Friday Mayo, 1945
600,000 Hungarian Jews
Reported Slain by Nazis
Attache of Swedish Legation Charges Germans Liquidated
Two-Thirds of Jewish Population During Occupation;
11,500 Romanian Internees Repatriated
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—Six-hundred .thousand of Hungary's
9(30.000 Jews were killed during the - German occupation of the
country, according to a statement by. an attache of the Swedish lega-
tion in Budapest published in Stockholm newspapers. Not all
were sent to Germany. to die, he Said,'reporting that it was a corn-
mon. sight to see Jews undressed- on the embankments of the
Danube, shot and thrown into the river.
11,500 Romanian Jews Repatriated From • Ukraine
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—More than :11,500 Romanian. Jews have
been repatriated from the sections of: the Soviet Ukraine to which
they were deported • during the German domination of Romania.
it was .disclosed here. It also was announced that an additional
450 Transylvanian Jews who were • among the survivors- at the
Oswiecim death camp in Poland have returned home.
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the.
Jewish Agency • for Palestine, was hailed a
"great leader in science and a great leader
of his people in the worst days since their
captivity in Egypt," by Adolph Berle, United
States Ambassador to Brazil, who was guest
of honor and principle speaker at a banquet
in Rio de Janeiro in tribute to Dr. Weizmann,
sponsored by. the Brazilian Committee for the
Establishment in Palestine of a Dr. Chaim
Weizmann Scientific Institute.
A report of racial and religious intolerance
on the part of pupils. teachers and principals
inthe Wilmington, Del., public school system,
has been compiled by a committee of 10
Board of Education employes and presented
to Dr. W. H. Lemmer, superintendent of
Wilmington public schools.
PALESTINE
The Association of Polish Jews in Palestine
cabled greetings to the surviving remnants
of Polish Jewry on the occasion of the second
anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
"Unrestricted immigration" was the slogan
of a procession of labor youth who paraded
through the streets of Tel Aviv April 21.
OVERSEAS
An offer by the Jewish Defense Com-
mittee of Belgium to care for Jewish slave-
laborers freed by the Allies in former Ger-
man-occupied territories and in Germany, was
rejected by the Allied authorities on the
ground that all 'slave laborers will be repatri-
ated after a period of recuperation in camps
under Allied military control.
(See also, Page Fourteen)
Five Norwegian Jews At Buchenwald Believed Only Survivors
LONDON, (JTA)—A Swedish correspondent who has just
returned from Buchenwald told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that he met there five Norwegian Jews, who believe that they
are the. sole survivors of the more than 000 who were deported
from Norway in November, 1942.
The survivors said that immediately after the deportations, the
Jews were divided into two groups. Those unable to work were
murdered while the able-bodied were kept at Oswiecim.
They were then loaded onto open trucks and sent to Buch-
enwald. Many died enroute from exposure. One of the five
said that he was slated for extermination, but was saved by the
arrival of the Allied troops.
It was reported that Eliezer Gruenbaum, a son of Isaac Gruen-
baum the Jewish Agency executive, is among the survivors found
at Buchenwald.
South African Government Urged To Send Group to Buchenwald
- JOHANNESBURG, (JTA)Government party deputies, shock-
ed by the disclosure of German atrocities at the Buchenwald and
other camps, suggested that a delegation of parliamentarians. in-
cluding several of the nationalist anti-war members be sent to
Germany to - inspect the camps.. One member urging this said
that "that is the only way in which anti-war elements in South
Africa can be shown how their 'friends' have shocked the world."
Jew Who Led Liberation in Bologna Believed Killed by Nazis
BOLOGNA. (JTA)—Mario Jacchia, a Jewish lawyer who head-
ed the Committee of National Liberation in Bologna, was abducted
and probably killed by Mussolini's Black Brigades last October, it
was learned this week.
Mario Vistoli, an anti-fascist lawyer who was in hiding here
until the city was liberated, told the correspondent that Jacchia,
who was famous throughout all Italy, vanished last October. In
November, the Black Brigade announced he had been captured
and taken to Germany.
Paris Court Decrees Death
For 2 Who Betrayed Jews
Jewish Internee at Drancy Concentration Camp Ordered
to Die for Helping Gestapo; Woman Also to Pay
for Denouncing Jewess to Nazis
PARIS, (JTA)--A special court this week sentenced to death
Silvain Baur, a.Jewish internee at the Drancy concentration. camp;
two helped the- Gestapo and the Vichy militia arrest and loot Jews.
Baur is . alleged to have made 100,000 francs monthly; which was
supplemented by fees' of 500:000 francs, each, which he received
for promising to arrange the liberatiOn of internees who paid their
money and then were deported.
The death sentence . also, was imposed upon Virginia Gireux, a .
Paris concierge, who denounced to the Gestapo a Jewish tenant
named Madame Ryteska, •.whose furniture she had stolen. The
Jewish woman was deported by the Germans..
Relief for Jews- in the recent liberated sections of northerh
Italy has already begun, Dr. Joseph Schwartz. European director
of the Joint Distribution Committee, disclosed here. He said that
a JDC representative 'followed the Allied armies into Bologna
and is now proceeding to Ferrara. Dr. Schwartz said that he is
negotiating with the authorities to send JDC workers into Germany
as soon as possible. He announced that $85,000 has been appro-
priated for relief in liberated Holland.
Five hundred Jewish Boy Scouts were greeted by enthusiastic
cheering as they marched down the Charms Elysees in a parade of
35,000 scouts, which was. reviewed by Lady Baden-Powell, widow
of the founder of the scout . movement, and Gen. Pierre Koenig.
The Jewish scouts, headed by Capt. Robert Gamzon, rescued
2,000 children during the German occupation, issued 25,000 false
identification papers and . formed a Jewish Maquis unit which lost
40 killed and 80 captured and deported in battles with the Germans.
Shertock Charges Salonica
Retains Anti - Jewish Laws
German Edicts Providing for Expropriation of Jewish-
Owned Property Still in •Force; Says Greek Premier
Plans to inves+igafe; Tells of Visit to Brigade
TEL-AVIV, (JTA)—German anti-Jewish laws, providing for
the expropriation of Jewish-owned property, are still in force in
Salonica, Moshe .Shertek, political chief of the Jewish Agency, re-
vealed here this week.
Shertok said that an interview with Premier Petros Voulgaris
he was promised that the governmment would look into the mat-
ter. The Agency's political head disclosed that he also has urged
the Greek premier to facilitate the emmigration to Palestine of
Jews, especially children.
While in Rome, following his visit to the Jewish Brigade,
Shertok was received by the Pope, to whom he expressed Pales-.
tine Jewry's appreciation of the assistance given Jews by the church.
Shertok said that he knew "of no happier community" than the
Jewish Brigade. "Although they are fighting. and being killed,"
he continued, ."they .know that before them are the graves of 5,000,--
000 murdered Jews and behind them are the eyes of the United
Nations and world Jewry."
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