Friday, May H, 1945
New Austrian Government
Selects 3 Jewish Members
German-Jew, Liberated from Buchenwald, Named Lord
Mayor of Weimar by U. S. Military Governor; Only
Fraction of Jews Still Alive in Northern Italy
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The new Austrian . provisional govern-
ment headed by Dr. Karl Renner contains three Jews, Austrian
circles here pointed out. They said this is the first time that so
great a number of Jews were included in any Austrian cabinet.
The Jewish ministers are Dr. Adolph Sherf and Johann Kop-
lenig, two of the four secretaries of state without portfolio and
Ernst Fischer, minister of religion and education.
German Jew Named Mayor of Weimar by U. S. Authorities
LONDON, (JTA)—Professor "X", a Jew whose name cannot
be given for security reasons, has been named Lord Mayor of
Weimar, which adjoins the Buchenwald concentration camp from
which he was liberated a few days ago, the Daily Express reports.
The paper quotes the U. S. military governor of the area, • Maj.
William Brown, as stating that "We will try at least at Weimar to
found a new Germany based on freedom and peace. Weimar was the
seat of the post-World War I German constitutional assembly which
gave its name to the pre-Hitler republic."
The British Parlimentary delegation which recently visited
Buchenwald received while there an appeal from the Jewish aid
committee formed in the camp, urging them to allow Jews freed
from concentration camps to. enter Palestine.
The text of the letter reads: "Dear Sirs: You are visiting Ger-
man concentration camps. In the name of the Zionists left alive we
beg you to open the gates of Palestine and make it possible for these
people to live in a Jewish community.
Only Fraction of Jews In Northern Italy Still Alive
MILAN, (JTA)—Only a fraction of the pre war Jewish popula-
tion -in northern Italy is still alive, it was reported by Reuben
Resnik, Joint Distribution Committee representative in Italy, who
raced through the recently liberated cities with an artillery regi-
ment of the 34th Division.
Resnik 'said that he found that only 400 of Bologna's 1,200 Jews
remained; in Modena there are 150 to 300; in Ferrara 60 survivors of
600; 70 of Parma's 600; and only 500 in Milan, which had a Jewish
population of 10,000. However, Resnik said, 2,000 Milanese Jews
fled to Switzerland and many others may be hiding in the hills, and
will eventually return.
Aid for Italian Jewish Deportees in Nazi Hands Asked
LONDON, (JTA)—An appeal for aid for Italian Jewish de-
portees still in the hands - of the Germans was broadcast over the
Milan radio by an un- -named Jewish professor who was among
those who spoke on a program sponsored by all parties to hail the-
liberation of Northern Italy.
"Let us not forget those who are still suffering deportation,"
he said. "Israel, considering the number of Jews in the world, once
again will be able to claim the honor of the greatest martyrdom. Let
the millions of massacred Jews of Poland be a lesson for those who
must learn after the war to judge every man, and consequently the
JeWs, not by prejudice, but on the basis of his conduct. Let us hope
for the final elimination of anti-Semitism."
Many Jewish Groups in Paris May Day Parade; Survivor of
Oswiecim Among Marchers
PARIS, (JTA)—Exhausted and bruised, and still garbed in his
striped prison clothes, Alexander Braun, a 48-year-old Paris Jew,
marched in the May Day parade here, bearing aloft a placard read-
ing: "I am a survivor of Oswiecim."
The first comparative figures concerning the number of per-
Sons deported from France by the Germans, which appear in the
newspaper Liberation; disclose that there were 108,000 "racial" de-
portees and 100,000 political deportees.
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Declaring that "differences are unavoid-
able," Henry Monsky, Bnai Brith president and
American Jewish Conference consultant to the
American United Nations Conference Delega-
tion, told a Bnai Brith audience that the Amer-
ican Jewish Conference will try to keep these
•differences to their 'minimum so far as pub-
licity is concerned while not foregoing its
program. He expressed the hope that Jewry'
will succeed "in receiving the implementation
of those rights we have acquired with respect
to Palestine" as well as the restoration of
Jewish group rights in Europe through an in-
ternational charter of human rights.
• Dr. Israel Goldstein, president and co-
chairman of the American Jewish Conference,
addressed an overflow audience on Jewish
aims at the San Francisco Conference, at a
celebration of the 95th anniversary of Con-
gregation Shearith Israel here where his
brother, Morris Goldstein, is rabbi.
, At a luncheon tendered him by the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress here, Dr. Maurice L.
Perlzweig, head of the political department of
the World Jewish Congress, called on Foreign
Secretaries Eden, Molotov and Stettinius to
meet for setting up machinery for the punish-
ment of war criminals in accordance with the
Yalta decision. He proposed that Allied mili-
tary commanders from mixed military tribun-
als try major war criminals now.
Roberto Jimenez, Minister of Foreign Af- -
fairs of Panama, stated in a speech at the
plenary session his support -for the inclusion in
the charter of an international. Bill of Rights
protecting the rights of the individual. He
made no reference to group rights.
The sum of $58,000 was raised here for- the
United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York
by the residents of the Borough Park section
of Brooklyn, one' of the city's oldest Jewish"
communities, it was announced.
Millions of Americans soon will be able to
see proof of the horrors committed by the
Germans, when an official U. S. Army motion
picture of German atrocities is released short-
ly for public showing. The pictures were
taken by the Army Signal Corps in three con-
centration camps, whose inmates were recent-
ly liberated by U. S. forces.
Threatening "race trouble such as this
country has never known before,".Rep. Rankin
of Mississippi warned Congress not to sign the
petition to force consideration Of a bill creat-
ing a permanent Fair Employment Practices
Commission, which he called "the most dan-
gerous piece of totalitarian, communistic legis-
lation ever proposed in the Congress."
