Liberated Jews Detained
In Nazi Camps, Neglected

Thousands Still - Living Under Miserable Conditions, Survey
By JTA Correspondents Reveals; Many Wearing
G erman Prison Garb, Live in Sheds

By LANDRUM BOLLING

Beth El Sells Rabbi Lookstein En Route
$1,440,775 in To South America for JDC
Mission to Buenos Aires, Brazil and Uruguay
7th War Loan Begins
Report on Joint Distribution ,Committee's Relief

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Total Sold Since June 1944

Reaches 10 Million Dollars,
Simons Announces

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)

ROME, (JTA)—Two months after the defeat of Hitler,
thousands of "liberated" Jews in Europe are still living un-
der miserable conditions, and their urgent needs are not be-
Temple Beth El and its
ing met, a month-long survey by the Jewish Telegraphic auxiliary organizations have sold
Agency — during which this correspondent spoke to hun- $1,440,775 in bonds during the
dreds of Nazi victims in and out of camps in Austria, Italy, Seventh War Loan Drive, it was

Germany and Czechoslovakia
reveals.
In camps for displaced persons
in Austria, I found that the in-
mates were getting smaller ra-
tions than German prisoners.
Local officials excused them-
selves on the ground that they
did not have sufficient supplies.
In Czechoslovakia, I spoke to
gaunt young Polish Jews whom
the Nazis tried to starve to
death, and who, even now, are
not getting a minimum subsist-
ence diet.
In one camp I saw 300 people
sleeping on the floor of a large
shed, which comprised part of
the living quarters. They had
been there for more than a
month. The camp cammandant
said that he had beds for 1,000
and more than double that num-
ber of persons are in the camp.

Wear Striped Prison Clothing
In the streets of Munich, Salz-

burg, Prague, Rome, men walk
the streets in the ragged striped
pants issued to them by the
Nazis while they were confined
in concentration camps.
In addition to the scarcity of
these essential items, there is al-
most a total lack of cigarets,
candy and toothpowder. Two
cartons of cigarets I gave the
Jewish committee in one camp
caused a sensation. The members
of the committee spent fifteen
minutes discussing the fairest
way of distributing them, and
they, finally, decided to give one
cigaret a piece to 400 inmates.
Many of the refugees say they
would like to work, if paid al-
most anything, and many young
men asked how they could join
the American Army.

Political Prisoners
Favored by Russians
By HENRY BRADLEY

BERLIN, (JTA)—Only those
Jews who were sent by the.Ges-
tapo to concentration camps for
political reasons are being con-
sidered by the Russian military
government as "victims of
Fascism," the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency has learned. This
decision has affected profoundly
the rehabilitation of the few
thousand Jews now left in Rus-
sian-occupied Germany, because
only a small number of them
were persecuted for political
reasons.
The Russians have ruled out
any racial differences and are
establishing simple straightfor-
ward rules for governing Ger-
many. They say that if there
should not be any racial disad-
vantages for anybody, there
should not be any racial advant-
ages. However laudable this de-
cision may be, it overlooks the
fact that no other group suf-
fered from racial persecution
like the German Jews, who from
a health and economic viewpoint,
are completely ruined.

Surviving Jews in Germany
Neglected, Brodetsky Says
By OTTO SCHICK

LONDON, (JTA)—The posi-
tion of the Jews in Germany to-
day is such that "we have the
right to say that never have
Jews been so neglected and for-
gotten," Prof. Selig Brodetsky,
president of the Board of Depu-
ties of British Jews, charged this
week. Addressing a meeting of
the Board, he said that these
Jews "are living under condi-
tions which they cannot help
comparing to conditions under
the Nazis."
Pointing out that the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee and the
Central British Fund for Jewish
Relief had been prepared for the
present emergency, Prof. Bro-
detsky said that until recently
no Jewish relief units were ad-
- milted to Germany.
He revealed that the Commit-
tee to Aid the Jews of Germany,

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Friday, June 20, 1945

which includes all major British
Jewish organizations, has sub-
mitted a memorandum to the
War and Foreign Offices de-
manding the appointment of spe-
cial Jewish officers in camps in
Germany who would have the
same status as the liaison of-
ficers of the various United Na-
tions governments.

