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THE JEWISH NEWS

Architect's Plans for Weizmann Institute of Science

Page Seventy-Five

Alfred Werner Here
To Gather Data on
Jews in Midwest

Eminent Journalist, Refugee
From Dachau, Plans New
Series of Articles

The Weizmann Institute of Science, for which
the American Committee is seeking to raise in
the Western Hemisphere a sum of $2,000,000 will
be comprised of four research institutes, of which
the Daniel Sieff .Institute is already the nucleus.

The above is one of the wings of the projected
Institute of Science, being erected in honor of
Dr. Chaim Weizniann, as envisioned in the pre-
liminary architect's plans for the new research
center which is to rise soon in Rehovoth.

HungaryAdmits JTAWriter;

One-Fifth of Jews Survived

BY LANDRUM BOLLING
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency W4 ir Correspondent)

BUDAPEST, (JTA)—The first
contact between the Jews of
Hungary and the United States
was established this week when
a correspondent of the Jewish
Zelegraphic Agency, accredited
to the U. S. Armed Forces, was
permitted to enter Budapest and
' make a survey of the Jewish
situation. "
"Budapest is now the largest
Jewish city of Europe," the cor-
respondent was told by Louis
Stockler, president of the local
Jewish community. • "There are
almost 120,000 Jews now in the
city, which is about half the
number here before the war.
Elsewhere in Hungary there are
another 40,000 to 50,000 Jews.
Roughly speaking, one-fifth of
the nearly million Jews who
lived in Hungary before the
German occupation survive.
Miracle of Survival
"That any of us are here at
all," he continued, "is a miracle
that few would have believed
possible seven months ago. At
that time, this place where we are
now • talking---the narrow ghetto
of Budapest—was used by the
Nazis to crowd in 68,000 Jews in
a space normally filled by 5,000.
From here, as was true else-
where, transports regularly went
off to the extermination camps.

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But it was our good fortune that
the Germans were late in start-
ing their systematic extermina-
tion, and that the Red Army came
early.
"When the Russians arrived,"
Dr. Stockler related, "we were a
starving people, dying from
hunger daily. We are still filled
with gratitude that we have food
and that we are free again." He
expressed great appreciation on
behalf of the Jewish Community
for the aid sent by the Joint Dis-
tribution 'Committee to the Jews
in Hungary. The J.D.C. relief, he
said, arrived in considerable
quantity through the Internation-
al Red Cross. Nevertheless this
need continues for food, clothing
and medicine, he said.
Restore Religious Freedom
Religious freedom has been
restored under the provisional
government, and Jewish services
are attended by large ; numbers.
The synagogue in Dohany street
escaped with minor damages, and
adjoining buildings of the Jewish
Community are in use. Decrees
for the restoration of confiscated
Jewish property have been issued.
Since the lack of transporta-
tion facilities makes it difficult
to get around the country, it is
virtually impossible to estimate
how many Hungarian Jews want

to emigrate. But Max Domonkos,
secretary of the Budapest Jewish
Community, told the J.T.A. cor-
respondent that most of the older
people appear to want to remain,
while the younger Jews hope
eventually to • go elsewhere.

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Alfred Werner, eminent Jewish
journalist whose articles have
appeared in. The Jewish News
and in outstanding English and
German periodicals, was a guest
in Detroit last week to gather
data for his series of articles on
the Middle Western Jewish com-
munities. ..
Mr.. Werner, who came to this
country. in 1939, after having
escaped from the Nazis, suffered
for eight months in the Dachau
concentration camp.
"I have tasted the dregs of
human existence," he commented
referring to his experiences. -
In Vienna he was associated
with Mme. Irene Harand, eminent
Catholic leader, in the publica-
tion of her periodical "Gerech-
tigkeit" • which was dedicated to
the fight against anti-Semitism.
Mr. Werner was a friend of the
late Stefan Zweig and of the
leading German-Jewish writers
of our time.
His brother, M/Sgt. Edward F.
Werner, is serving . overseas with
the. U. S. army, and his father,
who is 65 and who also escaped
from the Nazis, is now attached
to the U. S. army in France. His
father is a linguist who was at-
tached from 1918 to 1938 to the

Bulgarian Embassy in Vienna.
Mr. Werher'S experiences are
varied. He was arrested in 1936
during the raids conducted • by ..
the Schussnigg police force on
false charges. and has .had many
run-ins with :the Nazis.

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