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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 25, 1945
House Hearings to Decide
Fate of Oswego Refugees
Immigration Sub-Committee to Investigate Possibilities of
Allowing Them to Remain in U. S. in Connection
with Dickstein's Proposal
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A sub-committee of the House Im-
Migration Committee will hold - hearings at Oswego, New York, next
month in connection with proposed legislation sponsored by Rep.
Samuel Dickstein, chairman' of the immigration body, which would
permit refugees in the Fort Ontario camp to remain in the U. S.
. Dickstein said that he plans to hold hearings at Oswego next
week. His bill would allow the Fort Ontario refugees to enter
under the present quotas of their. countries of origin. He said that
many of the refugees have children in the United States, that
many of the men have wives who are legally here, • and it is in
the best interests . of the war effort to let those remain who express
the desire to do so.
• Joseph H. Smart, director of the Oswego shelter, recently an-
nounced his resignation from that post, and from the War Re-
location Authority in order to devote his full time ; at the request
of the refugeeS themselves, to their interests, with particular ref-.
erence to securing permanent residence for them in the U. S.
Agencies Desire to Assume Responsibility
National social agencies have indicated a desire to
assume responsibility for the refugees at Fort Ontario
and to cover the $1,000,000 annual budget entailed in
Carrying on the work at the camp.
Relatives and friends of the refugees, recognizing
their plight, also have expressed a desire to participate
in the effort to care for the "guests" at Oswego.
The general feeling is that jobs can be found for
most of them and that they can become useful residents
of this country by filling important occupations.
Treated Worse than in Italian Camps
The charge is made . by national leaders that
the refugees, upon coming here, did not realize
that they would be treated worse in this country
than they were in Italian camps. The latter already had
been dissolved and the internees are free to settle wher-
ever they please and to acquire useful occupations.
At Oswego, on the contrary, the settlers are of no
use either to themselves or to this country, and the hope
is that they will be given an opportunity to become
free and to assume useful and productive positions in
the land.
Participating agencie-s which take a deep interest
in the fate of these refugees include the National Re-
fugee Service, HIAS, National Council of Jewish
Women and local social service agencies.
Few Italian Jews Left Alive
By Nazis, Russians Charge
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Weekly Review of the New s of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Four Jews are among the twenty-one U. S.
experts appointed by President Truman to
work with the United Nations Reparations
CoMmittee in MoscoW to determine what Ger-
many must pay in materials, and probably
with labor, for damage .done in Europe. They
are Dr. Isador Lubin, White House economist,
who will be top assistant to Edwin W. Pauly,
Chief of U. S. delegation, and three Slate
Department officials;- Abraham • Bergson, ex-
pert on German economy and industry; -Sey-
mour Rubin, who will handle legal phases of
reparations, and Moses. Abramovitz, also an
industrial expert.
A delegation of American Zionist leaders
will visit liberated European countries in corn-
ing months "to bring a message of hope and
encouragement to surviving Jel,vries there, as
well as to render practical. aid in the rehabili-
tation of Zionist institutions in those coun-
tries," according to plans. discussed at a meet-
ing of the National Executive of the Zionist
Organization of America here. These visits are
expected to take place in connection with the
attendance of the American Zionist leaders at
a conference in London being planned, for the
near future.
The baptism and conversion to• Christianity
- of thousands of European Jewish children,
sheltered in Christian homes and institutions
in France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland,
was branded a "ghastly crime against religion,"
and • "a heinous offense against true humani-
tarism," by the Rev. Karl M. Chworowsky;
minister of the Flatbush..Unitarian Church of
Brooklyn,. at the annual business meeting of
the Metropolitan Conferente of Free Churches
of Greater New York:.
With the Jews recognized as a.. belligerent
nation by the State Department of Bolivia,
the blue • and white Zionist flag was hung
along with the flags of all combatant United
Nations at an official V-E' Day memorial ser-
vice and reception conducted in La Paz, Bol-
ivia, by- the Bolivian government,. and the
Inter-Allied Committee of Bolivia. The Jewish
Committee of Bolivia was invited to partici-
pate in the_services and the reception.
A telegram to Secretary of State Stettinius
Jr., head of the United. States delegation to the
San Francisco Conference and co-chairman
of the Executive Committee of. the United Na-
tions, urging him to take "immediate steps to
silence, once and for all: Gerald L. K. Smith,"
was sent by Leonard E. Golditch, executive
secretary of the National Committee • to Combat
Anti-Semitism.
