Friday, August. 18, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Flag Waving Proudly
In Warsaw Street Battling
Jewish Partisans Return to Scene of Great Ghetto Battle
of 1943 to Join Local Polish Guerilla Bands
Baffling Germans in Capital
Page
Weekly Review of the News of the. World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
All the flowers, shrubs and trees mentioned
in the Scriptures, Talmud, Midrash, and Gaonic
literature, as having once ornamented Pales-
tine's landscape' and many of which have been
alien to the country for many centuries, will
once again bloom forth soon on one of the
most beautiful hilltops in the vicinity of this
ancient city . . An area of 230' dunams allo-
cated by the Keren Kayemeth, Jewish National
Fund, is to be known-as the "Garden of the
Prophets and Sages" and serve as a "free port"
for the gathering in of these refugee plants.
Dr. Ephraim Hareuveni, of the staff of the
Hebrew University, had long advocated the
planting of such a garden and the project is a
consequence of his persistence.
William 0. Player Jr., reporting from Washing-
ton. "Naively assuming that surely such an
offer would be promptly seized upon, we called
up the British Embassy here yesterday," the
writers say, "and asked how many such visas
had been granted in response. Much to our
surprise — and disappointment — the answer
was NONE."
"The Arabs intend again to resist unlimited
Jewish immigration with bloodshed if such
immigration is again imposed 'on them by
force," warns Stuart C. Dodd, professor at the
American University at Beiritt, Lebanon, in a
letter to the New York Herald Tribune attack-
ing the Palestine planks of the Republican and
Democratic, parties. "This plank tends toward
civil war in Palestine, with America and Eng-
land taking sides against each other," he states.
By HYMAN ROTH
Independent Jewish Press Service Overseas. Staff
GENEVA (JPS)—The rapidly diminishing forces of Warsaw's
underground now battling in the city's streets against German
troops, include Jewish units fighting under the blue and white, the
Jewish flag, - according to a communique received here from War-
saw's battlers.
The communique singles out for special mention the unit called
Berek Yoselevitch named for the Jew who led a Jewish force in
the war for Poland's independence in 1863. The unit is commanded
by Aaron Kaplan, the report states, and has caused many German
AMERICA
casualties.
Mrs. E. N. Hyman won the Colorado Wo-
OVERSEAS
men's golf championship at a golf tournament
It is not clear at this writing how the Jews have reappeared
Crowds assembled before the City Hall of
here in which she defeated three veteran
in Warsaw after the Nazis had boasted of having routed them com-
Rennes, Britanny, applauded their mayor's an-
golfers.
pletely in the 42-day Battle of the Warsaw ghetto, which began on
nouncement in behalf of the -De Gaullist ad-
the first night of Passover in 1943.
Neither Britain nor the U. S. have acted as
ministration that a decree has gone into effect
yet
on
Regent
Horthy's
offer
to
release
Jews
abolishing all Aryan legislation enacted in
Small Number Remained in Warsaw
with visas for Palestine, according to N. Y.
Brittany.
It had been frequently reported in recent months that a small Post columnists Charles Van Devander
and
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number of Jews had remained in Warsaw, residing in Aryan quar
ters and passing themselves off as non-Jews. The fact that the
German military authorities had a guard posted at the Warsaw
ghetto for nearly a year after its demolition seemed to confirm
rumors that Jews were still hiding- in its catacombs.
. According to a recent report, a guerilla • band, consisting of
IN DETROIT AT
Jews who managed to flee the city after living for months in the
ruins of Warsaw's ghetto, was battling the Nazis in the forests of
the vicinity. It may be that these various groups now form/ the
units fighting in Warsaw.
A London dispatch to the Independent JPS earlier in the week
reported that Jewish guerillas from the Radom, Kielce and Miechow
districts had managed to evade the Nazi cordon sanitaire around Right of Complete Equality
Warsaw and had broken into the city to reinforce the Polish under-
ground. .
The Very Newest
for Jews in All Countries
Jewish Partisan Units Reported Active
Asked in Peace Terms
(Independent .Jewish Press Service dispatches quoted a report
by guerilla leaders Rotstein and Masliansky of the Jewish under-
NEW YORK — Following a
ground in Poland reported to Soviet-Jewish General Volodia Sha-
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piro, liaison officer with the Polish. Committee of National Libera- precedent established after t h e
tion, that seven thousand Jewish partisans, operating in groups of last war, the American Jewish
50, 100 and 150, are active in the Radom, Kielce and Miechow Committee will seek to secure
areas.)
in the peace terms "re-affirma-
Boleslav Malinkowsky, a leader of the anti-Semitic, pseudo- tion of the fundamental principle
fascist Endek Party in Lublin, was sentenced to death by courts in that Jewish citizens of every
the liberated 'city for having collaborated with the Germans and land, fulfilling their obligation
having disclosed to the Gestapo the hiding places of Jews and the of loyalty to their respective
identity of Jewish partisans.
countries, shall be guaranteed
Guerillas Seize Nazi Gas Chamber
the correlative right of complete
In a dramatic action, transcending in sheer daring and effec- equality," former New York Su-
tiveness even the Warsaw ghetto battle, Jewish guerillas swooped preme Court Justice Joseph M.
down on the death camp set up by the Nazis near Berechovo in Proskauer, president of the -com-
Carpatho-Ruthenia, seized a portable gas 'chamber intended by the-- mittee, announced.
