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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 20, 1944
Hungarian Partisans Steal
Crain, Save Doomed Jews
sguised as Railway Workers, They Detached 18 Cars
From Train Headed for Death Camp, and
Hid Them in Forests
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By JOSEPH LIEBNER
LONDON, (JPS)—By a daring and cunning action, "free Hun-
rians" wrested from death 2,500 Jews in Miskolcz, Hungary, ac-
rding to the clandestine anti-Nazi radio station Koshut broadcast-
; from within the country.
The Jews had been loaded in 18 cars attached to a. long freight
tin and were being escorted, under guard of Hungarian and Ger-
In soldiers, to the death camp at Beregsasz, Carpatho-Ruthenia,
Mere thousands of Jews are reported to have perished in gas
Ambers.
At Miskolcz the train was held up due to railway repairs which
ay have been occasioned by partisan sabotage fitting • in the
ents that took place later.
.
Disguised • as Railway Workers _
At midnight partisans, disguised as railway workers, detached
e 18 cars, shuttled them to a siding and drove them to • a forest
were the Jews were assisted to partisan hideouts. "The rescued
ws are now safe," the radio announced.
Numerous prominent Hungarians, opposed to the present
gime, are languishing in jail awaiting trial for alleged past assist-
ice to Jews fleeing the country. This assistance was especially
irked immediately following the entry :if German troops to take
11 control of. the country, which has had an Axis-puppet govern-
ant for years.
Recent reports tell of the wholesale liquidation of ghettos in
mgary through the deportation of able-bodied males to slave labor
mps in Germany, and the extermination of the disabled, the aged,
e women and the children.
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
Light Industries, in the basement of a building
AMERICA
a band
Laura L. Margolis, JDC overseas workers
who served in Spain after her release from
Japaneseinternment in Shanghai, has arrived
in Sweden. where she will direct JDC activities
on behalf of the thousands 'of Jewish refugees
in tha-', country.
The reading of a letter that George Washing-
ton wrote in 1790 promising religious freedom
to the Hebrew congregation of Newport, Rhode
Island, was advised by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
in her column.
PALESTINE
Textile goods worth tens of thousands of
pounds were loaded into eight commandeered
trucks and driven away in a brazen daylight
robbery of the warehouse of the Controller of
on Nachlath Benjamin Street here, by
of 50 identifying themselves as members of the
Irgun Zvai Leumi, terrorist organization.
OVERSEAS
General: von dem Bache, SS. Obergrupen-
fuehrer who boasted, while stationed in Poland,
that he personally enjoyed mass executions and
took a direct hand in them with a sub machine
gun, has Jeen appointed by Gestapo Chief
Heinrich Himmler as supreme commander of
Germany's postwar Nazi underground.
Dr. Arie Noordtzij, former professor of Semi-
tic languaaes and literature at the University
of Utrecht, and writer of Hebrew subjects,
died recently in Holland at 73.
i'rench Jews Consolidated
nto Single Central Group
onseille Representative de Juifs de France Hold Recep-
tion for Hundreds of Jewish Members of the
U. S. Armed Forces •in Paris
By MEYER LEVIN
PARIS, (JTA)—Hundreds of Jewish members of the U. S.
med forces this week attended an official reception given by the
'onseille Representative de Juifs d France, the central body of
'tench Jewry, to American Jewish soldiers in Paris. Addresses call-
!g for Jewish unity were delivered at the reception by Jewish lead-
. s.and by American Jewish chaplains serving with U. S. Army units
France.
The Conseille was formed last week when the representative
..wish organizations which existed in northern and southern France
kerged into one central body, with headquarters at 17 Rue St.
eorge in Paris.
Under an agreement the Conseille will take over poliCy-making
inctioris for the Jews of France, in place of the Comite de Unity et
efense de Juifs de France, which operated from the central office
the Jewish Colonization Association.
Chief Rabbi of France Relates How He Escaped From Gestapo
LYON, France, (JTA)—Prof. Isaye Schwartz, Grand Rabbi of
ranee, described how he had compe\lled six French militia men who
ad arrested him last January to help him escape instead of de-
vering him to the Gestapo.
The 69-year-old spiritual leader of French Jewry told of several
ttempts to arrest him last winter. The last came on the night of
an. 9. As he was mounting the stairs to the room where he had
pen living, two men jumped out with pointed revolvers and told
im they were French agents of the German police and that he was
nder arrest. They forced him to return doWnstairs where other
irench militia men were posted. There, the Rabbi said, a two-hour
iscussion ensued.
"They argued they had to arrest me, that the Gestapo chiefs
ere waiting for me at their headquarters. I told them they had
1 ) help me, and somehow I completely dominated them spiritually.
"They yielded. Their leader told me first that I would have to
ut off my beard. Another of them made a • bundle of my clothes
nd a third went out to find a car in which I could escape."
"What about me?"
The Community War Fund
Has the Answer
i
tomanian Government Fails
7o Return Rights to Jews
injoy•Full Rights in Principal Only, Says Correspondent,
Disclosing Serious Differences Between
Jewish Leaders and Government
By JOSEPH KLARMAN
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—Serious differences exist between Jewish
eaders here and the Romanian Government over restoration of full
fights to Jews, as provided by the Allied armistice terms, it was
stablished by a special correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic
gency arriving from Turkey.
At present, Jews in Romania enjoy full rights in principle only.
Tothing has been done by the government to restore them to the
► ositions which they held there before the notorious anti-Jewish
aws were introduced, the correspondent found.
There are 290,000 Jews surviving in Romania. More than half
of them are literally without homes, clothfng, food. They depend
'hiefly on relief provided by the remainder of the Jewish population.
Celler Queries Gromyko on Anti Jewish Laws in Romania
WASHINGTON, (JPS)—"An explanation" for "anti-Jewish laws
till in force in Russian-occupied Romania," was demanded by Rep.
Emanuel Celler (D) of N. Y., in a letter to Andrei A.' Gromyko,
soviet Ambassador to the U. S.
Rep. Celler's letter read in part:
"Rusga's espousal of King Michael of Romania, and thus, nec-
, ,essarily of Queen Helen, is strange. It is difficult to understand, if
lot somewhat bewildering, how the past record of the boy Michael
and his mother could be so utterly disregarded.
"Our admiration for the Russian people, for their amazing and
heroic battle against the common foe is boundless, but our unstinted
admiration should not lead us into blind acceptance. This embracing
of the Romanian betrayers calls for a crystal clear explanation.
"We believe that an explanation is due as well for the anti-
Jewish laws still in force in Russian-occupied Romania."
Life looks pretty scary from where you sit, doesn't it son?
Dad's been overseas for months. And now Mom's so sick she
has to go to the hospital. So what's to become of you?
Don't you worry. You've a lot of friends you don't know
about! Thoughtful, generous people who will make sure
you're cared for while Mom's away.
'You're going visiting! To a fine foster home, with folks who
love and understand young fellows like you. They have
toys waiting—a tree to climb—maybe even'a dog!
So chin up, soldier—everything's going to be all right.
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