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200,000 Jews in Hungary
Face Massacre, Pehle Says
Director of War Refugee Board Denies Reports That
WRB Will be Liquidated on Jan. 22, or 'Any Other
Date'; ,Board's Work Unfinished, He Declares
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A ptess report that the War Refugee
Board will go out of existence on Jan. 22 was denied here by John
• W. Pehle, executive director of the WRB, in a statement to the-
gewiSh Telegraphic Agency. • •
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Pehle declared that he never has stated that the WRB would
be. liquidated on Jan. 22, or any other date. At the same time,
he expressed fear that about 200,000 Jews may be exterminated
in Hungary during the next few weeks as .a result - of the estab-
lishment there of the pro-Nazi extremist Szalasi regime.
The War Refugee Board director told a press conference there
are no plans under consideration to .bring more refugees from
Europe to the United States. He revealed that Ira Hirschmann,
WRB representative in the Middle East, is not returning to his post
in Turkey. "The big job that can be . done there is over," he de-
_ dared. He added, however that the work of the WRB can not be
Considered finished, "while the situation in Hungary and Slovakia
• and German-occupied Poland and Germany remains as desperate
as it is."
Mr. Hirschmann stated that Bulgaria's initial move to revoke
the anti-Jewish laws was a direct result of pressure from the WRB
exercised by him through Bulgarian diplomats' in Turkey.
London Alarmed Over Fate of Jews in Hungary
LONDON, (JTA)—Jewish leaders here this week expressed
alarm concerning the fate of the 300,000 Jews remaining in Hun-
gary, as the German radio announced that all Jews in Budapest
have been ordered not to leave their homes, which is usually a
prelude to a Gestapo round-up of Jews for deportation.
The Budapest radio announced that the Szalasi Government,
which the Germans have set up, has -issued an order cancelling all
exemptions from wearing the yellow Mogen -Dovid granted by
the previous regime to certain categories of Jews, including war
veterans. The order emphasized that all Jews who discarded the
yellow insignia, whether by exemption or arbitrarily, must im-
mediately resume wearing it.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is considering action in
behalf of the threatened Jews. The World Jewish Congress office
here 'has sent appeals to the Pope, to British Foreign Minister
Anthony. Eden who is now in Moscow, and to principal leaders of
the United Nations asking for urgent measures to prevent "im-
pending mass-murder of the remaining Jews in - Hungary."
Rumanian Government Ready to Re-Instate Jews With Back Pay
BUCHAREST (JTA)—The Rumanian Government is ready to
re-instate 20,000 Jewish employees who were dismissed from their
jobs by the pro-Nazi regime, it was announced here by Dr. William
Filderman, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in
Romania. He said that the government has promised to pay the
dismissed employes salary- for the period since their dismissal.
missal.
JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
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(Compiled From Cables of independent Jewish. Press Service)
AMERICA
"Ninety-five per cent of Polish Jews have
died in gas chambers' at annihilation centers or
were slaughtered during numberless "liquida-
tion campaigns' by the German's," according to
a report made public by the Yiddish Scientific
Institute. -
An eyewitness account of the asphyxiation
and cremation of 4,000 Jewish children : from
the Theresiendstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia,
was given in a letter from a Polish won-Ian
quoted in a London dispatch to the Polish
Telegraph Agency. The mass murder took place,
at the Birkenau concentration camp.
An eyewitness account of Hitler youth mak-
ing a sport of hunting and killing 'Jews in the
Warsaw ghetto, was given by Jan Karski, Po-
lish underground worker describing his ex-
periences before the N. Y. Herald Tribune •
Forum.
• Gen. Robert E. Wood, former head of the
America First Committee, was among the con-
tributors to . the isolationist, anti-Roosevelt
American Democratic National Committee, it
was revealed by William J. Goodwin, friend of
Father Coughlin and treasurer of the National
Committee, who testified at a hearing of the
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee.
Cola Harold Riegelman, U. S. Army Chemical
Warfare Officer, former Assistant Attorney
General of New York State, has been awarded
the Bronze Star for blasting Japanese troops
out of caves on Biak Island in the Southwest
Pacific.
