Friday, April 27, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

1,620 From Bergen Belzon
Must Leave Switzerland

Refugees From Nazi Concentration Camp Face Transfer
to Algiers Immediately if Palestine Certificates Are Not
Forthcoming in Few Days, Agency Told

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Swiss government officially
has informed the Jewish Agency that if Palestine immigra-
tion certificates are not provided within a few days for 1,620
Jews from the German concentration camp in Bergen-Belzon
who were admitted temporarily to Switzerland, the entire
group will be asked to leave Switzerland for a refugee camp

in Algiers.
. The Swiss ultimatum was re-
vealed at a press conference by
Eliahu Dobkin, head • of the
Agency's immigration depart-
ment.
(In London, the Agudas Israel
Organization told the JTA that
German authorities have advised
former Swiss Councillor Jean
Mussy, who is attempting to se-
cure the release of imprisoned
Jews, that "a large number of
Jews" will be released from
Theresienstadt and permitted to
proceed to Switzerland.)
(Leaders of the Agudas Israel
added that they understood that
two trainloads of Jews are in
Germany ready to proceed to
Switzerland under an arrange-
ment reached between Mussy
and the Nazi authorities.)
Mr. Dobkin also told the press
conference that 1,000 dwelling
units are now being completed
in Palestine. Plans are being
prepared for the building of an-
other thousand units, he said.

Says Jewish Intellect Must
Be Rooted in Own Soil
LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — The
power and brilliance of Jewish
intellect must berooted in its an-
cestral soil and might be dan-
gerous when left completely up-
rooted, novelist J. B. Priestley
said at a meeting of the British
Association for a Jewish National
Home, held under the auspices
of the British Friends of the He-
brew University at which an
Arts Group was formed to foster
cultural relations between the
writers and artists in Britain
and Palestine.

British Officials Charged
With Withholding Help
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor) —
Destitute Jewish survivors in
Europe have been moved to in-
dignation by a statement made
by the Duke of Devonshire, Co-
lonial Undersecretary, that many
of Europe's Jews "would prob-
ably" prefer repatriation to re-
settlement in Palestine, Eliahu
Dobkin, in charge of the Jewish
Agency's Immigration Depart-
ment, declared at a press confer-
ence here.
-Replying to the Colonial Un-
dersecretary's assertion that ad-
ditional certificates for refugees
were not required because the
Jewish Agency has failed, to
date, to utilize the 10,300 certifi-
cates remaining under the White
Paper, Mr. Dobkin said that this
was due to transportation diffi-
culties and because the ‘.1vish
Agency and certificate holders
receive no aid from the author-
ities, which would facilitate im-
migration.
Recent reports from liberated
Hungary, Mr. Dobkin said, def-
initely confirm this tendency for
settlement in Palestine. An urg-
ent plea has been received from
Hungary . that 10,000 Jewish
orphans be immediately trans-
ferred from there to Palestine,
but the Jewish Agency, unfor-
tunately, has not a single immi-
gration certificate available for
them.

Hadassah Plans Expanded
Medical. Activities
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) —
A comprehensive report on the
plans of the American Hadassah
for extension of its work in Pal-
estine in the near future, which
included a description of Hadas-
sah's position in American Jewry,
was given by Dr. Haim Yassky,
director of Hadassah's Medical
Organization, at a press confer-
ence held here, April 11, follow-
ing his return from America.
Dr. Yassky stated that he went
to America after consultations
with the Health Department of
Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's
National Council, and the Kupat
Cholim, . Sick Benefit Fund, of
the Histadruth, for discussion

with Hadassah leaders as to the
numerous medical problems
which face post war Jewish
Palestine with the prospect of
mass immigration.
Dr. Yassky also announced an
agreement between Hadassah
and the American Friends of the
Hebrew University, for the pur-
pose of opening a faculty of
medicine at Mount Scopus. A
two-year campaign for $4,000,000
is planned for the purpose.

Hit Palestine Taxation
Without Representation
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) —
The charge of taxation without
representation was once more
raised in a discussion of the
Palestine government's fiscal
policy system and principles of
taxation, inflation and other
matters affecting the public
budget, at a meeting held under
the auspices of the Palestine
Economic .Society and Palestine
Rotary Clubs.

