'Friday, Noverntier 26, 1943

Ask UNRRA to Recognize
Central Jewish Relief Body

Documented Memorandum Submitted by World. Jewish
Congress Outlines Needs for Post-War Work to Save
Jewish Communities and to Rehabilitate Children

NEW YORK (JTA)—Action by the UNRRA and the United
Nations to recognize a central international Jewish body as an
integral part of the post-war relief and rehabilitation machinery,
was asked by the World Jewish Congress on the basis of the unique
problems of relief and rehabilitation of Jews created by Hitler's
10-year war upon the Jews.
In a documented memorandum presented to the Council of
the UNRRA meeting in Atlantic City, in association with spokesmen
of 17 communities representing the Jews of German-occupied
Europe, the World Jewish Congress analyzes the needs of the
Jewish poPulation which may still be alive at the end . of the war;
describes the character of the aid required and points out the
advantages of the association of a Jewish central body with the
UNRRA.
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Three million Jews, the remainder of what was formerly a
Jewish population of 8,500,000 in Nazi-occupied Europe, will depend
upon organized relief for their rehabilitation at the end of the
war, it asserts. It is the only population in Axis Europe which in
its entirety will depend for its future existence on the character
of that aid. Among these are one million Jewish children, states
the memorandum.
Coordination of Relief Agencies Suggested
Declaring that the needs of the Jewish population are special
and unique with respect to feeding, medical care, housing, economic
readjustment, repatriation and spiritual revival, the World Jewish
Congress proposes:
1. The recognition of a Jewish central authority, inter-
nationally organized, to deal with the whole complex of Jewish
relief problems, which are described as not being geographically
localized. Within such a Jewish central agency should be co-
ordinated all national Jewish relief agencies.
2. The establishment in each country where relief is to be
administered of a central Jewish body, the function of which
should be to determine Jewish relief needs within the given
area, and to define and coordinate the relief work of various
subordinate organizations.
3. The establishment in each community of advisory coun-
cils, consisting of local Jewish representatives, for the purpose
of consultation on the spot wherever important decisions are to
be reached.
Assuming that it will be the policy of the UNRRA to undertake
immediate feeding where the situation is most acute, and in the
event that it is not possible to ship food to all starving populations
simultaneously, the World Jewish Congress envisages the necessity
of a system of priorities in feeding the JewS, in view of the fact
that those who have escaped slaughter by the Nazis are in danger
of death by starvation. It asks immediate consideration for the
observation of "Kashruth" particularly in the preparation of de-
hydrated foods.
Task of Reuniting Children with Parents
In addition to the general relief which will be administered, it
calls for the restablishment of Jewish convalescent homes and the
restoration of destroyed Jewish medical institutions as corollary to
a vast medical program. It calls attention to the vast task of
reuniting children separated from their parents. It emphasizes the
necessity of a huge reeducation program in view of the destruction
of Jewish educational institutions and enforcement of illiteracy
upon the Jewish child population of Nazi-occupied Europe. It fore-
sees a very large program of resettlement and migration, in view
of the complete uprooting of the Jews from their former homes, and
the anticipated and understandable unwillingness of Jews to return
to lands of former persecution.
It calls attention to the necessity of restoring the system of
Jewish religious and communal institutions either destroyed, con-
fiscated or desecrated by the Nazis. It calls attention to the necessity
of establishing at least temporary synagogues; creating facilities for
rabbis to move about freely in liberated localities; and the creation
of facilities for the opening of new religious schools and rabbinical
seminaries.

Jewish Labor Committee Presents Petition
ATLANTIC CITY (JTA)—Creation of a special body within
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to deal
with Jewish problems was asked in a petition submitted by the
Jewish Labor Committee to Vice-Premier .Jan Kwapinski of Poland:
Kwapinski is chairman of a subcommittee of the UNRRA council
on relations with voluntary relief agencieS. The petition was signed
by Adolph Held, chairman- of the Jewish Labor Committee, on
behalf of 500,000 organized Jewish workers.
The petition outlines the sufferings undergone by the Jews. of
Europe and asks that the Jewish Labor Committee be heard before
the UNRRA or "before a special committee designated by it as
competent to deal concretely . with the question of relief and re-
habilitation of the Jewish masses."
Earlier, Mr. Kwapinski told the UNRRA council that only 30
per cent of Poland's Jewish population has survived "ruthless ex-
termination" by the Nazis, "and these are dying of hunger and
exposure," he added.
A statement read by Polish Ambassador Jan Cichanowski in
behalf of the. Polish government-in-exile added that Jews in Poland
are allowed a ration of only 400 calories a day. Herbert H. Lehman,
who was elected Director-General of UNRRA, said that his organiza-
tion would be able to raise European diets to a minimum of 2,000
calories a day. The League of Nations has estimated that symptoms
of starvation begin to appear when diets drop below 2,200. calories.

