Friday, Augusi 25, 1944
Page Seven
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Child Is Saved f or the New World
Retinger Describes Daring
Mission in Occupied Poland
Discloses That Nazis Have Exterminated 2 1/2 Million Jews,
and That Less Than 200,000 Remain at Present;
Kaunas Bared as 'Death Camp'
LONDON (JTA)
Dr.. Josef Retinger, 57-year-old
Polish leader who recently returned from a daring mission
in occupied Poland, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
leaders of the underground movement, including some Jews,
told him in Warsaw that at least 2,500,006 Jews had been
exterminated by the Germans in Nazi-held Poland. They
estimated that there are no more
than 200.000 Jews left alive in l
Poland at present.
Dr. Retinger met a number of
Jewish friends, members of the
Polish Socialist Party, who had
not left their hiding cellars more
than two years. The Zionist
Party and the Jewish Labor
Bund ark still functioning in Po-
land among the. illegal groups,
he said. He revealed that during
the anti-Nazi revolt in the War-
saw ghetto, 18 Zionist and three
Bund battalions participated in
the fighting.
"A small number of Dutch and
Belgian Jews are still in War-
saw," Dr. Retinger stated. "I saw
them doing forced labor. They
are kept in the ghetto and wear
black-violet striped clothes like
convicts." He doubts that Leon
Blum, former French Premier,
died in a "Jewish extermination
camp" in Poland.
Jewish Children Rescued
By Non-Jews in Vilna
MOSCOW (JTA) — Though
the number of Jews who survived
in Vilna, including the. Jewish
partisans,- is very small, it was
learned here that many Jewish
children were rescued in Vilna
by non-Jewish residents who
gave them shelter during three
years of German occupation, rep-
resenting to the Gestapo that
these children were members of
their own families.
Most of these children had lost
their parents who were either
deported or executed by the Ger-
mans. A registration of such chil-
dren is now being conducted
with a view to establish their
identity.
The first list of names of Jews
murdered by Germans in the
"extermination camp" in Maj-
danek, near Lublin, was secured
here this week by the corre-
spondent of the • Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency from the Rus-
sian authorities investigating the
Gestapo annihilation of civilians
in the liberated Lublin area.
The list contains chiefly names
of French Jews, transported to
Poland and killed in the "death
chambers" of the Majdanek
camp. Thus far only one record
book with 600 names has been
made accessible to the press.
Kaunas, the liberated capital
of Lithuania, has been used by
the Nazis as an exterminaiton
center for Jews from western
Europe, it was reported here by
the Jewish Anti-Fascist Commit-
tee in a comprehensive survey of
more than three years of Jewish
life under the Nazi regime in
Lithuania.
"In Gestapo documents which
have fallen into Russian hands,"
the report continues, "the city
of Kaunas was referred to as
`extermination point of the East-
land.' In the common graves near
the forts of Kaunas are buried
not only local Jews, but also
thousands of others driven into
Kaunas from other Lithuanian
towns and villages, and executed
there by the Gestapo. It was in
Kaunas that the Germans exe-
cuted Jews from Berlin, Vienna
and Prague, from France and
from Holland."
9 Pct. of Jacksonville
Jews in Armed Forces -
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (JTA)
—Approximately 9 per cent of
the local Jewish population is
now in the armed forces, accord-
ing to a preliminary survey by
the Jacksonville Jewish Commu-
nity Council. This percentage co-
incides with the overall statistics
just released by the National
Jewish Welfare Board Bureau for
War Records, in which the gen-
eral average for the American
Jewish community is given as 9
per cent.
Duplesss Quebec
Jew-Baiter, Wins
Legislature Rule
Liberal Government Beaten
at Polls; His Margin
a Precarious One
MONTREAL (JPS)—The Lib-
eral Government of Quebec was
on its way out, to be replaced
by a cabinet to be headed by
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis,
Jew-baiter who has been circu-
lating alleged documents to prove
that Canada's Jewish leaders
were in a conspiracy to "flood"
the country with refugees. The
Canadian Jewish Congress has
challenged him to prove t h e
authenticity of his documents.
He has never replied.
Duplessis heads the. Union
Nationale, fascist organization.
His margin in the legislature,
however, will be a precarious
one. The lineup is: Union Na-
tionale-47 seats; Liberals-37;
Block Populaire, a reactionary
group — 4; Canadian Common-
wealth Federation—I, Independ-
ent—l.
A Block Populaire coalition
with the Union Nationale is in
the process of formation, ob-
servers said. Outgoing Liberal
Premier Godbout declared him-
self skeptical of the longevity of
such a coalition.'
—United Jewish Appeal Phot
A concerted effort is being made with funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine to save and care for large numbers of
children who have been orphaned by war and oppression so that they may grow
up to make their contribution to the peace and freedom of the New World.
Photo shows a child being provided with medical care in Switzerland, where thou-
sands of refugees are being maintained with the aid of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, which is represented in the $25,000,000 United Jewish Appeal campaign, together
with the United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee Service.
Relief- and reconstruction work of the U.J.A. is supported in Detroit by the Allied
Jewish campaign, through the War Chest.
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Catholic Priest Shot
For Hiding Children
MOSCOW, (JTA)—With part
of Lithuania now liberated by
the Russian armies, a picture
emerges showing Catholic priests
in Lithuanian towns often ac-
tively though futilely' interven-
ing with the German occupation
authorities for the life of Jews
and often risking their own
lives to hide Jews from Nazi
extermination.
Especially courageous was the
behavior of a Catholic priest in
the small Lithuanian town of
Vidkule who hid 50 Jewish chil-
dren in his church and called,
in his sermons, upon Lithuanians
to give every possible assistance
to Jews. When Gestapo agents
learned that he had secreted
Jewish children and came to
the church to get them, the
priest met the Gestapo officials
on the threshhold, saying, "You
will enter the church only over
my dead body."
After beating the priest, the
Gestapo broke into the church
and dragging the children out,
burned them alive. The priest
later was shot.
Winston to Direct
Congress ~ Campaign
Myron Hugh Winston has been
appointed by the American Jew-
ish Congress to direct its 1944
campaign.
Mr. Winston comes to his new
post from the Federation of Jew-
ish Charities where for the last
nine years he was the director of
the Fraternal and Benevolent
Organizations. A graduate of the
University of Vermont, Cum
Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, he
earned his Masters • degree in
business administration at New
York University.
Born in up-state New York, he
spent 10 years in community
center ,work, was national com-
pliance director of Underwear
Negligee Code Authority under
NRA, international arbitrageur
for leading Wall Street broker-
age firms and wrote a volume
on arbitrage published by Har-
pers in 1931.
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