Friday, 'July 21, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

282 Jews Safe in Palestine,
Relate Horror of Nazi Camp

Page Seven

Dr. David Philipson Honored by Alumni of HUC

Men and Women Between 50 and 80 Years and Children
Up to 14 Years Old Allowed by Germans to Go
in Trade for Germans Interned by Allies

By Berl Coralnik
HAIFA (JTA)—Tears of happiness rolling down their
emaciated faces, 282 Jews who only two weeks ago were
in a Nazi concentration camp arrived here this week from
Turkey where they were exchanged for Germans interned
by the Allies in the Middle East.
Stirring scenes marked their arrival when they were met at

the station by relatives and;:.
friends. The first to alight from
Bergenthal, Dr. Max Plaut, last
the train was a young Jewish
girl carrying a Torah which she president of the Hamburg Jewish
Community, Dr. James Ellen-
saved from the Nazis.
No young men or women were burgen, last treasurer of the Ber-
included in the liberated group. lin Jewish Community, and other
German authorities insisted that
the group be composed of people Jewish leaders from Holland and
aged between 45 and 80 and of Germany.
children up to 14. The majority
of the group are Palestinians or Stayed in Holland
holders of Palestine visas who Despite Nazis
had been interned in Holland
A prominent Joint Distribution
Members of the Hebrew Union College Alumni
and transferred later to the Ber- Committee overseas worker, Mrs.
nati, only survivor of the first HUC graduating
class. Let to right are Rabbi Jacob Singer, Rabbi
genbelzen camp until the ex- Gertrud Vanijn, who remained Association meeting at HUC in Cincinnati re-
cently when the association awarded a scroll to
Phineas Smoller, Dr. Philipson, Rabbi Harry
change was arranged.. Others at her post in Holland at the Dr. David Philipson, third from left, of Cincin-
Margolis and Dr. Edward N. Calisch.
were brought to the Bergenbel- risk of her life although she had
zen camp from Vittel, France.
many opportunities to escape, is
Evacuated Jews Back
one of the 282 Jews who were
4,000 More Jews in Camp
About 4,000 more Jews, most exchanged for 111 German na-
In
City of Berditchev
of them holders of South Ameri- tionals this week, according to
can passports, remain in t h e word received here from Dr.
MOSCOW, (JTA) — Moscow
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A per- newspapers have reported the
Bergenbelzen camp, near Han- Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — De•
sonal
representative
of
Prime
the
Joint
Distribution
Commit-
over, the arrivals reported. Al-
return of evacuated Jews to the scribing the severe housing short-
Minister Jan Smuts of South city of Berditchev, where the
though they could be exchanged tee's European Council.
age that exists throughout Pales-
for interned German civilians in
Mrs. VanTijn, one of Europe's Africa, after completing a two- Germans massacred thousands of
Latin American countries, they leading social workers, was made weeks secret visit to Palestine, Jewish men, women and chil- tine, Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of
are gradually being deported to chairman of the JDC's cooperat- has expressed the belief that the dren who remained there during the Jewish Agency, last week re-
extermination camps in Poland. ing committees in Holland, the country will be incorporated into the Nazi occupation.
vealed that the Agency is request-
Forty of them committed suicide. Refugee Relief Committee, in the British Empire with domin-
ing a Government loan of $16,-.
The
repatriated
Jews
consist
ion
status.
Among those who committed 1933.
mostly of artisans who are par- 000,000 to be used to construct
suicide was the widow of Chief
Smut's
emissary,
Major
H.
B.
In 1940, Mrs. VanTijn was
Rabbi Moses Schorr of Warsaw. urged to leave Amsterdam. - In Tunison, accompanied by three ticipating in the rebuilding of the new dwellings.
Kaplan told the annual con-
The daughter of Rabbi Schorr reply she sent her young son adjutants, conferred with David city, most of which the Germans
also attempted suicide. Reuben and daughter to the U. S. but Ben-Gurion, chairman of t h e destroyed. They are being shel- ference of Jewish architects that
Cohen, prominent Mizrachi lead- remained in -Holland herself on executive committee of the Jew- tered in temporary homes pre- American and Swedish firms
er, died in the camp, while Isaac the grounds that as long as she ish Agency, high government of- pared for them by the local So- have already approached the
Agency with offers to deliver
Katznelson, Jewish poet, together could continue to save the lives ficials and many prominent viet authorities.
prefabricated houses as soon as
with his son, were among those of victims of Nazism
Jewish and Arab leaders. He
_ , she was
hostilities cease. Prefabricated
deported to "an unknown des- needed there.
also visited many Jewish settle- Polish Partisans Kill
buildings play a large part in
tination." Ninety percent of all
ments and Arab villages.
After Pearl Harbor, contact
Nazi Aide in Warsaw
Palestine's post-war housing plans
Jews in Holland have been de-
because of the scarcity of build-
ported to Poland and extermi- between the JDC offices in New
LONDON (JPS) — Vengence ing materials, especially lumber,
nated there, some of the Dutch York and Mrs. VanTijn was Former Jewish Senator
broken off, but Mrs. VanTijn
has caught up with Colonel in the country.
Jews in the group stated.
carried out the program of local Arrested in Italy, Dies
Greenwald, Nazi chief of police
Tell Horrible Story
borrowing that had been ar-
of Warsaw, who was in charge
Many of the arrivals were so ranged before the war. Under
MENDELSON'S ATLANTIC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
old and exhausted that they this • program, local committees Swiss newspaper Basler Na- of the liquidation of the Warsaw
RESORT HOTEL
Ghetto. Polish partisans assass-
could not walk and needed as-
were authorized to borrow funds chrichten said recently that inated him as he was on the way
Right
on the Lake
sistance to alight from the train.
