Friday, July 27, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Berlin Magistrate Charged
With Blocking Aid to Jews
JTA Correspondent Finds NO Decrees Covering Jewish
Problems Have Been Drawn Up; Few Given
Extra Rations; Action Expected Soon
BERLIN, (JTA)—Although no final policy has been
laid down as to restoration of confiscated Jewish property,
or increased food allowances for Jews in Berlin, it was in-
dicated here that some steps soon would be taken to im-
prove the position of the several thousand Jews in this
capital.
According to reliable. non-Jew-
ish sources, however, there ap-
pears to be an obstructionist
attitude towards Jews within the
Berlin magistrate,' which is a
sort of city council. The magis-
trate, which acts as a cabinet to
the Russian-appointed mayor, Dr.
Arthur Werner, seems to be tak-
ing the attitude that it has no
responsibility for the damage
caused by the Nazi regime,
whether it affects Jews or others.
Communists wield a great deal
of influence in the magistrate,
but it is difficult to say whether
they also are responsible for
what these non-Jewish sources
described as latent remainders of
anti-Semitism.
Replies Are Varied
This correspondent interviewed
Dr. Werner, representatives of
the Jewish community, Father
Bucholz, a Catholic priest whb
is in charge of religious affairs
at the magistrate, and Maj. Val-
entin Lipnicky, 1 who is Marshal
Zhukov's liaison officer to the
Berlin administration, in an at-
tempt to obtain some definite
information on Jewish matters,
but received replies which varied
on several points.
One thing is clear: that so far
NO written decrees covering
Jewish problems have been
drawn up.
I learned that a decision to
increase food rations for Jews
was adopted last week, but it
does not seem to have reached
the level of the district food of-
fices. Under the new plan, all
Jews who were hiding in Berlin
until the city was captured and
all those who were in concen-.
tration camps will be moved up
on the food ration scale depend-
ing on what work they are doing.
At present, only Jews sent to
camps for political reasons get
special food allowances, while
those who were persecuted for
racial reasons were treated the
same as all other Germans. Only
Jews who were sent to camps for
criminal or asocial reasons will
be denied the increased rations.
Both Major Lipnicky and Dr.
Werner said that the city ad-
ministration, which has taken
charge of all Nazi-owned prop-
erty, is only acting as trustees
and that eventually everyone —
including, of course, Jews who
can prove ownership will have
their homes and apartments re-
stored to them. As far as factories
and industries are concerned,
however, nothing has been de-
cided as yet.
200 Among 6,000 Berliners
Classified as Jews
NEW YORK (JPS) — Only
200 out of 6,000 "Jews" remain-
ing in Berlin are purely Jewish,
Dr. Erich Zwilsky of the Jewish
Hospital there, acting as spokes-
man for the Berlin Jewish com-
munity, estimates, the New York
Times reports in a Berlin dis-
patch. Of an estimated 12,000
Jews in all of Germany today,
most are Jews only by Nazi law.
Many were one-half or one-
fourth Jewish and even commun-
icants of Christian churches, Dr.
Zwilsky said.
Most German Jews no longer
consider themselves Germans
and hope to go to England, the
U. S. or Palestine, he said.
Of the 600,000 Jewish residents.
in Germany in 1933, 350,000 man-
aged to leave the country before
1941 when mass deportation of
Jews began. After 1941, 130,000
Jews were forcibly deported
from Germany, including 50,000
from Berlin who were sent to
Thvresienstadt and other .concen-
tration camps in Eastern Poland,
Dr. Zwilsky estimates.
U. S. Soldiers Force Nazis
To Repair Cemeteries
NASTATTEN, Germany (JTA)
—Nazis who desecrated the Jew-
ish cemetery in this small Ger-
man village, and the adjoining
hamlet of. Singhofen, are learn-
ing the meaning of the old
American proverb that "Turn
about is fair play."
When the 276th Infantry of
the U. S. 70th Division moved
into Nastatten, which was the
Birthplace of Sen. ' Robert F.
Wagner, to occupy the area, it
found the Jewish cemetery in a
deplorable condition.
