Friday, juiiik 29, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Pa9*

ed that the imediate task of the I
relief teams will be to select 300
♦
for temporary settlement from
Buchenwald in Switzerland.
Danger of Conversion
Asserting that anti-Semitism
has left its mark everywhere in
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation fare Board and the National
Europe, Dr. Schwartz neverthe-
less decried the exaggerated re- at the University of Michigan Refugee Service.
During the campaign a group
regarding the forced con- has completed its student cam-
Dr. Schwartz Tells The Jewish News of Major Responsibili- ports
versions of children. He stated paign for the Ann Arbor United of women students living in a
Jewish Appeal.
University dormitory, in addi- ,
ties Confronted by Joint Distribution Committee in
that the youngsters are being
The final figure of $3,000 ex- tion to their individual contribu-
taken
out
of
convents,
monaster-
Helping Bring Relief to Survivors of Hitlensm
ies and Christian homes and are ceeds the student quota by $500. tions, contributed a memorial
Last year the students raised $2,- donation in honor of Lt. Warren
Returning to this country last week after supervising being placed under Jewish sup- 100.
Laufee, a former U. of M. stu-
relief activities for the American Jewish Joint Distribution ervision. Where there is danger
The University of Michigan dent, officially reported killed in
of
conversion,
he
assured
the
in-
Committee for eight months in France, England, Belgium,
the children are taken Foundation's contribution is sec- Italy a short time ago. Lt. Lau-
Holland, Switzerland, Italy. Greece and the Middle East, Dr. terviewer,
ond highest of 120 Foundations fee, called into the armed forces
out immediately.
Joseph Schwartz brings a tale of horror which calls for im-
and Councillorships throughout in March, 1943, was a Hillel
The
majority
of
the
children,
mediate and unprecedented action for the rescue of the re- he added, are in fine homes. He the United States and Canada. Student Council member, a mem-
maining 1,250,000 Jews in Europe.
expressed the view that public Of approximately 800 Jewish stu- ber of the Student Religious As-
Dr. Schwartz, whose activities
demonstrations
against reported dents on the campus, 700 made sociation and Zeta Beta Tau fra-
as relief supervisor in Europe for
conversions are ill-advised, since contributions. Over 75 students ternity. He was the son of Mr.
the JDC during the entire period
the problem is being handled participated in the planning and and Mrs. Joseph Laufee of
)f the war, operating from Portu-
with the greatest of care. He carrying through of the cam- Greensburg, Pa.
gal, England and Africa, right-
Director of the student cam-
pointed
out that many of the paign.
!Lilly give him the position of one
Beneficiary Agencies
Christians
in whose homes the
paign was Beryle Walters of De-
.)f the outstanding authorities in
children are housed had made
Beneficiary agencies of the troit. Co-chairmen were David
ihe world on the Jewish position,
sacrifices to rescue the youngst- Ann Arbor United Jewish Ap-
expressed the view that outside
ers, that they shared the homes peal include the United Pales- Loewenberg and Judith Chayes
)f Russia five-sixth of the Jews
and
rations with them and often tine Appeal, Bnai Brith Wider of Chicago, Sheldon Selesnick of
of Europe were exterminated
Detroit and Helen Alpert of
lied
to save their lives.
Scope, Joint Defense Appeal Watertown, N. Y. Other cam-
and not more than 1,250„000 re-
J.D.C. continues to cooperate (Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation paign officers included Burton
main.
in the settlement of Jews in League and American Jewish Agata of Lawrence, N. Y., Helen
Small Percentage Left
Palestine, Dr. Schwartz stated. Committee), American Jewish Greenberg of Islips, N. Y., Ben-
In an interview with The Jew-
He said that the J.D.C. continues Congress, Joint Distribution nett Shulman of Chicago, Char-
.6. h. News, during his visit in De-
to pay the transportation costs Committee, National Jewish Wel- lotte Shapiro of Manchester, N.
troit last week-end to report on
for all who secure visas to go to
the status of European Jewry at
H., and student directors Judith
Palestine and stated that the last land, Meyer Levin, Jewish Tele- Jacobs of Detroit, Katherine
the sessions of the executive
group of 360 whose transporta- graphic Agency war correspond- Sharfman of Worchester, Mass.,
board of the Council of Jewish
tion from Switzerland to Pales- ent, who has just returned home Betty Friedlander of Brooklyn,
Federations and Welfare Funds
tine has ben facilitated included after covering the Allied armies N. Y., and Edythe Levin of New
DR. JOSEPH SCHWARTZ
and the Inter-City Committee for
mostly children, Nearly 2,000 en- in Europe since D-Day, said that Gardens, N. Y.
Welfare Fund Cooperation, Dr
Schwartz stated that the Jews homes and that those who do tered Palestine this year with Jewish communal life in much of
are in such a deplorable the aid of the J.D.C., he reported. Europe is _virtually non-existent.
in Europe have practically dis- ! return
state that "they need everything,"
The $46,000,000 J. D. C. budget
appeared. He quoted figures: In
