4,000 Jewish Survivors
Issue Manifesto to World
Weekly,Review of the News of the World
(Compiled Fro'm Cables of Ind ependent Jewish Press Service)
Allied Government's Failure to Take Jews into Consider-
ation Cited in Plea to Be published Throughout the
World; Members-of Hitler's Victims Urged to Unite
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THE JEWISH 'NEWS
Friday, Augus+ 10, 1945
By ARON BERMAN
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GENEVA, (JTA)—An appeal to "all the free peoples of the
world" for justice for the Jews, iii the form of a manifesto which
soon will be published throughout the world, has been completed
here by representatives of 4,000 surviving victims of the concentra-
tion camps of Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Auswitz,
Theresienstadt and Mauthausen, who are now in Switzerland.
"Representatives of all other Hitler's victims are called upon
to gather within the United Nations and to collaborate with a view
to compensation for the damages suffered through Hitler's war
machine and to prepare for a better future," the manifesto reads.
"However, we members of the Jewish people, who in many
cases are without nationality and have no ,place to go, are left
aside. Seemingly, the world wants to forget about us. No gov-
ernment of our own is backing us. We are not invited to send
representatives to the San Francisco Security Conference, and no
member of the_ Jewish people is participating in the work of the
United Nations War Crimes Commission.
"In the name of Jewish survivors, and in the name ' of all
organized or non-organized - Jews who have not had opportunity
to voice an opinion, we demand equality with all other nations;
a national home in the country of our forefathers; representation
wherever other nations are gathering; compensation for damages;
and the right to influence the migration of Jews in former oc-
cupied countries."
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Britain, U. S. Charged With Failure to Help Displaced Persons,
British
and
American
governments are
LONDON, (JTA)—The
failing in their duty to the survivors of Nazi terror, a ,London
News Chronicle correspondent writes, describing the plight of the
inmates of the camps in Germany.
An atmosphere Of "imprisonment, of being unwanted and un-
loved is still'-there," he says. "A maze of red, tape stronger than
barbed wire is - encircling the camps.'"
Dr: Irsael. Goldstein, president of the Zionist Organization of
America, who returned here this week after a tour of camps in
Germany, said that among. the - non-repatriable persons are log,000
Jews, half of whom are in- the American zone. This problem, he
declared, `"must-be approached not as a nuisance, but as - a challenge
of human rehabilitation."
(Je eeish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
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AMERICA
Westbrook Pegler, King Features Syndicate
alien-baiting columnist declares that "prob-
ably" the remaining 969 out of 1,000 "token"
refugees admitted temporarily to the United
States, will be permitted to remain here. "I
believe most Americans will wish them well,
but with a dubious hope that all of them - will
be able to cleanse their minds of European
politics and become Americans," Mr. Pegler
says. But their admittance to the United
States, he adds, "from the beginning . .. has
been lawless and a calculated imposition on
the moist sympathy of the American people."
Rabbi Irving Miller, secretary general 'of
the World Jewish Congress. will be nominat-
ed as the chairman of the Administrative
committee, at the next meeting of that Dotty,
-Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the Con-
gress, announced. Dr. Leon Kubowitzki, until
recently head . of the Rescue Department of
the Congress, will succeed Rabbi Miller as
Secretary General.
"Make us a proposition," was the quick re-
joiner of Louis Lipsky, member of the World
Zionist Executive Committee, when Dr. John
Hazam, of the Institute of Arab-American
Affairs, challenged during an American Forum
of the Air session: "Are the Zionists ready
to spend millions to help cultivate the entire
Middle East?" Mr. Lipsky's rejoiner aroused
appreciative laughter from the studio audi-
enee. --
The American Zionist Policy Committee,
which was formed on the resignation of pr.
Abba Hillel Silver from the. American Zionist
Emergency Council and led the fight for his
recall, will not disband - now despite Dr.
