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THE JEWISH NEWS
WRB Report on Nazi Crimes
Stirs U. S. Jewry to Action
Friday, Decern6er 1-, 1944
Pearson Will Speak
Here Next Tuesday
Reception on Sunda"?
For UHS \Graduat6
The graduation ceremonies of
the United Hebrew Schools, held
during the • week of Nov. 26, will
be concluded with a reception to
the graduates, their parents and
the staff of the schools, to be
given by the Woman's Auxiliary
this Sunday,' from 2:30 to 5 p. m.,
in the auditorium of the Rose
Sittig Cohen Bldg., 13226 Law-
ton.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich will be
the ,guest speaker. Joseph Haggai
will talk on behalf of the staff,
and several parents will extend
greetings. Singing will be con-
ducted by Abraham Schachter.
Refreshments will be served by
a committee of the Women's Aux-
iliary, headed by Mrs. Morris
Fishman. The president of the
Auxiliary is Mrs. Jack Tobin.
War Refugee Board First Government Agency to Issue
Official Eye-Witness Details of Mass Murder
By Germans at 2 Death Camps in Poland
The horrifying report of the War Refugee Board, issued
in W- ashington this week to show the extreme brutality of the
Vermans who murdered millions of Jews and Christians in
gas chambers, has stimulated American Jews to greater ac-
tion in rescue efforts in behalf of the remaining Jews and
those who can, still be saved.
At the current sessions of the World Jewish Congress
in - Atlantic City, in the counsels of the Joint Distribution
Committee and the United Palestine Appeal and at the forth-
coming sessions of the American Jewish Conference in Pitts-
burgh, plans are expected to be formulated to mobilize the
strength- of American Jewry, with the • cooperation of the
democratic communities throughout the world, to relieve the
suffering of Jews and to map ways of rehabilitating- large
numbers of survivors ►
,.
First ReportIssued . by U. S. Agency
WASHINGTON—An account of the mass murder of Jews and
Christians at Brzeznica. (Birkenau) and •Oswiecim (Auschwitz),
transcending even the horrors of Lublin, made by responsible eye-
witnesses and vouched for by the
War Refugee Board, was issued
this week. It is the first report condemned to death by phenol
of its kind issued by a U. S.. gov- injections in the heart region.
Racial consideration played an
ernment agency.
" The report indicates that while important role. An 'Aryan' really'
1,500 ;.000 • were killed in three had to be seriously ill to be con-
years-in Lublin, the torture cham- demned to death by injection,
bers of Brzeznica account for 1,- whereas 80 to 90 per cent of the
500,000 to 1,765,000 persons. mur- Jews 'hospitalized' there were
dered. from April, 1942 to April `eliminated' in this manner. Many
of them knew about this method
1944.
The War Refugee Board and applied for admission as so-
charges that "so revolting and called 'suicide candidates,' not
diabolical are the German atroci- having the courage to throw
ties that the minds of civilized themselves in the high tension
people find it difficult to 'believe wires."
that they actually have taken
Tortured His Victims
place."
Then there was the story of the
- QuOte 2 Slovak Youths
executioner who became a
The expose of the horrors --"hero;"
quotes two Slovak youths as esti-
"An SS man by the name -of.
-mating that the number of Jews
gassed and burned at Birkenau Kier, a shoemaker by profession,
numbered 1,765,000 and a Polish gave the injections. He had -taken
officer; another eye-witness, esti- up his post in the hospital as a
mated that about 1,500',000 Jews simple SS private but was later
were .killed. in Oswiecim in that promoted to SS 'group leader,'
although practically a moron. He
fashion.
also received supplementary food
Here is the approximate figure. rations and was awarded the Iron
of the recapitulation. by two es- Cross.
caped Jews:
Poland (transported by truck).. 300,000
"He was a, complete sadist, tor-
Poland (tranSported by train).. 600,000 turing his victims with ,p nimal-
Rolland
100,000
Greece
45.000 like brutility before putting them
France
150,000 to death."
Belgium '
50,000
Germany
The accounts of the Slovaks
Yugoslavia, Italy and Norway
50,0 00
Li thuania
50.000 and the Polish major mentioned a
Bohemia. Moravia & Austria
30.000 special "hygiene institute" at
Slovakia
30,000
Oswiecim, which was adjacent to
Camps for foreign JeAsin
'
Poland
300.000 Birkenau, and where mysterious
Total
1.765,000 "experiments" were conducted on
The Jewish youths described Jewish prisoners, mostly on fe-
the gassing and burning tech- males. The Polish major's ac-
nique as follows:
count, which provided the only
"The gassing takes place as fol- clue of what went on in the "in-
lows: (a) The unfortunate victims stitute," said:
are brought into the hall* where
"Here sterilizing by X-ray
they are told to undress. (b) treatment, artificial insemination
To complete the fiction that they of women, as -well as experiments
are going to bathe, each person on blood transfusions, were car-
receives a towel and a small piece ried on."
of soap issued by two men clad in
Blum's Brother Victim
white coats. (c) Then they are
The
reports mentioned several
crowded 'into the gas chamber
in such numbers that there is, of well-known individuals, such as
Witold Zacharewicz, Polish actor,
course, only standing room.
