Friday, February 2, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Stalin Gets Appeal to Order
Commanders to Rescue Jews

World Jewish Congress Cables Russian Leader to Instruct
Army Chiefs to Use Any Means in Rescuing Survivors
in Drive .on Germany; Thousands Liberated

NEW YORK, (JTA)—An appeal to Marshal Stalin of Russia
wls cabled by the World Jewish Congress, "as spokesmen of world
Jewry." asking him to "instruct all commanders in the field of
operations to use any means of psychological or military warfare
in rescuing any remnants of European Jewry" that they may dis-
cover in their military advances in Germany.
The cable, signed by Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.. Nahum Gold-
mann, also aksed for information leading to an estimate of the
number of Jews that Russia may have rescued already.

5,000 Found in Lodz; 5,000 Rescued in Czenstochowa
MOSCOW, (JTA)—Polish Ambassador Zygmont Modzelewski
this week told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that about 5,000 Jews
have been liberated in the city of Czenstochowa by the lightning
advance of the Russian Army. Most of them were working as slave
laborers for the Germans in local engineering works.
It also is reported here from Lublin that about 5,000 Jews were
found in Lodz by the Russian troops. Most of them were Jews
brought to Poland from other German-occupied countries.
A handful of Jews dared the German terror and lived a/tong
the ruins of. Warsaw until the liberation of the city enabled them
to emerge, the Polish Ambassador stated. He revealed that in the
liberated part of Poland east of the Vistula river—the section liber-
ated by the Russian Army prior to its present offensive—no more
than 500 Jewish children were found.

MacLeish. Reveals Steps Taken to Save Jews in Camps
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Assistant Secretary of State Archibald.
MacLeish, in a statement to the Jewish Labor Committee, empha-
sized that the U. S. is doing everything possible to minimize the
threats to the surviving Jews in occupied Europe and persistently
haS sought to induce the German government to grant to interned
Jews the status of civilian internees whose treatment is similar
to that of war prisoners.
The statement came in reply to an appeal sent by the Jewish
Labor Committee to the State Department urging that the U. S.
Government act at once to save the remnants of the Jewish people
interned in German concentration camps.

Germans Set Fire to Jewish Ghetto in Budapest
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—German troops set fire to the Jewish
ghetto in Budapest prior to retreating from that part of the city,
which is now in the hands of the Russian Army, it is reported here
by 'a refugee who fled from Budapest last week.
"Many Jews were burned alive," the eye-witness told the JTA.
"Other succeed in escaping. A considerable number who at-
tempted to get out of the burning ghetto were killed by the
Germans."

Nazis Left Few Jews in Lodz; Fear for Jews in Reich
STOCKHOLM. (JTA)—The Germans left few Jews in the
large Polish textile center of Lodz when they evacuated the city
recently, it was reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Stock-
'holm newspaper Tidningen.
There were many thousands of Jews in. the Lodz ghetto work-
ing in factories which produced clothing for the German army,
the correspondent says.

Resolution Calls for Jews at Peace Conference
ALBANY, N. Y. (JPS)—A resolution calling on President
Roosevelt and Secretary of State, Stettinius to include a repre-
sentative of the Jewish people at the peace table, "in the interest
of a free and independent Palestine," was introduced to the State
Legislature by Assemblyman Philip J. Schupler of Kings county.
If the Jews of America would show an intensity of feeling
about Palestine, the British government would abrogate the White
Paper barring Jewish immigration into Palestine." Mr. Schupler
said.
"The British must sit down and talk the Palestine question
over with Jewish representatives or else they will be inviting
more violence."

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Among 40 high-school seniors selected from
15,000 entrants from all over the country to
compete for the Westinghouse science scholar-
ships, are six Jewish students from New York
State. The winners, one boy and one girl, will
each receive a $2,400 Westinghouse grand sci-
ence • scholarship.
The Maastricht Synagogue, looted and
badly damaged by the Germans before the
town waq liberated, will be restored by, a spe-
cial fund contributed to by the citizens of
Maastricht, the Netherland newspaper Veritas
reports, according to an Aneta dispatch from
Maastrich t.
If "pro - Communist news commentators
preaching the 'line' over New York station"
are not excluded by •radio networks, "then
there will be no excuse to exclude from the air
such clever and dangerous exhorters of the
other extreme as Gerald (L.K.) Smith and
Father Coughlin." Westbrook Pegler, King
Features Syndicate columnist asserts. "Even
avowed Fascists and believers in the Nazi sys-
tena'have as much right to the air" as the Com-
munists, Mr. Pegler writes.
An emergency relief grant of $50,000 was
made by the American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, to official Jewish community
organizations in Sofia and other Bulgarian
cities, it was announced by Joseph C. Hyman,
executive vice-chairman of the J.D.C., who
stressed that, in view of the desperate plight of
approximately 40,000 Bulgarian Jews, addition-.
al monthly grants would be forthcoming as in-
dicated by the needs and by the practical possi-
bilities of bringing in help. .
An order by the Argentine Government, re-
leasing local manufacturers from obligations to
produce fixed quantities of newsprint for pub-.
lications unable to obtain imported newsprint,
was regarded in Buenos Aires as a blow at the
pro-Nazi newspapers El Cabildo, Federal and
other publications on the Allied blacklist. Pub-
lication of El Cabildo has been suspended for
some time. The nationalist organ LaFronda,
however, still appears in high grade imported
print, indicating a black market in newsprint.
Judge Samuel Rosenman, special advisor to
President Roosevelt, is enroute to Europe to
survey economic conditions and the flow of
civilian goods, Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early disclosed.
A "Black Book of the Children," exposing
German torture and mistreatment of Jewish
refugee children, compiled verbatim from the
case histories of thousands of children arriving
in Palestine from lands occupied by the Ger-
mans, will be issued soon by Hadassah, Wom-
en's Zionist Organization of America, it was
announced at the annual mid-winter meeting
of the national board of Hadassah in New
York.
Among the various newspapers, ranging
"from typographically handsome weeklies to
small mimeographed sheets," issued by refugee
grouPs in Sweden, a new publication has re-
cently taken its place, a German - language
weekly issued by Jewish Socialists and con-
taining "news about Palestine and the Jewish
question," according to a Stockholm dispatch
released in • New York by the American- Swed-
ish News Exchange,