-
Nazis for the execution of Jewish internees and threatened to re-
taliate by executing 12 Gestapo hostages should -the liquidation of _ The first step in what he
Jews in Ruthenia continue.
termed. "this essential endeavor"
The report, reaching this correspondent through underground has been taken, Judge Proskauer
sources, reveals' that the action took place on Aug. 1, with the disclosed, in a letter to .Secretary
Jewish guerillas taking a toll of 16 Nazi lives.
of State Hull, proffering the co-
operating of the committee in
the formulation of peace terms
which will help meet the post-
war needs of the shattered Jew-
ish communities overseas.
Judge Proskauer a 1 s o • an-
nounced the formation of a
Turkey Orders All Her Vessels Home from Foreign Ports Committee on Peace Problems of
the American Jewish Committee
Following Break With Nazis: 2 Other Turk
to study and draw up measures
for the rehabilitation of Jews
Refugee-Carriers Reach Port Safely
a n d the restoration of their
ANKARA (JTA)----The sinking of the 200-ton Turkish motor ship rights.
Mefcure in which more than 250 Jewish refugees perished in the
Comprising Jewish community
Black Sea on their way from the Romanian port of Constanza to leaders from all parts of the
Turkey; may mean the end of further transportation of refugees country, the members of '
k the
aboard Turkish ships, it was stated here.
Committee on Peace Problems
The break of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Ger- include s: Honorary chairmen,
many was followed by an order directing all Turkish ships home
from foreign ports. There is no indication that this order will be Abram I. Elkus and Judge Irving
Lehman, New York; chairman,
relaxed.
'
Meanwhile two other Turkish ships carrying 815 Jewish refu- Joseph M. Proskauer, N. Y., and
gees arrived safely this week from Romania at the Igneada harbor. among the associate. chairmen is
One of these ships is the Bulbul carrying 500 Jews, and the other Dr. I. Leo Sharfman. of Ann
Arbor, Mich.
is the 'Morina, with 315 Jewish passengers.
It was ascertained here that the majority of the refugees who
lost their lives this week on the Mefcure were Polish -and Romanian Asks Nazis Punished
For Pre-War Crimes
Jews. Only five refugees and six members of the crew survived.
NEW YORK (JPS) — Punish-
(According to information available here, the'Mefcure was sunk
by shell-fire seven miles off the Turko-Bulgar border. In London, ment for the • Nazis and their
Annis Silver-
the British news agency Reuter reported that the Mefcure was tor- satellites not alone for crimes
Bin Blended
pedoed by an unidentified submarine and that 277 Jewish refugees committed by them during the
Northern Back
perished when the ship went down.)
Let-out
Muskrat
war, but also for "all forms of
persecution
of
racial,
religious,
$495
. JDC Rushes Supplies to Turkish Port
and • political minorities com-
NEW YORK.—Food and supplies are being rushed by the Joint mitted in the course of and in-
Distribution Committee's representative in the Middle East to the cidental or preparatory to the
Annis Silver-
Turkish Black Sea port of Igneada whefe the Turkish motor ship
Blu Blended
war,"
was
demanded
in
a
state-
Bulbul disembarked about 500 Jewish refugees.
Northern Belly
ment of policy adopted by the
Muskrat
JDC's overseas chief indicated that Reuben Resnick of the *JDC
Middle East staff, who has been instructed to dispatch necessary executive board of the World
Jewish
•Congress
asking
that
the
$295
supplies, is en route to Igneada where he will arrange for refugees'
overland transportation to Palestine via Turkey. This situation is War Crimes Commission deal
Subject
to
with all forms of persecution
the more involved because Igneada is in a military zone.
Federal Tux
committed "by the Axis a n d
Stettinius Gratified Over Mexico's 'Free Port' Plan
their satellites and collaborators
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Acting Secretary of State Stettinius after Jan. 30, 1933, in countries
Miracles will never cease at Annis Furs . : .
declared that he was gratified to read the announcement by the under their • control."
. Mexican government of plans to set up .a Refugee Shelter in Mexico
We were first to present the genuine Silver-
patterned after that established by the U. S. Government at Fort
World Jewish Congress
-Ontario:
flu Mink Coat at $12,500 and here is the
The acting secretary made this statement at a press conference Leaders Visit Mexico
same magnificent coloring in Muskrat. - If
adding that he hoped that other countries would follow the example
of the United States. "I would welcome such a move by all freedom-
Dr. Nahum Goldman, chair-
You love beautiful furs, you will not fail to
loving countries of the world," he said.
man of the Administrative Com-
Sen. Robert Reynolds, leader of the American Nationalists, mittee, and Baruch Zuckerman,
see this new Annis "first."
began a .campaign to prevent the U. S. from setting up additional member of the Executive Com-
"free ports" such as the emergency shelter opened for 982 European mittee of the World Jewish Con-
refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego.
gress, left on an important mis-
OPEN DAILY 9:45 A. M.
sion to Mexico where they will
Spanish Vessel Reaches Philadelphia With 'Refugees
Air-Cooled Salons
CLOSING HOURS:
MONDAY, 9 P. M.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—The Lourenzo Marques arrived here confer with important officials of
TUESDAY,
THRU FRIDAY,
carrying a number of Jewish- refugees destined for Canada. This is the Mexican government and the
5:45 P. M.
Library at E. Grand River
SATURDAY, 5:00 P. M.
the second group of Jewish refugees to land here on the way to leaders of the Jewish Community
Canada where they will be received and settled by, the Jewish in behalf of the World Jewish
•
Hull Offered
Co-Operation
By Committee
FIRST
ANNIE FURS
SILVEIRI••1111LU
MUSKRAT
Refugee Transportation Hit
By Sinking of Turkish Ship
Immigrant Aid Society and -the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Congress,