A Third of Jews Survive
Under Nazis, Wise Reports
.
Statement Declares Less Than 2,000,000 Remain, With
4,000,000 Murdered; Plea to Churchill and Roosevelt
Describes Wholesale Annihilation
Less than 2,000,000 Jews remain in the whole of Nazi
Europe, with 4,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis since
the summer of 1942 when the accelerated Nazi program of
exterminating the Jews was inaugurated, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, declared
in a statement based on information submitted to him by
the European representatives ofc
the World Jewish Congress and
the Jewish Agency for Palestine
transmitted to him through the
State Department.
According to this information
there remain today. in Europe,
outside of England and Russia,
not more than 1,500,000 to 2,000,-
000 Jews. This report contradicts
the general impression that there
are still 4,000,000 Jews left in
i Axis Europe.
Plea to Roosevelt, Churchill
Coupled with Dr. Wise's an-
nouncement was a plea to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Churchill to take action now
to save European Jewry after a
year of inaction which has
doubled the toll of Jewish vic-
tims. Further delay, he pointed
out, may reach the point when
"the need for action will have
vanished." Failure to act • would
be to "doom the remaining Jews
of Europe to complete destruction
and to dissipate the hope of civ-
ilian peoples everywhere that
this is a war for human freedom
regardlesss of race, or creed or
color."
This report, which was trans-
mitted early in August by the
' State Department, was supple-
mented by a cable message from
the representatives of the World
Jewish Congress in Europe, indi-
cating that "the Germans are now
sending to Poland the remainder
of the Jews residing in occupied
France and are trying to • segre-
gate French Jews from the rest
of the population." A number of
French Jews, the cable declares,
"have been sent to the Drancy
Camp. Jewish children are being
removed from Jewish institutions.
Fifteen hundred children are in
hiding and an organized manhunt
is proceeding in order to search
them out. Several hundred have
been rounded up and seized. All
Jews who have been found on
Ford Urged to Act
Against Exploits
Of Propagandists
L. M. Birkhead, national direc-
tor of Friends of Democracy,
Inc., has called upon Henry Ford
to take "more forceful meas-
ures" to halt the use of Ford's
name in an enemy - inspired
propaganda campaign through-
out North and South America.
In a telegram made public at
the Eastern Regional Offices of
Friends of Democracy, 137 E.
57th St., New York, Birkhead in-
formed Ford that in English-
speaking North America his
name is being exploited in a
propaganda pamphlet called
"The Malist." Although barred
from the mails, "The Malist" is
being circulated through other
channels "for the insidious pur-
pose of rousing public demand
that our forces be withdrawn
from foreign battlefields."
Birkhead's telegram adds that
in Spanish and Portugueses-lan-
guage countries of this hemi-
sphere Ford's name is being
used in an openly-conducted and
sensational propaganda drive in-
spired by the enemy. The sug-
gestion is offered that Ford use
the legal counsel of his sales and
promotion organization in all
Latin - American countries to
"challenge the right of our Ger-
man and Japanese enemies and
their local agents to use your
name in their propaganda."
A copy of "The Malist," a 48-
page mimeographed pamphlet
reputedly published at Meriden,
Conn., exploits a quotation
which is attributed to Ford to
resurrect the fraudulent Nazi and
Russian royalist libel against the
Jewish religion known as "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
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THE 'jE*1 S4 1-1 NEWS
August 27, 1943
trains have been arrested and
sent to Drancy."
Populations Annihilated
According to this report, in
Poland, formerly the home of
more than 3,300,000 Jews, vir-
tually the entire Jewish popula-
tion has been annihilated. Only
a few hundred thousand sur-
vivors remain and the majority
of these are either in hiding or
have been pressed into service
by the Nazis in slave labor camps.
The report indicates that Hun-
gary, with 750,000 Jews, is now
the largest Jewish community in
Europe. Only 250,000 Jews re-
main in Rumania which had
850,000 Jews in 1939. Other Jew-
ish populations have been re-
duced as follows:
Holland, from 150,000 to 50,000;
Belgium, from 100,000 to 25,000;
Bulgaria, from 50,000 to 45,000;
Rally, from 57,000 to 50,000.
Renewed representations are
being made to the Govern-
ment of the United States with
a view to immediate action to
rescue the remaining Jews of
Europe, in behalf of the Joint
Emergency Committee for Jew-
ish Affairs, Dr. Wise stated in
behalf of the Committee, of
which he is a co-chairman. The
Committee comprises representa-
tives of the . American Jewish
Congress, American Jewish Corn-
mittee, the Bnai Brith, Jewish
Labor Committee, American
Emergency Committee on Zionist
Affairs, Synagogue Council of
America, the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis and the Agudath Israel.
Council Selects
Public Relations
Body's Personnel
War Hero's Mother
Will Present Gift
Ambulance at Rally
Jews in Uniform.
Mrs. Bertha Iden to Partici-
pate in 4 Freedoms Event
Sunday at Isle Bandstand
Mrs. Bertha Iden, mother of
Detroit's war hero, the late Capt.
Reubin Iden, will present a gift
ambulance to the United States
Army at the Four Freedoms Ral-
ly sponsored by the Internation-
al Workers Order at the Belle
Isle bandstand on Sunday after-
noon. The presentation will be
made on behalf of the members
of the Order by a delegation of
IWO war mothers with Mrs.
