Friday, Sepfembet 7, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
25,000 Jews All That's Left
Out of 130,000 in Slovakia
George Freedman,
Builder, 53, Dies
George Freedman, son of the
More Than 5,000 Jewish Partisans Reported Killed During late Joseph and Bertha Freed-
Underground Struggle Against Nazis; 70,000
man, a well known Detroit build-
er, died Aug. 29 at Harper Hos-
Deported to Death Camps
BY LANDRUM BOLLING
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, (JTA)—More than 5,000 Jew-
ish partisans were killed in Slovakia during the underground
struggle against the Germans, it was . revealed here by
Salomon Weber, president of the Slovakian Jewish Com-
mittee.
pital, after a brief illness.
Funeral services were held last
Friday in the
Brown Memorial
Chapel of Tem-
ple Beth El. Dr.
B. Benedict
Glazer conduct-
ed the services.
Burial was in
Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Sam-
uel Jacobs, Jos-
. eph Holtzman,
Geo. Freedman Joseph Benis,
Dr. Jack I. Winshall, Michael
Luft and Lee C. Lippman were
the pallbearers.
Surviving him are his wife,
Mrs. Edith Albert Freedman of
950 Whitmore Rd.; four sisters,
Mrs. Minnie Levin, Mrs. Anna
Wangrow, Mrs. Rose Sloan, all of
Detroit, and Mrs. Allen Schoen-
field of Ann Arbor; and three
brotherS, Morris, Jacob and Max,
all of Detroit.
Born in Lithuania, Nov. 15,
1891, the deceased was brought
to Detroit as a young boy. He
was for many years a member
of the Builders' Association of
Metropolitan Detroit and of
Moslem Temple and Grand
Lodge, F. & A. M., Ancient Scot-
tish Rite of Free Masonry, Temple
Beth El, Harry B. Keidan Lodge
of Bnai Brith and the Zionist
organization.
Page Seventy-Nit,e
Dr. Auerbach to Conduct
Radio Says 90,900
Jews in the U. S. Zones
Services in Port Huron
Rabbi Selig S. Auerbach, who
served as Civilian Chaplain to
the Armed Forces during the
summer months, has returned to
Port Huron to conduct High Holy-
day services there.
On the first evening of Rosh
Hashanah Rabbi Auerbach will
preach on "It Is Good To Give
Thanks Unto The Lord". On the
first morning of Rosh Hasanah
his topic will be "Our Wishes
for the Post-War World." On
the second day he will speak on
"It Can Happen Again".
Jule J. Levy, president of con-
gregation Mt. Sinai, will greet
the congregation on the first
evening of the holiday. Pupils
of the Junior Department of Mt.
Sinai Sunday will participate in
the evening services. Meyer
Singer will read the Shacharis
prayers, and Charles Drescher
will again sound the Shofar.
Mt. Sinai Hebrew School has
reopened. The Sunday- School
will open on October 7.
LONDON (JPS)—The number
of Jews in the American occupa-
tion zones of Germany and
Austria has reached 90,000, most
of them having come there from
other Allied zones, the Munich
radio said in a broadcast heard
here.
Opens Free Drama School
NEW YORK (JPS) — Maurice
Schwartz, eminent Jewish actor,
has opened a free Arts School in
conjunction with the Yiddish Art
Theater. This combination drama,
dancing, and music school is now
open for enrollment, prospective
students to be between the ages
of 17 and 30. There will be no
tuition or initiation charges, and
when the student has made
favorable progress he will be
given roles in Mr. Schwartz's
plays this season.
Reviewing the general situa- restitution of property confiscat-
tion of the Jews in Slovakia since ed by the Germans will be out-
its liberation, he estimated that lined in one of these decrees. An-
the 130,000 Jews who lived here other decree will settle the ques-
before the war, there are about tion of compensation to be paid
25,000 left. They include about by the state for damages caused
8,500 who have thus far returned by German persecutions during
from concentration camps, 1,500 the Nazi occupation of Czecho-
who came out of hiding and 7,000 slovakia. A third decree will
in territory Hitler assigned to allow a missing person to be de-
Hungary and which has now been clared dead without waiting the
returned to Czechoslovakia. In usual legal perioof five years.
addition, 8,000 Jews moved to
Twenty trucks carrying food
Slovakia from Carpatho-Russia
Detroit Auxiliary of
since that area was ceded by and medicaments provided by the
Czechoslovakia to the USSR, sev- Joint Distribution Committee
have arrived here from Stock-
eral weeks ago.