Rep. Marcantonio of New York. warned
Rankin to "remember that equality is a funda-
mental American concept, and anyone who
seeks to overthrow that concept is subversive
and un-American." In the meantime, Rep.
Mary T. Norton of New Jersey filed a petition
to force quick consideration of the FEPC bill.
President Truman appointed Edwin W.
Pauley, treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee, as the official American repre-
sentative on the Allied Reparations Commis-
sion to be set up shortly in Moscow. Isador
Lubiri, who originally was designated by the
late Pressident Roosevelt to represent the U. S.,
will accompany Pauley as his associate and
will have the rank of minister.
PALESTINE
A message from Will Gallacher, British
Communist M. P., to the Arabs of Palestine
appeared in the Arab Communist weekly,
Alitihad published here. s Gallacher explains
that the terrible sufferings which have ,be-
fallen the Jewish people have caused it to
place its hope in Palestine redemption.
Dorothy Thompson, noted American au-
thor and commentator, arrived here April 30.
During her visit she will be a guest of the
Palestine High Commissioner.
May Day celebrations throughout Pales-
tine this year assumed a more exultant tinge-
as they coincided with the final stages of the
downfall and disintegration of Palestine's
"most vengeful enemies" and "labors inveter-
ate foes."
A group of 160 young, new recruits left
Palestine last week as reinforcements for the
Jewish Brigade. The group includes Palestine-
born, former members of the French Maquis
and recent arrivals from Romania.
OVERSEAS
Representatives of Jewish organizations in ,
France will be summoned as witnesses to the
treason trial of Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain,
former chief of the Vichy Government, to
prove his guilt in promulgating anti-Semitic
decrees.
Anselm - Reiss, representative of Polish
Jews on the relief committee of the Polish
London Government and a Member of the
World Union of Poale Zion, left England for
France and Belgium on behalf 'of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine and Vaad Hatzalah.
Leon Blum and Edouard Deladier, former.
Premiers of France in the hands of the Ger-
mans, are to be released following negotiations
with the Germans by the International Red
Cross, the newspaper Liberation reported here,
Seventy liberated Jewish Palestine prison-
ers of war were received at the London offices
of the Jewish Agency for Palestine here by
David ben Gurion, Bernard Locker and other
Jewish Agency officials. The liberated
soldiers related their experiences as prisoners
and declared that their thoughts were always
of Palestine.
The Romanian government has decided to
grant pensions to Jewish widows, aged and
children up to 15, whose supporters perished
in slave labor, camps or were deported. This
decision will save thousands of Jews who were
hitherto maintained by the Jewish Community
Councils.
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Last Rocket Bomb Kills 102 Jews in Whitechapel
LONDON (JPS)—The news has now been released that the
last rocket bomb to fall in England, hit a block of flats, in White-
chapel on March 27, killing 102 Jews. The Jewish residents of
Whitechapel are calling the day "black Tuesday."
Asks Hungarian Jews Be Recognized as National Minority
BUDAPEST (JPS)—The recognition of Hungarian Jews as' a
national minority enjoying National religious and cultural au-
tonomy was proposed by Zoltan Tildy, leader of the Hungarian
Social Democratic Party at a Party held in Debreczen. It was
also decided to establish a special commissariat for Jewish affairs.
The Congress accepted proposals of a great majority, that Jew-
ish minority should have representatives in the Hungarian Parlia-
ment and Communal Institutions. Tildy also proposed that Hun-
garian Sabbatarians and Gypsies be recognized as national mi-
norities. _
Living Room
Masterpieces
British Fascist Selling Anti-Semitic Literature
LONDON (JPS)—Victor Burgess, former war detainee and
British fascist, who recently opened book shops in London selling
anti-Jewish and anti-Soviet literature, has opened a shop in Fleet
Street. Among pro-nazi, anti-Jewish publicationS imported from
Eire, which are obtainable there, is included the notorious Protocols
of Zion Elders.
Disfranchised Jews Given
Time to Return to Bulgaria
18"
Century
Ministry of Justice Working on Law to Extend Time Limit`
,
Set for Subjects Who Emigrated During War in Clraer
to Protect Their Interests, Citizenship
SOFIA (JTA)—The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice said that it
is working on a law extending the original time limit set for the
return of Bulgarian subjects who emigrated during the war. Under
the present decree, emigrants must return by May 27 or forfeit
their citizenship and personal interests.
The Ministry said that in view of existhig visa and transporta-
tion difficulties it was planning to extend the time limit past May
27, but it did not indicate the length of the extension. The exten-
sion will apply to all. emigrants, although the original law had a
special section dealing with Jews.
The text of this law, promulgated on Nov. 27, 1944, stated
that "all Jewish Bulgarian citizens who left the country after
Jan. 1, 1944. and have lost their citizenship under paragraph one
of this law again will be recognized as Bulgarian citizens if they
return within the six-month period beginning with the date of
this law, and if they apply for citizenship within the same period."
Paragraph one stated that "Bulgarian subjects of non-Bul-
garian origin who emigrate from the kingdom automatically lose
their rights of Bulgarian citizenship, and are required to liquidate
all their interests within three months after the date of emigration."
More Polish Jews May Have Survived, Moscow Hears
MOSCOW, (JTA) — Information reaching here from Poland
indicate that more Jews than were previously thought may have
escaped extermination, although there is rio doubt that the vast
majority of Polish Jewry were exterminated. in towns where the
governmental machinery has resumed functioning, more and more
people are appearing, secmingly from nowhere, and announcing
that they are. Jews from :Rich-and-such a place.
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