Iden acting as spokesman. Lt.-
Col. Herbert V. Pusch, director
of the Internal Security Divi-
sion, District 1, Sixth Service
Command, will receive the am-
bulance on behalf of. the Army.
Mrs. Iden made the first - con-
tribution to the IWO drive to
raise the funds to purchase the
ambulance in memory of her
son, Reubin. She stated: "I have
another son serving in the Medi-
cal Corps and a third about to
be inducted. I only wish that
they would let me go and fight
too, so that I could take revenge
for the blood of our people and
for the blood of my son."
Died in S. W. Pacific
Capt. Reubin Iden, of the
Army Air Corps, lost his life
while fighting in the South Pa-
cific.
Among the prominent De-
troiters who have endorsed the
Four Freedoms Rally are Fred
Butzel and Aaron Rosenberg.
The Rally will celebrate the sec-
ond anniversary of the signing
of the Atlantic Charter.
Speakers at Rally
The speakers will include
Congressman George Sadowski,
Pat Quinn of the Wayne County
CIO Council, Rev. Charles A.
Hill, Ambrogio Donini of
L'Unita del Popolo and Ferdi-
nand C. Smith, secretary of the
National Maritime Union.
A special musical program
featuring the battle songs of the
United Nations will be present-
ed by the Liberty Singing Soci-
ety, the United Ukrainian Ar-
tists Chorus and the Windsor
Choral Union.
Dr. Weizmann's Health
Rabbi Fram, Harry Yudkoff, Causes Grave Concern
Co-Chairmen; Quarterly
Meeting on Sept. 21
James I. Ellmann, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
announces the complete person-
nel of the Community Relations
Committee of the. Jewish Com-
munity Council.
Rabbi Leon Fram and Harry
Yudkoff, chairman and co-chair-
man of this committee, in con-
sultation with Mr. Ellmann made
the following selections:
Mrs. Max Adler, Rabbi Morris
Adler, Jacob Albert, Louis Bass,
Joseph Bernstein, Fred M. But-
zel, Lawrence W. Crohn, Aaron
Droock, Rabbi Moses Fischer,
Mrs. Ellis Fisher, William Fried-
man, Morris Garvett, Meyer
Gimbel, Dr. B. Benedict Glaier,
Maxwell Goldman, Fred Gott-.
furcht, Bernard Isaacs. •
Herman Jacobs, Mrs. Tony Le-
bovitz, Nathan M. Lerner, Mrs.
Bayre Levin, Mrs. Henry Meyers,
Robert Nathans, Miss Anna Ox-
enhandler, Herman Pekarsky,
Mrs. Ann Prussian, Louis Robin-
son, David I. Rosin, Judge
Charles Rubiner, Dr. A. W. Sand-
ers, Mrs. S. Schaflander, Louis
H. Schostak, Miss Mary Silver-
man, Mrs. Leonard Sims, Philip
Slomovitz, Abraham Srere, Isi-
dore Starr, Louis Tendler, Rabbi
Max J. Wohlgelernter, Henry
Wineman, Rudolph Zuieback.
The membership of other Com-
munity Council committees will
be announced as they are com-
pleted.
Detroit Jewry will welcome its
delegates to the American Jewish
Conference who will report on
the sessions at the Council's
quarterly conference at the Jew-
ish Community Center on Sept.
21. The public is invited to this
meeting.
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LONDON (JTA)—The state of
health of Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine and leader of the
world Zionist movement, is caus-
ing considerable concern to his
friends, the London Jewish
Chronicle reports this week. The
paper says that Dr. Weizmann
has lately been ordered to ob-
serve complete rest and is now
staying in the country.
Detroit Serviceman
Thrills at Seeing
Palestine Progress
The engraving illustrating this
story is a reproduction of a phci-
tograph taken in Tel Aviv, Pal-
estine, five weeks ago, of Pvt.
'''' o e ph Fri ed-
' man, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mor-
ris Friedman of
2429 E. Milwau-
kee Ave., De-
troit.
It was a most
thrilling expe-
rience for Pvt.
Friedman. He
was deeply
Pvt. Friedman pressed with
what he had seen in the Holy
Land, and the progress made by
the Jewish colonies convinced
him of the validity of Zionist
arguments. He came to Pales-
tine with the American armed
forces.
In his letters to his parents,
Pvt. Friedman describes with
pride his reactions to Jewish ac-
complishments.
A graduate of Northern High
School and of the Cleveland
College of Chiropody, Pvt.
Friedman, who is 24 years old,
practiced chiropody before en-
tering service 15 months ago. He
is a nephew of Nathan Wolok,
who is prominent in local com-
munity affairs.
S/Sgt. Daniel Dolinka, 26, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., is a pris-
oner of the Germans; previously
he had been reported missing in
action. Aerial gunner on Flying
Fortress operating in the Euro-
pean theater, his plane was bad-
ly shot up and caught fire. The
entire crew bailed out and all
are now prisoners.
* * *
Pvt. Louis Fried arrived in
Detroit on Aug. 14 to spend a
14-day furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fried of 3241
Blaine Ave. Open house was held
in his honor on Aug. 20. Pvt.
Fried is stationed at Camp Hood,
Texas.
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