THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 30, •1945
Nazis Free 1,000 More Jews
From Concentration Camps
'Orthodox Rabbis Union Denies Himmler's Release of 1,700
from Theresiensfadt was "Bought"; Jewish Congress .
Reveals Red Cross Rescue Mission in Reich
LONDON (..TTA)—Another contingent of Jews releaSed
from German "66.ticentration camps consisting of about
1,:000 persons—is expected to arrive in Geneva early this
week, it is reported by Reuter's.
• It was learned here that a group of 137 . Jews, the ma-
jority of them holders of Turkish passports, are included in
—
.
the transport of 700 Allied na-€)
tionals which is expected to ar- leased are not used as fcrced
rive in Sweden this week from laborers. -MeanN5ihile; • the allied
Germany.
military powers have. •cobs.-nted
The group will -proceed to to feed • political pritoners and
Turkey by way of Lisbon. It is Jews."
composed of 99 - Jews released
Few Jews Left :There
from the Beigenbelzen camp, 32
Dr. Kubowitzki disclosed that
from the Ravensbruck camp and
six from Theresienstadt. They only a few Jews are left in
were exchanged for German na- Theresienstadt, but attributed it
to the fact that 23‘000 were
tionals. •
transferred to forced labor last
fall. The camp now contains
Theresienstadt Jews Freed
50,000 BritiSh war prisoners.
Gratuitously, Rabbis State
An appeal by Dr. Kubowitzki
MONTERUX (JPS-Palcor) —
'to
the Belgian clergy to return
The following statement, report-
edly issued by the Union of Jewish children to their homes,
'Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. now that the need of asyium
and Canada and the Agudath and conceairn.pnt is past, -brought
Israel Organization, w a s pub- the response, • he said, to return
only those whose parents did not
' fished in the Swiss press:
consent to baptism f o r their •
"-Monsieur Musy (f o r m .e r children. In Belgium today there i
member of the Swiss Federal are 6,000 Jewish orphans and
Council, who negotiated with children separated from their:
Gestapo Chief Himmler the suc- families and '15;000 in France,
_ cessful release of 1,200 There- he said.
sienstadt ghetto internees) re-
• In the meantime the World
ceived from the Germans the
.assurance that interned Jews Jewish Congress, through its
would be liberated' for which, headquarters at 1834 Broadway,
Contrary to rumors, no idemni- announced that its British Sec-
tion in London has sent its sec-
fication was claimed.
The statement was issued in retary., Dr. Lev. Zelmanovits,
•denial of reports which appeared and treasurer, Ben Rubenstein,
in Swiss 'Socialist and other to the Stockholm office of the
newspapers that the release of Congress to facilitate and in-
. the Theresienstadt internees fol- crease the number of food par-
lowed payment of 4,00000 Swiss cels to Jews in' concentration
francs, that the Nazis failed -to camps. To date, the Congress
release 15,000 Jews; as originally - has sent -75,000 parcels to Ber-
agreed by Himmler in negotia- gen-Belsen, Thereenstadt and
tions with Musy, that Monsieur other German 'internment camps
Musy was a fascist, and that the
arrangement was an attempt by Abraham Meyerowitz
_ Germans to deceive public opin- To Speak at Habonim
ion into believing that the Ger-
Third Seder, April 1
man officials were "humane."
Red Cross Rescuing Jew;
From Nazi.. Camps en Trucks
NEW YORE Jewish internees
in German camps are being res-
cued through a unique plan de-
vised by Prof. Carl J. Bruck-
hardt, president . of the Inter-
national. Cominittee of the Red
CroSs, in Geneva; Switzerland, it
was , reported " by cable to the
World Jewish Congress by Dro
A. Leon 'Kubowitzki, head of
the rescues, departinent of the
Congress
He is in London after con-
ducting negotiations for the past
three months with Prof. • Burck-_
hardt and leaders of the lib-
erated governments of Europe.
Prof. Burckhardt has been re-
ported Conferring with the heads .
:a the German . Government . oaa
Allied prisoners and the fate of
Jews and other civilian deportees
in Germany.
Moved Out on Trucks
Dr. Kubowitzki reported that.
Prof. Burckhardt took a truck-
load of foodstuffs into the There-
sienstadt camp and, after empty-
ing the trucks, gained permis-
sion to - evacuate 1,210 interned
Jews and bring them to Swit-
zerland.
"The Red Cross is , trying this
way of rescuing internees in
Germany," Dr. Kubowitzki quot-
ed Prof. Burckhardt as saying,
"because Germany lacks the
transportation, facilities and is in
need of the space.
"The Nazis have therefore con-
sented , .in principle to release
civilian detainees of certain na-
tionalities, including Jewish citi-
zens belonging to certain na-
tionalities, so long as those re-
Abraham Meyerowitz will be
girt speaker at the Habonim'
labor Zionist youth annual third.
seder on Sunday, 8:30 p. m., at
the •Jewish Community Center:
A modern version of the Hag-
gadah, by Abraham COhen, will
be • 'read 'with a musical back-
,ground provided by the Habonim
choir.