"To compress this crowd into and a brother of Leon Blum, for-
the .narrow space, shots • are often mer French Premier, as having
fired to induce those already at been executed.
"Prominent guests from Berlin
the far end to huddle still closer
together.. When everybody is in- were present at the inauguration
side, the heavy doors are closed. of the first crematorium in March,
Then there is a short pause, pre- 1943," the reports said. "The 'pro-
sumably to allow the room tem- gram' consisted of the gassing
perature to rise to •a certain level, and burning of 8,000 Cracow
after which Sp men with gas Jews. The guests, both officers
masks climb the roof, open the and civilians, were extremely sat-
traps, and shake dawn a prepar- isfied with the results and the
ation in powder form out of tin special peephole fitted into. .the
cans • labeled 'cyklon,' fo-' use door of the gas chamber was in
against vermin, which is manu- constant use. They were lavish
factured by a Hamburg concern. in their praise of this newly
erected installation."
Killed in 3 Minutes
"It is presumed that this is, a
`cyanide' -mixture of some sort
which turns into gas at.a certain
temperature. After three minutes
everyOne in the chamber is dead."
The use of the hypodermic
needle for murder was described Number of Jewish Congress-
by the Polish major as follows:
men in 79th Congress Has
"The 'sick were classified into
Reached Eight
two groups, 'Aryans' and -Jews.
These groups were again Isubdi.
vided into further - groups, of
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—With
which the first included the sick, final returns disclosing that Her-
Who were to remain in the hos- man P. Kpppelman has been
pital, being considered 'ctirable,' elected to represent Connecti-
The second-,- consisted of extreme- cut's ,First District in the House
ly rundown patients, chronic of Representatives, the number
eases, and , the half-starving or of Jewish Congressmen in the
mutilated whose recovery could 79th Congress has reached eight,.
only be effected by a long stay Koppelman was a member of the
the hos=ital -
77th Congress, but was defeated
ically for reelection in 1942.
"This gi (.1 UP
-
Koppelman Elected
To Congress Seat
DREW PEARSON
Charles Kottler, Oscar Zemon
and Hy Schlafer, co-chairmen of
the committee in charge of ar-
rangements for the lecture to be
given by Drew Pearson next
Tuesday evening; at Temple Beth
El, under the auspices of the
Temple Men's Club, announce
that the event is open to wo-
men as well as to men, and that
the public at large is invited.
Tickets now are available at
the Temple and at Grinnell's.
The co-chairmen express the
belief that the auditorium will be
filled for this event, and they
urge imrkediate purchase of
tickets by those planning to
hear the noted columnist and
radio commentator.
Jr. Hadassah Asks
Orphans' Transfer
To Homes in Zion
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. GIPSY
— The large scale immediate
transfer by the United Nations
of homeless Jewish . children
from Nazi occupied and deva7
stated countries of Europe • to
Palestine was' a ked in a resolu-
tion adopted at the opening . ses-
sion here of the 21st- annual
convention of Junior Hadassah;
the Young Mrsmen's Zionist Or;
ganization of America. The reso-
lution followed 'a •statement that
12,000 children from Europe and
the Middle East had already been
rescued through efforts of the
Office of the Youth Aliyah Bu-
The prize winners of the essay reau for refugee children.
contest, in connection with the
25th anniversary of the Unitet
Hebrew • Schools,. will be named
Sunday.
The essays were written in
Hebrew and in English on the
following topics: "Our Language
William Hordes, president of
and Our Land," "Our People
and Our Land," "Our Past and the Jewish National. Fund Coun-
Our Future," "Why a Knowl- cil of Detroit, announces that all
edge of Hebrew is Important." records have been broken for
Judges are:' Charles Rubiner, Dr. JNF • flag day collections Nov.
A. W. Sanders, Louis LaMed, 18-19, when a total of $1,700 was
Maurice H. Zackheim, and Ber- raised. Habonim members se-
nard Isaacs. Sponsors of the con- cured more than half of this
test are Maurice Landau and total.
Mr. Hordes also.announces that
Harry Cohen.
the Keshenever Bessaraber Un-
terstitzungs Verein has inscribed
the name of Dr. Stephen. S. Wise
in the JNF Golden Book.
s
JNF Flag Day Sets
Record in Detroit
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