Auguif 4, 1944"
WRB Studies Horthy's Plan
To Permit Jews to Emigrate
International Red Cross Announces Offer of Regent of
Hungary to Allow Children Under 10 and
Adults With Visas to Leave for Palestine
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Regent Nicholas. Horthy's offer to per-
mit emigration from Hungary of Jewish children under 10 who
can obtain visas and adults with Palestine visas is in the hands of
the War Refugee Board here.
The Horthy proposal was first made public last week by the
International Red Cross in Geneva and then transmitted to the
Red Cross here, who forwarded it to George L. Warren of the
State Department, liaison officer between the department and
the WRB.
John W. Pehle, WRB executive director, said that the board
already is formulating plans to find havens for the children and
take advantage of the offer.
Red Cross to Aid Jews Interned in Hungary
The Red Cross in Geneva revealed in its cablegram that it also
had received permission from the Hungarian government to assist
Jews living within the country in ghettos or internment camps.
The Red Cross cable reads in part: "The Hungarian authorities
have given assurance that transportation of Jews beyond the Hun-
garian frontiers has ceased and that the international commission
is authorized to furnish relief to. Jews who are interned or in
forced residence in Hungary.
"The • commission is furthermore empowered to cooperate in
the evacuation of all Jewish children under 10 who are in posses-
sion of visas to reception countries, and all Jews in Hungary hold-
ing entrance visas to Palestine will receive permisOon to leave for
that country."
It was believed that the Horthy note also had been forwarded
to the British foreign office.
(It became evident this week that the worldwide protests have
brought an end to the deportation of Hungarian Jews to death or
slave camps. )
Delegation Sees Eden on Saving Hungarian Jews
LONDON (JTA)—A delegation of Christian and Jewish lead-
ers, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, this week conferred with
Foreign Secretary. Eden on the situation of the Hungarian Jews.
In disclosing the visit to a meeting of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president, said that there ,Was
-reason to believe that the reported offer by Regent Horthy -of
Hungary to allow the Red Cross -to evacuate Jewish children, as
well as adults possessing Palestine visas, was genuine.
Names of Jews Liberated
In Botosani Are Available
Detroiters Who Have Relatives in Romanian City May
See List in Office of The Jewish News; JTA
Writer Describes-Visit to Freed Town
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THE JEWISH • NIEWS'
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Charging that "little is being done to rescue
the Jews of Hungary," The New Republic,
liberal weekly, asserts that "the United States
and Great Britain could save thousands of
these unhappy victims if we would give them
the protection of American or British citizen-
ship."
Republican leaders of the Sixth Illinois Con-
gressional District have publicly repudiated
Charles J. Anderson, Jr., former Coughlinite
and adherent of Gerald L. K. Smith, who, in
last spring's primaries, defeated the machine
backed GOP candidate. They have indorsed
Ive J. Henderson for party support and are
now working for the required 13,577 signatures
to place him on the ballot.
The extension of child guidance work to
wider section of the population through adop-
tion of a non-profit fee pr o g r am was an-
nounced today by the Jewish Boar d of
Guardians, the child guidance and delinquency
prevention agency of the New York Federation
of Jewish Charities. The agency will continue
its professional case work and psychiatric help
to cildren and parents, on a moderate fee
basis or without payment, depending upon
each family's income, the announcement added.
Only 80,000 Jews survive in Poland and they
are concentrated in Lodz, and in the vicinities
of Bendin, Cracow, and Lublin, according to
information received by the World Jewish
Congress from Anselm Reiss, Polish Jewish
leader in London who quoted a representative
of the Polish underground just arrived in Bri-
tain. (Lublin has been liberated by the Red
Army, since this report was released.) There
are no Jewish survivors in Eastern Galicia,
according to the same report. The number of
Jews in hiding is very small. The majority of
the survivors are slave laborers.
Two new co-operatives for soldier's wives
have been established in Palestine by the
Working Women's Council, according to in-
formation received by its sister organization
in this country, the Pioneer Women's Or-
ganization. Previously trained as seamstresses,
these women have been provided with ma-
chinery and supplied with work, thus laying
the basis for a successful enterprise. 1,000
children of servicemen have been placed in
the children's institutions of the Working
Women's Council, so that their mothers might
be free to train for occupations.
.PALESTINE
Hundreds ,of thousands of Jews are clinging
tenaciously to life and striking back at the
enemy in occupied Europe, according to Eliezer
Kaplan, treasurer of the JewiSh Agency, who
has just returned -from Turkey, where he con-
ferred with representatives of the War Refugee
Board and members of Jewish underground
organizations on matters regarding the rescue
of the remnants of European Jewry.
A total of 1,694 candidates have been placed
in nomination by 24 groups for election to the
Assephath Hanivcharim, Jewish Palestine's.
Representative Assembly.
A new record in the output of tobacco was
reached in Palestine during 1943 when 1,500
tons of various products (cigarettes, cigars,
tobacco, and tombac), or twice as much as
before the war, were turned out by local plan-
tations and factories. The quantity rose from
488 tons in 1926, 632- tons in 1933, and 633 tons
in 1939, to 994 tons in 1941, 1,299 tons in 1942
and 1,500 tons last year.
