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THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOL. 6—NO. 19
2114 Penobscot Bldg.
RA. 7956
of Jewish Events
Detroit 26, Michigan, January 26, 1945
34 44W14. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c
Jewish Hospital Leaders Meet
Sunday to Set Drive in Motion
Russians Erasing Tragedies in Poland Confer at Center to Make
Organizational Plans to
Speed Fund Campaign
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Another great step forward toward the realiza-
tion of the 45-year-old community dream of a modern
Jewish Hospital for Detroit will be taken Sunday
morning, Jan. 28, at 11 o'clock, at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, when workers of the Jewish Hospi-
tal Association will make organizational plans for
completing the building campaign.
Max Osnos, general chairman of the project, has
announced that Irving W. Blumberg and Gus D. New-
man will head the trades organization units of the
proposed campaign and that actual solicitation for
this part of the drive will get under way the follow-
ing week.
Meanwhile, Sidney J. Allen, as chairman of ad-
vance gifts, has been busy organizing sentiment and
support among a selected group of potential contri-
butors and his committee has reported excellent pro-
gress.
Another group, under the personal direction of
Mr. Osnos, undertook as far back as last August to
develop a favorable community atmosphere for the
hospital idea and met with an enthusiastic response.
A provisional committee of 12 under the chair-
manship of Mr. Osnos, and also including Messrs. Al-
len and Blumberg, has been Serving as a . campaign
executive committee. • Other members of this com-
mittee are Maurice Aronsson, Fred M. Butzel, Irwin
I. Cohn, Israel Davidson, Harry Frank, Leo Siegel,
Abraham Srere, Frank A. Wetsman and Henry Wine-
man.
The trades organization section of the campaign,
patterned after the Detroit Service Group organiza-
tion of the Allied Jewish Campaign, will have seven
major divisions, mercantile, service s, mechanical
trades, building trades, food products, p r ofessional
and arts and crafts.
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Jei47s Arrested in Greece
In `White Terror' Reign
By CONSTANTINE POULOS
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency War Correspondent)
y
IBERATION by the Russian arm-
ies of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow and
scores of other Polish cities finds the
Jewish communities destroyed, with
only a handful of survivors.
The recapture of Warsaw from the
Nazis serves to recall the tragic events
which marked the enslavement of the
Polish Jewish communities, as well as
the heroic battle that was wage'd against
Nazism by the Jewish heroes in the
Warsaw ghetto.
The lower photograph shows how
aged Jews were forced by the Nazis to
build shelters for civilians in the suburbs
of Warsaw.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews who
have escaped from Nazism are being
—J.D.C. Photos
provided for by the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee in Russia,
in the Lublin area, in Africa, and wher-
ever Jews could be settled.
In the center of the upper photo-.
graph, Jews are shown continuing their
fight for survival behind ghetto walls.
The other photographs show how . JDC,
one of the agencies of the United Jewish
Appeal, carried on the work of providin. g
self-help for 600,000 Polish refugees in
Asiatic Russia and how this great agen-
cy, which obtains its support in Detroit
from the Allied Jewish Campaign,
through the War Chest, relieves Jewish
distress, by financing child care, feeding,
vocational training, medical aid and
economic assistance.
ATHENS, (JTA)—Once again Greek Jews are paying
a heavy price for being Jews. Hounded and persecuted by
the Nazis for almost four years, 5,000 Greek Jews who
managed to save their lives are again being- hunted down,
arrested; mistreated and in some cases, deported.
In November, 1943, the SS leader, Gen. Von Stroop,
applied the Nazi racial laws to Greece. The older Jews
hid in the homes of Athenian Greeks. Those young Jews
who had not already gone to the mountains skipped out
with Chief Rabbi Barzilai to free Greece, and joined the
ELAS Guerilla forces in the resistance movement against
the Gertnans.
After the German withdrawal from Greece last Octo-
ber, those young men were granted leave by the ELAS
and returned to Athens to find what was left of their
families, and to attempt to reorganize their lives. The
older people came out of hiding to find their homes
plundered by Nazis and their Greek collaborators, and all
their business enterprises in the hands of Quislings and
their friends. At the time the trouble broke out early list
month, Greek Jews had been pressing the Greek authori-
ties to- take the necessary legal measures for the return
of their properties.
Now that the "white • terror" is on, these Quislings are
usg a made-to-order pretext in an attempt to hold down
their illegal gains, and they are condemning all Jews as
EAM sympathizers or as ELAS "conspirators."
Even though young Greek Jews had belonged to the
mountain units of ELAS, and thus could not have taken any
part in the Athens battle, they are being denounced by
these Greek Quislings and fascists, arrested and deported
to Africa.
Older members of the Jewish community here who
had not been troubled are now without any protection,
support or aid. The International Red Cross has helped a
few of the poorest with some food and old • clothing. It is
estimated that there are 1,250 families here in a serious
state, unable to get shelter. clothing or food.