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THE JEWISH NEWS

4,000 Polish Jews Helped
In Defense of Stalingrad

Friday, August 13, 1943

Weekly fleview of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

Jewish Girl Hailed as Hero of Soviet Union by Tricking
Nazis Who Occupied Her Town and Sent Her to
Seek Information From Russians

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AMERICA

At a meeting here of the Emergency
Committee to Save the Jews of Europe,
LONDON, (JTA)—Moi e than 4,000 Jews took part in the plans were discussed for the evacuation
of 50,000 Jews a month from Nazi-occupied
defense of Stalingrad, it was revealed by Polish official cir-
cles this week on the basis of information from Russia. They territory through the utilization of trans-
were organized in a special labor battalion building fortifica- portation facilities provided by neutral
tions and erecting barricades under the leadership of Polish- nations.
Jewish engineers.
A new. State War Council Committee
on Discrimination, headed by Dr. Alvin
The Polish Telegraphic Agency this week reported that Dina
Semart, a Jewess from Poland, has been made a hero of the
Johnson, director of the New School for
Soviet Union for supplying the Russian army with information
Social Research, New York City, has been
on German fortifications.
appointed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey
"Dina and her mother," the report said, "were living near
. Among the members of the committee
Smolensk, having escaped there from Warsaw where they lived
are Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, of the Free
until the outbreak of the war. Sole survivors of their family,
they did not disclose their Jewish identity and when the Ger-
Synagogue; Joseph C. Hyman, of the Joint
mans came to the town, they continued to live as the rest of
Distribution Committee; Mrs. Sam Lew-
the peasants.
ssohn, director of the Public Education
"One day," the report continues, "when the Germans were
Association; Mrs. Leopold Simon, director
preparing the village against a Russian attack, they told the
Semerts that they knew they were Jews. They told the mother
of the Jewish Board of Guardians, and
that since she spoke Russian well she should cross into the Rus-
Louis Weiss.

sian lines and secure information for them as to when the Rus-
sians would attack. The girl would be held as hostage. The
mother demanded that the daughter be sent in her place. 'She
is more attractive and will be able to get more information,'
she argued.'
"When she got in contact with the Russians, Dina gave
them all the information she had on the German plans and
fortifications. In due course, they attacked and regained the
village," the Polish report concluded.

OVERSEAS

Says Religious Antagonism in Poland Has Disappeared
STOCKHOLM, (JTA) — Religious antagonism in Poland has
virtually disappeared, according to a Jewish lawyer who was able
to flee to Sweden from the Warsaw ghetto through the efforts of
friendly Poles.
In a lecture delivered here, he said that common struggles and
common sufferings have united the Poles and Jews, and cited how
Poles smuggled food, clothing and underground papers into the
Warsaw ghetto before it was destroyed. The Swedish press and
public opinion have been greatly moved by his lecture and the
Social Demokraten, a Swedish newspaper, writes that "his words
speak for themselves and need no comment. The destruction of the
Jews in Poland is one of the darkest pages in history."

Italy Recalls Jewish Officers

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the Badoglio government in Italy abolishing the anti-Jewish
laws and releasing all interned Italian Jews, Vittorio Valobra,
president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, this
week began negotiating in Rome with high government of-
ficials for the release of interned Polish, German and stateless
Jews.
The number of alien Jews who are interned in camps or
confined in small townships cannot be established. It is
know-i-i that about 4,000 foreign Jews were stranded in Italy
when she entered the war.

Large numbers of Jews were among
the crews of the American Liberators that
raided the Ploesti oil refineries in
Rumania, it was revealed in a report
reaching London from Palestine, where
many of the airmen are spending their
furloughs.
The death of Major General Lev Bere-
zinsky, distinguished for his service to •the
Red Army in the war with Finland as
well as in the present war, was reported
in Kuibyshev . . . Leizer Wolf, Jewish poet
who wrote under the pseudonym of Wolf
Mockler, died at Shakhriziaba in Uzbekis-
tan.
The Free Italy Radio alleges that the
report that anti-Jewish laws in Italy were
abolished by a decree of Marshal Pietro
Badoglio is untrue. Under the pressure of
public opinion, it is asserted, the govern-
ment appointed a commision, with the
Minister of Justice as chairman, to prepare
plans for the abolition of the laws.
General Henri Honore Giraud is re-

ported to have opposed a proposal sub-
mitted by General Charles de Gaulle to
the French Committee of Nation-al Libera-
tion providing for the creation of a special
department to deal with the Jewish
problem in North Africa.
Sano Mach, Slovakian Minister of the
Interior, has announced that 3,700 Jews
are now interned in forced labor camps
in Slovakia.