in the name of the JDC for re- "deep regret and anger" had
Dr. Israel Taubes, who was the payment in the post-war period. spread through Nazi-occupied to his office, according to under-
Private Beach—Tennis
ground reports.
Golf—All Games
leader of the group, said that
In 1943, the Germans ordered northern Italy following the
Cement Government
The same reports also tell of
the sealed train on which the
pier for fishing, only
dissolution of the committee and "tragic death" of Senator Elio the assassination of the Lithuan-
1 100 yards from
Jews were taken from Germany interned Mrs. VanTijn at Wes- Morpurgo, 85-y e a r-old - Italian
from hotel.
ian Greek Orthodox Metropolite,
to Turkey through the Balkan
Rooms with or with-
Jew
who
"formerly
played
an
terbrok.
out private bath.
countries had a narrow escape
important role in Italian politi- Sergius, who issued an Easter
Free golf to our guests at
when Allied bombs exploded
cal life," the Office of War In- proclamation calling upon Lith-
the S. haven Co. Club
1,208 Romanian Refugees
uanians to co-operate with the
Write for rates or
near the train near the Bulgarian
formation
reports.
Settled
in
Palestine
Phone
Nazis in the liquidation of Jews.
border.
I
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Morpurgo
had
been
permitted
Nineteen hundred a n d 47
He was shot by Lithuanian par-
Telling of their horrible expe-
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to live where Fascist authorities
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riences in the Bergenbeizen camp Jewish refugees from Romania had promised he would be un tisans.
-
and
Holland
who
recently
arriv-
which the Nazis claim is "one of
molested, the Swiss newspaper
the most humane camps," the ed in Palestine on six steamers, said. However, it was reported,
arrivals said that the Nazis "did are rapidly being absorbed in the he was arrested "contrary to Michigan's Ideal Vacation Spot Invites You To Summer Comfort
not actually kill the people in economic and social structure of promise" by Fascist SS men and
the camp, but starved them to the Jewish homeland, with the ordered deported with other
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on the beach, or playing golf, tennis, shuffleboard,
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rations diminished. Had it not Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish
Agency
for
Palestine
in
Jerusa-
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been for the International Red
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lem.
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The UPA, which is supporting
cels, we could have figured out
with mathematical precision the the adjustment and settlement of
day and the hour of our death." newcomers to Palestine, is rep-
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Now taking reservations for
Among the arrivals are Ger- resented with the Joint Distribu-
tion
Committee
and
the
National
second
half
of
regular
camp
trude Van-Tyn, the head of the
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season — Four weeks from
South Haven, Michigan
Jewish Relief Committee in Hol- Refugee Service in the $32,000,-
000
war
relief
and
rescue
cam-
and governess. Playgrounds, pri-
July 17 to Aug. 14; and post-
land, Rabbi Lazar Dinner of
vate
bathing beach. Men's and
camp season to Sept. 11.
women's solariums. Concert
Amsterdam, Prof. Albert Lefko- paign of the United Jewish Ap-
peal
f
o
r
Refugees,
Overseas
Orchestra.
vitz, Jacob Van Blitz, Dr. Ignatz
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Boys & Girls Age 6 to 16
"The Only Cabaret in Town"
6 Acts of Vaudeville
the transportation of these refu-
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Rooms with private bath and
Near Charlevoix, Petoskey,
shower. Children's dining room
Frankfort and Mackinac
Surgeon General Reveals
Jew's Sensational Discovery
Sanitary Facilities
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Dr.
In Each Cabin
Coolest Spot in Michigan
Sanford M. Rosenthal of t h e
Laundry
Service
National Institute of Health has
Available in Camp
NEW YORK (JPS) — Georges developed a technique of em-
ploying
special
sodium
salt
so-
Detroit
Physicians and Regis-
Mandel, former French Minister
tered Nurses on Camp
of the Interior, who attempted to lutions to relieve burn shock in
North Shore Drive
South Haven, Mich.
Grounds at All Times.
form an anti-Vichy government mice, "and if it proves success-
in North Africa after the 1940 ful in human cases, we may
Abe Rata and Frieda Drapkin, well
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fions for a fine Vacation
Public Schools, in complete charge.
according to a broadcast by the shack in wounded or burned
of Leisure or Activity!
Recommended
for
men,
which
is
easier
to
obtain
Nazi-controlled Vichy radio.
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Hay
Fever
and
Sinus
Sufferers
and
easier
to
administer
in
com-
You need not drive
The broadcast, picked up by
Illustrated
your own auto. Our
Folder
FCC monitors here, said that bat than blood plasma," accord-
For Folder and Full Particulars
bus and private cars
or
Phone
available at all hours.
Mandel was killed when the car ing to Surgeon General Thomas
Phone
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that was transporting him to an Parran of t h e Public Health
at nearest bus and
TO. 8-8382 — TO. 8-1795
train depot s. Come
internment camp was attacked Service testifying before the
F. SAMSON, Prop.
prepared for the per-
or BOYNE CITY 27.4F11
on the road. Mandel, a Jew, was the House Appropriations Com-
fect vacation , .
You
mittee.
South Haven, Mich.
or write
can fill every minute
earlier reported by a Swiss
of the day. or take
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your ease in restful

Predicts Palestine
To Become Dominion

Jewish. Agency Asks
Loan for Housing

MICHIGAN BEACH HOTEL

CAMP

PLAYFAIRE

BARON'S RESORT

—

Mandel, Former
French Minister,
Killed, Vichy Says

Samson's Resort

German camp last year.

BUY. WAR BONDS NOW!

Route 2

Boyne City. Mich.

Phone 379 or 443

relaxation.

