Friday, June 22, 1945

ussians to Repatriate Jews!
Liberated From Nazi Camps

,200 Who Formerly Lived in Berlin Among 5,000 Survivors
at Theresienstadt; Friends and Kin Urged to Offer
Homes; Hungary Indicts Anti-Jewish Criminals

LONDON, (JTA)—Russian military authorities are preparing
to repatriate all German Jews liberated from concentration camps
in the parts of Europe now under the administration of the_ Red
.Army, the Berlin radio reported this week. No emigration per-
mits will be given the Jews, the broadcast said.
It revealed that 1,200 Jews who formerly. resided in Berlin
are among the 5,000 Jewish survivors still in Theresienstadt. Their
names are. available • at a Special repatriation office functioning in
the building of the former hospital of the Berlin Jewish community
on Iran Street, the broadcast announced, asking relatives and
friends to report whether they can offer homes when the survivors
are repatriated.

Hungary Indicts War Criminals; Trial of Prison Heads Opens
GENEVA, (JTA) =The• Hungarian Provisidnal Government
announces that 106 former officials have been indicted as war
criminals, and simultaneously released the names of about 40, . in-
chiding a former commissar for Jewish affairs and three premiers
responsible for the persecution of .Jews.
The commissar is Stephen Antal, while the ex-premiers are
Ferenc Szalasy, the last head of the Nazi-controlled Hungarian
government; Doeme Sztejay, the 'first -puppet premier after the
Germans took over: and Bela Irnredi, a leader of anti-Semitic agita-
tion in Hungary, vvho, once resigned from the premierShip because
he discovered that he had a remote Jewish ancestor. Also indicted
was Laszlo Baky, who was in charge of Jewish affairs for the pro-
German 'government's Ministry of the Interior.

Jews Parade In Brussels to Express Gratitude to Belgians
BRUSSELS, (JTA)—More than 200 Jews rescued from the
concentration camp at Malines, in Belgium, paraded through this
city in a demonstration expressing their gratitude to the Belgians
for help given them during the German occupation s
A report from Amsterdam states that 60 Jews who were de-
ported from Holland to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in
Germany arrived in Eindhoven. They are the first group of 1,200
Netherland Jews liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp and
brought to Trobitz, near Frankfluit-on-the-Oder—the Russian-held
zone of Germany—for repatriation to Holland.

Jews Hold Memorial at Dachau; Blue-White Flags Fly Over Service
MUNICH, (JTA)—Black 7 bordered blue-and-white Zionist flags
flew from a platform at the Dachau concentration camp as -former
Jewish prisoners and U. S. officers and men participated in a
ceremony marking the liberation of the camp and commemorating
the thousands of persons who died there.
Seated on the flag-bedecked platform, which was also adorned
by a tremendous yellow star and streamers in English and Hebrew
recalling the victims of the Nazi terror,, were the chief of the
U. S. military administration in Bavaria and a representative of
the Allied appointed premier of the province.
The ceremony was held in the courtyard of the S. S. bar-
racks, where 1,700 Jews from all parts of Europe are housed. •-•
.Dr. M. Gruenberg, a former camp inmate, gave a moving ac-
count of the suffering and death of the Dachau inmates.
A tall stone column surmounted by a Mogen David, and a
twin column with a cross on top are being erected at the Dachau
to mark the. mass graves of the thousands of persons killed there.

Thousands of Jews Confined in Camps in Austria; Many Dying Daily
GENEVA, (JTA)—Two thousands Jews are still confined in
Camp Ebensee, near Gmunden, OberdeAlau. in Austria, which was
liberated by American troops. - About 1,500 of them are Polish
Jews, mainly from Silesia. Most of them are ill and many die
- daily, the report says.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Threi

W eekly 'Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Moslems and one Jewish official, J. Kupper-
man, who will report its finding to the High
Commissioner.