Joseph Raskin, a Jewish boy of 17, was
sentenced to death by a Nazi court at
Brussels. He was accused of assisting
Belgian guerillas.
The Bible Society in Czechia has been
banned by the Nazis on the grounds that
the organization is under "Jewish influ-
ence" and has a "demoralizing effect on
the Czech people."
The Synagogue of Jassy in Rumania
has been converted by the Nazis into a
brothel.
Four thousand Jews were massacred in
Simferopol and similar massacres occurred
in Tsherkask, Georgievsk and Mineralnie.
The vacancies left by the large numbers
of Jews deported from the Bohemian ghet-
to prison at Theresienstadt to Poland are
now being filled by non-Jewish Czech and
German anti-Nazi prisoners.
A proposal that British Jewry unite in
urging the adoption of the late Lord Wedg-
wood's plan to make Palestine the seventh
dominion of Great Britain was made by
Dr. Israel Feldmann, vice-president of the
British Board of Jewish Deputies.
The Soviet Government has awarded
to Isaac Rabinovitch, Jewish artist, the ti-
tle of Merited Worker and the Order of
Red Labor. Rabinovitch has done art
work in the U. S. S. R. for the past 25
years . . . Press reports here state that as
a result of the latest Russian victories on
the Kursk-Orel front, many Jewish men
and women. interned by the Nazis have
been liberated.

Brown, Levinson, Cushing Discuss OPA

Restoration of "Aryanized" Property to Jews Discussed

Since then many Jews from Axis-occupied Yugoslavia,
Greece and Albania fled to Italy and were interned in the
special "Jewish camps." With the exception of some isolated
cases, their treatment was considered humane by Jewish
leaders in Italy who extended as much assistance as possible
to the refugees.

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The approximately 40,000 Italian Jews who still remain in
the country now face the problem of re-establishing themselves in
the enterprises from which they were ousted under the anti-
Jewish regulations, especially under the Mussolini_ decree of Feb.
9, 1939, which "regulated" the economic activities of the Jews as
well as their ownership rights.
It is estimated that about three-quarters of the 40,000 Jews
in Italy laws.
lost their means of livelihood as a result of the anti-
Jewish
-
Evacuation of Jews from Balkan Territory to Italy Urged
in STOCKHOLM (JTA)—A suggestion that disposition of the Jews
the Italian-occupied parts of Yugoslavia, Greece and other
Balkan countries be covered in the armistice conditions which the
PRICE ADMINISTRATOR PRENTISS M.
former U.
Allied nations are to offer to Italy, is made in the Swedish news- S. Senator from Michigan, was interviewed on BROWN,
price problems on
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pape• Aftontidningen.
a special program over Station WJR last Friday evening, by
The paper quotes an article in the Nazi organ Westdeutscher GEORGE M. CUSHING, news editor of WJR, who is shown on the
Beobachter
Detroit
complaining that the Jews who live in Italian-garrisoned right. In the background is BENJAMIN LEVINSON, who has been
Birmingham Grosse Pointe
Balkan towns are "relatively free" despite the fact that they must associated with former Senator Brown and other national leaders
wear the yellow Mogen David.
in Democratic activities in Michigan.
7,500 Jews Escaped from 'Yugoslavia Into Italy
NEW YORK (JTA)—More than 7,500 Jews succeeded in cross-
ing into Italy from Italian-held parts of Yugoslavia, it was reported Jewish Marine Hero
this week by the Joint Distribution Committee. About 6,000 are
Yugoslavian • Jews and the remainder are Jews from Germany, Awarded Navy Cross
DETROIT'S JEWRY IS
Austria and Poland who fled prior to occupation by the Axis.
NEW YORK (JPS) — Pfc.
Nazis House German Refugees in Jewish Ghettos in Poland
LONDON (JTA)—The ghettos "liquidated" by the Nazis in Jack Sugarman, USMC, 20, of
Poland are now being used by the German administration there Media, Pa., who is credited with
to house German civilians who are being evacuated from Berlin saving the lives of nine Ameri-
and other cities in the Reich where intensified Allied air raids are can officers during one battle
feared, it was reported here from Stockholm.
To The
and with killing 132 Japanese
on Guadalcanal, has received the
Mr. Fisher on the eve of his de- Navy Cross for his heroism in
parture for New York.
the Solomons, according to the
of the
Plans for intensifying Zionist Jewish Welfare Board's Bureau
work were made during Mr. of War Records.
There are tremendous hidden Fisher's visit, resulting in the
resources in the Latin-American establishment of a Jewish Na-
Sunday, Aug. 15, 1943 at 1:00 p. m.
countries, which can be utilized tional Fund bureau.
for the Zionist movement, de-
iminsimemon■mw
at
The Survivors of
clared Mendel N. Fisher, execu-
tive director of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund of America, after
returning from a 10-day stay in
Linwood Corner Elmhurst
wish to thank their many friends for the kindnesses
Mexico City where he conferred
shown them in their bereavement.
with Natan Bitstrisky of Jerusa-
At this occasion a Safor Torah will be presented to the
lem, representing the head office
Special thanks to
Yeshivah by Mr. and Mrs. Yaker. A most interesting
of the Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael
program is prepared with a musical portion. Outstate
CANTOR S. MOGILL
and with the leaders of Mexican
and local guest speakers and various representatives
and
Jewry.

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Cordially Invited

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Establish JNF
Bureau in Mexico

Buy War Bonds

ISRAEL M. HERTZ

A check for $20,000 (100,000
pesos) raised..for„palestine land
redemption, was presented to

STUDENTS' CAFETERIA

YESHIVAH CHACHMEY LUBLIN

and to the

including the Ladies' Auxiliary of Chicago
will greet the guests.

HALM' SINGING SOCIETY

Don't Mits This Important Festival of Torah

CANTOR A. A. ROSENFELD