In reply to evidence that for six ,years, from
1924 on, he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan,
rising to the position of "Cyclops," a high post
in the hierarchy of the night shirt organiza- .
tion, Hal Styles, candidate for Congress in the
fifteenth district here, stated that his motive
in joining was to expose the Klan's activity.
Declaring a "merciless" war on Hungary's
remaining Jews, Gabor Vajna, new minister
of Home Affairs of the Nazi puppet regime in
Budapest, said the solution of "the Jewish
question" will be "a merciless one and one
deserved by the Jews because of the attitude
adopted so far." His statement was made in a.
broadcast over the Hungarian home radio pick-
ed up by the -FCC.
OVERSEAS
The demand that the Jewish refugees intern-
ed on the Island of Mauritius for the past four
years be • transferred to ,i"a more salubrious
climate," in view of the heavy toll token among
them by malaria, was voiced by a number of
members of the House . of Commons. Colonial
Secretary Oliver Stanley maintained, however,
that he was "satisfied that the government of
Mauritius was doing everything possible and
steadily reducing the incidence of disease." In
general, the health of the refugees was good,
he said.
Only 10,000 to 12,000 Jews survive in Greece
out of a prewar Jewish population estimated at
between 70,000 to 100,000, a spokesman for the
Greek 'Government-in-Exile revealed. Of the
50,000 Jews of the seaport city of Salonika, only
5,000 survive, others having been deported to
Poland's death camps and forced labor gangs.
Plans for the settlement in Grodno of all the
surviving Jews of -We'stern Byelorussia have
been worked out by the organizers of the
Bialystok Jewish anti-Fascist Committee.
Prof. Jacob Syrkin, a scientist who devotes
himself mainly to the elaboration and solution
of theoretical problems in physics, has been
cited for the second time in two years for his
contributions to the Soviet war efforts through
his researches in practical chemistry. The lat-
est award given him is the Decoration of the
Red Banner of Labor. In 1943 he received the
Stalin Prize.
The Jewish Community Council of Buchar-
est was informed by the Romanian Govern-
ment that Jewish youths of ,both sexes, over 18
years of age, will not be permitted to leave the
country.
"Jacobowsky and the Colonel," the Franz
Werfel—S. N. Behrman .comedy depicting the
flight of refugees during the 1940 blitz on
France, was greeted with loud applause and
innumerable curtain calls following its first
showing in Stockholm at the Gothenburg City
Theater. The leading parts were played by
Sammy Friedmann. and. Martin Ericsson.
PALESTINE
The great oil refineries at Abadan, in Persia,
employ about 400 Jewish specialists from Pal-
estine, according to "Palestine and Middle
East," monthly economic magazine.
Vengeance for the death of Madi Moscowitz,
18-year-old Jewish girl-partisan tortured to
death by the Gestapo for refusing to divulge
information, was sworn by captains of the
Greek Liberation. Movement, assembled at her
grave "somewhere in the hills of one of the
Greek islands." The' girl was murdered by
Gestapo Chief Beyer, whose name is fore-
most among those of Nazi war criminals in
Greece. .
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Jersey Labor
Favors Palestine
NEW YORK—The New Jersey
State-Federation of Labor unani-
mously has adopted a resolution
endorsing the "aspirations of the
Jewish people to build their own
Commonwealth in Palestine," it
was announced by Max Zaritsky,
chairman of the American Jew-
* ish Trade Union Committee for
Palestine.
The resolution expresses ap-
proval of the program of the
American Jewish Trade Union
Committee for Palestine and
pledges support to the Commit-
tee, which was organized "for the
purpose of crystallizing the senti-
ment of American labor in behalf
of a free and democratic Jewish
Commbnwealth in Palesfine."
Commendation for the pro-
Palestine efforts of its secretary-
treasurer, Mayor Vincent J. Mur-
phy of Newark, also is included
in the resolution,. which urges
that Mayor Murphy "be encour-
aged in his voluntary services to
the Palestine movement."
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