Moscow Pact Calls for
Jew-I3aiters' Punishment

Important Statement Made. by Secretary of Sate Hull in
Address to Congress; Jews in Argentina Fear
Riots, Aik Protective Measures

WASHINGTON - (JTA)---Seeretary of State Cordell Hull, ad-
dressing a historic joint session of both Houses of Congress. this
'week, indicated that the Moscow tripartite conference definitely.
kept in mind the fact that "Hitler has reserved for • the Jews his
most brutal wrath." He told Congress that "sure punishment will
be administered for all these crimes."
His statement, interrupted by vigorous applause, came as an
obvious reply to the criticism leveled in some quarters against the
fact that the
conference failed to speak out specifically on
crimes committed by Hitler against the Jews.

Jews in Argentina Appeal for 'Protection
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (JTA)—The anti-Semitic front in
Argentina received further support this week with the government's
appointment of Admiral Leon Scasso as Federal Interventor in the
Cordoba province. Admiral 'Scasso is known for his violent anti-'
Jewish, anti-British and anti-United States speeches.
Reports reaching here this week from Argentina reveal that
a Jewish delegation has appeared before the Buenos Aires authori-
tis asking for protective measures against possible anti-Jewish riots
planned by pro-Nazi groups. • -

1. 1`E JEWISH NEWS

'Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE
The Yishuv was aroused over the rela-
tively light sentences imposed on eight
Arabs found guilty by a Jerusalem mili-
tary court of the illegal possession of arms,
including sub-machine guns, stolen or
bought from soldiers. The trials of the
Arabs, who were sentenced to prison
terms of from one to four years, were
conducted with a minimum of publicity.
The Hebrew University tendered a re-
ception in honor of Robert Szold, member
of the executive committee of the Zionist
Organization of America; N. Kirschner,
president of the South African Zionist
Federation; Berl Locker, political repre-
sentative of the Jewish Agency in London,
and Leopold Schen, representative of the
Jewish National Fund for the British
Empire.
The Yishuv has contributed £750,000 for
the War Needs Fund in the first 16 months
of the fund's existence, it was announced
at a rally in Tel Aviv.
King Peter of Yugoslavia, accompanied
by the Commander of the Yugoslav forces
and the Minister of Interior of the Yugoslav
Government-in-Exile, visited the Jewish
National Fund forest, planted in his name
through contributions of Yugoslav Jewry,
and Shaar Haarnakim, a smallholders' set-
tlement found by Yugoslav Jews, where
he lunched . . . Replying to addresses of
representatives of the 6Jewish Agency,
King Peter said: "You have created a
Garden of Eden out of nothing. You have
converted wastelands into a flourishing
area This was • made possible only
through will power and initiative.".
AMERICA
In a lengthy editorial the latest issue
of "The Reconstructionist," organ of the
Society for the Advancement of Judaism,
questioned the need for a budget of $1,200,-
000 for the National Refugee Service. It
is the function of the local Jewish family
welfare agencies to care for those refugees
still in need of relief, it stated, and this
is the practice in most communities. It
asked "whether the whole program of the
National Refugee Service policy on cash
relief should not be examined and modi-
fied."
"I was opposed for my' new post but
never on the grounds of being Jewish,"
said Henri Torres speaking of his recent
election to the French Consultative As-
sembly in Algiers as representative of the
French in America. Mr. Torres spoke at
a reception tendered him in New York by
the Committee, of European Friends of the

Histadruth (Palestine Jewish Federation
of Labor). Among those present was
Eduard de Rothschild of Paris.
Shortly after entering Rome, the Nazis
began a roundup of Jews in the city, but
their plans failed of complete success be-
cause Dr. Carmine Senisi, police chief
under the Badoglio regime, burned all
compromising information. This is reveal-
ed in an Associated Press article by Gun-
nar D. Kumlien, a Swedish newspaper
correspondent in Rome, who has now re-
turned to Sockholm.
Declaring that the "significance of Pal-
estine becomes greater every month as
the success of the fighting forces of the
United Nations brings us closer to ultimate
victory," Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York urged that the doors of Palestine be
speedily opened to the Jewish victims of
war and oppression.

