Friday, Sepiem6er 8, 1944
THE
Berdichever Verein
Fetes Anniversary
Million Are Exterminated,
1,000 Escape Death Ovens
JTA Correspondent Reports Two-Thirds of Those Killed
by Nazis at Madjanek Were Jewsih Men, Women
and Children; Many Survivors Have U. S. Relatives
By RAMOND A. DAVIES
LUBLIN, (JTA)—Arriving here this week this corres-
pondent established that two-thirds of the more than 1,500,-
000 men, women and children annihilated by the Germans in
the "death chambers" of the notorious Majdanek "extermina-
tion camp" near Lublin were Jews.
I also found that about 1,000 Jews succeeded in escaping
and were the only Jews surviv-/,;›
ing in Lublin and the vicinity,
which was liberated by the Rus-
sian Army. Only 50 are resi-
dents of Lublin where 48,000
Jews resided before the war.
The remainder were brought
from other sections of Poland
for extermination.
Many of the survivors have
relatives in the U. S. and in
Palestine. Their names have
been cabled to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency in New York.
Their addresses are registered
with the Komitet Zydowski w
Lubline, the Jewish Committee
of Lublin. (See names of Detroit
relatives on Page 3).
Survival a Miracle
It must be remembered that
survival of Jews in Poland is in
itself a miracle. The survival of
1,000 Jews in the area where
Jews were massacred in the
hundreds of thousands is an act
surpassing human understanding.
- This was emphasized by Dr.
Emil Sommerstein, Jewish mem-
ber of the Polish Committee of
National Liberation and head of
the Reparations Department of
that committee, which is recog-
nized in Moscow as the tempo-
rary goVernment of the liberated
part of Poland.
He estimated that in all of
Poland no more than 100,000
Jews can have survived, in ad-
dition to those who were saved
by evacuation into the USSR
prior to the German attack on
Russia.
- List Jews in Lublin
The Jewish Committee in Lub-
lin now is engaged in registering
all Jews in the liberated parts
of Poland in order to enable
their return to their home towns
as well as to establish contact
for them with their relatives
abroad.
Many who escaped extermina-
tion in the "ovens" were still
too shaken to write down the
addresses of their relatives in
the U. S.
Five years of war and the con-
stant fear of being caught by the
Germans and murdered have re-
sulted • in the loss of the ad-
dresses of relatives overseas.
Some of.athe Jews in Lublin are
in such a state that they do not
even remember they city in the
U. S. where their relatives
reside.
Jews Clamor for Revenge
Speaking to many of the Jews
in Lublin, I established that
every surviving Jews is dom-
inated by a strong desire for
revenge. Dr. Shloima Hersjen-
horn, a Jewish captain the First
Polish Division who on return
to Lublin found that his wife,
his son, parents, and all his
relatives had been killed by the
Germans, told me what most of
the Jews in Lublin say today.
"I have nothing to live for," he
said, "except to serve those who
are still alive and to obtain
revenge."
American and British corre-
spondents brought here from
Moscow were appalled at what
Lublin Executioner
Boasted He Liked
Stench of Corpses
MOSCOW (JPS)—S. S. Officer
Tuman, one of the chief execu-
tioners at the death camp at Lub-
lin, Poland, set up his priVate
residence at the crematorium
where the executed were burned.
Tuman, gloatingly said: "I love
the smell of roasted corpses."
This detail characterizing the
executioner is reported by Boris
Gorbatov, a Soviet writer, re-
porting from Lublin to the news-
paper Pravda.
they saw at the Majdanek camp.
They visited the gas chambers
where the Germans suffocated
their victims and inspected the
crematories where the bodies of
the gassed people were burned
to ashes.
London Press Demands
Vigorous Punishment
LONDON, (JTA)—An editor-
ial in the News-Chronicle de-
mands rigorous punishment of
those directly responsible for the
extermination of 1,500,000 per-
sons—mainly Jews—at the Maj-
danek camp in Poland and taxes
the entire' German nation with
acquiescence in "these crimes
against civilization."
Stating that "it is hard to
imagine any crime which could
outstrip Majdanek in scope or
the degradation to which its
planners descended," the edi-
torial suggests that the horrors
of the camp should be filmed by
the Allies and every German
should be forced to see them.
Congress Publishes
Analysis of UNRRA
Giving Jewish View
"Relief and . Rehabilitation," a
223-page study of the implica-
tions of the UNRRA program for
Jewish needs, by Zorach War-
haftig, published by the Institute
of Jewish Affairs of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress and the
World 'Jewish Congress, has just
come off the press.
"Relief and Rehabilitation" —
the first of six publications en-
titled "From Way: to Peace"--is
a sympathetic and respectful but
objective analysis of the com-
position, framework and pattern
of operation of UNRRA. Mr.
Warhaftig, when he finds it
necessary to criticize UNRRA,
does .so in a constructive manner,
presenting the case of the Jew
with factual evidence and a
legalistic objectivity that is most
convincing.
Copies of "Relief and Rehabil-
itation" are being sent to all
delegates to the UNRRA confer-
ence to be held in Montreal, on
Sept. 15; the governmental agen-
cies • concerned with relief and
rehabilitation, unofficial relief
agencies, universities and other
interested groups: The author
and his colleagues have' spent
much time in research and anal-
ysis and have presented in this
work a complete and compre-
hensive picture of the UNRRA
framework that was created at
its first meeting in Atlantic City
in 1943.