At a press conference here,
Greece, 8,500 remain out of a their homes having been destroy- for the current year is consider- Levin reevaled that even among
,
ed,
their
families
have
disappear-
ed conservative and nominal by Jews the Nazis practiced their Ask Return
Gems
Jewish population of 90,000; in
Holland, 25,000 out of a former ed and they are without clothes. Dr. Schwartz, in view of the theories of "superior" and "infer-
140,000: in Belgium, 23.000 out Many of them, the J.D.C. emis- great relief program to be car- ior" groups. Jews from Germany,
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Re-
of 90,000; in Czechoslovakia, 16,- i sary said, are unable to walk, ried out. He stated that J.D.C. Austria and Czechoslovakia, for turn of 50,000 carats of diamonds
and
on
top
of
it
there
is
a
terrific
now has 27 American directors instance, were sent to Theresien- paid by Jewish diamond merch-
000 out of 160,000.
A maximum of 200.000 Jews, I housing shortage. These people, overseas who are directing acti- stadt, where conditions, although ants of the Netherlands to the
'
he
said,
constitute
a
real
and
a
vities in 14 countries, and that
scattered in concentration camps
responsibility to world additional personnel is constant- bad, were much better than those Nazis to purchase their freedom,
and various towns of Germany, , major
found by the Jews from other has been requested by leaders of
Jewry.
ly being selected.
form a serious problem, accord-
countries sent to Buchenwald, the diamond industry in Ams-
1
Jews
are
returning
to
France
ing to Dr. Schwartz, who states
Bergen-Belsen, Maidanek, o r terdam.
that the question must be answ- at the rate of 100 a day and at Jewish Communal Life
other camps in Poland and Ger-
Dutch diamond merchants
ered whether they are to be the rate of 50 a day to Belgium, Non-Existent in Europe
many. He said that the problem have asked their government to
doomed or whether some solution Dr. Schwartz said, and he report-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Declar- of recovering Jewish children intercede with the allies to re-
is to be found for them so that ed that 350,000 francs a day were ing that in all the countries of placed in non-Jewish custody is store this loot, valued at approx-
they can be saved from their spent in France to care for the liberated Europe which he had acute and that strong efforts imately $7,600,000 according to
wretched returning deportees.
present horrible condition.
visited in the past nine months must be made if these children "Foreign Commerce Weekly,"
Speaking of the problem of he did not find one deported Jew are not to be reared in non- issued by the U. S. Department
Children's Plight Serious
The position of the children is the children, Dr. Schwartz stat- who wished to return to his home- Jewish religions.
of Commerce.
similarly described by the J.D.C.
overseas director as being very .
serious. He estimated that ap-
proximately 50,000 orphans are
without homes and must be pro-
vided for and stated that the
WOODWARD AT PAU
J.D.C. is providing temporary
havens for as many as can be
provided for.
Dr, Schwartz reports that
France will accept up to 1,000
children. 535 already being under
care of the OSE Jewish agency
which receives its support from
J.D.C. England is receiving 1,000
orphans and another 300 are
being sent to Switzerland.
We are confident that we can
at least evacuate the children
within a reasonable time," Dr.
Schwartz said. 'This will require
large funds and able personnel."
Operating in Germany
Pointing out that the J.D.C. is
the only relief agency that has
been permitted by the SHAEF
to operate in Germany, Dr.
Sch wartz revealed that relief
teams of medical and social
workers will leave at once for
liberated Nazi areas to supervise
relief activities for those who are
awaiting to be removed from
concentration camps.
Henry Rosen•eid's
Ten teams of relief workers
will operate in the process of
evacuating t h e children, Dr.
Schwartz stated, and to help reg-
ister the "stateless." These re-
lief workers will administer re-
lief and will gather information
that will help in finding an ulti-
We've yet to see the girl who isn't mad about
mate solution to the problem of
the homeless. The teams will be
stripes
especially tailored with the
composed of doctors, nurses and
social workers, and each team
exacting hand of our beloved Henry Rosenfeld.
will be headed by an American.
Dr. Schwartz explained. He also
Like this simple, crisp, uncluttered spun . •
indicated that they will be at-
its emphasis on keeping you cool. in navy, coral,
tached to the army—since the
European occupation is military
luggage brown or green on white,. Misses sizes.
—and. that they will work in
close cooperation with UNRRA.
They Need Everything
$1 0.9 5
Another problem Which places
igrea.t burden in relief efforts, ac-
i ncording to Dr. Schwartz, is that
of deportees who are returning to
Sports Shop, secoinci floor
1 the countries of their origin. He
said that not more than 1 per
ten t will return to their former mow., v. , a,

Overseas Director of JDC
Views Plight of 1,2500,000
Remaining Jews in Europe

U • of M Hillel Foundation
asses ,
for the WA

Diamond Merchants
of

I

ID.

sirctu CO.

Beloved Striped Cooler

