Friday, May 18, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
USSR Hails Jewish General
For Liberating 3 Capitals
Cot Gen. Kotlyar, Officer in Russian Army Since Last War,
Awarded Title of Hero of the Soviet Union for Freeing
Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade
MOSCOW, (JTA) — Col. Gen. Leon Kotlyar, a Jewish Red
Army officer with 26 years of service, has been awarded the
title Hero of the Soviet Union by the presidium of the Supreme
of the USSR as token of his participation in the freeing of Vienna,
Budapest and Belgrade, it was announced here.
Gen. Kotlyar was born in Siberia into the family of a Jewish
tinsmith. In 1919 he joined the Red Army which routed the inter-
ventionist army under Admiral Kolchak. Gen. Kotlyar has been
in the engineering corps during his army career.
Polish Patriots Says London Govt. Approved Killing of Jews
MOSCOW, (JTA) — While thousands of Poles risked their
lives to aid Jews during the German occupation, reactionary
leaders inside Poland, several of whom later became members of
the present Polish Government-in-Exile in London, egged on the
nazis to intensify their persecution of the Jews, Welno Polska;
organ of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR, charges in an
article marking the second anniversary of the revolt in the Warsaw
ghetto.
Welna Polska cites several articles in "Szaniec," underground
publication of the right-wing, anti-Semitic "Endek" Party: one
which chided the Germans for adopting a too moderate policy. to-
wards the Jews, and another which said that "the Germans are
exterminating them (the Jews) more thoroughly than anyone else
could."
The publication charges that the Endek underground organiza-
tion. known as the "NSZ," joined the "Home Army" of the exiled
government inside Poland and has since carried on its anti-
Jewish activities under the aegis of the London Government. It
also points out that President Edward Raczkiewicz summoned
Zygmunt Berezowski, one of the Endek leaders, to London from
the underground, and Berezowski is now a member of the present
Arciszewski government.
Asserting that these reactionary forces used anti-Semitism
before the war to divide the people and pave the way for Hitler,
Welna Polska, says, in conclusion, that during the occupation they
cooperated with the Gestapo in persecuting Jews, and now are
using anti-Semitism in an attempt to win back control of Polish life.
Page Three
Weekly "Review of the New s of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
OVERSEAS
Lebanese Premier, Sheikh Abdul Hamid
Karemeh, announced that he received assur-
ances from Secretary of State Stettinius that
the U. S. administration will not reach a de-
cision on Palestine without hearing the views
of both Arabs and Jews.
Many displaced European refugees "undoubt-
edly will wish to come to the Western Hemis-
phere or to other new scenes of opportunity
(and) here again that opportunity can be given
to many hundreds of thousands of them,"
former Undersecrtary of State Sumner Wells
asserts in an article titled "New Hope for the
Jewish People," appearing in The Nation
magazine.
In a speech on the floor of the House, Rep.
Cell er (D.), of N. Y., branded Hitler's heir,
Admiral Karl Doenitz as a war criminal and
"one of the worst of the Nazi rats."
Swedish Nazis attempted to stage anti-
Semitic demonstrations, outside the syna-
gogues of Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmoe,
while Swedish and Danish Jewish refugees
held Thanksgiving services on the occasion
of Denmark's liberation.
Romanian Minister of Agriculture Romulus
Zaroni is reported hindering the return of
Jews to their villages to take possession of
their land, on the pretext that the land re-
form is not completed.
At a Jewish mass meeting, in the White-
chapel district of London, prominent rabbis
adopted a resolution whereby the rabbis of
the whole world should proclaim a "Cherem"
prohibiting the return of Jews to Germany.
Hans Frank, former German governor gen-
eral of Poland, under whom hundreds of thou-
sands of Polish Jews and non-Jews were
tortured, slain, deported or confined to ghettos
on a starvation basis, was captured by the
U. S. 7th Army at Berchtesgaden.
Jews in German prison and extermination
camps were the first killed and the most
cruelly tortured of the inmates. "After the
Jews, the most cruelly treated were Russians
and Poles," 18 American editors who visited.
German prison camps at the request of Gen-
eral Eisenhower, report unanimously in a
statement.
Jewish teachers, government officials and
former government employes ousted under
the Fascist regime, were asked to resume
their posts, by the Italian Committee of Na,
tional Liberation in Milan, Genoa and Turin.
The Romanian press is continuing its attack
on Dr. William Filderman, President of the
Union of Romanian Jews during the German
occupation, who was arrested and accused of
collaboration with the Antonescu regime. The
Romanian papers accuse Dr. Filderman of
extorting money from the Jewish population
of Romania for payment of the Romanian
Government's levy against Jews in May, 1943.
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PALESTINE
The new National Shipping Corp. "Ziyam,"
announces that a maritime fleet with a capital
of $4,000,000, is now being formed in Palestine.
"Jews emerging from hiding places in lib-
erated Europe, on assembling for the first
time, start with the chanting of El Malerach-
mim and, conclude with Hatikvah—that is
the symbol of today's Jewry," Moshe Shertok,
Chief of the Jewish Agency's Political De-
partment, said in Tel Aviv.
Arab politicians in Palestine are reported as
dissatisfied with the way their political inter-
ests are being presented at the San Francisco
Conference by the Middle-Eastern Arab dele-
gations. They believe that these delegations
erred in submitting an Arab , League consti-
tution to the Conference Secretariat, since Pal-
estine is based upon a Mandate—which the
Palestine Arabs refuse to recognize.
First official word of London's proclamation
of V-E Day was received in Jerusalem while
the Palestine orchestra was giving a concert in
Edison Hall. When the announcement was con-
veyed, the record audience all rose spontan-
eously and the conductor struck up the Brit-
ish, Soviet and American anthems, concluding
with Hatikavah.
Urges Interfaith
Team Make Trip
To View Atrocities
CINCINNATI, (R N S) — At
least three "of the most influen-
tial clergymen being heard in
American pulpits today" should
be sent to European battlefields
immediately to view the atroci-
ties of war, it was urged here
by Paul B. Sullivan, church
editor of the Cincinnati Times
Star.
Sullivan suggested that the
trio consist of Dr. Harry Emer-
son Fosdick of New York City,
Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen of Wash-
ington, and Dr. Solomon B.
Freehof of Pittsburgh, Pa., and
that their trip be sponsored by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
Lauding "their knowledge of
history, strength of scholarship,
width of democratic viewpoint,
depth of religious fervor, height
of spiritual discernment. and far
reaching influence through the
printed and spoken word," Sulli-
van added that these three lead-
ers should be "implored to make
this mission in behalf of mil-•
lions of Americans."
"Returning to the states, these
three prophets of the American
pulpit should be given wide op-
portunity as a team and as in-
dividuals to report and interpret
their findings."
,German Refugee, Now
V. S. Army Captain,
Interprets Surrender
ITALY, (JTA)—A young Jew-
ish captain, who fled to the U. S.
from Germany in 1934, acted as
interpreter at • ceremonies when
representatives of the German
high command in Italy and Aus-
tria reported to Gen. Mark Clark
for orders implementing the
formal surrender which was
i signed this week. He is Capt.
erner Kohihagen, of Cincin-
nati.
Seated between Maj. Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther, Clark's
chief of staff, and Panzer Gen
Fridelin von Senger and Etter-
Capt. Kohihagen translated
the pleas of the German dele-
gation for protection of the Ger-
man forces in the north from
l iclartisan bands while details of
the rounding up of all units are
being completed.
"This is the happiest moment
of my life," Kohihagen said
after the meeting ended.
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