Friday, April 6, 1945

Servicemen, Freed Jewries
Celebrate Passover Feast

Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondents Report
Thrilling Experiences; Some of the Sedorim Held
in Historic Meeting Places

, (Compiled from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

from All Fronts)
Cabled dispatches received from Jewish Telegraphic Agency
correspondents on all war fronts describe interesting details of the
manner in which Jewish servicemen observed Passover, under su-
pervision of the National Jewish Welfare Board, in many instances
providing facilities for observance of the Festival of Freedom for
the first time since the outbreak of the war by liberated Jewish
Communities.
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Meyer Levin, JTA. correspondent with the U. S. forces in Ger-
many, describes Passover observances in Frankfort, Cologne and
Trier and declares that "of all the Sedorim held along this front
the choicest location was the Breesen Hotel in Bad.-Godesberg,
where Chaplain Sidney Lefkowita of Richmond, Va., presided over
the feast and religious services in the conference room where Hitler
conferred with British Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938, a
few weeks before the Munich Pact was signed."
Mr. Levin estimates that at least two-thirds of the Jewish
soldiers had an opportunity to participate in the Passover cele-
brations.
Many Americans-were among the hundreds of Jewish soldiers
of the Allied armies in the Middle East who poured into Palestine
on Passover furloughs. Special prayers were ordered recited by
the Chief Rabbinate for the Jewish Brigade. which is now fighting
on the Italian front.
Pat Frank, JTA correspondent in Italy, reports that 40,000
Jewish soldiers of the Allied armies celebrated Passover in Italy
and describes a large service in Rome where -Palestine matzos and
Rishon leZion wines were used.
Services in Moscow, Paris, Bucharest
From Moscow, John Myers, JTA correspondent, reports that
the Moscow synagogue was crowded with civilians and servicemen
during Passover services.
In Paris, American soldiers celebrated Passover in the former
German Soldiers' Club. Maj. Judah Naidich of Baltimore officiated.
In Bucharest, Jewish members of the American and British
military missions in Romania were guests at a Seder at the home
of Chief Rabbi Alexander Shafran. A Bucharest report also states
that more than 2,000 Jewish survivors from the notorious Oswiecim
concentration camp celebrated Passover in their home towns in
Northern Transylvania.
A London report states that the Jews in England provided
Passover food for Turkish Jews liberated from Germany.
In his report from the sector occupied by the 5th Infantry
Division opposite Frankfort, Meyer Levin reports that a captured
German officer. a guest at the Seder, stated that no Jews remain
in Frankfort but that some may be found in hideouts.
Among the Detroit Chaplains who officiated at servicemen's
Passover celebrations were Rabbis Morris Adler and Albert Gordon,
somewhere 'in the Philippines.

THE 7EWISPI NEWS

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Anti-discrimination bills, similar to the
Ives-Quinn Bill, which was passed in New
York, outlawing racial and religious discrim-
ination in employment, have been introduced
into the legislatures of Wisconsin and Rhode
Island, bringing to 13 the number of states now
considering anti-bias measures, including Mich-.
igan.
The trial of the former German governor
of Warsaw, Fischer, will be held soon in Ot-
wock, Polpress reports from Warsaw. Fischer
was responsible for the mass slaughter of the
Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. Other German war
criminals arrested by the Palskie Wojsko . (Pol-
ish Army) are to be placed on trial at the
same time.

of
The Associated Press photograph
marines raising the U. S. flag on top of Mount
Surabachi on Iwo Jima, taken by Joe Rosen-
thal, AP photographer who followed the ma-
rines up the side of the 560 foot volcano, has
been chosen the official symbol of the Seventh
War Loan drive, the Treasury Department an-
nounced. Rosenthal, rejected for military duty
for medical reasons, participated as corres-
pondent in the invasions of Tinian and Guam.
Walter Winchell charged that a former
British fascist, Maj. Gen. John Frederick Ful-
ler, "is now listed as the, associate of a New
York magazine." Winchell did not mention
the magazine, but the name of Maj. Gen. Fuller
is in Newsweek's masthead.

(SEE ALSO PAGE 15)

Conference Asks Post-War
`Security Charter' for Jews

Delegation Headed by Louis Lipsky Submits Memorandum
to State Dept., Urging Hearing at 'Frisco Parley;
5-Point Program Outlined

(Special Wire to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—An American Jewish Conference dele-
gation headed by Louis Lipsky on Monday submitted a memoran-
dum to the State Department urging that Jews be granted a hearing
at San Francisco and outlining a postwar "security charter" for
Jews which would:
1. Contain an International Bill of Rights.
2. Restore civil political rights to Jews in Europe.
3. Speed reconstruction of Palestine as the Jewish Common-
wealth.
4. Undertake measures for rehabilitation and resettlement of
Jews in liberated countries and for the restoration of property con-
fiscated by Germans and their collaborators.
5. Punish those responsible for anti-Jewish war crimes.
The Palestine question as such will not be considered at the
meeting of the Big Five which the State Department has suggested
,should be called two weeks prior to the San Francisco conference
for the purpose of discussing the mandates question, the JTA learns.

The JDC Brings them to Safety

GIVE YOUR
Used Clothing

Help Our Allied Neighbors

Detroit's goal is 10 million pounds of good usablO
clothing, bedding, and shoes for our neighbors
in war-torn lands.
Lack of clothing has caused as • many death
from exposure as starvation in the war zones.
There, 145,000,000 liberated people look to US
to help them to help themselves. Give your used
'clothing now. Search out everything you and
your family can spare that they can wear.

GIVE

clothing for
War Relief

Where To Take
Your Gifts

Collection depots or drop-in bins
for your contributions are located
in public buildings, theater s,
stores and gas stations as well as
schools, police and fire stations.

Published on behalf of the United National Clothini
Collection by

Safe at last, this Jewish refugee family, after years of flight
and terror, are en route to Palestine and a new life. They are
on board the good ship Nyassa, chartered by the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, the organization dedicated to relief, rescue and
rehabilitation of the million and a half surviving Jews of Europe.
The JDC has arranged transportation to Palestine and other
countries, provided funds for passage and maintenance en route
for thousands who have escaped Hitler's extermination squads.
This is a part of the program that is supported by the $46,570,000
campaign fund now being raised by American communities.

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