THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 13, t945
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Benes to Aid Jews Seeking
To Emigrate to Palestine
Those Who Wish to Remain in Czechoslovakia Will Be
Considered Full-Fledged Citizens; Zionist Leaders
Fear 'Assimilation' of 15,000 Survivors
PRAGU E , (JTA)—Expressing sympathy with the Zionist
movement, President Benes of Czechoslovakia told a Jewish dele-
gation that he will do everything posible to facilitate emigration •
of Jews from Czechoslovakia to Palestine. At the same time, he
indicated that Jews who intend to remain in Czechoslovakia will
not be treated as a national minority, but will be considered full-
fledged Czechoslovak citizens.
Zionist leaders here interpret President Benes' statement to
mean that the approximately 15,000 Jews who remain of pre-war
Czechoslovakian Jewry will be "assimilated" if they do not emi-
grate to Palestine. As the Zionist movement is not functioning
now in Czechoslovakia, they are inclined to believe that Jewish
youth may prefer "assimilation" to emigration should they succeed
in finding employment soon.
For the time being, Jewish survivors, including thise who re-
turned from German concentration camps, are finding it difficult
to rehabilitate themselves economicAlly..Although anti-Jewish laws
have been revoked, Jews are encountering difficulties in dealing
with officials of the old regime who are still holding down their
positions in most of the government and municipal institutions.
Jews are still returning from hideouts in the woods and
mountains, but it is not expected that the Jewish population of
Czechoslovakia will exceed 15,000 as compared with the 350,000 who
lived there before the war.
The largest number of Jews are in Bratislava where the
Jewish community numbers about 1,500 registered Jews. Bratislava
had 15,000 Jews before the war. In Kosica, there are now only
about 600 and all the other large Jewish communities in Slovakia
are practically non-existant.
The department established by the Czechoslovak Government
for the repatriation of deported citizens, makes no distinction be-
tween Jews and non-Jews when bringing them back home from the
labor camps in Poland and in Germany.
3,500 Refugees Sail For Palestine Home
• NEW YORK—Approximately 3,500 Jewish refugees are ex-
pected to arrive in Palestine during July it was announced here
by Herman L. Weisman, acting chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal.
Sixteen hundred left Marseilles on July 3 for Haifa, according
to word received from France by the UPA office. The group in-
cludes 503 from France, half of them children and youths from
German camps, 350 from refugee camps in Switzerland, 500 from
Bergen-Belsen and Thereseinstadt.
Rabbi Baeck
New in Paris
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
In order that the Jewish refugees he shel-
tered from the Germans on the bay of Atone-
ment should hot go hungry after their fast,
an old priest in a small Belgian town spent the
entire day collecting food for them, Archbishop
Francis J. Spellman, recently returned from--
a tour of Europe, reports in an article in
Colliers Magazine. The priest sheltered a
dozen Jewish children for four years.
Most of Denmark's 6,000 Jews managed
to escape to Sweden though many of them
refused to realize their danger and had to
be snatched forcibly from under the nose of
the Gestapo by the Danish underground, Wal-
ter Taub, Swedish journalist, writes in an
article titled "Dawn Over Denmark," appear-
ing in Collier's magazine. Jewish families
were sheltered in cellars until boats were
available to take them to Sweden. In the
boats, small children were given heavy sleep-
ing doses lest their crying should attract
German patrols. One Jewish youth crossed
to Sweden hidden in the mouth of a German
cannon bound for Norway. Another made
the crossing on a paddle bicycle, Mr. Taub
relates.
Employers and advertising agencies in
New York State are liable to $500 fine and
a year in prison if they express preference
for workers of any particular race, creed,
color or nationality, now that the Ives-Qttinn
anti-employment discrimination law is in ef-
fect.
