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THE JEWISH NEWS

UNRRA to Give Special Aid
To Jews in Enemy Territory

Policy Committee of UNRRA Council Passes Resolution
Providing Assistance to Persecuted Minorities, of
Which 95 Per Cent Are Jewish Viciims

By HERBERT J. SELIGMANN
MONTREAL (JTA) = Special measures for relief of
. jeWs in enemy territory as well as in the liberated countries
•of Europe will be taken by the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation . Administl.ation — with the consent of the
occupying military authorities — under a resolution passed
by -the Policy Committee of the UNRRA Council during its

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session here.
The resolution, as originally to provide relief, emigration as-
introduced by the British dele- sistance, reconstruction aid and
gation, merely authorized the cultural help to hundreds of
UNRRA to furnish relief to Al- thousands of victims of war and
lied nations found in enemy and persecution overseas, it was re-
ex-enemy territory. Dean Ache- ported at a NeW England con-
son, leader of the U. S. delega- ference marking the 30th anni-
t i o n, however, proposed an versary of the- founding of the
. amendment reading: "or to othen agency.
persons who have been obliged
The conference, which- met -in
to leave their country, or -place. all-day session . at the Copley
of origin, or former residence, or Plaza 'Hotel here, was attended
who have been deported .there 7 by 650 Jewish community lead-
from by action -df the enemy be- ers from all New England states.
cause of their race, religion, or An afternoon mass meeting, at
activities in favor of the United which Jerome Kohn, of Hartford,
Nations." •
Conn., presided, climaxed the
Acheson emphasized that it conference. Addressing the meet-
was specifically designed to en- ing were Louis Brodie, executive
able the UNRRA to help per- vice-president of GimbeEs, and
Secuted • members of national a member of JDC's executive
minorities of whom 95 per cent committee, and Dr. Frank King-
are Jewish. He added that the don, noted educator and com-
amendment • did not . cover re- mentator.
patriation. He estimated that ap-
proxiMately 95 per cent of all Morgenthau Urges
Jews in Europe would come un- Aid to- European Jews
der the provisions of the amend-
CHICAGO (JTA)—Liberation
ment: The only Jews not cover- of Jews in Europe by the Allied
ed by it, he said, would be those armies will multiply opportuni-
who had been allowed to remain ties for American- Jews to be of
in their homes in enemy terri- service to their . needy European
tory.
brethren, Secretary of the Trea-
Outline Program
sury Morgenthau stated address-
Representatives of major ,.Jew- ing a meeting of the Jewish Wel-
ish . organizations N.vht9 are ex- fare Fund of Chicago, attended
Joected to be called for a hearing by, more than 2,500.
before the joint committee of the
'Describing the activities of the
UNRRA .dealing with problems ..War Refugee Board, he told the
of health, welfare and displaced meeting that "with a small staff
persons, formulated a unified in Washington, with . a handful
program which will be presented of able representatives in stra-
to the joint committee. The pro- tegic neutral countries, the Board
gram demands:
has carried on a host of activities
1. Repatriation and other aid in relief rescue and. psychologi-
for displaced persons in enemy cal welfare — all designed to
.and ex-enemy territory and for save the lives of oppressed peo-
victims of the Nazi regime prior ples."
to the outbreak of the war.
2. Aid to victims of racial and British Jews May Send
religious persecution in enemy Representdtive to U. S.
and ex-enemy territory. -
LONDON (JTA) — British
3. Aid. to displaced Jews who Jews may send a representative
cannot or do- not desire to be re- to the U. S. and Canada to con-
• fer with Jewish leaders there on
patriated.-
The organizations which coordination of postwar relief for
agreed on this program include Jews in Europe and forming a
the American Jewish Commit-7 single unified body to repretrent
tee, the Canadian Jewish Con- the interests of Jews in all post-
greSs, the World . Jewish Con- war questions, it was indicated
gress, .' the American - - J e w i s h here at a meeting of the Board
Conference and the Agudus Is- of Deputies of British Jews.
rael. Their representatives also
Discussing the desire of British
promised to support the demand Jewry to participate in furnish-
that dietary and religious laws ing relief to the destitute Jews
be • observed in --UNRRA relief of Europe, Prof. Selig Brbdet-
activities for Jews.
sky, _president of the Board and
It was reliably learned here chairman of its foreign commit-
that the question. of settling Jew- tee, said that cooperation of Jews
ish refugees in Palestine has not- throughout the world is neces-
been considered by the - UNRRA sary to avoid the mistakes of
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council.
Jewish groups at the last peace
conference.
JDC Spends 20 Million
Considerable concern was ex-
For Aid. This Year
pressed by several of- the depu-
BOSTON (JTA) — By the end ties -at the growth of anti-Semi-
of 1944 the Joint Distribution tism in England and the pros-
Committee will have appropria- pects that it will be even more
ted over $20,000,000 for the year wide-spread after the war.

