Friday, June I, 1945
400,000 Byelorussian Jews
Reported Killed by Germans
Member of Soviet Delegation to United Nations Confer-
ence Tells of Seeing Bodies of Thousands of Children
Being Disinterred From Mass Graves
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—Approximately 400,000 Jews were
massacred by the Germans in Byelorussia, Kuzma Kiselev, head of
the Byelorussian delegation to the United Nations Conference, told
press conference.
"As a member of the investigating commission I saw how thou-
sands of murdered Jewish children were disinterred from mass-
graves in the suburbs of Minsk, Orsha, Vitebsk, Gomel and other
Byelorussian cities from which the Germans were driven by the
Red' Army," Kiselev said. He estimated that in Minsk 80 percent
of the entire Jewish , population was annilated during the German
occupation, in Gomel 90 percent of the Jews were murdered, while
in Orsha practically all the Jews were killed,
Jewish partisans who fought against the Germans, as well
as Jews who have been evacuated into the interior of the USRR,
are now returning to their home towns in ByeloruSsia and are
beginning to rebuild life anew, the Soviet representative reported.
-Document Ordering Revenge for Von Rath Assassination Found
PARIS, (JTA)—The alleged "spontaneous" anti-Jewish out-
burst which occurred throughout Germany in November, 1938, fol-
lowing the assassination in Paris of Ernst vom Rath, a German
embassy official, by a Jewish refugee youth, Herschel Grynzpan,
was carefully _planned and executed by the Gestapo, the French
radio said this week, quoting a recently discovered Gestapo docu-
ment.
-
, The Gestapo order was signed by an official named Mueller,
the broadcast said. It read as follows: "Anti-Jewish demonstra-
tions are to be staged immediately throughout Germany, resulting
in the arrest of 20,000 to 30,000 Jews, mainly people of means. Fur-
ther instructions will be given in the course of the night."
A supplementary document; signed by Reinhard Ileydrich,
covering the events of the night of NOV. 8-9, contained the following
instructions: "The demonstrations tonight must be organized in such
a way that neither German lives or property are endangered.
Synagogues must be fired, but precautions should be taken to avoid
damage to adjoining buildings."
The broadcast stressed that the pogrom was carried out exactly
in accordance with the Gestapo instructions.
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
PALESTINE
An international trusteeship under which
Palestine would be administered jointly by
Great Britain, the United States, Russia,
China and France, was called for as the only
arrangement under which relations between
Jews and Arabs in Palestine can be adjust-
ed, by the Reverend Dr. Carl Voss, extension
secretary of the Church Peace Union. Dr. Voss
spoke at a meeting of 100 group leaders of the
New York Chapter of Hadassah.
Two violently anti-Semitic publications, the
"Gentile News, published by Eugene Flit-
craft, and the "Jew Refugee," published by
Ainslee E. Homey, are being widely cir-
culated through mailing • lists of the Amer..
ican Beauty Products Co., in Chicago, Mil-
burn P. Akers, Field Publications staff writer,
reports.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel, largest in San
Francisco, where the British and other foreign
delegates to the World Security Conference
are headquartered, has cancelled its contract
with Gerald L. K. Smith, leader of the Iso-
lationist America First Party Rally. Smith
has threatened to picket the hotel using mem-
bers of "We, The Mothers, Mobilize," a soft-
pease "mothers" group as pickets.
Ration cards marked' "Jews" will be given
to Germans in Czechoslovakia who will here-
after receive the same rations of food they
allowed Jews during the Nazi occupation of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Majer, new Czecho-
slovak Minister of Food, announced over the
Prague radio in a broadcast recorded by the
Office of War Information in New York.
Dr. Albert Einstein, noted physicist, in an
interview for the -Chicago Defender, largest
Negro weekly in the United States, condemn-
ed Rep. John E. Rankin, (D. Miss.) as "a
politician who believes he can make gains in
employing" racial bigotry. Dr. Einstein said
he believed that the Negro problem, to some
extent can be solved by law, "but the most
important thing cannot be done by law, but
only by the people. To overcome discrimina-
tion every person has to show that he is op-
posed to discrimination."