Bnai Brith Women
To Honor Roosevelt
With Hillel Library

NEW YORK—Creation of a
Four Freedoms Library as a
memorial to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was announced at the

annual meeting of the Women's
Supreme Council of Bnai Brith,
representing 60,000 women
throughout the country.
To be established in the new
national headquarters building of
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations at
the University of Illinois in
Champaign, Ill., the library will
serve as a permanent repository
for originals or copies of all doc-
uments and other material relat-
ing to the Four Freedoms.
Over the entrance to the Four
Freedoms Library will be in-
scribed Mr. Roosevelt's words—
"In essentials unity; in non-es-
sentials liberty; in all things
charity."

Page Nine

WRB Sends Food Gen. Clark to Visit
To Jews in Reich Palestine, He Says

Cohen Named Editor
Of Jewish Record

NEW YORK—Elliot E. Cohen
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A pro-
has been appointed editor of
the Contemporary Jewish Rec- gram for feeding Jewish intern-
ord, leading review of Jewish ees in labor and concentration
camps in Germany has been in-
itiated by the War Refugee
Board, through the efforts of its
executive director Brig. Gen.
William O'Dwyer, it was reveal-
ed here at a press conference of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee addressed by Moses A. Lea-
vitt, secretary of the organiza-
tion, and presided over by Jos-
eph C. Hyman, executive vice-
chairman.
The food will be brought into
Germany from neutral countries
on trucks by representatives of
the International Red Cross. The
JDC has been sending food to
Jewish internees in German
camps, Leavitt revealed. He re-
ported that according to the lat-
est information received by the
JDC there are about 140,000
Jews, mostly Hungarian, being
used by the Germans as slave
laborers in the Vienna regime.
ELLIOT E. COHEN
There are also about 10,000
thought and culture, according Jews in the Berganbelzen camp,
to an announcement by Joseph near Hanover. Many Jews are
M. Proskauer, president of the still interned in Eheresinstadt, he
American Jewish ,Committee, said.
which publishes the magazine.
The JDC is sending 60 tons of
Under Mr. Cohen's editorship,
food and clothing a week to Po-
it is planned to issue the maga-
lish Jews in the USSR, and in
zine as a monthly- under a new liberated Poland, in addition to
name, beginning in the fall. 10,000 parcels a month for indi-
Founded in 1938, the periodical
vidual Jews whose addresses are
heretofore has been published known, Leavitt reported. Par-
bi-monthly.
cels also are being sent by the
Mr. Cohen has been, since JDC to reconstituted Jewish
1936, the director of public re- communities in the liberated
lations of the Federation of Baltic countries and Poland for
Jewish Philanthropies of New distribution among local Jewish
York. Prior to that he was the families.
managing editor of the Menorah
It was disclosed that the JDC
Journal for eight years.
has spent $10,000,000 during the
first four months of this year
for relief for Jews abroad.

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200 Jewish Youths,
50 Adults Leave
France for Zion

NEW YORK (JTA)—A trans-
port of 200 Jewish children and
50 adults will leave France for
Palestine shortly, it was an-
nounced here by the HIAS on
the basis of a cabled report from
Dr. James Bernstein, its Euro-
pean director.
The transport of children was
scheduled to leave last week, but
the French ' Government refused
to allow emigration of those
originally selected because their
parents, who were deported by
the Germans, were of French na-
tionality and French law requires
parental consent before minors
may leave the country. This
difficulty has been overcome by
substituting children whose par-
ents were of various non-French
nationalities.
Interested groups plan to make
representations to the govern-
ment in an attempt to secure
permission for the eventual emi-
gration of the children originally
slated to be sent to Palestine.
Hias-Ica office in Paris is ar-
ranging transportation to Pales-
tine for a group of Jewish refu-
gees now in Switzerland, Dr.
Bernstein's report also disclosed.

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WITH THE JEWISH BRI-
GADE (Palcor)—Moshe Shertok,
Chief of the Political Depart-
ment of the Jewish Agency, was
received by Gen. Mark Clark,
Commander-in-Chief of the 15th
Army Group, and extended to
him an invitation to visit Jewish
Palestine "and see the back-
ground of the men comprising
the Jewish Brigade, operating
under your command."
"The General replied: "I give
myself a promise to go there
someday." Major Yadin Frumkin
was detailed in Allied Forces
Headquarters to conduct the
guests in a special car bearing
the Jewish Brigade emblem.

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More than 5,000 camp counsel-
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To qualify for camp positions
women must be 18 years of age
or over, men, 17 years or over.
Information on and applica-
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assistance of the Group Work
and Recreation Division of the
Detroit Council of Social Agen-
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and application blanks, contact
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Ave., COlumbia 1600.

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gets a 17-week reprieve from
LS/MFT after May 27 broadcast.

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