OVERSEAS
A short, shriveled Jewish young man,
a leader of the Warsaw ghetto revolt,
arrived in this city to undertake a myster-'
ious underground mission for the Polish
Government-in-Exile. Introduced to cor-
respondents under the alias of Joseph
Klonowsky, he told how he had bought
rifles at eighty dollars each, revolvers at
forty dollars each, and uniforms at twenty -
dollars each from Nazi army deserters.
"The uniforms came in darn useful," he
added.
Disagreement between E g y p t and
Saudi Labia on the advisability of raising
the Palestine question before the termina-
tion of the war, was reported to be the
reason for the temporary adjournament of
conversations in Alexandria between
Egypt's Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and
Sheik Youssef Yassin of Saudi Arabia .. .
King Ibn Saud is said to persist that a
settlement of the Palestine question be
sought now, while Nahas Pasha has
previously declared himself in favor of
postponing the question for the peace
negotiations.
The Polish secret radio has been heard
appealing to the Polish people to save and
protect the last quarter million Jews still
alive in Poland. Speaking in the name of
the Polish guerillas and the Workers and
Peasants Party, the radio threatened death
to treacherous Poles who might aid the
Gestapo terror against the Jews. Mem-
bers of the underground have assassinated
a number of Gestapo agents who were re-
sponsible for the massacre of Jews, it was
also reported.

DETROIT SYMPHONY News & Notes

All-American Music PREMIERE DANSEUSE OF METROPOLITAN
Program Announced OPERA WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Karl Krueger has built an All-
American program for the De-
t r o i t Symphony Orchestra's
next concert at the Masonic
Temple on Wednesday eve-
ning, December 1, instead of
the usual Thursday date.
Featuring a symphonic picture
of George Gershwin's "Porgy
and Bess", music by Deems
Taylor, Paul Creston, an Or-
thestral Scenario from Jerome
Kern's "Showboat" and an
composition by Samuel Barber.

A GIFT SUGGESTION

Santa Claus, we happen to know,
will deliver season tickets to the
season's 10 last symphony concerts,
beginning with i "Hansel and Gre-
tel."' to many Detroiters during the

Maria Gambarelli
In Ballet Recital

Designated by the great Pavlova
as "my logical successor," Maria
Gambarelli has more than fulfilled
the great ballerina's expectations.
And on Saturday. November 27,
Miss Gambarelli will give Detroit-
next couple of weeks. Folks are ers one of the most charming eve-
nings they have enjoyed in many a
buying them for friends and rela- moon. Her program. one of wide
w ill range from the classic
tives, business men for customers variety.
"Snowflake — to the delightful bit
and associates. If the idea appeals of 'miming in "Gay Nineties," In-
to you, phone COlumbia 4870 for cluded also will be "Meditation
from Thais." "Harliquinette," "Ja-
details.
vanese. Porcelain" and ''The
Swan."
Tschaikowsky's Sixth
Following Miss Gambarelli's pro-
gram, Orchestra will present Tsch-
aikowsky's famous Symphony No. 6
in B Minor, "The Pathetique."

3 PERFORMANCES OF HUMPERDINCICS
"HANSEL AND GRETEL" WILL BE GIVEN

Brilliant Cast From
Chicago Civic Opera

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Tickets —
Reservations

human joys and sorrows which,
told with the eloquence of great vo-
cal and instrumental music, pro-
claims its message" of love and
mercy.
Children should be permitted, in
So great has been the demand for fact encouraged, to attend at ,least PRICES: Evenings, -83c to $2.75:
Matinee, .85C to $1.65,' tax included.
tickets to this immortal opera of one of this year's performances. Be- RESERVATIONS f • Phone COlumbia.
ing Rill of haunting melOdieg and 4870, giying your 'preference as to
Christmastide which is to be._sUng
surging with human feeling. this location. - Seats will he held until
in English, that two additional per- opera is one of the most entertain- arrival of your 'Cheek or money or-
der, • but not after one week before
. formances have • been scheduled, ing and moving works of its 'kind. the concert when the box office
sale
at Grinnell's begins.
It
appeals
to
and
Is
enjoyed
by
matinee and evening on Saturday.
accompany remittances with
with a self-.
youngsters as well as grownups addressed.
stamped envelope.
December 18th. Singing the lead-
and will - linger long within their TICKETS for regular and special
ing roles in an tinsurpasSed cast
youthful minds as a lovely treasure performances may be obtained at
Will be Maria Matyas as Hansel, of memory. Adults who have
- heard Grinnell's during the week preced-
Louisa Hoe as Gretel, Mary Barnan it will want to hear it again , not ing a concert.
as the Witch and Rheinhold only this year but every year When PHONE: COlumbia
the Christmas season approaches.
ADDRESS : Detroit Symphony Or-
Schmidt as the Father.
Reservations may be made now, by
chestra, Masonic Temple, Detroit
"Hansel and Greta" is a story of Mail or telephone.
1, Michigan.

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