Silver's recall, Abraham Goodman, its secre-
tary, announced in a memorandum to the
members of the National Council of the Am-
erican Zionist Policy Committee.
Dutch insurance companies have agreed to
make retroactive premium' payments to Jews
for the entire period of the German occupa-
tion of Holland. In cases where the insured
person leaves no heirs, the Jewish Com-
munity Council of the city of his last resi-
dente will be the beneficiary, it is reported
in the Knickerbocker News, Netherlands
organ .in New York.
OVERSEAS
Violent pogroms are raging in all parts
of Poland, impelling Polish Jews, many of
them former concentration camp inmates, to
seek safety in Czechoslovakia. Large numbers
of Polish Jews are daily crossing the frontier
near Teschen.
Dr. Karl Schrangel, Mayor of Munich, an-
nounced that Bavarian insurance companies
will pay to JEWS, premiums which came due
during the past ten _years, that banks- will
unfreeze Jewish deposits, and "the Bavarian
people will endeavor to recompense the Jews
for their losses."
The Hakoah sports club, sole Jewish organ-
ization now active among Viennese Jewish
youth, is once more engaging in sports con-
tests, and has been invited to Prague, Buda-
pest- and Belgrade for soccer matches there.
The Hakoah swimming section has staged its-,
first contest, with champions Ruth Hirschler
and Rudi Koenig, recently released from a con-
centration camp, participating. Hakoah sports
club was recently re-established in Poland by
-Jewish veterans of Partisan bands who - stress
, the need of physical training for European
. Jewry.
An enthusiastic revival of Jewish religious
life is taking place in Berlin, where the sur-
viving Jewish community, numbering about
10,000, is opening synagogues, in Iranispe-
strasse, Pestakizzustrasse, and ThieLschufier
plaz, and are holding service twice daily. An-
other three synagogues will be opened in
time for the holidays.
The Jewish Agency 'has received informa-
tion from Germany' that the first training
center for Jews liberated from the. Buchen-
wald concentration camp - and intending to
go to Palestine was established at Eggendorf,
near Blankenheim, in the American zone of
occupation, at the beginning of June. It is
called . Kibbutz Buchenwald, and is comprised
of 50 men and women learning farming under
the auspices of the Jewish Ccirnmittee of
Buchenwald.
Stalin Backs
Jewish State
Said to Have 'Told Truman at
Potsdam that He Supports
Palestine Homeland
NEW YORK (JPS)--.A. Lon-
don dispatch to the Jewish
Morning Journal, Aug. 5, re-,
ported that Generallissimo Stalin
told President Truman. and for-
mer Prime Minister Churchill,
at the Potsdam_ conference, that
a Jewish Commonwealth in Pal-
estine has his full support. He
stressed the heed for coming to
an amicable understanding with
the Arabs.
Stalin is reported to have said
that the Jews of the USSR have
no need for settlement in Pal-
estine because there is no anti-
Semitism in Russia, but reports
of growing anti-Semitism else-
where make it imperative that
Palestine be reserved as an
asylum olor the Jews. This infor-
mation, the dispatch states, has'
been obtained"' from a "reliable
source."
Methodist Women
Hit Bilbo's Waste
Of Senate's Time
LAKE JUNALUSKA (JPS)-
Representatives of the Southern
`Women's Methodist Organization,
attending a seminar on Christian
social relations here, adopted a
resolution condemning Senator
Bilbo (D), of Miss., for his attacks
against Jews, Catholics, Italians,
Negroes and other minority
'groups.
The -resolution stated that "we
want the outside world to know
such practices and tactics do not
have the sanction of the Christian
Smith . . . We are bowed in con-
trition that a Senator - of our
South could so forget himself as
to -be so un-Christian and un-
gentlemanly as to address any-
one with the title of an offensive
epithet."
The resolution characterized_
Senator Bilbo's use of . the
Senate's time as "a tragic waste
of ' the tax-payers' rdoney." •
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