Friday, March 9, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Pige Sixteen

750,000 Jews In 15 Foreign Countries and 23 States
Liberated Europe Represented at Yeshivah College

Million in Europe Plan
To Emigrate to Palestine

$0,000 in Romania Reported Registered for Transfer to
Homeland, While 80% of 310,000 There Are Reported
Planning to Move, Dobkin Tells Histadrut Conference

TEL AVIV . (JPS-Palcor)—Setting at between 1,000,000
and 1,225,000 the number of Jews in Europe that will choose
Palestine as the scene of their postwar future, Eliahu Dob-
kin, deputy member of the Jewish Agency Executive in
charge of immigration, declared here that in Romania alone
.50,000 Jews have registered for immigration to Palestine,

"and tens of thousands of others
are clamoring for registration."
-faced by the suspension of im-
An emissary from Romania re- migration. Half of the last 10,300
ports that at least 80 per cent of Palestine certificates permitted
the 310,000 Jews remaining in under the White Paper have been
Romania are prepared to go to used up and the second half have
Palestine if and when their exit, already been distributed. This
transit. and admission are ar- fact should be known to every
ranged, Dobkin told the sixth true friend of the JewS.
conference of the Histadrut.
"We cannot wait for the end
The Jewish remnants in Tran-
of hostilities for a final political
sylvania will require immediate
emigration, and the majority of decision regarding the future of
Palestine. To be able to bring
Bulgarian Jewry has unequivoc-
these masses to Palestine, we de-
ally expressed its demand for
Palestine immigration as "the mand: (1) means of transport in
order to replace the few craft
only solution to its problem, des-
which we previously had at our
pite obstruction by Jewish Com-
disposition, but which have eith-
munists." Reports coming in
er been sunk or commandeered
from all the liberated areas, and, for the war. effort; (2) that the
clandestinely, from occupied Eu-
Allied powers guarantee exit and
rope reveal that "this clamor is
transit for Jews wishing to set-
everywhere," Dobkin said.
tle in Palestine; (3) material aid
Others Look to Palestine
from international and inter-
"An American .-emissary who
governmental funds for transfer-
has returned from France declar-
ring the immigrants and absorb-
ed that a large part of the 180,000
ing them in Palestine; (4) per-
'Jews in France want to emigrate
to Palestine. These -reports also mission to send delegates from
Palestine to all parts of the dia-
eminate from Belgium, Greece,
spora."
Yugoslavia, Italy and Poland."
Striking was Dobkin's state-
ment that "the desire for settling
in Palestine is beginning to deve-
lop also among the Russo-Jewish
community with whom contact
has been virtually non-existent
for the past two decades. This
engulfing movement for settle-
ment in Palestine," he said, "is
•
especially interesting in view of
the fact that only three per cent
of Europe's . Jews came to Pales-
tine in the 25 years between the
two world wars."
Although European Jewry is
not the center of attention, Jew-
ish groups in other countries
should not be overlooked, he
warned. While. the position of
the Jewish communities in Tur-
keY, Yemen and Iraq was not
comparable to that of the Jews
of POland and the Balkans, nev-
ertheleSs erriigration was a vital
necessity -for 800-00 Jews living
in the Middle. Eastern countries.
Two Primary Facts
Quoting. reports from Europe,
"which have been checked and
rechecked by the Jewish Agency,"
Dobkin said that they establish
two primary facts: (a). that most
of , the surviving Jews are ex-
hausted from starvation, devoid
of means of subsistence and re-
quire food, medical aid and
Clothing, and (b). that. despite
all declarations and promises by
the new democratic governments,
no practical prospects are offer-
ed for restoring to them their
property, livelihood and normal,
economic existence. The danger
of extinction still confronts
Europe's survivors, he said.
--5,150 Certificates Left
"In. contrast to these bitter
needs," said Dobkin, "we are now

Elihu Dobkin of Jewish
Agency Estimates 1,000,000
Europen Jews Survive

JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor)—
The number of Jews in liberated
Europe totals 750,000, according
to a report submitted by Eliahu
Dobkin, in charge of the Jewish
Agency's rescue activities, to the
Zionist conference held here un-
der the auspices of the Keren.
Hayesod, Palestine Foundation
Fund.
He estimated that outside of
Russia and England, a maximum
of 1,000,000 Jews will have sus-
vived in Europe by the end of
the war. Of the liberated Jews,
there are 310,000 Jews in Ro-
mania, 180,000 in France, 45,000
in Bulgaria, 10,000 in Greece,
20,000 in Poland, 25,000 in Italy,
22,000 in Belgium, and 100,000
in Switzerland, Sweden, Britain
and other countries.
The number of Jewish casual-
ties in this war has been 20-fold
those suffered by the British
Empire On the battlefields, ac-
cording to official figures just
published by the British Gov-
ernment, he said, adding: "The
survivors are a great camp of
paupers, with Palestine their
only hope." In France alone
there are 15,000 orphans who
must be admitted into Palestine.

Give to the Red Cross

DR. SAMUEL BELKIN, president of Yeshiva College, New
York, presenting a Latin-American scholarship to NAFTOLE
GERUD, first student from Maracaibo, Venezuela.

NEW YORK—Fifteen foreign college dormitory and are being
countries in North America, assisted by ,scholarships.
South America, Europe and Asia, New York leads with 620 stu-
and 23 states in the U. S. are dents, followed by New Jersey,
represented among the student Pennsylvania, and Massachus-
body of the Yeshivah and Yeshi- setts. From California with five
vah College, a survey conducted students to Maine with two
at the college revealed. states, in all parts of the country
Canada, with 18 students, has have enrolled residents at the in-
the largest number from a single stitution. Other states are: Con-
country. Many of those coming necticut, Delaware, Florida,
from foreign countries have ar- Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana,
rived from Nazi territory within Maine, Maryland, Michigan,
the past two years and whose Minnesota, Missouri, New MexiCo,
parents and nearest relatives fell Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Wash-
victims of the Nazi terror. These ington, West Virginia and Wis-
students now are living in the consin.

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JTA Reopens
Office in Paris

PARIS, (JTA)—The offices of
the' Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
closed since the occupation of
Paris by the Germans, re-opened
last week resuming the distribu-
Alton of Jewish news in the
French language to newspapers,
institutions and individuals.
Jewish leaders here, after
being 'isolated from the rest of
the Jewish world for more than
four years, hailed the restiMp-
ton of the JTA service which
includes fh e publication i n
Paris of a daily, news bulletin
reporting on JeWish life all
over the world. The bulletin will
also reach Jews in Belgium,
Holland, and other liberated ter-
ritories.
The office of the JTA in Paris
had been in existence for more
than 20 years,.and it was among
the first offices ransacked by
the Gestapo immediately after
the occupation of the city.

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