Friday, May 25,1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

JDC Flooded with Pleas
To Speed Relief to Europe

Hechalutz to Present
Warsaw. Ghetto Show
At Center Wednesday

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Mittelshule Sets

A Warsaw Ghetto memorial

Graduation at
Durfee, June 3

joint Distribution Committee's Overseas Director Urges program will be presented by
Immediate Action to Provide Impoverished Ailing
the Detroit branch of Hechalutz;
Peretz Anniversary Program
on Wednesday, May 30, at 8:30
Jewish Survivors; Need 46 Million This Year -
to Feature Affair Panned
p.m., at the Jewish Center.
NEW YORK—Additional signs of the gigantic problem
By Jewish Schools
• The program will stress the

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caused by the outpouring of hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple from Nazi concentration camps are revealed in a cable
from Paris received last Saturday at the Joint Distribution
Committee offices in New York, from Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
JDC European director. He requested immediate action by

valiant role played by the
Chalutzim in the heroic strug-
gle. A noted Palestinian speaker
will be featured.
Tickets, at 30 cents, can be
obtained by calling Zelda Landy,
TY. 7-3798, or Shoshana Harris,
TO. 8-0173. Tickets also will be
sold at the door. The public is
invited.

the JDC in meeting emergency
needs of liberated Jews, and in port to the Joint Distribution
accelerating the JDC nationwide Committee which is charged with
campaign now underway for the task of rebuilding the lives
$46,570,000 in 1945.
of the million Jews fortunate
He urged that in order to pro- enough to have escaped the Ger-
vide for impoverished Jewish man hangmen," Barkley said.
repatriates in Belgium, the JDC
add $25,000 to its regular month-
* 1y appropriation of $85,000 to
Jews in that country. He said
that the JDC committee in Bel-
gium recently has rushed $10,000
as an emergency grant for aid to
800 persons liberated from the
Westerbork camp in Holland, and
that larger appropriations will be
needed in the immediate fu-
ture.
Situation Desperate
Dr. Schwartz stressed that the
situation in Belgium is becoming
more critical daily as Jews lib-
erated from the Auschwitz and
Buchenwald camps return to
their homes. The JDC already
has appropriated $735,000 during
1945 for help to Jews in Belgium
and is cooperating closely with
SHAEF and the Belgium au-
thorities in conducting its aid
program there.
He reported also that approx-
imately 1,700 Jews, nationals of
10 countries, have arrived in
Sweden during the past two
weeks from the Ravensbruck and
Theresienstadt camps. He said
that all surviving Danish Jews
deported to Theresienstadt were
returning through Sweden, and
that a JDC representative has
been sent to Malmoe to organize
activities there.
The mystery which surround-
ed the heroic but unpublished
figure of David Guzik was lifted
when a' cable from him was re-
ceived at the offices of the JDC
saying he was "ready to con-
tinue" his work in Poland.
Underground Rescue
Although he is in his 50's and
suffers from a cardiac condition,
David Guzik was responsible for
the carrying out of the program
of underground rescue and relief
which the JDC launched in Po-
land after the fall of that coun-
try.
Guzik has been associated with
the JDC for the past 25 years,
serving chiefly as its comptroller
in Poland. In the 1920's and
early 30's the JDC was instru-
mental in rehabilitating and aid-
ing many hundreds of Jewish
communities throughout Poland.
When the Wehrmacht invaded
Poland six years ago, Guzik
chose to remain behind. For-
seeing privation and suffering
for the Polish Jews, he set about
organizing a relief program
which helped to sustain the lives
The women
of countless thousands.

WAR LOAN

UJhat Price

Senator Barkley Urges
Immediate Aid to Jews
PITTSBURGH (JTA)—Senate
Majority Leader Alben Barkley,
who reported last week to Con-
gress on the findings of a special
committee invited by Gen. Eisen-
hower to inspect the liberated
German horror camps, said this
week that "thousands of Jews in
devasted Europe who survived
the gas chambers and the soap
factories must receive immedi-
ately the basic materials of hu-
man sustenance if they are to
live."
In his first public statement
since his report to Congress,
Senator Barkley told more than
400 leaders from Jewish com-
munities in Wester Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia,
meeting to hear reports on the
current life-saving operations of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, that "American Jews must
make every sacrifice to bring re-
lief and hope to their misery-
stricken brethren overseas.
"Because the suffering- of the
Jews was worse than that of any
other element of the population,
I urge you to extend every sup-

A J. L. Peretz Anniversary
celebration will feature the spe-
cial evening arranged by the
Council of Jewish Schools, to
mark the graduation exercises of
Mittelshule (high school) stu-
dents, on Sunday evening, June
3, at the Durfee School, LaSalle
and Collingwood.
M. Ha• is directing the eve-

ring's program and Dan nob-
man is in charge of musical ar-
rangements.
The evening's program will be
carried out by the students of
the following schools: Arbeiter
Ring, Farband Folkshulen, Sho-
lem Aleichem schools and the
United Jewish High School
(Mittelshule).
Admission cards are available
at all affiliated schools as fol-
lows:
Arbeiter Ring, 11529 Linwood,
8532 Linwood; Farband, 1912
Taylor, 12244 Dexter, Thirkel
Public School; Sholem Aleichern,
3754 Monterey; Brady Public
School, MacCulloch Public
School; and at the office of the
Council of Jewish Schools, 11525
Linwood.

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Peace?,

America know . . . just as surely as our valiant i rfighting men

know. Freedom is a precious, expensive thing. Peace comes high. Along with

blood .; . and sweat .

. and tears it costs untold millions of dollars.

Yes, the women handling the nation's purses know this:'

They know that NOW is the time to KEEP ON BUYING BONDS

so that this new War Loan

the 7th

. may prove indeed the "lucky 7th''.

- Woodward thru to Washington