•
Rallying other Arab countries to join in
the crusade, Makram Elbeid Pasha, Egypt's
minister of finance, told the Egyptian Cham-
bers of Deputies that it .is the declared inten- •
tion of the Egyptian Government' to conduct a
systematic campaign against Palestine Jewry
in the economic sphere. He made this state-
ment in the course of an address regarding
the new budget, and did not conceal the fact
that Egypt stands to profit by capturing Mid-
dle East markets, and that his ,country feared
the progreis of Jewish Palestine's industry.
. . . It amused commercial and industrial cir-
cles in Palestine that while the Egyptian fi-
nance minister stressed that Egypt stood to
profit from flooding the Arab market in Pal-
estine, he ignored the possibility that Pales-
tine Jewry, constituting one of the most lucra-
tive markets in the Middle East, might retal-
iate by shunning all goods from Egypt /and
other Arab countries.
Lt. C.N.P. Williams, an Englishman con-
verted to Judaism, is included in the first cas-
ualty-list of officers and non-coms of the Jew-
ish Brigade. Lts. Y. Granovsky and J. Gluck-
lich, and Second Lts. R. M. Barkay, A. David-
son and 'Daniel Cornfeld were wounded. Oth-
er Brigade casualties are Warrant Officer L.
Hershkowitz,' killed, and Sapper A. Deutsch
and Gunner M. Grunwald, wounded.
_ The. Hebrew papers published editorials
urging that the war on the terrorist gangs,
which have resumed their activities, be waged
relentlessly.
An official announcement issued by the
Palestine Government states: "In the early
hours this morning (May 24), in the Beisan
area, the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipeline
was blown up by unknown saboteurs and se-
vered at two places. Three telegraph poles
were damaged by explosives, and four were
mined, in the same vicinity."The announce-
ment points out that the Jerusalem pipeline
carries fuel vital to the conduct of the war
against the Japanese and that attacks on the
line constitute direct interference with the
war effort.
(See also Page 14)
Anti-Semitism
Up in France
Leon Blum Confirms Reports
of Anti-Jewish Activities
in Recent Months •
PARIS (JPS) — A fortnight
after his liberation from a Ger-
man concentration camp, Leon
Blum, former prime minister of
France, told a delegation of Jew-
ish representatives here that he
could only confirm their impres-
sion that anti-Semitism was on
the increase in France. He pledg-
ed his assistance, in the fight
against anti-Semiti
sm.,
The delegation, representing
all Jewish parties, came to plead
with Blum that
h e recurit the
support o f his
Socialist friends
a n d intercede
with govern-
ment authorities
to the end that
ant i - Semitic
d e inonstrations,
current in r e -
cent months, be
Leon B l um
curbed.
The Jews are especially dis-
turbed over the anti-Semitic mass
meetings which marked Whitsun
celebrations in Paris, Lyons and
Marseilles. Demonstrations car-
ried placards on which was in-
scribed the slogan: "France for
the'French Crematoria for Jews."
During t h e demonstration,
hooligans assaulted Jews i n
Paris streets. A delegation rep-
resenting the anti-Semitic dem-
onstrators was received by Vice
Mayor Pantan and submitted to
him a resolution attacking the
Jews.. This took place several
days: after a meeting, to have
been addressed by David ben
Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, was banned
by , the authorities. In all inci-
dents when Jews. were assaulted
the police are reported to have
remained "neutral."
Pioneer Women Send
$25,000 to Rescue Fund
NEW YORK—An additional
sum of $25,000 on behalf of the
Child Rescue Fund of the Pioneer
Women's Organization has been
forwarded to the Jewish Agency
in Palestine, according to the an-
nouncement of Miss Dvorah Roth-
bard, national secretary. This
amount was raised by clubs in the
1J. S. and Canada during the cur-
rent two-month drive.
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