r frlday,.WousT:25, 1144 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 - 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. (See Also Page 20) 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. • 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. FROM MRS. JOHN R. DOE 2025 - 14TH DETROIT 16,NICHIGAII U. S. A . TO SGT. JOHN R. DOE vb AS N 3 6 -4 15480 U.S. ARMY HDQS. CO. -94G'_" ENGINEERS fhl A.P.O. 345 - % POSTMASTER NEW YORK, NEW YORK • 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. THE J. L. HUDSON COMPANY