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." - 7a4e. 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. AZA LABOR DAY DANCE MONDAY Alasonic Temple, Sept. 6, 9:30 to 1 p m Elev e n 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. Buy War Bonds! The Beer that is FIRST CHOICE of thousands Genser Is Promoted To 1st Lieutenant Oscar Genser, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Genser of 3286 Buena Vista Ave., has just been pro- moted from Second to First Lieutenant. L t . ' Genser, former president of :Gamma Kappa C h i Fraternity of Wayne Uni- versity, r os e from the ranks after being in- ducted in the service on Feb. 17, 1942. He at- tended the radio Lt. Genser school at Fort Monmouth, N. J., and later was recommended for the Officers' Candidate School. He is now serving with the 35th Signal Construction Battalion of the Signal Corps, as Personnel Adjutant. Mrs. Genser is the former Miss Lillian Mellen, a Detroit school teacher. 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