foreign Minister,
Raffaele Guariglia, has maintained constant and friendly contacts
with the Jews of Italy.
That his interest in the Jews may be purely opportunistic is
indicated by the Ankara report which adds that when queried on
his attitude toward Zionism one time, he allegedly replied: "I am
uninterested in Zionism, but if all the Jews are interested and I
will thus be able to gain Jewish support, I'll start studying the
problem."
The bombing of Rome, which occurred on the 17th of Tamuz in
the Hebrew calendar—which is the day on which the Roman le-
gions opened the siege of Jerusalem which resulted in the destruc-
tion of the Holy City three weeks later—was an indication of the
will of God and a good omen for victory, according to members of
the Kabbalist sect here.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

PALESTINE

Joseph P. Kamp, anti-Semitic vice
chairman of the Constitutional Educational
League of New York, in a letter sent to
members of Congress, denounced the Of-
fice of War Information for employing
"many Communists and refugees." Kamp
charged that Francis Leopold Weiner, a
15-year-old refugee, who "came to the
U. S. on October 27, 1941," was being em-
ployed at a salary of $3,800 a year . . . A
spokesman for the OWI said that Weiner
had been used for three months early this
year on youth programs short-waved to
France but was not now employed by the
Office of War Information. He stated fur-
ther that Weiner was paid between $200
and $300.
The Josiah C. Wedgwood Fund for the
Settlement of Refugee Youth in Palestine
has been created by Hadassah, the Wom-
en's Zionist Organization of America, as
a memorial tribute to the outstanding non-
Jewish supporter of Zionism.
Congressman Will Rogers, Jr., has
flown to London on a special mission in
connection with immediate action to res-
cue the Jews who remain in Axis-occupied
Europe, it was announced here by Mrs.
Rogers at a press conference of the Emer-
gency Committee To Save The Jewish
People of Europe.
Robert Henry Best, one of the eight
United States citizens indicted for treason
for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from
Germany, declared that only "wish-washy"
individuals would allow this "Judocratic
circus" to frighten them away from his
broadcasts.
It is estimated that approximately 12
per cent of the delegates at the American
Jewish Conference will be women, the
executive committee announced . . . The
executive committee reported that definite
arrangements have been completed for the
holding of the Conference in the auditor-
ium of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel starting
Aug. 29.

Adding the voice of the Jewish Far-
mers' Federation of Palestine to those of
other Palestinian bodies which have de-
nounced the postwar reconstruction plans
promulgated by the Palestine Government,
Zvi Botkowsky, chairman of the national
conference of the Federation, declared that
"we cannot concur in the new reconstruc-
tion plans" based on the White Paper.
A resolution urging the United Nations
to act immediately to rescue the remnants
of Jewry in Europe was adopted at the
concluding session of the conference of the
Association of Jewish War Veterans of the
First World War, meeting in Jerusalem to
celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the arrival
of the Jewish Legion in Jerusalem in 1918.
Hundreds of girls have been trained
for life on the land by the W.I.Z.O., the
Zionist Women's Organization of Pales-
tine and the Palestine Workingwomen's
Council of the Histadruth, according to a
report issued in Tel Aviv.

OVERSEAS

Anti-Semitism, foisted on Italy by
Fascism, is dead with the dissolution of
the Fascist Party and the liquidation of all
Fascist legislation, it was declared by ob-
servers.
The London newspaper John Bull re-
ports that a number of Arab Quislings de-
parted from Italy following the resigna-
tion of Benito Mussolini. "Il Duce's" fall
was a "great shock" to the pro-Axis Arabs,
who left hurriedly for undisclosed desti-
nations, the paper declares.
The so-called "privileged" Jews, in-
cluding doctors and engineers, who remain
in Slovakia are to be interned in concen-
tration camps, according to a report in the
Nazi-controlled Bratislava Gardista.
Formulation of a postwar Jewish policy
by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain
and Ireland and the British Board of Jew-
ish Deputies is now in progress.
All Jews have been deported from Bul-
garia and Bulgarian-occupied territory.

Pope Intervening for Italian Jews
LONDON, (JTA)—Bishop Godfrey, the Apostolic Delegate in
Britain, told a delegation of the Agudas Israel that Pope Pius has
intervened for the Jews. His report, the Agudas Israel representa-
tives stated, allayed fears for the safety of the Jews in Italy and es-
pecially for a large number of foreign Jews interned at Ferra-
monte.
Delay in Moving Jews Blamed on Axis by Eden
Removal of potential Jewish refugees from Balkan countries to
Palestine is not being delayed because of lack of shipping but as a
result of the refusal of the governments of those countries to issue
exit visas to the Jews, it was stated in Commons this week by
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
Several months ago it was announced that the Bulgarian Gov-
ernment had agreed to allow 4,000 Jewish children and 500 adults
to emigrate to Palestine, but all efforts to effect their removal have
been thwarted.
Germans Determined to Oust Jews From Holland
The Germans in Holland are determined to clear all the Jews
from the country and have already succeeded in deporting the ma-
jority of them, Jan de Hartog, well known Dutch author and a
leader of the underground in the Netherlands told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency.

All Jews Deported From Munich, Cologne
GENEVA, (JTA)—All Jews, including sick and aged persons,
who had been spared previously, have been deported from the
cities of Munich and Cologne to the fortress town of Terezin in
Czechoslovakia, which the Nazis have converted into a vast deten-
tion camp for tens of thousands of Jews, it is reported in private
advices received here this week.
The same report discloses that 18,000 persons classified by the
Nazis as "Jews" are still living in Berlin.

Settlement of Jews in Kimberly Approved
TORONTO, (JTA)—The government of Western Australia has
given official approval to a project providing for the establishment
of a large scale Jewish settlement in the Kimberly region of the
state, it was confirmed this week by Dr, 0. N. Steinburg, repre-
sentative of the Free Land League of London who arrived in Can-
ada this week after spending four years in Australia.

Ort Schools Still Functioning in France, Hungary
GENEVA, (JTA)—Training schools and farms of the ORT, Or-
ganization for Rehabilitation Through Training, are still function-
ing in France and Hungary despite the fact that both countries are
under Nazi domination. according to Dr. Aaron Syngalowski, vice-
president of the World ORT Union.

U. S. Soldiers Save Palestine Settlement
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Army officers and men were instrumen-
tal in saving the colony of Givath Brenner from destruction last
week, it is revealed here. While the American soldiers were visit-
ing the settlement, which is located in Judea, a fire broke out,
threatening buildings and crops. With their assistance, however, it
was soon extinguished.

All Jews, With Few Exceptions, Executed in Latvia
STGCKHOLIVI, (JTA)—There are no more ghettos in Latvia,
since practically all Jews there have been executed by the NaziS, a
traveller reaching here from Riga told the newspaper Aftontidningen
this week.
"The few Jews whose lives have been spared are those that
Germany needs for its industry, but even they are dying a slow
death of starvation, since their food rations are very meager," the
Swedish paper quotes the traveller as stating.

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