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Friday, January rt, 1945
•HE JEWISH NEWS
i l onference, Congress Urges
lescue of 550,000 Jews
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,ppeal Directed hos United Nations to Act fo Save Victims
Still in Nazi-Held Territory; JDC Repaying 6 Million
Dollars fo French for Loans During Occupation
NEW YORK (JPS)—United Nations' action to save 550,000
still in German controlled territory, and relief for 650,000
nivs in liberated countries, was urged in a joint appeal by the
merican Jewish Conference and the world Jewish Congress,
.re, issued through Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Congress
id co-chairman of the Conference.
Anslem Reis of London, Jewish leader closely connected with
scue channels, charged that the United Nations were responsible
✓ the deaths of "hundreds of thousands" of Jews because they
ve not already taken rescue measures proposed.
The statement asserted that Jews be rescued through co-opera-
n with the underground and with neutral countries willing to
mit refugees if special shipments of food for their care is ero-
ded. The appeal asked that Jews be declared wards of the
ited Nations and given the status of civilian internees or sup-
ied with documents of neutral countries.
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JDC .Repaying $6,000,000 to Frenchmen
PARIS (JPS)—Six million dollars were lent to Jewish rescue
ganizations in France by Frenchmen for the support and hiding
Jews during the German occupation. The loans, taken in the
me of the American Joint Distribution Committee, are being
id back, Arthur Greenleigh, Paris director of the committee, dis-
Sed here.
There is hardly a Jew in France today who hasn't benefitted
m these borrowed funds which averaged $150,000 a month, Green-
gh said. More than eight thousand Jewish children were board-
. with non-Jewish families who received about $20 a month
:' their support, while German authorities were offering $100
r every Jew turned in.
Survey of Jews in Balkans Made by JDC Director
By -VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
PARIS, (JTA)—.An over-all report on the situation of the
Ws in the Balkans, Hungary, Austria and Italy was given here
Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European director of the JDC, who has
t returned from Switzerland. ,
Revealing that JDC aid is even going to Jews in still-occupied
ritories and battle areas, Dr. Schwartz said that working direct-
or through the International Red Cross, his organization is bring-
relief and assisting in the rescue of Jews in Bulgaria, Romania,
goslavia and Italy, as well as Nazi-occupied Hungary, Slovakia,
, stria and parts of Croatia.
He revealed that there are 17,000 Hungarian Jews still in
enna who are being taken care of by 229 Austrian Jews under
e leadership of Dr. Joseph Lowenherz. Most of these Austrian
ws were permitted to remain in Vienna either because they were
arried to non-Jews or were baptized, The JDC also made a
ecial grant of $100,000 to care for Hungarian Jewish refugees in
>mania.
In Budapest, Dr. Schwartz reported, only 75,000 Jews remain
ter the mass deportations and the recent transportation to the
, strian frontier of all able bodied Jews for compulsory labor.
ose remaining are children under fifteen, women over 55, men
er 60, those too infirm for labor and those protected by posses-
n of neutral passports. All are concentrated in the ghetto except
e holders of neutral passports who have to reside in certain de-
pia ted houses. The inhabitants are being sustained by relief in
nd and in money supplied by the JDC through the International
d Cross, From June until Dec. 15, Dr. Schwartz stated, the
)C spent $2,300,000 for relief and rescue work in Hungary.
4,000 Jews Remain in Slovakia; Most in Hiding
In Slovakia, he reported, three to four thousand Jews remain.
actically all were wiped out in mass actions as punishment for
e role Slovak Jews played in the recent Partisan uprising against
e Nazis. Most of the 15,000 Jews remaining in Bratislava, the
.ovak capital, were deported. Mme. Gise Fleischmann, for many
:ars chairman of the JDC committee at Bratislava, has been
ported and it has been impossible to ascertain her fate, Dr.
thi,vartz said. Oscar Neumann, Slovak Zionist leader and mem-
'r of the JDC committee, is still believed to be in the Sered camp.
In the Nazi-held part of Croatia, Dr. Schwartz said, there are
out 2,000 Jews in the Zagreb area, about 800 of whom are in a
ncentration camp. Yugoslav partisans are helping the JDC care
r these people, Dr. Schwartz said.