"Relief and Rehabilitation" can
be accepted as an authentic ref-
erence book and guide to stu-
dents on the subject.
Berdichever Verein
Greets All Members and the
Entire Jewish Community
with best wishes for a
Very Happy New Year
Berdichever Yerein will cel-
ebrate the 18th anniversary
of its founding on Sunday,
Sept. 10. at 7 p. m., with a
banquet at Beth Tefilo Ern-7
anu el Synagogue, Taylor
and Woodrow Wilson,
Fred M. Butzel will be guest speak-
er. Joe Wresser is Chairman of the
Arrangements Committee. Harry
Kaminer will be toastmaster.
JEWISH NEWS
With Fred M. Butzel as guest
speaker and Harry Kaminer as
toastmaster, Berdichever Verein
will hold its 18th
anniversary ban-
quet in the
social hall of
A *,
Beth Tefilo
Emanuel Syna-
gogue, Taylor
a n d Woodrow
Wilson, at 7 p.
m. this Sunday,
J o e Dresser, Joe Dresser
chairman of the committee on
arrangements, has notified mem-
bers that there will be no charge
for the banquet and that there
will be no solicitations.
In extending greetings on the
new year to the community, the
Berdichever pledged themselves
to continue uninterruptedly their
community social service and
charitable efforts.
JDC Sends Italy,
Turkey $100,000
Each to Aid Jews
Additional relief for Jewish
refugees and destitute native
Jews in Turkey and also -in lib-
erated Italy is being made avail-
able by the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Co m m i t t e e
which . approved $100,000 each
for needs in the two countries.
The relief situation in Italy is
acute, according to cables from
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Eu-
ropean JDC chairman. As a re-
sult of long months of Nazi oc-
cupation, the Jewish population
is in need of food, clothing,
shelter and medical care. In
Rome, where the cost of living
is high, there are, in addition to
2,000 native Jews, about 910
refugees as well as 460 Italian
refugees.
Approximately 250 persons in
villages outside Rome require as-
sistance. The $100,000 Italian
grant brings to a total of $240,000
funds made available this year
by JDC to aid Jews in Italy.
In Turkey, the relief problem
is of a different type. As a result
of high taxes levied by the
Turkish government on minority
groups they no longer can main-
tain their hospital in Istanbul
which serves 40,000 Jews, their
orphanage in Istanbul or their
child care programs, old age pro-
grams, and small loan associa-
tions in Ismir. , In addition to this 1
grant of $100,000 JDC provides a
monthly grant of $11,500 to pro-
vide emergency relief for de-
pendent Jews in Turkey.
Jews in Venezuela
Send $4,000 to JDC
"Every Jew must help save the
lives of the Jews in Europe,"
states the Jewish community of
Venezuela which hag cabled $4,-
000 to the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee to be
used for overseas rescue and re-
lief. This contribution represents
the total sum collected in recent
months by the Committee for
Jewish refugees in Caracas, Vene-
zuela and comes from a country
whose Jewish population num-
bers only 1,600 persons, of whom
600 are refugees.
Page
Bnai Brith Opens
Hillel Units at 3
CanadianColleges
Foundations Are Sponsored
In Montreal, Kingston
and Winnipeg
Seven
announced the establishment of
a full-time Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at the University of
Manitoba.
The new unit, which will serve-
a Jewish student body of 400, will
be financed jointly by Bnai
Brith's District Grand Lodge No.
6, the Jewish Welfare Fund of
Winnipeg and Bnai Brith Wider
Scope.
The first director of the Mani-
toba Hillel Foundation will be
Rabbi Amram Prero, who has
been transferred from his post as
director of the Hillel Foundation
at the University of Florida.
MONTREAL. — Establishment
of a full-time Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation. at McGill University
here was announced this week by
Henry Monsky, president of Bnai
Brith and chairman of its Na-
tional Hillel Commission, and Hillel Unit Opened
Samuel Moskevitch, president of at Queen's University
the Canadian Bnai Brith Confer-
KINGSTON. — The Bnai Brith
ence.
Hillel Foundation at Queen's Urii-
The Foundation probably will versity, the first to be opened in
not be launched before the end Canada, will become a full-time
of October because McGill Uni- unit at the beginning of the fall
versity will have to approve it in school semester.
accordance with its established
Under the new arrangement,
practice.
Rabbi Joseph Renov, the new di-
Rabbi Benjamin Kahn, for the rector, will devote his entire
past four years director of the time to Hillel service, thus giving
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at Canadian Jewry three full-time
Pennsylvania State College, is be- Hillel Foundations.
iT,
to Canada to di-
Kostelanetz to Present
new Hillel unit.
Group of Gypsy Songs
_ Jewish community of Mon-
A group of Gypsy songs col-
treal is financing the Hillel at lected by Andre Kostelanetz from
McGill, with a guarantee by a Hungarian violinist whom the
Mount Royal Lodge.
conductor met while on his re-
cent
overseas USO tour, will be
Hillel
featured on "The Pause that Re-
For Manitoba U.
freshes on the Air" program this
WINNIPEG. — In response to Sunday, at 4:30 p. m. (EWT)
reported requests by the Winni- over the CBS network.
peg Jewish Community and the
Guest singer will be the Met-
Winnipeg Bnai Brith, the Nation- ropolitan opera mezzo-soprano,
al Hillel Commission this week Gladys Swarthout.
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