Partial Nazi success in setting up a clan-
destine' "Free America Committee" among
American captives in Germany for. the mirpose
of launching a soft-peace campaign, eventual-
ly to result in the re-establishment of totali-
tarianism min .Germany, was revealed for the
first time when the Office of Censorship here
permitted the leftist newsletter, In Fact, to
publish the news allegedly ordered suppressed
in censorship regulations issued April 28.'
Twelve-hundred Dutch-Jewish children
saved from deportation in 1942 by a Dutch
student organization, which hid them and dis-
tributed them to foster homes all over the
.country, have emerged from hiding, and are
back in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Informa-
tion -Bureau reports in New York.

OVERSEAS

PALESTINE

Several thousand youths marched through
the streets of Tel Aviv June 9, in a demonstra-
tion galling for the lifting of the bars of Pales-
tine to Europe's Jewish survivors.
JeWish Palestine's veterans of many cam-
paigns,, returning from Nazi captivity, were
irked by what they regarded as discrimination
by British military authorities, who gave them
a 28-day furlough, while British. PWs were
given a 42-day furlough at home.
The returned prisoners of war- were men
of all Jewish communities in 'Palestine, and
included refugees from Europe who enlisted
in 1940-41, immediately on reaching Palestine.
These men will now tour the country for the
first time.- They have learned Hebrew in cap-
tivity from their comrades.
Most of the arrivals show .signs of profound
fatigue, having been marched by the Germans
for two and one half months on foot, from East
to South, and from South to North, prior to
their liberation. They lived from hand to
mouth, but did not desert any of their com-
rades en route, and due to this mutual assist-
ance very few died on the wayside. Their
first official - reception in Palestine was ten-
dered when their train pulled in at Rehovoth,
where they were greeted by cheering crowds,
jubilant relatives and Moshe Shertok, chief of
the Political Department of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine.
David Remez, chairman of the Vaad Leumi,
Jewish Palestine's National Council, left by
air June 9, en route to England in connection
with official Jewish community affairs.
Leib - Jaffe, director of Keren 'Hayesod,
Palestine Foundation Fund, returned to Pales-
tine after a prolonged stay in the United
Stat6. Kurt Blumenfeld, also a director of
Keren Hayesod, returned to Palestine from
America recently.
Viscount Lord Govt, Palestine High Commis-
sioner, has p appointed a departmental commit-
tee to inquire into allegations made to him of
violations of the White Paper's land sales res-
trictions, The committee, under the chairman-
ship of Crosbie, included two Britons, two

Czechoslovakian consulates in London. Brus-
sels, Paris and other capitals have turned down
repatriation requests of Jews who, on register-
ing themselves in the temporary lands of resi-
dence, had stated that their nationality was
German or Hungarian. The Czechoslovakian
authorities state that they distrust such per-
sons. Those who had stated that their nation-
ality was Jewish, are encountering no difficulty
in repatriation.
Delegates to the Belgian Socialist Party Con-.,
gress in Brussels condemned the failure of
police to subdue anti-Semitism now prevailing
in the country. Marcel Holot, delegate from
Ghent; just returned from Dachau concentra-
tion camp in Germany, praised the dignified
bearing of the Jewish victims there, which he
said commanded everybody's respect, and
now," he added, "these brave Jews return to
be insulted by anti-Semitic scoundrels."- Some
delegates suggested that anti-Semitism i n
Belgium is superficial and will - gradually dis-
appear, but declared that it is the government's
duty to fight it with all means.
Austrian-Jewish authors, who fled that
country, and whose works were burned after
the Nazi annexation,_ were urged to return to
liberated Adistria by Secretary of State Ernst
Fischer, speaking for the Austrian Govern-
ment at the congress of Austrian writers and
journalists in Vienna. Oscar Maurus and other
speakers at the congress, paid homage to Aus-
trian-Jewish authors murdered and deported
by the Nazis.
Over 10,000 Jews have been found recently
in other liberated camps, it was confirmed by
some -of their number who arrived in Geneva.
Jews in Prague and other Czech towns must
, -^ase speaking German or Hungarian in public
places, as those languages offend patriotic sus-
ceptibilities and may lead to attacks • against
Jews, the Prague 'newspaper, Svobodne Slovo,
warns.
Offenbach, Gold-
The works of Mendelssohn, Offenbach.
mark and other composers of Jewish
"verboten" under German anti-Serntic
laws, 'mist be included in the repertoirs of the
Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, Lt.-Col. Beion
Walker, Chief of the Allied Military Govern-
ment here, ordered, as a condition for grant-
ing the orchestra permission to resume re-
hearSals.
The Romanian Ministry of Education has
drafted a bill that "accords state recognition to
Jewish schools which had been unofficially
recognized. between 1940-44.
The Jewish Refugee Committee has been
granted government permission to bring 800
Jewish children to London from the liberated
concentration camps at Dachau and Bergen-
Belsen. The Committee has guaranteed the
children's maintenance.