Noted Violinist Solist
On GM Concert- Sunday
Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Es-
pagnel, featuring the noted vio-
linist, Nathan Milstein, headlines
the General Motors., Symphony
of the Air all-French program;
which Dr. Frank: Black will con-
duct Sunday, NBC, 5 to 6 p. m.
EWT. •

Earlier Deadline
For Next Issue

MUSIC

Detroit Symphony
To Be Heard on
National Hookup

3 Noted Artists
In Concert Oct. 24

The Guild Trio, three leading
Detroit artists, will be presented
in concert by the Detroit Con-
cert Management, as part of the
Chamber Music Concerts, on
Tuesday evening, Oct. 24, in the
Lecture Hall of the Detroit In-
stitute of Arts.
The Guild Trio consists of
Henry Siegel, violinist; Katja
Andy, pianist,
and Jascha
Schwartz m a n,
violo-cellist.
Mr. Siegel, a
Curtis Institute
of Music grad-
uate, is a mem-
ber of the De-
troit Symphony
Orchestra.
Katja Andy
has concertized
H. Siegl
throughout Europe.
Mr. Schwartzman, also of the
Symphony Orchestra staff, has
appeared in _. European concerts
and on national ,radio broadcasts.
Their program will include sel-
ections from Beethoven, Dvorak
and Br ahms.

List First Guest
At Center, Oct. 25

Emanuel List, famous basso of
t h e New York Metropolitan
Opera Co., will_ open the series
of Center Concerts on Oct. 25,
according to Mrs. A byr a h a m
Cooper, chairman of the Jewish
Community Center music com-
mittee.
Mr. List made his • Detroit
debut last December at the
Center.
- Many Detroiters heard Mr.
List's voice in "Kol Nidre" when
he sang it on the eve of - the
Day of -Atonement over the' Co-
lumbia -Network.
Tickets are available at Grin-
nell's and at the Center:

'Student Prince' at Cass
The famous operetta "The
Student Prince"- now is .being
staged at the Cass Theater. Alex-
ande• Gray- heads the cast for
Sigmund Roniberg's production.
He is assisted by Laurel Hurley,
Detmar Poppen, Allegron. Varron
and other able actors.

Dorothy - Maynor Guest
On Kostelarietz Program
One of the celebrated and most
distinguished singers of t h e
Negro race will visit "the pause
that refreshes on the air" pro-
gram, when talented soprano;
Dorothy Maypor, appears as
guest star with Andre Kostela-
netz and his orchestra on • Sun-
day afternoon, at 4:30, EWT over
CBS.

Cossacks Are Coming
To Detroit on Oct. 17

The singing giants of
Steppes who come to Detroit
New developments in the De- Tuesday, Oct. 17, at the Masco
troit Symphony. Orchestra's 30th Auditorium, are the Origi
anniversary plans are announced Don Cossack Chorus foun
by Henry H. Reichhold, presi- under Serge Jaroff's direction
dent of the Symphony board, a military camp near Consta
who states that the orchestra nople more than 20 years ag<
With folk tunes, Cossack
will be heard in a series of 52
Saturday, night broadcasts over dier songs and liturgies
a Mutual Broadcasting Co. coast- buk a millenium, these Musl
vire melodists are now in t1-1,
to-coast network.
First broadcast will be on Sat- fifteenth season in Arne'',
urday, Oct. 21. Station CKLW, where last season they perfoi
local Mutual outlet, will orig- ed in one hundred cities in
inate the programs, which will than five months.
Tickets for their Detroit r
be strictly non-commercial. Karl
Krueger, musical director of the tal are now on sale at the 1
office at Grinnell Bros.' Mt
orchestra, will conduct.
Store in Detroit.
The program for the 30th an-
niversary year, the most ambi-
tious ever undertaken by the Dickson, Noted Baritor
Symphony, includes both
Opens Town Hall Serie
Thursday and Saturday night se-
ries of 20 concerts each, 16
Donald Dickson, sensatio
school concerts and a post-sea- young baritone of opera, c
s o n Mozart-Brahms-Beethoven cert, and radio renown,
festival.
open the Detroit Town Hall s
!son at the Fisher Theater, W
nesday morning, Oct. 11, at
100,000 Jews Slain
o'clock.
In Minsk, Moscow Says
The first attraction in a . sei
of. 20 Wednesday mornings,
LONDON, (JTA)—The. Moscow handsome singer will give
radio said this week, that the varified program of five sc
committee investigating German groups, ranging from the clasE
atrocities at Minsk has reported to the well loved -American t
that 100,000 Jews were tortured lads and gypsy tunes: He v
and killed in the Minsk ghetto be accompanied by Lawrei
during the Nazi occupation. Jews Stevens at the piano. The il
and non-Jews were asphyxiated companist will have a solo s;
in portable gas wagons while on the program playing sel
others were shot, the broadcast tions from Schubert, Tcherpni
said.
and Dohnanyi.

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SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL . . . MASONIC TEMPLE
SUNDAY MATINEE and EVENING, OCT. 8
Final Performance by the
Famous Yiddish Stars
Michael Michalesko * Celia Adler * Max Bozhik

MY WIFE IN RUSSIA

(Mein Fratt in Russland)

On account of the final days
of the Sukkoth festival, occur-
ring on Oct. 9 and 10, the dead-
line for the next issue of The
Jewish News will be at 3 p. m.
on Friday, Oct. 6.
Regular deadlines of The Jew-
ish News will be at 3 p. m. on
Tuesdays.

Friday, October 6, 1944

In the Cast:

Leo Schechter
Reizel Bozhik
Anna Siegel
Ben Bonus
Anna Levine
Sam Senby
Rose Schlechter
Sylvia Fishman

Prices: Matinee, $2.00, $1.50. $1.00, 75e, plus tax
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