. Friday, March 31, .1944
President. Acts to Aid Jews
In Nazi-Occupied Hungary
Million Additional Jews Face Extermination in Balkans;
Recent Disturbances in Palestine Condemned by
World Jewry; Pehle Heads WRB
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"All who knowingly take part in the deportation of c.Jews
to their death in Poland or Norwegians and French to their
death in Germany are equally guilty with the executioner. All
. who share the guilt shall share the punishment.
"Hitler is committing these crimes against humanity in
the name of the German people. I ask every German and
every man everywhere 'under Nazi domination to show the
world by his action that in his heart he does not share these
insane criminal desires. Let him hide these pursued victims,
help them to get over their borders, and do what he can to
save them from the Nazi hangman. I ask him also to keep
watch and to record the evidence that will one day be used to
, convict the guilty.
U. • S. to Continue Efforts to Rescue Victims
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"In the meantime, and until the victory that is now assured
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- is won, the it S. will persevere in its efforts to rescue the
• victims of brutality of the Nazis and the Japs. Insofar as the
. necessity of military operations permit, this government will
use all means at its command to aid the escape of all intended
victims of the Nazi and Jap, executioner—regardless of race
or religion or color.
We shall find havens of refuge
•for them, and we shall find the
means for their maintenance
and suppqrt until the tyrant as •
driven from their . homelands
and they may return.
"In the name of justice and
humanity, let all freedom-
' loving people rally to - this
righteous undertaking?'
John W. Pehle, acting director
of the War Refugee Board Y ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt,
has been named executive direc-
tor of the Board and it is report-
ed that steps are being taken to
guarantee speedy - rescues work
for refugees.
it is also stated in sorw quar-
ters in Washington that concrete
steps are to be taken soon by the
President to set up camps in
this country. for the temporary
settlement of refugees, in order
to facilitate large-scale rescue
JOHN W. PEHLE
work.
A joint statement by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin, warning German occupational au-
thorities in Hungary that the United Nations will punish "all
those guilty 'of initiating Or participating in inhuman treatments
of civilians" was urged by. the • American Jewish Committee in a
telegram sent to Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Signed_ by Joseph M. Proskauer, president, and George Z.
Medalie, chairman of the overseas committee, the American Jew
ash Committee statement warned that the "only available method
of preventing or lessening the Nazi mass murders" of the almost
one million Jews in Hungary was "to instill among the Nazis and
their collaborators the fear of postwar retribution from the vic-
torious United Nations."
Appeal to Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
As the Nazi- armies began moving into Hungary, Jewish Pales-
tine directed a fervent appeal to Prime Minister Churchill, Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin, and to the leaders of the
guerilla and underground movements in the Balkans, to put all
possible effort behind activities to rescue Jews now in Hungary,
Palcor reports , frpm Tel Aviv. It is estimated that at the present
time there are at least .750,000 Jews in that country, many of them
having fled there from neighboring countries to obtain relief from
persecution and to make their way toward Palestine.
The appeal to the United Nations statesmen and to the leaders
of the underground and the guerilla forces was directed -by the
National council of the Histadruth, General Federation of Labor,
meeting to consider urgent rescue plans and proposals for the
acceleration of - voluntary Jewish recruiting for the armed forces
and security services.
More than 6,000 of Jewish Palestine's men and -women joined
the armed forces. and security services in 1943, according to a re-
port submitted by Moshe Erem, Left Poale Zion leader, reporting
on recruiting. Thirty-five hundred joined the armed forces, 2,500
joined the auxiliary police and 600 volunteered for other security
services.
Anti-Jewish Violence in Hungary as Nazis Enter
From London, JPS reports that' Anti-Jewish violence swept
Hungary froirn border to border, as Nazi forces poured into the
country. Reports reaching Independent Jewish Press Service of-
fices, from Switzerland and Sweden, told =of the invading Nazis
and their Hungarian collaborationists throwing Jews off trains,
firing Jewish' businesses and looting Jewish homes. According to
these reports, all 'Jewish stores in Hust, Uzhorod, Kaschau and
Munkatch have been demolished and their owners have been ar-
rested. There are also reports of mass suicides.
(The Jewish population of Hungary is set by some at 685,-
000, besides another 250,000 'refugees. Melech Neustadt, one of
Jewish Palestine's best-known experts on Jews in Nazi-occu-
pied Europe, has set the total , figure at more than 750,000, ac-
cording to reports from Palestine.)
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
OVERSEAS
AMERICA
A shrewd attempt by Edward James Smythe,
notorious anti-Semite under Federal indictment
for sedition, to use an innocuous letter from
William D. Hassett, Secretary to President
Roosevelt, in efforts to raise funds, has been
exposed by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
League. Leading governors were also approach-
ed for endorsements. -
In a move to kill the Fair Employment
Practices Committee, an amendment has been
added to the Independent Offices Appropria-
tions Bill now pending in the • Senate. The
amendment cuts off appropriation for the Com-
mittee which was created to curb unfair or
discriminatory employment procedures.. .
A consignment of eight tons of n%tzoth,
dispatched by Jewish Palestine, is now en route
to the Jews in liberated - Italy and will reach
them well before Passover.