•

Surviving Jews of Prague
Re-Establish Community

Few of 40,000 Who Resided in CzeckCapital Remain Alive;
Many Reported Dropping Religion; Anti-Semitism
Flourishes in Luxembourg; 6,000 Jews in Berlin

PRAGUE, (JTA)—The surviving Jews of Pragtie this week
formed a committee to work out a plan for the revival of the Jew-
ish community, one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Europe. Few
of the 40,000 Jews who lived in Prague before the Germans occupi-
ed the city have survived. The committee which was formed last
week is headed by • Dr. Ernst Frischer, Jewish member of the
Czechoslovakian National Council in London, who returned from
England to Prague together with the government.
The Jewish community in Brno, largest in Moravia, resumed
functioning last week. In Bratislava, the birthplace of the Chassidic
• movement, no Jewish institutions exist, since most of the Jews there
and all Jewish institutions were wiped _out. The only historic monu-
ment of Jewish life that remains is a -library of the Jewish com-
munity, containing 75,000 volumes.
The ancient synagogue in Prague, where, according to legend,
Der Hohe Rabbi Low created the Golem in the 16th century, re-
mains intact even though. German troops made their last-ditch- stand
around the synagogue premises.
A large number Of - the surviving Jews in Prague are changing
their names and - dropping their religion, while a number of Jews
who had no interest in Jewish affairs before the war, are now
strengthening their ties with nationalist Jews, in the hope that
they may eventually be able to proceed to Palestine.
. •
• Anti-Semitism Flourishing in jauxenbourg
LUXEMBOURG, (JTA)—Although the government of this
duchy is friendly to Jews, Nazi-foStered anti-Semitism is flourish-
ing here and making life difficult for the few hundred Jews who
have returned, according to Capt. Henry Cerf, Luxembourger who
recently returned as a member of the British Army, attached to
the SHAEF mission.
About 400 Jews have returned to Luxembourg, mostly from
France, Capt. Cerf told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent,
and, of - these, many are returning to France or going to. Belgium,
. having found Luzembourg -\an unhappy home.
Returning Jews are finding it very-difficult to secure dwellings,
since their homes,'having been taken over by the Germans, are now
classified as enemy property, and are being used by the military.
Practically all of the, Luxembourg Jews were professionals or small
. businessmen.

6,000 Jews Reported Back in Berlin
GENEVA, (JTA)—Swiss newspapers carry a report from Berlin
that.about 6,000 Jews are in the Reich capital and more are return-
ing. The report is attributed to the RuSsian-appointed Berlin mayor,
Arthur Werner, a 68-year-old German educator.
- Reports from Germany reveal that 1,800 Polish and Hungarian
Jews are. at present in a camp near. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, living
under "very difficult conditions," lacking food, clothing and medi-
cine.
Other reports state that 203 Polish Jews from the Dachau con-
centration camp are living under similar conditions in a camp near
Bachberg. Similar reports have reached Jewish organizations here
concerning the situation of liberated Jewish internees in various
camps located near the Swiss frontier.

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