Friday, September IS, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Servicemen at Home in Bnai
Brith Free Los Angeles Hotel
JDC Names H. D. Biele
Latin-Amerircan Aide
Harry D. Biele, prominent so-
cial worker, has been appointed
secretary of the Latin American
Committee of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Corn-
mittee, it was announced by Jo-
seph C. Hyman, executive vice-
chairman of the organization.
The JDC is the major American
agency for aid to distressed
Jews overseas. Mr. tiele suc-
ceeds Robert Pilpel„ who is now
a member of the JDC's overseas
staff stationed in Lisbon.
Mr. Biele comes to the JDC
after four-and-a-half years as
Secretary. to the National Refu-,
gee Service's National Commit-
tee for the Resettlement of For-
eign Physicians. Ile also was ex-
ecutive secretary of the Emer-
gency Committee in Aid of Dis-
placed Foreign Medical Scien-
tists.
Methodist Students
Contribute to UJA
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Contributions Received by
Jewish Hospital Assin for
_ Leucaemia Research
The Robert S. Deutsch Fund
for Research in Leucaemia, which
was formed in tribute to the
memory of Lt. (j.g.) Robert
Stanley Deutsch, who died in the
U. S. Naval Hospital at Mare
Island, Calif., on July 29, is at-
tracting considerable interest ini
the community and has received
a number of new contributions.
Additional gifts to this fund
were received from Miss Neva
Gutterman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred H.
Gottfurcht and Mr. and Mrs.
Sherwin L. Rosenberg.
Contributions to this fund may
be made to the Jewish. Hospital .1
Association,
51 W. Warren Ave.,
CO. 1600.
Latvia Partisans
Rescue 600 Jews
BY KARL FRAHM
'Jewish Telegraphic Agency Corre-
spondent in Sweden) .
STOCKHOLM, (JTA) -- Six
hundred Jews who had been
forced by the Germans in occu-
pied Latvia to work on fortifica-
tions were recently liberated by
Lativan partisans when trans-
ferred to Liepaja, it was reported
here by the newspaper Ef.altiska
Nyheter.
The report says that the res-
cued Jews are deportees from
Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hun-
gary and Holland: All joined
the Latvian partisan units im-
mediately upon their liberation.
The same paper estimates that
only several hundred Jews have
survived in Lithuania of the 170,-
000 who were there before Ger-
many invaded the Baltic coun-
tries. Most of the surviving Jews
are hiding in the woods. In the
early months of 1944 there were
still 9,000 Jews in the Kaunas
ghetto, all of whom were used for
forced labor. But in March the
Gestapo - discovered a secret tun-
nel dug by Jews from the ghetto
to the Neris River. For this
"crime" about half of the Jews
in the ghetto were shot.
The last 3,000 Jews in the Vilna
ghetto were likewise exterminat-
ed during the month of March,
the" paper states, adding that the
victims fought against the Ger-
mans on the barricades before
meeting their death.
About 4,000 Dutch and Bel-
gian Jews are now alive in a con-
centration camp which the Ger-
mans established in the coastal
town of Krestinga several weeks
ago. They are engaged in the
heaviest manual labor.
'Abbe Press, Inc.
Printers and Publishers
The United Jewish Appeal re-
ceived a gift from 203 Methodist
high school students of the Green
Mountain Junior College of Ver
mont as their contribution to aid
the relief and reconstruction of
homeless and oppressed Jews.
; In transmitting the contribu-
tion, Mr. Harrison Davis pointed
out that it represented one-
fourth of the -World Friendship
These photos show the Bnai Brith hospitality House at 519 Offering of the young students
South Spring Street, Los Angeles, sponsored by the nation's largest who voted to include the UJA
Jewish service organization, which is the world's biggest free hotel as a beneficiary because of the
for servicemen. Since it opened on Dec. 24, 1943, it has ac- desperate plight of. large num-
commodated 14,000 men in uniform on Friday and Saturday nights. bers of Jews under Nazi domina-
Top photo shows entrance to the Los Angeles Bnai Brith Hos- tion.
pitality House.
Bottom Leff: Registering for beds; Right—Writing letters to
folks back home, using ample writing facilities and free stationery
provided by Bnai Brith.
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Additional Gifts
To Deutsch Fund
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missidnaries Aid
Jews in Shanghai
GENEVA (JPS)—Condition of
Jews interned in the ghetto of
Shanghai has considerably im-
proved as a consequence of the
intervention of French mission
aries with Chen Kung Po, Chin-
ese mayor of the Japanese-occu-
pied city, according to reports re-
ceived here. Two hundred Jew-
ish families, removed to the
ghetto from the International
Settlement, have been permitted
to return to their homes.
Immediately after the Japan-
ese forces had established a
foothold in Shanghai the plight
of the Jews was desperate. Their
monies and property taken from
them, they lacked the bare ne-
cessities of life and were all de-
pendent on relief. Herded into
a limited area in the Old City's
quarters, congestion among them
was great and conducive to the
spread of disease, according to
early reports.
We, join in the hope and prayer, voiced in this
Season of Solemn Assembly, that the New Year
will not only bring Victory but will also see the
Aged-in,
sealed-in
planting of the seeds of a Lasting Peace!
To our many friends everywhere we extend
the traditional greeting:
"May you be inscribed for a good year."
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