Duty fulfilled ever entails a
holm by way of Denmark.
5,000 in Bratislava
sense
of further obligation, be-
The Prague Jewish community
In the city of Bratislava there has been -permitted to start the
cause one feels he has never
are no more than 5,000 Jews, Mr. publication of a monthly mag-
done enough to satisfy him-
Weber said. Energetic efforts are azine in the Czech language,
self.—Goethe.
being made to revive Jewish which will have a press run of
community life under the leader- 4,000 copies. At the same time,
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ship of Mr. Weiss, president of anti-Semitic articles continue to
the local Jewish Community appear in the press of Slovakia.
Council: A Jewish hospital with
To Captain and Mrs.
100 beds is functioning, and five Confusion In Austria Makes
ISRAEL WIENER
different places have been set It Difficult For Jews
Sends You
aside for Jewish. religious ser-
May the New Year bring
VIENNA, (JTA)—A us t r an
vices, including three former
Greetings
to you and to the House
Jews returning from camps or
synagogue buildings.
of Israel happiness. May
underground hideouts are find-
for
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Beside the local community, ing great difficulty in regaining
it be the Year that will
Jews are distributed over Slov- their former apartments and busi-
bring us to our goal in
akia as follows: 2,000 in Kosice; nesses because of the confusion ed by the immensity of the prob-
the Land of Eretz Israel.
1,500 in Presov; 1,000 in Zilina; which reigns here.
lem, are faced with the double
- Nathan R. Epstein
Corp. and Mrs.
1,000 in Michalovde, and rough-
Immediately after the Russian
President
ly 500 each in Topoloany, Blo- entry into the city, it was easy job of finding apartments for
PHILIP COHEN
people
returning
from
concentra-
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hovec, Dun-Streda, Nitra, Hu-
for Jews and others to reclaim
tion and labor camps and also
menne, Komarno, Bardiob and
their old apartments and places
Trnava. The remainder are in
of business merely by applying for 6,000 JeWs married to non-
various smaller villages.
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
to local officials who ousted the Jews, who had been allowed to
Of the 130,000 Jews who lived Nazis in residence. In cases remain in Vienna, but who had
in Slovakia before the war, where a business had disappear-
been confined by the Nazis in
70,000 were deported by the Ger- ed, the Jew was permitted to
INSURANCE OF EVERY KIND
mans to extermination camps, obtain another one in a similar sub-standard dwellings, many
Mr. Weber estimated. He be- line.
without baths or adequate cbok-
REPRESENTING 50 OF THE LARGEST AND SOUNDEST
lieves that 10,000 Jews emigrated
However, after the establish- ing facilities.
INSURANCE COMPANIES
legally from Slovakia before the ment of a central bureau to
mass-deportations started and handle such questions, the de-
2ND FLOOR MAJESTIC BLDG.
15,000 left the country illegally. cisions of local councils were an-
nulled and, in some cases, Nazis
Many Jews in Carpatho-Russia
were protected. In addition, a
Seek Czechoslovak Citizenship
decree was issued stating that
PRAGUE, (JTA)—The Czecho- all such transfers were not yet
slovakian Government is now legal. It has now been proposed
trying to establish whether Jews that all of these transfers to be
in Carpatho-Russia—the section declared illegal, and those few
Czechoslovakia which has be- Jews who succeeded in re-pos-
Greetings and Bet* Wishes
come a part of the USSR--can essing their own businesses are
choose Czechoslovak citizenship worried for fear they may lose
for The New Year
under the Moscow treaty which them again.
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Jewish community officials,
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or Czechoslovak citizenship to who are completely overwhelm-
residents of Carpatho-Russia.
SAMMY SOFFERIN
No arrests of Zionist or other
Jewish leaders have taken place
in Carpatho-Russia since that
Harry Boesky
territory became a part of Soviet
Ukraine, it was reliably estab-
lished.
The Czechoslovak Government
this week announced that a num-
ber of decrees soon will be pro-
Restaurant and Delicatessan
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