In the liberated areas, Romania presents the greatest relief task,
:cording to Dr. Schwartz. No less than 216,000 Jews require as-
Eltance. Unlike other countries, he said, food can be obtained
ovided the people have money with which to pay. As an emer-
ncy grant for the last three months of 1944, the JDC provided
,000,000 for relief in Romania through the International- Red
oss. The budget now submitted by Dr. William, Filderman,
airman of the JDC committee in Bucharest, calls for $800,000
onthly for the first three months of this year, Dr. Schwartz said.
18,000 in Bulgaria Need Relief
Turning to Bulgaria, Dr. Schwartz said that one-third of the
:wish population or about 18,000 are in need of relief. In Bul-
tria, Dr. Schwartz said, the JDC has been supplying aid at the
.te of $50,000 monthly to the officially recognized Jewish corn-
unity organizations - in Scfia and other cities.
Only an inconsiderable number of Jews has been found in
)erated Yugoslav territory, the JDC official declared, but it is
,ped that more will come out of hiding.
A JDC medical mission has been granted permission through
Yugoslav Red Cross to enter Yugoslav territory and work there,
:i. Schwartz announced, It will leave from Switzerland in the
:ar future.
While in Switzerland, Dr. Schwartz said, he received reports
. the situation in Italy which he described as "shocking to an
tbelievable extent. Practically all of the concentration camps
.ve been evacuated through the deportation of the interned Jews.
sere are now only 70 Jews left in northern Italy-40 in a camp
d 30 in prison. Of the Italian Jewish population it is estimated
at not more thin 4,000 remain in hiding."
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Three deep-sea fishing vessels with auxil-
iary engines were launched by Na.chshon, mari-
time corporation of the Histadruth, Jewish
Federation of Labor, in Ceasarea. The ves-
sels, locally built, will serve the combined
fishing and farming settlers-group En Hayem,
near Atli th.
A survey of all manpower in the 17-35 age
groups was ordered by the Vaad Leumi, Jewish
Palestine's National Council, in connection with
the Jewish Agency's recruiting campaign for
the Jewish Brigade. All able-bodied men in
these groups are expected to -volunteer for
service, the Vaad Leumi announced.
Anne O'Hare McCormick addressed an
audience of over 60 journalists and guests, at
a reception tendered in her honor in Jerusalem
Monday night, by the Association of Jewish
Journalists. Commenting on her impressions
of liberated Europe, Miss McCormick stated
that, while in Italy, she met "Palestinian Jew-
ish troops who are doing a really magnificent
job."
Moshe Shertok, Chief of the Political De-
partment of the Jewish Agency, announced
that 625 Romanian Jewish immigrants who
left Bucharest for Palestine in the middle of
November and had been halted for several
weeks in Bulgaria, have been released by the
Bulgarian authorities and permitted to proceed
to Palestine. Hitherto 4,000 Jews entered Pales-
tine under the last quota of 10,000 permitted
within the limits of the White Paper.
The third annual Religious Book Week, dedi-
cated to reading Protestant, Catholic, Jewish
and "good-will" books in the fields of fiction,
philosophy, history and biography, will be ob-
served this year during the week of May 6 to
13, the 12th anniversary of the first wholesale
book burnings in Berlin, Dr. Everett R. Clinchy,
president of the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews, announced.
The British Foreign Office has ignored re-
peated proposals by American representatives
of the United Nations War Crimes Commission
that Britain join in action to punish not only
regular war crimes but atrocities committed by
Germany and Hungary against their own na-
tionals on grounds of race and religion, John
MacCormac, New York Times correspondent,
reports from London.
Representative John E. Rankin (D. Miss.),
declared in the House that he has the approval
of Jews "all over the country" because ;le is
neither anti-Jewish, anti-Negro nor anti-Labor,
but attacks only "Communist Jews."
Dislocations caused by the war may bring
about a revival of hate movements in the
United States, The Christian Science Monitor
warns in an editorial which points out "the
bald fact that while the Nation is waging a
major war against the fires of intolerance else-
where there are glowing embers within its own
borders which are a long way from being
stamped out."