OVEkSEAS.
Commenting on the revolt inside Germany,
Brendan Bracken, chief of the Ministry of
Information, told members of the Foreign
Press Association: "We don't want to see Hitler
murdered because his intuitive leadership is
one of our great assets. We want to see him
brought to account in an orderly manner be-
cause he is one of the greatest criminals of
all time."
Usually skeptical of official promises with
regard to "imminent decisions" on Palestine,
the Jewish Agency followed an announcement
by British War Secretary Sir James Grigg
that a statement on the government's decision
on the formation of a Palestine Jewish Brigade
or Brigade Group was "forthcoming," with an
announcement of its own that "an early de-
cision" on the question is anticipated.
Twenty-thousand Christians of the Greek
Orthodox faith, caught aiding Jews escape
from Hungary and Czechoslovakia, were
killed in a new wave of persecution that is
sweeping Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia,
according to Reuter's quoting neutral sources.
The Christians,. along with the Jews, are being
systematically and brutally deported to Poland,
Bohemia and Moravia, the report states.
All but one of the Hungarian ministers out-
side German-occupied territory have signed a
statement declaring "that an immense majority
of the Hungarian people condemn with horror
and disgust the terrible crimes committed
against Jews and other persons by the Hun-
garian Quislings • and their subordinates." The
statement, issued. by Baron Gabriele Apor,
Nominal Hungarian Minister to the Vatican,
bears the signatures of the Hungarian Ministers
to the Holy See, Berne, Helsinki, Lisbon,
Madrid n and Stockholm. The envoy to Ankara,
known to be pro-Nazi , refused to sign.
A Jewish guerilla b a nd named Bar Kochba,
in honor of the leader of ancient Palestine's
resistance to Rome, operated for many months
in the vicinity of Hrubishev in Poland. In a
single sortie they hauled in 46 Nazi soldiers
and, by traveling at night through back roads,
delivered their captives to the Soviets across
the lines, according to press reports here.
The Jewish News has the complete lists issued by
the JDC and the JTA. These lists of Romanian, German
and Dutch Jews may be studied by Detroiters seeking to
, locate relatives at the office of The Jewish News, 2114
Penobscot Bldg., D elevator.
By RAYMOND A. DAVIS
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
MOSCOW, (JTA)—After three years of a lufferings under the
German and Romanian armies, hundreds of Jewish families liber-
ated when the Russian Army captured the Romanian city. of
Botosani were enabled this week to resume contact with their
friends and relatives in the U. S. through the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
A list of Botosani Jews who have relatives in the U. S., com-
piled by this correspondent, has been cabled to New York with
the permission of the Soviet authorities. The list includes families,
many members of which have been massacred. It also includes
fathers and mothers who have not seen or heard from their chil-
dren in America since the outbreak of the war.
To bring these people in contact with their relatives in the
United States, this correspondent made a special trip to Botosani
where he spent several days interviewing -Jewish leaders and
talking to the men, women and children who remained alive.
Jewish Communal Institutions Reopened in Botosani
Botosani is typical of the many small Romanian cities which
have predominating Jewish populations. The Jewish community.
has reopened a primary school accommodating 1,200 pupils, two
high schools, a Talmud Torah, a free communal kitchen, an
orphanage—which today houses 163 children whose parents died
in Transnistria, a dispensary, a hospital and three homes for the
aged.
The worst period for the Jews began following the German
attack on Russia. From June, 1941, they were stripped of all
rights and many taxes were levied on them, their land was con-
fiscated, and professionals including doctors, were barred.
Anti-Jewish Laws Still on Books, But Not Enforced
Although these anti-Jewish measures still remain on the books .
officially, since the Soviet Government has pledged not to inter-
fere in the internal administration of non-Russian territory
occupied by its troops, they are no longer observed.
A message was signed by B. Kaufman, "as representative of
the Jewish Socialist Party, ( Trud,' in Botosani, which is affiliated
with Palestine central organization which is headed by David
Ben Gurion," says:
"Owing to the rapid advance of the Russian troops into the
liberated sections of Romania, nearly all the Jews in these
regions remain alive. It is the only corner of Europe where the
Jews escaped being massacred by the German Fascist hordes."
Relatives of Botosani Jews Flood JTA With Calls
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Publication in the English and Yiddish
press this week of the names of Jews in the Romanian town of
Botosani who have relatives in the U. S. brought a flood of calls
to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency office by persons who had found
names of close relatives.
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List Names of Jews Traded for Nazis
NEW YORK.—The American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee has made public the names of 285 German and Holland
Jews who were recently exchanged for 111 German nationals
interned in the Middle East and who have reached Palestine.
The list was forwarded by Reuben Resnik, JDC's Middle East
representative.
Among the exchanged was Mrs. Gertrud Vantijn, one of
Europe's leading social workers who was chairman of the JDC
operating committee in Holland. After Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Vantijn
carried on the JDC program of local borrowing that had been
authorized before the war.
-Many of the refugees whose names and birthplaces are in-
cluded by the JDC were interned in camps in Holland and Ger-
many prior to their exchange
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