Friday, August 4,1944

THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Jewish General Directing
-Soviet Drive on Germany

Page Five

Mrs. Welt Urges
Free Ports for
Many Thousands

Honor Mrs. Zena Ehrlich

Detroiters Planting Trees
In Son's Forest in Palestine

Gen. Cherniakhovsky Figures Prominently in the News
for Leading Russian Troops info East Prussia,
President of Council of Jew- Hordes, President of JNF Council Here, Says Suitable
Fighting on German Soil for First Time
ish Women Sends Plea to
Memorial for Late Pioneer Zionist's Memory Will
. F. D. R. and Hull
Be Planned at Next Meeting
Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky, 36-year-old Russian-Jewish

general, whose military successes marking the capture of
Wiln.o were recorded in The Jewish News on July 21, figured
prominently in the news this week as the Russian leader who
led the troops that invaded East Prussia and began the fight
for the first time on German s He is the youngest general

in the Soviet army, and is re-
garded as a tank expert.
into ' the ghetto houses at ran-
Jewish guerilla fighters a r e dom, daily, killing hundreds.
among the heroic troops that are
About 15,000 Jews were killed
battling their way towards the in the first wholesale massacre
German capita . and are recap-
in Riga, in the courtyard of the
turing important sectors.
Qadrat Rubber Co. factory "out-
The British 'press reports that side the city, on Nov. '27, 1941.
Russian troops who occupied
Lublin captured a concentration
camp which the Germans had
converted into one of the largest
"death camps" for Jews.
.Hundreds of thousands of
Jews are reported to have died
there from starvation, epidemics
and in gas chambers. The camp
is believed to have been the site
of a revolt by Jewish prisoners Pioneer Zionist Recognized
last year during which they at-
as Outstanding Water
teMpted to burn down the gas
Filtration Expert
chambers.

Louis Harrison,
Bay City Water
Chief, Honored

NEW YORK (JPS) — "Free
ports," along the lines . of the
camp set up at Oswego, N. Y.,
by the U. S. War Refugee Board,
which would accommodate "hun-
dreds' of thousands . of refugees"
from Nazi' dominated Europe
were urged upon President
Roosevelt and SeCretary Hull by
the National COuncil of Jewish
Women. _
In . a letter addressed to the
Chief Executive and Mr. Hull,
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of Detroit,
president of the Council, said
"this plan in no way departs
from national immigration pol-
icy" and pointed out that "if all
Americans are made fully aware
that failure to act in time is
equivalent to participation in
wholesale murder, there can be
no doubt that national opinion
will demand instant opening of
sufficient ports of refuge . . In
this vast free country, several
millions of people could be easi-
ly accommodated for a brief
period, and the 'American people
would be willing to accept hun-
dreds of thousands of refugees,
especially since they know that
these unhappy victims will be
returned to their homelands or
resettled as soon as conditions
permit."

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Recalling - the important role sod and United Palestine Appeal
played by the late Mrs. Zena which preceded them.
Ehrlich in establishing the -tra-
Active for 40 Years .
Mrs. Zena Ehrlich had been
active in Jewish community
projects for more than 40 years.
She was among the leaders in
the women's group in behalf of
the Jewish hospital movement
here 35 years ago.
But her major activity was in
behalf of the Jewish .National
Fund. She was the sole collector,
of the JNF Blue and White
Box-es for many years, and many
people refused to turn their
boxes over to any one but her,
until after the formation of the
Jewish National Fund Council,
25 years ago.
She cooperated with the Coun-
cil and continued her box col-
lection work until she was pre-
vented to carry on her work
due to her age. She died July
23 at the age of 90.
Praised by Hordes
William Hordes, president of
LATE MRS. ZENA EHRLICH the JNF• Council, in a state-
dition of fund-raising in Detroit ment issued this week, praised
through the • Jewish National. Mrs. Ehrlich's activities and ex-
Fund, Blue and White Boxes, pretsed the hope that the trib-
many Detroit Jewi this week utes in her honor, in the form of
honored her memory by: plant- tree planting, will' serve to
ing trees in the J. H. Ehrlich complete the Ehrlich Forest in
Palestine.
Forest in Palestine.
Mr. Hordes stated that a suit-
The Ehrlich Forest was estab- able memorial in Mrs. Ehrlich's
lished in "memory of her son, memory will be planned at the
the late .Joseph H. -Ehrlich, who next meeting of the JNF
was one of Detroit's leading Council.
Zionists.
A former president of the Christian Contributes
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
and a. former - treasurer of the . To United Jewish Appeal
Declaring that he was grateful
JNF Council , of Detroit, Mr.
Ehrlich was also' an outstanding for the opportunity of participat-
leader in civic and charitable ing in the 'United Jewish Appeal,
movements. He was among the Ray Shaara of Jeffersonville, N.
leading - figures in Allied Jewish Y., a Christian, sent an unsolicit-
Campaigns and the separate ed contribution to the UJA to aid
drives of the JNF, Keren Haye- the victims of Nazi persecution.