The Democratic and Republican parties, and
', all other parties, were called upon by- the
National Gonference to Combat Anti-Semitism
to include in their platforms for the 1944
Presidential election, unequivocal planks con-
demning the fomenting of religious or racial
hatred or prejudice, including anti-Semitism,
and pledging the parties to do their part . in
eliminating these practices from American life.
A nation-wide program to study tuberculosis
among the Jewish people of the United States
and to meet the needs disclosed by the study,
now and after the war, is being undertaken
by the Council of National Jewish' Tuberculosis
Institutions.
PALESTINE
Considerable progress during the past half
year in the teaching of Arabic in the schools
of the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Jewish
Palestine, was reported by Dr. Israel ben Zeev,
supervisor of Arabic studies for the Vaad
Leumi. There are 51 teachers conducting
classes in 70 Vaad Leumi schools at present,
he stated, and another 12 teachers are needed.
A Hebrew daily, issued by Jewish Palestine's
troops on the European mainland, is named
Hachayal (The Soldier).
Jewish Palestine, acting on appeal from the
Chief Rabbinate, feasted March 23 and assem-
. bled in the synagogues to chant penitential
prayers in expressing solidarity with European
Jewry. The Shofar (ram's horn) was sounded..
Palestine's living costs have risen 130 points
since August, 1939, it was admitted by Colonial
Secretary Col. Oliver Stanley in reply to a
question from Lady Astor.
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Rome radio broadcasts, recorded in Naples,
spread the libel that American soldiers of the
Jewish faith have looted churches in liberated
Italy and sent valuables amounting to $250,-
_000,000 abroad to their relatives. Reports from
occupied Italy indicate, however, that the
populace gives no credence to these libels.
The Palestine at War Exhibition at Piccadilly
Circus, London, in its first two days, registered
scores of thousands of visitors.
Not a single Jewish doctor has remained of
the 765 Jews who practiced medicine in Slo-
vakia five years ago, the Slovak Ministry of
Health announced.
From Zittau, Saxony, where he now resides
after his Berlin residence had been destroyed
during Allied air raids, the Mufti of Jerusalem
issued a call to Moslems in occupied. Yugo-
slavia to hold prayer sessions. for seven days
for the success of Adolf Hitler's forces.
Two hundred refugees, mostly Jews; have
arrived in England. They are en route to Canada
under the auspices of the. Joint Distribution
Committee and the Hicern.
Hirsch Leist, 18 years old, a former guerilla,
twice decorated by the. Soviet government for
derailing German, trains Ind mining roads be-
hind enemy lines, is nlvf serving with the
Russian air force. He is credited with having
brought down 29 enemy planes.
A new series of mass trials will soon take
place in North Africa, with 846 French and
294 Arabs charged with atrocities against Jews
under the Vichy regime.
Cherson and Dubno, formerly large Jewish
population centers, were found entirely devoid
of Jews when the liberating Red Army forces
marched in. Khislavichi, another town with a
considerable Jewish population, was reported
completely in ruins.
Two men and one woman were sentenced
by a Budapest court to terms ranging from
five months to three years imprisonment for
having assisted Slovakian Jews to enter Hun-
gary illegally. Hungary is generally reported
to be an "oasis" for Jews in Axis-dominated
Europe.
A Nazi anthropologist from Hamburg, who
still remains unidentified, visited White Russian
towns to study the racial antecedents of the
population, and ordered the execution of ' all
Jewish children. Many non-Jewish children,
whom the "racial expert" suspected of being
of mixed parentage, were also executed on his
orders.
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Total Extermination Faces Rumanian Jewry
ANKARA (JPS)—Even as emissaries ' of Gen. Ion Antonescu,
pro-Nazi Premier of Rumania, were reported 'to be pleading in
neutral capitals with United . Nations representatives for sanctuary
for him, Nazi forces marched into Rumania and Bulgaria, follow-
ing their occupation of Hungary earlier this week, and premiers
were reshuffled.
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Germany long had demanded the total physical extermination
of the surviving Jewish deportees in Transnistria, and the Ruman-
ian Government was only this week reported to have begun their
evacuation into the interior after the Jewish 'community had met
terms of• a blackmail deal, according to which the Government
was to have received a large sum of money for each Jew evacuated.
With the Nazi occupation, this evacuation may be stopped. Months
ago, the Rumanian government was reported installing execution
chambers in Transnistria, after the model of Treblinka, death cen-
ter in Poland.
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Charge White Paper Hampered Rescue Work
•JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The • British Government, and its White
Paper policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine, is
blamed by the press here for the fact that. -tens .of thousands of
.-Jews who have been rescued from. Hungary, had Palestine visas
been available, are now trapped. and exposed to massacre by the
Nazis.
60,000 Greek Jews Murdered in_Oswiecim "Death Camp"
LONDON, (JTA)—The 60,000 Greek Jews who were deported
from their homeland to "unknown destinations" in the Spring and
Summer of last year perished in the gas chambers of the dread
Oswiecim "death camp" in Poland, it was disclosed by the Polish
Ministry of Information here. Most of the Greek Jews had been
residents of Salonika or Athens.
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