PALESTINE
OVERSEAS
The first eXperiment in a new soil conser-
vation program in Jewish Palestine was launch-
ed successfully with the completion of a dam-
reservoir with a capacity for collecting 220,000..
cubic meters of rainwater from the hills. The
project was constructed at Kvutzath Revivim,
situated in the Negev, southern Palestine.
In 1944, Kupat Cholim, Sick Fund of the
Histadruth, Jewish Federation of Labor, spent
$4,000,000, to which 'members contributed $3,-
820,000, it was stated by the directors of the
Fund at a press conference here. Kupat Cholim
does not receive Government subsidies or
municipal grants.
A bi-weekly broadcast in Yiddish, to be
beamed for overseas, will be inaugurated by
the Central Committee of Polish Jews and the
Union of Jewish Writers, Actors and Artists
recently formed in Lublin. Broadcasts in He-
brew, to be beamed at Palestine, are also
planned. The broadcast's aim is to inform Jews
abroad on the social, cultural and economic
life of Polish Jewry, and to try to unite rela-
tives torn assunder by the war.
The heroism of Jewish soldiers with the
Polish forces battling for Warsaw was stressed
in an editorial in the Polish newspaper Rzecz-
postpolita titled "Valor of Polish Soldiers."
Roosevelt Extends
Greetings to NRS
Conference in N. Y.
RUSSEKS
14I8 WOODWARD AVENUE
NEW YORK — Declaring that
the "satisfying adjustments made
by many refugees who have been
admitted to our country in recent
years are an encouraging de-
monstration of the essential
soundness of our policy of asy-
lum to those oppressed for rea-
sons of race, religion or political
belief," President Roosevelt this
week extended his greetings to
the annual conference of the Na-
tional Refugee Service, to be
held this Sunday at Hotel Com-
modore.
In a letter to Charles A. Rie-
gelman, president of NRS, the
President wrote: "Among them
(the refugees) are many who
have joined our armed forces,
and many scholars, scientists and
professional people who have
made substantial contributions to
the war effort."
Stating that the "National Re-
fugee Service has helped to fa-
cilitate these adjustments and
has thus enriched the commun-
ity life of the nation," the Presi-
dent's letter went on to say that
"these invaluable services should
be continued so long as they may
be required."
Work of Refugees,
NRS told in Film
Working in cooperation with
the National Refugee Service,
RKO Studios have released for
nation-wide distribution a two-
reel film dealing with the ad-
justment of refugees in the U. S.
Entitled "New Americans" and
featured in the widely-acclaimed
"This Is America" series, the film
tells the story of the 300,000
newcomers who found refuge, se-
UNRRA 'Lends' Aides To JDC For Relief Work
curity and happiness in the past
LONDON, (JTA)—The United Nations Relief and Rehabilita- decade.
n Administration has • agreed to release, temporarily, a number
"New Americans" describes the
its staff members to work for the Joint Distribution Committee
France, Italy and in the liberated Balkan countries, it was re- progressive stages in the adjust-
rted here by Dr. Joseph - Schwartz, European director of the ment of a typical refugee. The
C, upon his arrival here to confer on the establishment of JDC service of the NRS, mentioned
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'flees in Romania and Bulgaria.
often in the film, are described
in various sequences. One o
the most interesting scenes in
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the picture is that of Dr. Rich-
ard Adler, a former Viennese
specialist, delivering a baby in
Do you know when the first hospital was establish-
the Kentucky rural community
ed in the Western Hemisphere?
he now serves.
Do you know when the first hospital in the United
Except for the actor who plays
States was founded?
the part of the typical refugee,
Do you know when and where the first Jewish
Johann Lang, the cast is made
Hospital in the United States was opened?
up entirely of refugees. It in-
cludes such notables as Nobel
These and many other questions regarding FIRSTS
prize winners Albert Einstein,
in Jewish and general medical service are answered in
Thomas Mann, Victor Hess and
the article on pag B.
James Franck.
le
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Some Hospital, Firsts
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