THE JEWISH NEWS
of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review
VOL. 8—NO. 5
2114 Penobscot Bldg.
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Detroit, 26, Michigan, October 19, 1945
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Detroit Jewry Gets JDC Plea
To Increase War Chest Giving
European Survivors
In Desperate Plight;
Step Up Relief Work
Detroit Jews were called upon this. week by
national leaders of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee to increase their efforts for relief activities to
assure uninterrupted rescue operations in Europe.
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Hero Returns : The hero who relayed the last message from
Corregidor, SGT. IRVING STROBING of Brooklyn, third from
left, is shown with CPL. JACK SEVENSON, of Los Angeles,
BM 2/C WILLIAM ROTH of New Haven and MR. AND MRS.
SEYMOUR FISHIVIAN at the latter's home. The three 'service-
men are rescued war prisoners. Mr. Fishthan is territorial &rec-
tor for Hawaii of Jewish Welfare Board, a War Chest Agency.
Book Month : Annual Jewish
Book Month, to be celebrated
during November, will be a sig-
nal for American Jews torecledi-
cate themselves to traditional
ideals for culture and learning.
In messages to local Jewish leaders, urging them to
use all available forces to guarantee the success of the
War Chest campaign, whose income provides for all re-
lief and reconstruction projects, in addition to the ■ sup-
port it provides for all local causes, JDC leaders reveal
that:' 1. all available funds for 1945 have been exhausted
three months in advance: 2. that JDC already has been.
compelled to borrow $6,000,000 above the current year's
income; 3. that an additional $8,000,000 will be. needed
for the current year—making a deficit of $14,000,000 which
will have to be raised supplementary to the 1945 in-
comes; and 4. that the urgent overseas needs have made
it necessary for , JDC to send a new group of overseas
workers to assist in providing for the needs -of the sur-
vivors from Nazism.
JDC Aides Sail for Europe
Eight JDC welfare workers, seven of them scheduled
to enter the displaced persons camps in Germany and
Austria in behalf of Jewish refugees, there, sailed from
N. Y. for France this week. Forty-three other JDC wel-
fare workers already are stationed in 14 camp areas in
the American and British zones, and the new recruits
will bring,the total to fifty.
The JDC representatives who sailed for France this
week included: Morton A. Freedman, Springfield, Ill.;
Gershon Gelbert, Port Chester, N. Y.; Auren A. Kahn,
Berkeley, Calif.; Oscar A.Mintzer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ralph
Segalman, Peoria, Ill.; Simon Schargo, New York City;
Saul Travirk, New York City; and Norman Winestine,
Helena, Mont. Mr. Winestine, a successful businessman,
gave up his business to go as a volunteer. Recently, he
served two. years as an American Red Cross worker
in the China, Burma, India theater.
Reveal JDC Activities During War
Investigators' reports, including the report of William
O'Dwyer, executive director of the President's War
Refugee Board, in the meantime reveal that JDC activi-
ties prior to V-E and V-J Days include the sending of
food and supplies to Jewish communities behind enemy
lines by parachutes and the supplying of means for rescue
work through underground forces. (Reports of in-
vestigators' findings will be found elsewhere in this issue
of The Jewish News).
Relief activities, necessitating vastly increased activi-
ties by American Jewish communities, and by the War
Chest in Detroit, are also being spurred by calls for great-
er efforts in behalf of Palestine issued Iv the United
Palestine AppeaL
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Overcoats fon Needy :Warm overcoats are
being baled at the Joint DiStribution Commit-
tee's supply station 'at Teheran for shipment
to Jews in Poland by way of the Soviet Union.
War Chest funds raised in Detroit make pos-
sible this humanitarian work.
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Palestine Arrivals: Refugees from Eu-
rope, including former prisoners in -concentra-
tion camps, are shown here arriving in Pales-
tine where provision for their rehabilitation is
made by the United Palestine Appeal, with
funds provided by the War Chest.
The Crime—and the Day of Reckoning : Details of the unthinkable horrors of the Bel.-
sen prison camp are being revealed as trials of the .46 sadistic murderers proceed at Luneberg, Ger-
many. Here the camera shows some of the German SS criminals as they were forced to bury. the -.,
bodies, (piles on the cart) of their torture victims. On the ground, just :behind them, a skeleton-
like corpse provides visual, evidence of what happened at Belsen'§ murder camp.
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Congressmen Ask Free
Palestine Immigration
Bi-partisan resolutions, introduced in the U. S. Senate
and House of Representatives, calling for free immigra-
tion of Jews into Palestine and for an international corn-
Mission to "effectuate the immediate transfer of the
Hebrew people to Palestine," serve as Christian America's
message to mankind in an hour of crisis for Jewry.
These resolutions were introduced at a time when
the Jewish poSition remaius uncertain, with the
British officials reported insisting upon offering to
release 1,500 to 2,000 certificates a month--it, number
which has been declared "ridiculous" not only by
Jewish leaders but also by non-Jewish observers.
The bi-partisan resolutions were introduced by Sen.,
ators Francis J. Meyers, (D) of PennsYlvania, and
Charles W. Tobey, (R) of New Hampshire, and Reps.
Andrew L. Somers, (D) of New York, and Bertrand W.
Gearhart, (R) of California. • The resolutions, texts of
which are identical, read:
"The U.S. shall use its good offices and take immediate
appropriate measures to the end that Palestine shall be
re-opened at the earliest possible moment for free entry
of Hebrews into that area, and that there shall be full
opportunity for colonization and settlement on the land
by the Jewish people, and that Palestine ultimately be
established as a free and independent democratic state
with full citizenship rights for its inhabitants without dis-
crimination based on racial or. religious factors.
"Pending the setting up of governmental machinery
to 'effectuate the establishment of Palestine as an inde-
pendent democracy and to aid the people of Palestine
in so doing, our executive department is urged to take
the initiatory steps, in conjunction with other interested
United Nations to set up . a supervisory international corn-
mission• to effectuate the immediate transfer of the Hebrew
people of Europe to Palestine and to insure peaceful
and orderly processeA ht. securing these ends."