Friday, Januarill, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Premier of Poland
Pledges to Wipe Out
Anti-Jewish Terror

New Wave of Anti-Semitism Sweeps Through Lodz Dis-
trict as Several More Jews Are Slain; 'Illegal' Immi-
grants in Berlin Pose New Problem

WARSAW, (JTA)—A fresh outbreak of anti-Jewish terror,
during which several Jews were killed, was reported this week
from the Lodz district, while 'in the city of Lodz authorities
arrested Polish students who tried to provoke anti-Semitic dis-
turbances in the streets during the funeral of a Polish student
who was murdered by unknown criminals.
All democratic student organizations in Lodz issued a joint
declaration condemning fascist elements among the students and
stressing that they will not permit any anti-Jewish incidents.
Eight Jews who recently returned to Poland from Germany
were reported to have been murdered in Boloslawiec, near
Lodz. Those killed are Jacob Kohn, Szaja Kohn, Moritz Goldblat
and Pinchas Holtz and their wives. Two Poles who tried to
defend them also were murdered.
Prime Minister Eduard Osubka Morawski, in an address to
the Polish National Council, declared that "the Jewish people
who survived the Nazi slaughter will enjoy the fullest protection
of the Polish State."
Condemning anti-Semitic incidents, promising that the in-
stigators will be wiped out, he pointed out that while the Polish
Government has no objection to Jewish emigration- to Palestine,
it is opposed to illegal emigration from Poland. He also pledged
that the Jews would be assisted in rehabilitating themselves eco-
nomically and in settling in Polish territory taken from Germany.

Considered "Illegal Immigrants"
PARIS (JTA)—The 4,500 Jews fleeing from Poland who
have reached Berlin in the past few months are stranded in the
American sector of the city, while American, British, Russian
and French military representatiyes are engaged in "studying
the problem" of what to c],o them,- it wat - re'Vetlet-6r-LT.-
Coli.--11"arry S. - M6-ss&, executive officer of the - U. S. AMG.
In - a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from
Berlin, over long-distance telephone to Paris, Col Messec dis-
closed that these Jews are con-
sidered "illegal immigrants."
(On Dec. 10, 1945, a State Dept.
spokesman in Washington told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that while the Jewish refugees
are creating-an additional burden
for the U. S. occupying forces,
the official policy is not to return
them against their will to places
from which they fled.)

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Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Louis Lipsky, co-chairman of the American
Jewish Conference and member of the Jewish
Agency Executive, charged that the British
are using Palestine as an "armed camp"
through which troops are being brought into
the Middle East to counteract possible Rus-
sian moves in Iran and neighboring countries.

OVERSEAS

UNRRA representatives at a conference in
Munich with delegates from the Central Jew-
ish Committees of Munich, Landsberg, Felda-
fing and six other Jewish DP camps in the
U. S. zone promised that conditions in the
camps where certain UNRRA officials have
been charged with pro-German and anti-
Jewish bias in allocating relief items, will be
remedied in the near future, by reorganiza-
tion of the entire UNRRA machinery in the
U. S. zone. UNRRA representatives praised.
the Jewish training centers and schools estab-
lished in the DP camps.
A department of Jewish history and Hebrew
language and literature has been established
at the University of Vienna.
On a gallows ouside the crematorium of
Maidanek death camp in Poland, which con-
sumed the gassed bodies of an estimated
2,000,000 Jews and other victims, Paul Hoff-
man, German chief executioner at the camp,
was hanged, while 15,000 persons, many of
them former inmates of the camp, looked on,
it is reported here. According to reports, Hoff-
man placed the noose around his neck.
A special commission of the Berlin muni-
cipality has been appointed to contact living
German Jewish authors whose books were
burned in the Nazi bonfires in 1933, in order
to arrange for the reprinting of their books
at the municipality's expense. The republish-
ed books will replenish state and municipal
libraries in Berlin. -
151.rzaw-pe.liee, .discovered the -secret tea-d- -
, quarters of the *Polish Some Army which is
charged with fomenting the anti-Semitic po-
groms now sweeping Poland. The lists .pur-
portedly show that the Home Army is largely

composed of Poles living in exile abroad,
among them General. Anders, Commander of
the Polish Middle East Army who, according
to the Warsaw Government's allegations, in-:
structed Polish fascist ringleaders to organize
pogroms in Poland in order. to block the ar-
rival of Jewish relief dispatches from abroad
and thus discredit the Warsaw GovernMent's
Capacity to maintain order.
A Paris branch of the Jewish maritime
society, Zebulon, which trains Jewish youths
for careers in the Palestine and other merchant
marines, has opened in Paris and is attracting
many young Jewish men.

PALESTINE

The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kaye-
meth) distributed 103 agricultural scholarships,
to the amount of $23,600, usable at recognized
agricultural training institutions in Palestine.
The • scholarships bear the name of the late
Moses Epstein of King Williamstown, South
Africa, who bequeathed $200,000 to the Jewish
National Fund, stipulating that its interest
be used for agricultural scholarships. The
capital sum of the bequest will accrue to JNF
in 1953. Preference was given to applicants
who had served in the Army or police, child
refugees, farmers' orphans, and children and
immigrants. from South Africa.
A memorial meeting for Jewish Palestine's
parachutists who _fell in action behind enemy
lines during the war was held in Tel Aviv
under auspices of the Executive of the Hista-
druth, Jewish Palestine's Federation of Labor,
of which a majority of the deceased were
members. Since 1941, a number of groups
went into various countries such as Romania,
Yugloslavia, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy
where they discharged Allied missions and
undertook Jewish rescue work. Most were
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hazardous duties. • _
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Uri Rosenblatt, former Polish Zionist leader
and a deputy in the. Sejm (Polish Parliament),
died in Tel Aviv at the age of 72. He fled to
Palestine from Poland during the war.

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The number of Jewish refugees
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weeks ago.

AMG authorities in Germany
have rejected a request by David
Ben Gurion, chairman of the ex-
ecutive of the Jewish Agency,
that a special area be set aside in
Germany for displaced Jews,
pending their eventual emigra-
tion, it is reported here. The re-:.
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Virtually Shut to
Displaced Jews

N. Y. Times Writer Says Less
Than 20,000 Refugees Will
Benefit Under Order

NEW • YORK (JPS)—Thomas
J. Hamilton, New York Times
Washington correspondent, ana-
lyzing the. immigration picture,
writes that no more than .20,000
refugees of all races and nation-
alities will benefit from Presi-
dent Truman's directives, unless
the quotas are continued after
the present fiscal year, ending
June 30. Consequently "the doors
of the U. S. are virtually closed
to the Jews."
American immigrat'on quotas
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European quota is assigned to
Germany, where there are only
4.000 Jews not in the category
of displaced persons, Mr. Ham-
ilton writes. There are, however,
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