Erich Meuhlstein, of Chicago,
who was born in Singhofen, and
Sgt. William Smith of Meridian,
Conn., after obtaining permission
from the AMG, went to the bur-
gomeister and demanded the
names of the men in the village
responsible for the outrage. At
Land Redemption
Is Theme of JNF
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A Rosh
Hashanah message, expressed in
terms of Palestine land redemp-
tion as the foundation for the
n e w Jewish
life in Eretz
11111111 Israel, will be
brought to
kW:Pr' synagogue
members and
worshippe r s
on the ad-
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
vent of t h e
year 5706 of the Hebrew calen-
dar.
The message is portrayed in a
New Year stamp, issued by the
Jewish National Fund, land re-
claiming instrument of the Zion-
ist movement, which dedicated
the High Holiday season begin-
ning, the first day of Elul, to en-
list mass support for its pro-
gram. The stamp, reproduced
here, symbolizes the "Land for
Rescue and Resettlement" work
which the Fund is carrying on
in Eretz Israel for the rehabili-
tation of the refugees from Eu-
rope.
The Keren Kayemeth stamps
have been distributed by the
JNF Councils in more than 1,000
communities in all parts of the
nation to hundreds of Congrega-
tions. Synagogue officers have
been requested to affix these
stamps to Synagogue admission
cards for the High Holiday season
in acknowledgment of contribu-
tions to the people's fund for
Palestine Land Redemption. The
stamps are to be issued in ac-,
knowledgment of 5c, 10c, 25c and
larger contributions.
In Detroit the stamp can be se-
cured through the JNF Council,
11608 Dexter, TO. 8-8658.
Page Five
British Communist Party
Views Policy on Palestine
Favors Revision of White Paper in Announcing New Stand
Supporting Claims for Homeland; Regrets Release of
Out-Dated Anti-Zionist Pamphlet
By OTTO SCHICK
LONDON, (JTA)—The British Communist Party is not
opposed to the development of a Jewish national home in
Palestine and favors revision of the White Paper immigra-
tion policy, a spokesman for the party's executive told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, expressing regret that an out-
dated Communist pamphlet attacking Zionism was sent in
reply to a request, last week, for T>
an official statement of policy on the people of Palestine can be
Palestine. achieved only through coopera-
Considerable interest was tion between Arabs and Jews,
aroused in Jewish circles here with each fully recognizing the
as a result of the publication in rights of the other, and with
the Zionist Review of the re- both working together for the
plies submitted by all British po- fullest freedom for the whole peo-
litical parties to a questionnaire ple within the framework of the
asking the groups to set forth Atlantic Charter. The Corn-
their policy on Palestine. munist Party endorses the recom-
While the proposals for solu- mendations of the recent World
tion of the Palestine problem by Trade Union Congress which
the various parties differed, none : said that "the Jewish People *
expressed opposition to • Zionism ' must be enabled to continue re-
except the Communists, who building its national home."
submitted as their reply'a pam- The party favors consultations
phlet in which the Zionist pro- among Britain, U. S., France and
gram was assailed. This caused the USSR to reach a solution
surprise in view of the recent of the Palestine problem, part
conciliatory policy of the Com- of which should be an agreement.
munist Party in Palestine and on revision of the•-present immig-
Communists groups in other ration policy. It urges Jews and
countries.
Arabs to make mutual conces-
Explaining that the pamphlet sions and to work together to
had been submitted through an build in Palestine joint demo-
oversight, the Communist spokes- cratic organizations to win demo-
man outlined his party's present cratic rights, expand trade un-
stand on Palestine as follows: ions and secure cooperatiot. of
The ultimate independence of I the two peoples on all issues.
HOME
Meuhlstein at Smith's order,
and the former caretaker's direc-
tion, each man who had bought
any of the slabs was made to
return them. While part of the
group re-set the headstones and
slabs, the others set about with
hoe and spade to remove the
dense weeds. After several days
the cemetery was restored to its
pre-war condition.
Jews Removed to Big Cities
As Pogrom Sweeps Poland
NEW YORQ (JPS) — Pogroms
against Jews are raging in Po-
land and the situation is so
alarming that the Soviet authori-
ties have ordered all Jews into
the larger cities for their own
protection, two Jews who fled
from Poland and refuse to re-
turn there, told Captain Manuel
_Polikoff, of Baltimore, Chaplain
with the U. S. 29th Division in
Bremen, the United Press reports
in a dispatch from that city.
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