Page Three 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 . 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. Budget Terms Arranged. Open Every Evening, E. Robinson In Charge Living Room Masterpieces 69.50 Precious Lamps Bright enchantment for devotees of any period . . each piece the essence of a remembered day—with a magic manner of adding piquan- cy to a modern room, or grace and charm to a traditional decor. A brilliant collection tl-tat makes shopping an exciting adventure. Churchill Rejects Immediate Repatriation of Refugees with Metal Bases 4950 to 495.00 Declares. It Would Be Inconceivably Cruel to Forcibly Return People to Scene of Crimes; Says Government Will Not Differentiate Between Jews, non-Jews Meissen - Capo De Monte - Sevres • Hand decorated porcelain - Steuben- ware - Overlay Crystal Lustres Carved Crystal of Belgium and Czeqho-Slovakia. LONDON, (JTA)—Prime Minister Churchill this week rejected. a demand that Jewish refugees now in Britain be repatriated •im- mediately. Replying to a statement by Austin Hopkins, a "Na- tionalist" member, Churchill said that, aside from all other con- siderations, there are marked difficulties in. the way of returning 79.50 ,refugees to their homelands. 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." e 49.50 UN. 3-8600 [1 1 4111 7630 WEST McNICHOLS ROAD THE CHAIR STORE Near Penningt on 0 F AMERICA •