Fr;clay, September 8, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Detroiters Sought By Kin
Who Escaped Lublin Death
First Contact Made Between Polish Jews and Relatives in
U. S.; Only 1,000 of 48,000 Survive Extermination
at Majdanek 'Gas Chambers'
LUBLIN (JTA)—The first contact between Polish Jews who
survived extermination in the notorious German "death camp" at
_ Majdanek, near Lublin, and their relatives in the United States
was established by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency who arrived here from Moscow.
. The correspondent was informed that two-thirds • of the more
than 1,500,000 men, women and children annihilated by the Ger-
mans • in the "gas chambers" of the Majdanek camp were Jews. He
found that only about 1,000 Jews succeeded in escaping death. They
were the only Jews surviving in Lublin and vicinity upon liberation
by the Russian army.
Many of the Jews have relatives in the U. S., and the JTA
correspondent •obtained their names for transmission to America.
Only 50 of the surviving JeWs are residents of Lublin where 48,000
Jews resided before the war. The remainder were brought by the
Gestapo from other sections of Poland for extermination.
. The list of names of Lublin Jews whose relatives live in the
United States includes:
Bella Flammenbaunt of Lublin who gives a Mr. Borg of
Detroit as a relative.
Josek Licht of Zotkiezka who lists Aron Licht of Detroit as
a relative.
Lists of Names of Repatriated Jews
May be Studied at • Jewish News Office
The complete list cabled' by the • JTA correspondent may be
studied by JeWish News readers at the office of The Jewish News,
2114 Penobscot Bldg., D Elevators.
Readers of The Jewish News may also study lists of other Jews
located in European countries and in this country at the Jewish
News office. Lists were supplied to us by the JTA. World Jewish
Congress, National Refugee Service, American Federation of Polish
Jews, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and other agencies.
agencies.
During the past two weeks, scores of Detroiters have been
visiting the office of The Jewish News studying the lists of
repatriated and rescued Jews whose names have been supplied
to us by national organizations and the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. The Jewish News - is the only Michigan subscriber to
the JTA and allied news services.
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WJC to Open
Paris Office
To Aid Jews
World Jewish Congress Set
to Rehabilitate Those
Liberated in France
NEW YORK. — To facilitate
the work bf rehabilitating the
Jews in liberated France, the ex-
ecutive committee of the World
Jewish Congress announced that
it has instructed Marc Jarblum
to proceed- at once from Geneva
to Paris with a staff to reestab-
lish the Paris office of the WJC
to offer aid in the reconstruction
of Jewish life in the territory
• freed by the Allied armies.
Mr. Jarblum, a French mem-
ber of the 'executive committee
of the WJC, remained in France
during the occupation, until 'last
year, at the request of the French
Jewish Resistance Committee, he
went to Geneva, from -where he
-was able to assist - many Jews in
escaping from Hitler's domina-
tion.
At the same time the office of
the WJC in Geneva has main-
tained liaison with underground
Jewish movements throughout
Europe during the war. The ex-
ecutive office of the World Jew-
ish Congress in New York has
instructed its Geneva office to
expand its facilities to meet the
needs that will be presented by
the increased 'territory liberated'
by the advancing Allied armies.
State Department
Blacklists Mandl
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Fritz
Mandl, reportedly an apostate
Jew, one time Austrian muni-
tions magnate, now active in the
Argentine munitions industry, has
been "blacklisted" for being as-
sociated with Axis economic in-
terests, the State Department dis-
closed.
Mandl, who left Austria before
its annexation by Hitler, was one
of the financial backers of Aus-
tria's Fascist, anti-Semitic Prince
Starhemberg, protege of Benito
Mussolini.
Edward Tomlinson, Collier's
editor and Latin American ex- -
pert, writes in the latest issue of
the weekly that the former Aus
trian munitions magnate owns
and controls three factories in
Argentina devoted entirely to the
manufacture of rnachine4 of war.
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
OVERSEAS
Testifying before the Senate Labor sub-com-
mittee in support of setting up a permanent
Fair Employment Practices Committee, Rabbi'
J. X. Cohen of New York, chairman of the
American Jewish Congress' Committee on
Economic Discrimination, charged that the
vice president of a utility in New York told
him they employed only a minimum of Jewish
girls on their office staffs "because the arms
of Jewish girls are too short to handle the
office equipment."
Eugene Gottlieb, a 15-year-old Brooklyn boy
who convinced a local draft board that he was
19 and joined the Marines, was given an honor-
able discharge from the Marine Corps after his
mother notified authorities of his true age. Ex-
Private Gottlieb completed nearly . four months
of the rugged "boot camp" training and had
a fine record as a soldier. He qualified as an
expert on the rifle range.
Four ' hospitality houses and a community
center furnished and equipped by Bnai Brith
for the refugees at the emergency shelter estab-
lished. by the United States government at
Fort Ontario were presented there on Sept. 3
by Maurice Bisgyer, national secretary of Bnai
•Brith, to the War Relocation Authority ad-
ministering the camp.
General Gheorghe Potopeanu, Minister of
Finance and Economy in the new Romanian
cabinet, was declared by a Soviet war crime
commission to be jointly responsible with the
Germans for the death of 200,000 persons in
the Odessa and Transnistrian areas. Three
other members of the cabinet, General Michael
Racovita, General Illie Gheorgiu and Admiral
Ion Georgescu had all served under ousted
Premier Antonescu and hold German decora-
tions.
Max Schneiweiss; a Polish Jew residing in
Barcelona, Spain, has been assigned by Joachim
von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister,
to act as his broker in a deal for vineyards
in Spain. Schneiweiss has so far purchased
close to 50,000 acres of vineyards for the Nazi
Foreign Minister, who apparently is seeking to
invest his monies in s ubstantial holdings in
Axis-friendly countries in anticipation of the
fall of Germany.
Germans in Turkey, who were vociferous
Nazis until the Turkish Government severed
its relations with .the Reich, have now begun
to seek out former Jewish acquaintances, con-
tribute to Jewish causes and court Jewish girls.
In several cases, Germans applied to rabbis
asking to be converted to Judaism, but their
requests were refused.
A raid of Iron Guardists on the Great Syna-
gogue in Bucharest, Romania's capital, was
beaten back by the congregates who had
crowded the synagogue for Saturday morning
services. Several of the assailants were caught
and handed over to the police. The Jew-bait-
- ing, pro-Axis newspaper Porunka Vremi, sus-
pended for its opposition to the new cabinet,
is- being published clandestinely and given wide
circulation.
Two thousand Romanian Iron Guardists have
been rounded up by Soviet authorities in
Jassy, Galatz and Foksany on the charge that
they had conspired to organize a campaign of
violence against the Jews. •
(See Also Page 18)
PALESTINE
A total of $480,000 has so far been invested
in Herzlia, a township 10 miles north of .Tel
Aviv, to develop its industrial area, for which
200 'dunams (50 acres) have been set aside.
Among the industlial plants "in the township,
which was established by the American Zion
Commonwealth, Inc., of New York City, are
the "Palphot" plant, founded in 1934; which
turns out 20,000 photos daily for postcards,
holiday greeting cards, etc.; an electric insulat-
or plant with 40 hands; a weaving mill, a paints
,and varnishes factory; a cardboard-making
plant; an alcohol factory which distills the
spirit from dates and ground carobs.
Over 33% of the $8,625,268 spent and in-
vested by the Jewish Agency during the nine-
month period ending June 31, 1944, went for
immigration and refugee aid.
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