Friday, September 7, 1945
THE
JEWISH NEWS
Page Sixty-Five
Liberated JDC Official
Bevin Calls
Renews Work in Shanghai Middle East
joint Distribution Committee Allocates $100,000 Monthly
for Maintenance of Shanghai Group; $500,000 Owed
for Loans During .dap Occupation
NEW YORK—Manuel Siegel, Joint Distribution Com-
mittee representative who carried on its relief program
for 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and who was intern-
ed by the Japanese in February, 1943, has been liberated,
it was made known today.
A cable from Shanghai via Switzerland to the J.D.C.'s
Noted Orthodox
Leader is Here
Envoys Home
Isaac Meier Lewin to Be
Honored at Dinner at the
Center on Sept. 19
British Foreign Secretary
Calls Parley on Issues,
Isaac Meier Lewin, well known
Including Palestine
Yiddish orator, son-in-law of the
Special Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON, (JTA)—Announce-
ment has been made here that
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
is calling in all envoys stationed
in the Middle East for a con-
ference on pressing problems in
that area, including Palestine.
New York office, announced ,
Siegel's liberation. It said he had
of the Shanghai group and only
resumed direction of the relief a few days ago the JDC appro-
program pending his repatriation.
priated an extra $35,000 for.
The release of Siegel, a 34- special needs arising out of the
year-old welfare worker and a
bombardment of Shanghai. For
native of Boston, adds a new a period during the Japanese
British ambassadors in Iran
chapter to the dramatic story of occupation of the city, funds for and Egypt as well as High Com-
the continued assistance which
the relief program were obtain- missioner Gen. Gort of Palestine
the JDC has furnished the thous-
ed by borrowing against JDC are already here. The ministers
ands of Jews who fled Nazi
credit arrangements made when of Iran and Egypt are en route
Europe to the safety of Shangai, war seemed imminent.
here.
a free-port city.
These
loans,
repayable
"not
One of the important prob-
$2,200,000 Appropriated
later than six months after the lems for the conference, accord-
Close to $2,200,000 has been ap-
declaration of peace between ing to informed observers, will
propriated by the American relief
Japan and the United States" be the formulation of a new
agency since 1938 for the sup-
total $500,000. Then arrange-- policy in Palestine to correspond'
port of the refugees in Shanghai.
ments were made for the exten- with the Labor Party's policies,
JDC's work in Shanghai began
sion of funds by the Swiss office and with pre-election promises
in 1938, when the influx of some of the JDC.
to support Zionism.
1,500 refugees from Germany
necessitated outside relief. With-
Arab League Official
in a year the number had risen Jewish Partisans Get
To Leave for London
to 17,000, of whom 10,000 were French Decorations
CAIRO, (JTA)—It is under-
utterly destitute. JDC, major
American agency for the relief
PARIS (JPS) — The following stood that Azzam Bey, secretary
of destitute Jews overseas, pro- members of the Armee Juive, the general of the Arab League, will
vided food, shelter, clothing, French Jewish partisan army, leave for London shortly at the
medical aid, child-care and con- who died in action, whether in request of the league's members.
structive economic assistance.
actual fighting or while dis- Azzam Bey will inform the
-By 1940 there were more than charging missions for the anti- British government concerning
20,000 Jewish refugees in Shang- Nazi underground in France, the Arab viewpoint on Palestine
hai, the majority of them entirely have been awarded posthumous as well as on other Middle East-
dependent on JDC support. From decorations by the F r e n c h ern matters.
Nazi-threatened Europe t h e y Government:
escaped by the back door to the
The London sensation created
The Croix de Guerre with the by Lauren Bacall on her debut
free-port city after an overland
journey through Poland, Russia, Bronze Star was awarded to in "To Have and Have Not" re-
Pvts. Isidore Guterman, Pierre sulted in a command perform-
Siberia and Manchuria.
Lev, Henri Broder, Jean Brau-
ance for the King and Queen at
In May, 1941, the JDC sent
man, Lt. Albert Cohan, Capt.
Miss Laura Margolis to Shanghai
Windsor Castle. Lauren has re-
Jacques Lazarus; the Croix de
as its representative. She was
ceived the most elaborate intro-
Guerre with the Silver Star:
joined in November by Siegel
ductory campaign given a new
who had worked in Cuba for the Pvts. Tommy Bauer, Armand star in England since before the
Lucas,
Jacques
Sarmont,
Sgt.
war!
JDC. After Pearl Harbor, the
two were for a time permitted Major David Blum, and Liaison
Officer
Sarah
Fixman.
Pierre
by the Japanese to continue their
Lev and Henri Broder were ar-
relief activities.
rested by the Germans in Janu-
Provide Free Meals
ary 1944, and died under Gestapo
They were able to provide free torture.
meals for as many as 10,000 per-
sons daily, helping to set up feed-
Linwood & Taylor
Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood's
ing stations. They also arranged
very
successful
producer,
confid-
hospital and clinical care for
some 3,000 patients weekly and ed a secret to me the other day.
I now take pleasure in telling it
extended other assistance.
Miss Margolis and Siegel were to you (but don't tell him that
interned in February, 1943, but I told you). "Screen personal-
under a local committee the JDC ity," he says, "is a mysterious
program continued to assist as blend of sex appeal, intelligence,
many Jews as possible. Miss sincerity, spiritual radiance and
Margolis was repatriated late other undefined qualities!"
in 1943 in an exchange of Am-
erican and Japanese nationals,
and now heads the JDC office in
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
Belgium.
Last week the Swiss offices of
5706
the JDC received the first direct
word from Shanghai since 1941.
A cable from the representatives
of the Jewish community there
expressed their deep gratitude
for the assistance rendered them
INSURANCE
by the JDC.
$100,000 Sent Monthly
605 FOX BLDG.
At present JDC allocates $100.-
CH. 5757
1000 monthly for the maintenance
Gerer Rebbi, recognized leader
of Jewry in Poland, is one of
those who escaped to Palestine
and who is devoting his life to
rebuilding religious life in
Palestine.
At the request of a representa-
tive committee in Detroit, Isaac
Meier Lewin will be the guest of
the Detroit Jewish community
during the High Holydays. He
will bring the last message of the
dying martyrs, will tell the story
of the heroism of Polish Jewry
and will report about the revival
of religious Jewry in Palestine.
Rabbi Lewin will be honored
at a dinner Wednesday, Sept. 19
at 7 p. m., at the Jewish Center,
Woodward and Holbrook.
Rabbi Leo Jung of New York
will come to Detroit to present
Isaac Meier Lewin to Detroit
Jewry at the dinner.
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