Louis B. Harrison, Superin-
Reveals 320,000 Jews
tendent of. Filtration in Bay City,
Massacred in Lublin
has been awarded the coveted
GtNEVA (JPS)—From a So-
viet camp for war prisoners
comes the - admission by Col.
Fritz Haberbuseh,.Nazi comman-
dant of Lublin, that 320,00.0 Jews
were massacred during the Nazi
occupation of that district, now
liberated. Faced by a Soviet
Western Methodists Ask
Commission Investigating Nazi
U. S. Keep Zion Promise
Atrocities, he denied all blame
for the massacres and stated that
- SALT LAKE CITY—The West-
they had taken place lOng be-
ern Jurisdictional Conference of
fore he" was assigned to t h e '
the Methodist Church, meeting
Lublin area.
here in. quadrennial convention,
unanimously adopted a resolu-
Aryan Commissioners
tion calling on the U. S. to take
Retain Control in Italy
"appropriate action" so that the
(JPS) — Although one
"international commitments made
of the initial steps of the Bonomi
to the Jews in connection with
government was to abolish all
a homeland in 'Palestine may be
Aryan legislation in 'liberated
fulfilled at the earliest poSsible
Italy, the economic disCrimina-
time."
tion-that resulted from this leg-
N
islation continues in eff é c t
through the Aryan commission-
LOUIS B. HARRISON
ers who still retain control of
Jewish businesses to which they George W. Fuller Memorial
For. Convenient Shopping, You Can Now. Open Your
had been assigned by the Nazis. Award for 1944. •
The Rome Jewish Community
This distinct honor, bestowed
Council petitioned the govern- upon him by the Michigan Sec-
ment pointing out that hundreds tion of the American Waterworks
Of Jewish businesseS and over Association at its annual conven-
3,00 jetivish homes are still ad- tion held in. Jackson, was given
ministered by these commis- him - for outstanding work in
sioners w h o maintain legal Water taste and odor' control and
claims to the confiscated' prop- for leadership and promotion of
erty.
the Waterworks profession.
Mr. Harrison was selected for
Parade Through Minsk
this 'award by unanimous action
Honors Jewish Guerillas
of the convention after the
MOSCOW (JPS) Jewish awards committee had made its
guerillas, who operated for years report.
in : the vicinity of Minsk doing
Retiring Chairnian
damage to Nazi • material and
In naming Mr.- Harrison, who
taking a heavy toll of Nazi lives, is the retiring chairman of the
paraded through 'its i n e d Michigan SeCtion of the associa-
streets in a procession organized tion, the committee stated: ,
by the liberated city in honor -"The George W. Fuller Mem
of their valor. .
orial Award. for 1944 is awarded
Many who had returned to the by the . Michigan Section of 'the
FILL OUT
just fill in the simple form below requesting a Frank
city since its liberation, and American Waterworks Associa-
COUPON
& Seder Charge Account. All during =the corning
others who had lived through tion to LouiS Benjamin Harrison
AND MAIL
the"licitrbrS of Nazi occupation, for his outstanding work on taste
years you'll enjoy the convenience of charge account
lined the streets,and cheered. the and odor_ control, and for 'his in-
Jewish guerillas who are nearly, terest and active leadership over
shopping. Ws• speedy, accurate, pleasant. Purchases
the sole survivors of the formerly a period of many years in the
are payable the month following purchase.
teeming Jewish population of promotion of the waterworks
M in s .k. Non-Jewish partisans profession."
marched . alongside' their Jewish.
The award was presented to
comrades. -
Mr. Harrison at the national con-
Vention . of the association in Mil-
MICHIGAN
Latvian Jewish Woman
waukee.
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Reveals Massacres
A Pioneer Zionist
is my application for a Frank & Seder
charge
account:
STOCKHOLM (JTA)—A Lat-
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cities.
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LONDON (Palcor)—Dr. Chaim
ture ... • ... 11 advise you the
Signa
She reveals that in the first Weizman, president of the Jew-
Franc: ez
two weeks of t• h e occupation ish Agency, is recovering from
26,000 Jews were murdered in a severe attack of bronchitis and
the provinces, and the rest - fled is remaining in the country for
to Riga where further thousands the time being, under doctor's
were killed. Latvian guards fired orders.

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