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, I I 11111111111111111111111111111 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111Ht11111111111 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 5607 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- ill 1111111011111111111111 01111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111131 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. 1456 Broadway grants free choice of either Soviet Jewish community officials, &cm 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 mulgated which will benefit the surviving Jews in the coun- Twelfth at Hazelwood try. 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