Friday, November 30, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Nazi Plot to Annihilate Jews Revealed by Jackson at Trial Rosenberg displayed noticeable nervousness as Allied prosecut- ors, addressing t h e opening session of the trial, listed the crimes against Jews of which the three are accused. • Goering Hears Charges Documentary Evidence of Germany's Proposed Systematic When the "horror pages" of the Slaughter Presented at War Crimes Case; 'Conspiracy indictment, outlining the Nazi atrocities against Jews were read, Promoted to Soften Democratic Peoples' Goering leaned forward in the dock to listen attentively. - Streicher sat bolt upright when his name was mentioned in the 25,000-Word indictment read by Sidney S. Aldern-tan, of the Am- erican prosecuting staff. His lawyers had sought without suc- cess to have his "mental capacity" eXartiined: •Rosenberg remained aroof from the proceedings until he heard: "Defendant Rosenberg stated anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany. On another occasion he also stated that Germany will re- gard the Jewish- question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent." . —International Soundphoto Two judges of the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg exchanging whispered words while indictments against accused war crime defendants were being presented 1:)y U. S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson. Left to right: LORD JUSTICE. LAWRENCE (Britain) and FRANCIS BIDDLE (U. S.) By WILLY BRANDT (Jewish, Telegraphic Agency Correspondent) • NUREMBERG, (JTA)—Documentary eVidence' of the Nazi Government's plans for systematic annihilation of the 'Jews of Europe was presented at the war crimes trial here by Mai. Frank Wallis, on behalf of U. S. prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson: Maj. Wallis submitted a memo- rand-um issued by Julius Streich- er, and also other documents, as proof that the pogroms which swept Germany on Nov. 10, 1938, were carefully planned, down to minute details on how shops and synagogues were to be destroyed, and what clothes the rioters should wear. He also presented evidence• of a meeting, under Goering's chairmanship, held later in No- vember, 1938, at which planS Were discused for carrying out Hitler's order that the Jewish question must be "solved." Committed to Murder Jews • Maj. Wallis' presentation fol- lowed the line taken by Justice Jackson in his opening address in which he charged that "the Most savage and numerous crimes planned and committed by the Nazis were those against the Jews." "It. is - my purpose to show a plan and design, to which all Nazis were ! fanatically corn-. mated ; to annihilate all Jewish people," Justice Jackson. said. "The perSecution of the Jews was a continuous. °an d deliberate policy. It was a policy directed against other nations as well as against the Jews themselves. Anti-Semitism was promoted to divide • and embitter the demo- cratic peoples and•to - soften their resistance to the Nazi aggression." "The 'conspiracy or common plan to exterminate the Jew was so methodically and thoroughly pursued that, despite the Ger- man defeat and Nazi prostration, this Nazi aim largely has suc- ceeded," he stressed. "Only the remnants of the European Jew- ish population remain in Ger- manY; in the countries which Germany occupied, and in those Refugee, Former Soldier, Interpreter for Tribunal NUREMBERG (JPS) — Benja- min Wald of New York City, Warsaw-born Polish Jew, who is an accomplished liguist, is the bench interpreter for the inter- natiofial War Crimes Tribunal trying 20 top Nazi- war criminals. Mr. Wald, whose job is to in- terpret conversations between the members of the four-power, tri-lingual war crimes justices, speaks fluent English, French, Russian, _Polish and Yiddish. His mother and father, who were in Poland when the war broke out, were killed by the Nazis. Wald Caine to the U. S. as a refugee in 1941. A year later he was drafted into the army and assigned as translator for Mili- tary Review, publication of the Command and General School at Fort Leavenworth. which were her satellites or collaborators, • - 60 Pct. Have Perished "Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in Nazi dominated Europe, 60 per cent are authoritatively estimated to have perished; 5;- 700,000 Jews are missing from the countries in which they for- merly lived, and over 4,500,000 cannot be accounted for by the _ normal death rate nor by emi- gration; nor are they included among displaced, persons. History does not record - a crime ever perpetrated against so many vic- times or one ever carried out with such . calculated cruelty." Goering, Streicher and Alfred n Page Twenty-Nine Extraordinary UJA Parley To Deal With Great Needs American Jewry's Role in Task of Determining Future of Surviving. Jews to Be Mapped at 3-Day Conference in Atlantic City, Dec: 15 to 1.7 NEW YORK — An extraordi- nary conference of the ,United Jewish Appeal, the first to be convened since the UJA's incep- tion in 1939, will be held Satur- day through Monday, Dec. 15 to 17, at Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City, N. J., to consider how Amer- ican Jews will cope with respon- sibilities of rebuilding Jewish life Zusman Brothers Back; Discharged Day Apart in Europe and Palestine in 1946. Because American Jews must assume decisive roles in deter.. mining the future of surviving Jews; the national chairmen of JDC, UPA and NRS—Dr. Jonah B. Wise, Dr. James G. Heller and William Rosenwald—have issued a• joint statement declaring that community leaders from the entire country have been sum- moned to Atlantic City to share in shaping the UJA campaigns. Leading representatives of the shattered Jewish communities of Europe and Palestine leaders will fly to the United States to place before the UJA conference full reports on the present Jewish Situation. The past week was occasion for a happy reunion for two De- troit brothers who returned to the United States from the Euro- pean Theater of War and were honorably discharged one day apart. Capt. Herman H. Zusman, who was overseas for 18 months with a Convalescent Hospital, is now Hanukah on terminal leave. S/Sgt. Rudolph, P. Zusman was with the 8th Air Greetings-- Force in England for 11 months and completed 34 missions over % Germany. Both had met in London after m il not seeing each other for more than a year. Capt. Zusman was inducted in July, 1941, and was commissioned • 1456 Broadway in July, 1942. CA, 8745 kr S/Sgt. Zusman commenced ac, tive service in April, 1943. Nevee.r.e•arieiermee.viem.vid. Rubin's Furs so many 15he5 Holiday When Your Small Greetings Son Runs to Meet You rtie6 . Remember th,e Man Who's Never Seen His T. B. RAYL'S Griswold at State May the Light of Hanukah Bring Light and Understanding to Our People Everywhere. May Israel Strengthen the Cause of Jewish Learning, and May the Sacred Language of Our People—Hebrew- Serve as, a Tower of Strengi-Ti for the Jewish People. KV•TZAH WRITH (Hebrew Cultural Group of Detroit) Bernard Isaacs; President LADIES' AUXILIARY Mrs Abraham . Panush, President ilanz Tomato Vetchu n► ad from the tineg tomatces rare r pices. and iidnz own one gar 41111111111111NNIMINWISMICIMUnoreopsownewesiimilmo VICTORY WAN 71 -1117: