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THE JEWISH :NEWS

Less Than 1,000 Jews Found
In Liberated Lithuania City

Only 3,000 of 30,000 Who Lived • in Kaunas Before War
Reported Residing in Lithunian Capital During
Last Days of German Occupation

By RAYMOND A. DAVIES
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent in Moscow)
MOSCOW (JTA)—Less than 1,000 Jews have survived in the

liberated city of Kaunas, capital of Lithuania, it was reported here.
Of the 30,000 Jews who lived there before the war and' of the many
thousands brought there by the Germans from Holland, Belgium,
and Austria, only 3,000 were yet living during the last days of the
German occupation. This number was further reduced to 1,000
when the Gestapo demolition units broke into the ghetto and blew
up houses prior to the German army's retreat.
When the Russian army entered Kaunas, they found in the
basements of the burning houses many bodies of Jews burned alive.
One of the Jewish survivors, Nahum Diner, a lawyer, told the
Russian officers that the Gestapo demolition squads killed with
machine guns all those Jews who tried to escape from the houses
set afire by the Nazis.

JTA Correspondent Finds 130 Jews in Liberated Yedinetz

YEDINETZ, Moldavia (JTA)—Yedinetz, once one of the most
beautiful towns in Moldavia with a large pre-war Jewish popula-
tion, has now no more than 130 Jews. The remainder 'have either
been massacred by the Germans, or died in concentration camps.
The correspondent of the. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, upon his
arrival here spoke with surviving Jews as well as with the non-
- Jewish population. They report that when the Germans entered
the town they immediately issued an order for all Jews to appear
at the military headquarters. There the Jews were registered and
shipped away in trucks. German soldiers descended at the same
time on their homes taking away everything they found.

Jews Among Patriots Executed in Present Revolt in Warsaw

LONDON (JTA)—Jewish names continue to appear in the lists
of patriots executed by the Germans in the city of Warsaw since
the beginning of the general uprising, it was reported here this
week by Polish-Jewish leaders. The executed Jews apparently had
been hidden in Warsaw hitherto by Polish friends.
Reports from the Polish underground movement received here
indicate that there are still about 50,000 Jews held in a number of
concentration camps in the part of Poland held by the Germans.
These camps are situated in Plaszow, Mielec, Pistkow, Szenstochowa,
Piotrokow, Radom, Starachowice and Skarszina..

Florence Jewry
Emerging From
Hiding Places

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FLORENCE, Italy (JTA)—The
surviving fragment of Florence
Jewry, which formerly num-
bered 2,500, is beginning to
emerge after 11 months of hid-
ing, as the Eighth Army, aided
by Italian partisans, consolidate
their hold on principal areas of
the city.
Vittorio Frille, one the lead-
ers of the Florence Jewish com-
munity, estimated that one-fifth
the Jews in the city had been
arrested and deported. This in-
cluded Rabbi Nathan Casuto,
who, after the arrest, was known
to have been taken to Venice.
While many of the Florentine
Jews escaped to Switzerland and
in the -direction of -Rome, the
majority went into hiding in
Florence and in the vicinity
where Italian friends sheltered
and hid them. An unusually
large number fled into the
mountains to join partisan units.
As in Rome and in other
Italian cities, many Jewish
women and children found shel-
ter_ in Catholic convents, and
men in other religious establish-
ments.
Abo.ut 400 members of the
pre-war Jewish community in
Leghorn have returned and are
in desperate straits, it was stat-
ed by Guiseppi Furnaro, presi-•
dent-:::, of. the Leghorn Jewish
community who is in Rome to
appeal for aid to the represen-
tative of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
By arrangement with the
J.D.C., Capt. Aaron Paperman,
Fifth- Army Jew-ish Chaplain, is
proceeding to Leghorn with a
supply of food.

Polish 'Jewish Soldiers
Work in British Mines

•LONDON (JTA)—Twenty-one
Jewish soldiers of the Polish
Army and three Jewish sailors
of the Polish Navy who were
gianted amnesty by the Polish
president after they left their
units because of anti-Semitism,
volunteered to work as miners
in the British coal mines.
Originally they sought to join
the British forces, but were re-
fused acceptance because of the
existing British policy not to
accept men serving in armies of
other nations. The former Polish
Jewish soldiers consider work-
ing_
t
in the coal mines as the bes
war work they can do against
the common enemy.