Yiddish recitations will be of-
fered by • Doris Dornby . and
Eugene Mondry.
Sally Green and Renah La med
will play piano . solos and a duet
Call Myron Spatter, TO. 7-1427,
ki• tickets,, ::-which also may be
purchased at the "door.
.
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Hebrew U. Makes Capt. Freuchen, Noted Danish-Jewish
Post-War Plans Explorer, Describes Flight From Reich
Capt. Peter Freuchen, famous
Universi+y in Jerusalem Pre-
Danish-Jewish explorer who
paring to Extend its
1 I - lived for many years among the
Many Depa rtments
Eskimos, was married to an
Eskimo woman and became
known as "The Jewish Eskimo,"
had the distinction of being
smuggled out of German pris-
ons, thus rescuing his life.
His moving story. was told to
a Detroit audience last week,
and in the course of his address
he praised King Christian X of
Denmark as the man who had
done more to save Jews* than
any other man.
He was twice a' prisoner of
the Nazis in Danish prisons, but
he escaped. He was a marked
man—for his writings and his
speeches.
Capt. Freuchen told his De-
CAPT. PETER FREUCHEN
troit audience, at Women's City'
Club, that Danes refused to help . about 100 prominent Jews were
the Nazis set up a quisling gov-
ernment. He said that King given , "public funerals" and
Christian • sheltered the Jew,. were then smuggled out of
Prof. Warburg, and that he Denmark into.Sweden. He him-
helped save the 7,000 Danish self was shipped to Stockholm
Jews who escaped into Sweden.
DRAWING- SHOWING MAJOR The Nazis managed to capture after he escaped through the
VIEW OF HEBREW
2,000 Jews, of whom only 600 Danish Underground in a pack-
UNIVER:STTY
survive.
ing case marked "machine
According to Capt. Freuchen, parts.
On the eve of the 20th an-
niversary of the dedication of the
Hebrew University, which will
be celebrated on April 1, Jewish
leaaers view with pride the
miraculous achievements which
have been made during the span
of the university's existence.
Today the university boasts a
faculty of humanities, a faculty
of 'science and a pre-medical
faculty. Its post-war plans in-
clude a full medical faculty and
a school of economics and • social
sciences.
The faculty of humanities com-
prises -an Institute of Jewish
Studies, which has been de-
scribed • as "the heart of the
Hebrew University"; a Depart-,
ment of Education; a School of
Oriental Studies and departments
of Philosophy, History, Classics,
- Archaeology, English, French
-Civilization and Romance Phil-
o. The - latter are grouped
:under the head of General Hu-
for
inanities. The Department' of
Education collaborates with 'the
educational :authorities of the
Y i sh u v in supervising the
Hebrew secondary . schools _and
trains .secci•ndaty school teachers.
The aim of the School of Eco-
nomics .and Social Sciences will
be to train civil servants for
executive 'amid - administrative
ENDORSED BY DETROIT CITIZENS LEAGUE
poSts in the PaleStine ..goVern-
AND - ALL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
•ment and the national - -Jewish
institutions... •
I
JAMES D. FRIEL
PRESENT COUNTY AUDITOR
Overseas Veteran . Democrat
VOTE
MONDAY,
APRIL 2
JAMES. D. FRIEL
PRESENT COUNTY AUDITOR
nciorses
FOR HONEST EFFICIENT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT .
Larger. Welfare Cities
Confer in.Clevelarid
•NEW YORK—On the initiative
of several • of . the larger 'Welfare
fund Cities,.. members of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and' Welfare Funds, a conference
will be held in Cleveland this
week-end, to discuss the develop-
ment of inter-city cooperation
in fund raising and fund 'distribu-
tion.
The present conference • is
limited to a lay representative,
and the executive from . each of
the 15 largest welfare fund cities.
The plan for the conference
arose out of a recent meeting of
the executives from these cities
held receritly to consider mutual
problems resulting from the dis-
solution of. the United Jewish Ap7
peal.
RED CROSS + GIVE
E
Wayne County
Wayne
'County Auditor •
(I);
JAMES
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•
'(INCUMBENT)
WaYne count);,Circuit Court
JOHN V. BRENNAN
.116JMBENT) • - •
Detroit Recorder's Court
PAUL E. KRAUSE
,
iNCUMBENT)
GERALD - W. GROAT
(INCUMBENT)
Detroit Common Pleas. Court
ROBERT TEACrAN
ROBERT TEAGAN
Term Ending December 31, 1951
T HOMAS A. KENNEY
(INCUMBENT)
...Term Ending December 31, 1947
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High u, i ) C In missioner
GEORGE A. DINGMAN
(D)
Regents, U niversity of Michigan
WELSH (D) -
DR. 1. WALTER ORR (D)
EDWARP 'M.
State Roe rd of Education
DR. CARL 0. -SMITH (D)
Supt. of Public Instruction
E. BURR SHERWOOD (D)
State Board of Agriculture
GEORGE CABALL (D)
FRANK J. WIEGAND (D)
On Non-Partisan Ballot
fustices of the Supreme-Court
WALTER
NORTH (R)
RAYMOND W. STARR -(D)
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