HE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOL 5—NO. 1
2114 Penobscot Bldg.
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of Jewish Events
Detroit 26, Michigan, July 21,
1944
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Hull Issues 2nd Stern Warning
To Nazis, Hungarian Quislings
—Page 3
U. S. Jewry to Hear Rome
Broadcast This Sunday
Jewish Generals Commanding
Soviet Drive Toward Berlin
Gen. Cherniakhovsky's generalship hailed as Red Army pushes to
borders of East Prussia after capturing Wilno . . . Other Jewish generals
commanding regiments of Russian soldiers on vital fronts.
—Page 6
Horrors of Nazi Camp Related
As 282 Jews each Palestine
Men and women 45 to 80 and children under 14 allowed to leave Bergen-
belzen Camp in exchange for Nazis interned in Middle East. .. . 4,000
remain but many are being deported to extermination camps. .. . refugees
tell of many committing suicide.
—Page 7
The Interior of the Synagogue of Rome
A special thanksgiving service from the Temple Israel-
itico, Rome's famed Synagogue, will be beamed to the U. S.
"Ibis Sunday at 4:30 p. m., in a program presented_ over Sta:,
tilitiVWJ by the American Jewish Committee in collabora-
tion with the National Broadcasting Co. The program will
be the first Jewish broadcast from a liberated territory.
The Chief Rabbi of Italy, Anton Zolli, will conduct the
services. Arrangements for the program were _made by
Ralph Howard, NBC correspondent with the Fifth Army.
Rabbi Zolli, 73, had been in hiding at one time with a
Catholic family, during the nine months that •the • Nazis
directly controlled Rome.
The synagogue frOm which the broadcast will emanate
is in the center Of the old Roman ghetto, on the banks of the
Tiber. It was built at the turn of this century.. It stands
on the site of an ancient synagogue, the Jewish community
of the Italian capital being one of the oldest in the world.
Ernesto Nathan, a Jew, was mayor of Rome, 1907-1913.
[Many More Must Be Saved
Highlights
In This Issue
Between You and Me.. 2
Book Reviews
13, 14
Center Activities
9
Children's Corner
Editorial
4
Film Folk
11
Heard in Lobbies
2
Humor Column
10
Jews in Uniform
16
Letter Box
12
News Review
3
Obituaries
15
Purely Commentary.... 2
Science
10
Society -
8, 9
Strictly Confidential.... 2
Tamutic Tales
4
Youth Listening Post 15
11E. nd of White Paper Seen
As MacMiehael Leaves
High Commissioner of Palestine departs. .
Louis Lipsky believes • infamous document
may be "replaced by something which re-
flects assurances that Jewish people's hopes
will be realized."
—Page 5
, 3 Jews Sole Survivors
Of Nazi Rule in Wilno
Russian soldiers find old man, woman and a 44
child upon entry into recaptured city which
had pre-war population of 235,000 of which
30 per cent were Jews . . . 600,000 Polish Jews
in USSR may return to Poland after the war.
—Page 1O
WA Aids Liberated Children in Italy
While Jews of Rome are rejoicing over their liberation,
there are tens of thousands like these in the photograph who
remain behind barbed:wire Nazi-built fences and must be
saved. They are the symbol of the suffering of millions of
Jews throughout Europe whose needs are being provided
for by The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas,.
needsand Palestine—one of the major constituent agencies
of the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit. More than 10,000
refugee children can be saved through emigration. to Pales-
tinge, USA leaders stated this week.
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'This is a scene in thepre-liberation days in Rome. The street was the
home of these refugee children in Italy who were roaming the avenues for
scraps of food. ' Today, with the assistance of the funds raised for the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, through the United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
gees, Overseas Needs and Palestine, these Jewish youngsters, too, are being
liberated. The rescuing of the children, and the restoration of their dignity, is
the major responsibility of all humanity.