PALESTINE
Arab demonstrants in Damascus -and Le-
banon marked V-E Day by rowdy demon-
strations in which only the flags of Arab coun-
tries were evident and all Allied flags were
forcibly removed. Simultaneously, the Syrian
Not A Single Jew Found Alive in Concentration Camps in
Areas Liberated by Soviet Armies-, Displaced Italian
Jews Face Problem of Returning to Their Homes
By NORMAN LOURIE
Palcor Overseas Correspondent
UDINE, Italy, (Palcor)—In answer to official inquiries by the
Italian government as to the fate of Italian Jews in areas overrun by
by the Russian armies, Moscow circles replied that as the Germans
withdrew before ,the Russian advance they systematically killed all
Jewish prisoners except for a few who managed' to escape, among
which no Italian Jews were found.
- Among the wandering mass of liberated slave-workers passing
through this town in northern Italy, no Jews, except for isolated ex-
ceptions, are to be found. Italia/1'as well as other Jews were ex-
terminated as the Nazis retreated.
- The stories of subterfuges used by Italian Jews to escape de-
tection are seemingly without end. Many were hidden in convents,
hospitals and even lunatic asylums. Nearly all carried false papers
and operated with the active assistance of anti-Fascist groups.
Thousands were saved through the helpful attitude of the Italian
population and the Catholic church.
Many Jews fought and died, as a result of fascist violence, in
the Italian resistance movement. Leon Ginzburg, professor of
Russian Literature in Turin and leader of "Partito Dazione," was
beaten to death in February, 1944. Eugenio Colorni, Professor of
Philosophy and leader of the Italian Socialist Party, was killed
in Rome in May, 1944. Eugenio Curiel, Communist Party leader.,
was killed in Padau in January. Marco Moscati, outstanding par-
tisan fighter, was killed in Rome in March, 1944.
The problem of nearly every displaced Italian Jew is to
get back home, but there is no transportation available for
civilians in central and northern Italy and traffic between these two
regions is vigorously controlled.•
and Lebanese newspapers have begun a cam-
paign, . which has considerable Parliamentary
backing, to achieve the release of Arab col-
laborationists.
The fifth list of Jewish Brigade casualties,
bringing the current list up-to-date as of April
17, 1945, has been released by official sources.
The list includes two killed, three previously
believed missing whose death has now been
confirmed, -one. who died of wounds and 24
wounded.
- The Palestine Government charged that
"attempts to sabotage telephone communica-
tions and public property which have occurred
recently, indicate that there is a section of the
population which is still interested in . pro-
moting discord in this country," in. an official
communique released in Jerusalem.
A resolution demanding the • deportation
from Palestine of all Germans now interned
and the distribution of their lands and other
property among Jewish Palestine's ex-service-
men, "as a small recompense for Jewry's
martyrdom," has been adOpted at a joint meet-
ing in Jerusalem of the Association of Jewish
Ex-Officers and the Association of Palestine
Frontline Fighters. They point . out that the
Germans have made themselves \ culpable by
not relinquishing their German nationality;
Fifty-five Jewish and 38 Arab political
prisoners have been released from jail under
a V-E Day amnesty. The ,released Jewish
prisoners include members of the legitimate
Jewish self-defense organization. (Haganah),
and members of isolated settlements - sen-
tenced for illegal possession of firearms. Most
of the Arabs released were convicted of ter-
rorism between 1936 and 1939.
OVERSEAS
The majority . of surviving inmates at the
liberated Theresienstadt concentration camp
in Czechoslovakia, Which • quartered thousands
of elderly Jews, may perish from an epidemic
of typhus which has reached catastrophic pro-
portions. according to reports from Czech sani-
tation authorities battling the epidemic.
Nine hundred liberated Palestinian prisoners
of war are now in England and the remainder
are expected to arrive in London within a
week. A large section of them may shortly
proceed to Palestine.
Willy Lagers. Gestapo chief in Holland,- re-
sponsible for the deportation of over 100.000
Dutch . Jews, is one of the 10,000 captured
Dutch fascists.
Nazi files containing details of the deporta-
tion. of Danish Jews and lists of Danish Nazis
who acquired confiscated Jewish property,
have been found by the Copenhagen police:
Leon Blum, former French Premier and
leader of the French Socialist Party, liberated
from German internment on May 41 arrived
in Paris. He was met by a personal repre-
sentative of General de Gaulle, head of the
French Provisional Government.
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LONDON, (JTA)—Prime Minister Churchill this week rejected.
a demand that Jewish refugees now in Britain be repatriated •im-
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Although confirming that the government's policy, in principle,
was to secure rapid repatriation of refugees, the Prime Minister ex-
pressed agreement with a statement by Samuel S. Silverman,
Laborite, who said that it would be inconceivably cruel to forcibly
return people who had lost homes, relatives and children, to the
scene of these crimes.
Churchill told Commons that the government did not plan to
differentiate between Jews and non-Jews in deciding the cases of
refugees because that might create anti-Semitism, but added that
"having regard for the altogether exceptional brutality and horrible
inflictions imposed upon the Jewish people, I would not go so far as
to say that special efforts will not be made to meet hard cases."
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