War Dept., UNRRA Urged
To Aid Displaced Jews

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The War
Department and the United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration have been urged
to name 'Jewish liaison officers
and contact men in the Amer-
ican occupation zone in Ger-
many in order to help meet the
needs of the thousands of dis-
placed Jews, whose situation is
described as "deplorable," it is
disclosed by the American Jew-
ish Conference.
In separate memorandums to
UNRRA and the War Depart-
ment, the conference asserted
that the displaced Jews are be-
wildered by "their continued de-
tention and neglect," and sug-
gested that the Army appoint
contact officers and UNRRA
name a special welfare division
to keep in close touch with the
displaced Jews and "help re-
orientate them in the post-war
world."

announced by Leonard N.
Simons, general chairman.
The figure brings the total of
Bonds sold by the Temple since
January, 1944, to $10,000,000. As-
sisting Mr. - Simons were Mrs.
George Freedman, chairman of
the Sisterhood division, and Gil-
bert Michel, chairman of the
Men's Club division.

Camp Habonim
Enters-Into Its
Second Session

Camp Habonim, Day Camp of
the Jewish Community Center,
has started its second session.
The first three weeks have
been a great
success f o r
campers.
The children have had some
fine displays of arts and crafts
and model crafts. They have
given several plays including a
Biblical play each Friday.
Photography has started in
full swing and several fine pic-
tures have come out of the dark
room.
Parents have been pleased
with the progress - their children
have shown in swimming.
Camp Habonim started the
third week with a visit to East-
wood Park, through the courtesy
Congress Book Drive
of Mrs. Milford Stern.
Nets 6,000 Volumes,
Reuben Young, camp director,
2 Sifre Torah Here
announces that applications are
still being accepted. Call Miss
The book collection drive Cohen, MA. 8400, for further
sponsored by the Detroit Section information.
of the American Jewish Congress
was a success, according to
Harry M. Kaminer, chairman.
Internationalization
Detroit contributed 600 books,
two Sifre Torah, and two cartons Of Palestine Is Urged
of taleisim and tfilin. These will
WASHINGTON (WNS) — The
be sent on to the New York of-
fice of the World Jewish .Con- internationalization of Palestine
gress, and from there to the as part of a long-range program
devastated Jewish communities to settle difficulties in the
troubled Middle East was sug-
of Europe and North Africa.
The radio program sponsored gested by the Foreign Policy
by the Detroit Section of Am- Association.
erican Jewish Congress, over
A report prepared by Grant S.
station WJLB, will not be heard McClellan of the association's
during July and August, but will research staff said that Palestine
start again on Sept. 1. This pro-
gram features world news and was emerging from this war as
information on current topics a world problem and that no de-
relative to the Congress platform cision could be reached that
of democratic unity, equal rights failed to take into consideration
and the Jewish Commonwealth the interests of the great powers
in Palestine.
in the Middle East.

Operations for Jewish Survivors in Europe

Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, standing welfare workers.
Teams of physicians, nurses
outstanding New York rabbi and
community leader, is en rout& and social workers are already
to Buenos Aires to report to the working in the liberated con-
centration camps with stateless
and German Jews. About half of
the funds which the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee spends in
Europe are directed towards the
relief of children, many of whom
are orphaned and homeless.

125,000 Immigrants

RABBI J. H. LOOKSTEIN

Jewish communities of Argen-
tina, Brazil and Uruguay on the
relief operations which the Joint
Distribution Committee is carry-
ing on for the 1,250,000 Jews
who have survived the German
holocaust in continental Europe.
The JDC is the major American
agency for the relief and re-
habilitation of needy Jews over-
seas.
Rabbi Lookstein, one of the
consultants to the American
delegation at the United Nations
conference in San Francisco, will
inform the Jewish communities
he will visit of the immediate
relief and reconstruction needs
of the destitute Jews in Europe.
He will report on the measures
which the JDC is taking in help-
ing the devastated Jewish com-
munities get back on their feet.

27 Officials Overseas
In the first six months of 1945

the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee appropriated nearly $13,500,-
000 for the relief operations
abroad. A staff of 27 American
representatives a r e stationed
throughout Europe and the Mid-
dle East where they supervise
the JDC programs. This staff is
being constantly increased by
additional appointments of out-

The Jewish communities in
Central and South America
number some 600,000 persons. Of
these, about 125,000 are refugee
immigrants. Thus far this year
the Latin American Jewish com-
munities have raised nearly
$200,000 for the relief of the
liberated Jewish communities in
Europe. Most of the funds have
been turned over to the JDC.
Rabbi Lookstein is the spiri-
tual leader of Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun in New York,
and a professor at Yeshiva Col-
lege. He is honorary president of
the Rabbinical Council of Amer-
ica, chairman of the Mizrachi
Palestine Fund and a leader in
orthodox Zionism.

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