Page- Three,

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, president of
Ecuador, has ousted the Ecuador Chief of Im-
migration who has been pursuing a restric-
tionist policy and has been accused of harrass-
ing refugees. President Ibarra replaced him
temporarily with the Chief of Police.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, joined the list of
co-chairmen of the forthcoming mass rally
against Nazi persecution of European minori-
ties, sponsored by the New York Journal
American, a Hearst newspaper. The rally, to
be held Sept. 10, at Randall Island Stadium, is
headed by Mayor Fiorellci H. LaGuardia as
chairman, and six co-chairmen.
Two thousand children, chiefly between the
ages of 5 and 1'5, are under the care of the
United States Committee for Care of European
Children, the committee announced here.
Twenty-five per cent of the children cared for
are Jewish.
Aside from 600 Britons, the European chil-
dren living in the United States, mostly in
private homes, represent fourteen nationalities:
French, Belgian, Polish, Austrian, German,
Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Portugese,
Rumanian, Armenian, Turkish and Iranian. At
present 322 European children live in New
York State, 130 of them in greater New York.
The Federal Housing Authority is preparing
to sell the Jersey Homesteads, known as the
Hightstown Colony, it was officially an-
nounced. The Homesteads were founded in
1933 with accommodations for about 200
families of workers in the clothing industry.
A co-operative clothing factory established
there became insolvent in 1940.

PALESTINE

Delegates of all 42 Jewish co-operative loan
and .savings societies in Palestine affiliated
with Merkaz, the union–of such urban and
rural funds, heard at a general meeting in
Tel Aviv June 26 that a tremendous increase
had occurred' in deposit funds which far ex-
ceeded the combined own capital. Deposits had
risen to $12,000,000 and there was great cash

liquidity among the societies, which had ,fully
discharged their indebtedneSs in most cases to
the large banks frOm which they customarily
borrowed operating capital. Loans to members
of these societies amounted to $4,000,000.
One of the signs of preparation for the post-
war period when Palestine economy reverts
to a peace-time basis is undoubtedly .the for-
mation of many public and private companies
and partnerships to engage in all types of
financial, industrial, trading and building op-
erations and in handling immovable property.
This development began around the middle of
1943 and continued at an accelerated tempo
well into 1944.

OVERSEAS

Yugoslavian Jews, who were war prisoners
or refugees in Italy, are now clandestinely
returning to their homeland to join ,Marshal
Tito's forces and avenge, the deaths of 30,000
Yugoslavian Jews massacred by the Nazis, a
member of Marshal Tito's staff reports. Of the
Many Jews battling in the ranks of Tito's
army, one of the most popular is 34-year-old
Major Oscar Danon or Yovan Cignovich.
Only one Jew remains alive in Belgrade,
the Yugoslav capital, following the wholesale
massacre of the Jews by the Nazis. He is 80-
year-old Dr. Bukic Piade, former president of
the Yugoslav Sephardic community. All mem-
bers of his family have been murdered except
for Moshe Piade, vice president of the Tito
government.
Hungary's Minister of Education has permit-
ted the Minerva PUblishing Company to issue
a Hungarian translation of "The Nazarene" by
Sholem Asch. The book was translated by
Miskolsz Heltai, an apostate, and the permis-
sion to publish came after appeals from Catho-
lic circles. Other books by Sholem Asch remain
on the banned list of books by Jewish and
"subversive" authors.
Jewish guerillas will be represented on the
tribunals set up by the Polish Committee of
National Liberation to try Nazis guilty of
atrocities in Poland. The committee was trans-
ferred from Chelm to Lublin.
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Hanukah and Christmas Packages

for the. Armed Forces Overseas

Must Be Ready Soon!

•

TIME OF MAILING ... T-Ianukah and Christmas

cards and parcels must be mailed between September

15, 1944, and October 15, 1944, the earlier the better.

Hanukah and Christmas cards must be sent in sealed

envelopes, prepaid at the first class rate. -Gift parcels

should be endorsed "Hanukah or Christmas Parcel."

•

SIZE AND WEIGHT- . . . Parcels shall not exceed

five pounds in weight, or fifteen inches in length, or

NOT OVER 15
FIVE
INCHES LONG OR :
POUNDS
OVER 36 INCHES •
IN LENGTH PLUS WEIGHT
:
LIMIT
GIRTH

thirty-six inches in length and girth. One individual

may send only one package a week to the same person

during this period of September 15 to October 15.

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HOW TO WRAP .. . It is very important that

articles be carefully packed in boxes of metal, wood,

solid fiberboard, or strong double faced corrugated

fiberboard, tied with strong twine. It is also desirable

to have fiberboard boxes secyrely wrapped in heavy

paper. Articles within the box must be tightly packed.

Any sharp points or edges must be protected.

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HOW TO ADDRESS . . . Address must be leg-

ible, in typewriting or ink. The complete address

should also be shown on a piece of paper inside the

parcel.

Be sure you have the complete address and

also the address and zone number of the sender.

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