PALESTINE

A Memorial Scholarship Fund of $10,000 et
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been
established by Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, of New

York, in memory of his son, Robert Moses, a
medical student at Columbia University who
died suddenly last February. Several friends
of Dr. Wechsler and his son have pledged an
additional $15,000. Dr. Wechsler is a noted
Zionist and one of the leading neurologists
in the United States.
Moshe Shertok, chief of the political de-
partment of the Jewish Agency, left for a
short visit to Egypt, to confer with British
officials.
Sixty thousand persons are at present em-
ployed in Jewish industry and craftsmanship
in Jewish Palestine, of whom 50,000, both men
and women, are in factories and industrial
establishments, according to a report of the
Palestine Manufacturers Association.
The launching of plans for the development
of the Tiberias hot springs, to replace the
German resorts of Aachen and Weisbaden, has
been put on the priority list of Jewish Pales-
tine's postwar prbjects. At present the Tiberiag
hot springs. are visited by some 1,500 people
daily during the season from November to
April,
A rest-home has been completed at KVA
Samuel, hillside suburb of Tiberias, for the
use of the needy who must take the healing
waters of the hot springs here but cannot
afford high hotel fees.
Only 2.8 Jews remain of the 3,000 who lived
in Rhodes, principal island of the Dodecanese
grout, in the Aegean, before the war, accord-
ing to word reaching Jewish communal lead-
ers in Istanbul and relayed here. The /lazis
transported most of the Jews several months
ago to an unknown destination.
A total of 2,200 new dwellings, to accomo-
date refugees recently arrived in Palestine,
will shortly be erected by Shikhun, Housing
Corporation of the Histadruth, Jewish Pales-
tine's Federation of Labor, with the coopera-
tion of the Jewish Agency.
Over 200 Jews, including Palestinians and
South and Central Americans, are included
in a large group of British and American war
prisoners recently exchanged for German in,•
ternees in Allied countries.
To alleviate the housing shortage and pro-
vide homes for newcomers, the Tel Aviv
Municipal Council announced the launching
of construction projects' costing 400,000 pounds
($1,600,000), excluding the price of land.
Relics consisting of various implements be -.
lieved to have been used by Stone Age man
approximately twenty thousand years ago,
were discovered, by chance, by hikers near
T'zofit, Moshav Sharon. The scientific import-
ance of the discovery was established by a
Hebrew University representative, who ex-
amined the findings.

OVERSEAS

The Cairo Arab Women's conference has
proposed a fun4 to purchase and hold in
trust Palestine %nd, now in Arab hands, to
prevent it from being sold to non-Arabs.
The fund is to be modeled after the Keren
Kayemeth, Jewish National Fund.
Seven hundred war criminals, including
Adolf Hitler, the entire Nazi Government, all
German military leaders and 299 guards of
German concentration camps, have been listed
by the United Nations War Crimes Commis-
sion, according to the Czechoslovak Govern-
ment's new weekly, newspaper "Czechoslo-
vak," published in London.

French Protestant
Woman Bequeaths
Fortune to the JDC

PARIS, (JTA)—A fortune has
been bequeathed by an Austrian
• woman of the Protestant faith to
the Joint Distribution Committee
to be used to aid Austrian Jews.
Officials of the probate court
of the Alpes-Maritime depart-
. ment notified the Paris office
of the JDC of the bequest, made
by Mmle. Marie Louise Wollner-
. Hofteufel, who died in a sana-
torium at Vance on May 15, 1944.
In explaining her reason for be-
queathing her estate for Jewish
relief, she declared "I have
taken the decision to leave my
fortune for the aid of these who
I feel are the poorest among the
poor because they are persecuted
for their faith."
JDC officials here were sur-
prised by notification of the be-
quest,. since to their knowledge,
Mmle. Hofteufel had never had
any contact with the relief or-
ganization. They said that on
the basis of the executor's re-
port, the estate was valued at
between two and three million
francs, principally in cash, jew-
elry and personal effects in
France, and jewelry and cash in
both Swiss and New York
banks.

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Zionists In Greece Ask
600 Palestine Certificates
ATHENS. (JTA)—The newly
reorganized Zionist Organization
of Greece has appealed to the
Jewish Agency for 600 Palestine
immigration certificates, it was
learned here. If the visas are
granted they will be given to des-
titute young Jewish girls and to
children whose parents were de-
ported by the Germans.

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