Swiss bankers, aided by Swiss laws "have
built a wall of secrecy" around German
funds cached in Switzerland, making it im-
possible to determine their extent or control,
and leaving Germany an "economic arsenal"
from which to draw in the future, Orvis
Schmidt, director of Foreign Funds Control
for the Treasury Department, charged in
testimony before the Kilgore War Mobilization
Committee.
PALESTINE
The Palestine Government is expected to
reply affirmatively to a demand for the elec-
tion of a new Tel Aviv Municipal Council,
Mayor Israel Rokach told a Council meeting.
HUDSON'S
Rabbi of Berlin Says Liber-
ated Jews Don't Want to
Return to Germany
He also announced that the Government has
granted the Municipality a loan of $1,200,000
for repayment in twenty years at 3 percent
interest.
The Asephath Hanivcharim, Jewish Pales-
tine's Assembly, willnot meet until after
the termination of the World Zionist Confer-
ence in London, Isaac ben Zvi, president of
the Vaad Leumi, the National Council, stated.
Two new scholarships have been es-
tablished at the Hebrew Uni\Tersity. One is an
annual $4,000 scholarship, established by the
Manufacturers Association, awarded to re-
search students or young scientists devoting
themselves to industrial research or perfecting
industrial processes. The other, is the name of
the late Berl Katzenelson, set up by the
Kirschner family of South Africa, consists of
$200 yearly, for a period of six years.
The conference of the Union of General
Zionists (Group B), which closed here last
Thursday, decided to establish a new Na-
tional Party federating all factions which
boycotted the elections of the Asephath
Hanivcharim, January 8, 1945. These factions
are the Revisionists and some sections of the
Sephardic population. The conference also
decided • to demand the resignation of the
Jewish Agency's Executive Committee and the
election of a new one. If the ultimatum on
the Agency is not acceded to, the Union
will reconsider its participation in the Agency
as now constituted.
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OVERSEAS
Rowdy anti-Jewish demonstrations by Arab
nationalists which broke up in rioting, attacks
on the Jewish quarters and the looting of Jew-
ish property, swept through all Algeria con-
comittant with the visit in Algeria of France's
Minister of the Interior, Tixiers. The worst of
the riots took place in Constantin which has
also been the scene of earlier anti-Jewish
rowdyism. Thanks to police vigilancy, only
17 Jews were wounded in Constantin.
Over 2,000 Nazis are living in Paris with
forged documents indentifying them as Jews
or Frenchmen, the Paris police Prefect
charged.
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PARIS (JTA) — Chief Rabbi
Leo Baeck of Berlin arrived here
en route to London from Ther-
esienstadt. Liberated by the
Russians several weeks ago,
Rabbi Baeck refused to leave
until liquidation of the camp had
begun.
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Suffering from the effects of
his internment, during which he
lost 60 pounds, the 72-year-old
Jewish leader, displayed great
dignity and composure during an
exclusiVe interviek with a Jewish
Telegraphic Agency correspond-
ent. He was eager for Jewish
news, and repeatedly praised the
Joint Distribution Committee and
the International Red Cross for
the food and medical supplies
which, he said, reached Theresien-
stadt until the last weeks of the
war.
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Practically all of the 5,000 half
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the aged rabbi said, and many
have already been repatriated in
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their home towns. He stressed,
however, that none of the full
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Although it was forbidden to
teach Jewish children, secret
classes were held until "the day
came when there was not a single
child who could not read or
write," Rabbi Baeck said.
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Shuns Jewish Labor
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e
Hebrew newspaper Haaretz com-
plains 'that not one Jewish work-
er has been employed in the pre-
paratory diggings begun by the
Iraq Petroleum Co. for a new
pipeline which will extend from
Kirkuk, in Iraq, to Haifa.
In a more to ease t!e acute
hotising shortage, which has hit
hardest at returning veterans,
the British military authorities
have agreed to transfer one of
the camps in Palestine into quar-
ters for demobilized soldiers.
The Palestine Government an-
nounced that High Commission-
er Lord Gort has left for Eng-
land for medical treatment.
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