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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 22, •1946
AMG Thwarts Boy's Hunt
For Nazi Who Killed Father
Romanian Lad and Pal, Who Survived Concentration
Camp, Liable to 10 Years' Imprisonment for Fracas
Agent
With Belligerent Sister of
Gestapo
FRANKFURT, (JTA)—Two Romanian-Jewish youths are in
jail here, facing a possible 10 years imprisonment, because they
attempted to find the Nazi who murdered the father of one of them.
Their story begins in Oct.
Oct., 1943, in Cluj, Romania, where the
was arrested and murdered
father of 18-year-old Andor
by a Gestapo agent. Shortly afterwards, Andor and his mother and
five younger brothers and sisters were sent to Oswiecim. Last May,
only Andor remained alive, somewhere in the Austrian Tyrol. He
returned to Cluj and obtained a photograph of the Gestapo agent
from a local photographer. Across the back of the photo was
written the name of a Bavarian town. After travelling hundreds of
miles, Andor reached the town, where he enlisted the aid of
UNRRA, the military police and the local burgomeister.
The latter recognized the photo and mentioned that the agent
had a sister named Schneider in Hoechst, a suburb of Frankfurt.
Through the aid of UNRRA, he was transferred to the Lamper-
theim Camp, about 50 miles south of here. There he met a friend,
Ber Blum, who also came from Cluj.
Although both desired to get to Palestine as soon as possible,
they decided to find the Gestapo agent.
When they arrived at the home of the agent's sister, they found
a woman washing clothes, who denied that she knew anyone
named Schneider. However, Andor spied a photograph similar to
the one in his possession. The woman admitted that the agent was
her brother, but said that he had been killed at Leningrad.
When Andor replied that he had seen him in Cluj after the
Battle of Leningrad, the woman shouted: "This country isn't Pal-
estine" and "it's a pity that some Jews are still living." She at-
tempted to strike Andor with her washboard. He ducked and
shoved her back. She fell against some furniture and arose
screaming for help.
When American military police arrived, they arrested both
boys and laughed at Andor when he asked that they help him
retrieve the photo. That was on Feb. 11, and they are still in jail
awaiting trial, which has been scheduled for this week.
Capt. Alan Fraser, a Texas lawyer, attached to the legal section
of AMG here, displayed a complete lack of interest when questioned
by a JTA correspondent. He revealed that he will be the sole
officer presiding at the boys' trial before the AMG Intermediate
Court.
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff
of the United States Army, paid tribute to
the work of Jewish chaplains in the armed for-
ces in World War II, in a special message to
the Jewish Institute of Religion on the occa-
sion of its Founder's Day dinner, March 17, cel-
ebrating the birthday of Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
founder and president of the Institute.
The Arab Information Offices in London and
Washington, official conduits of Arab propa-
ganda in Britain and United States, were or-
ganized by Musa Al-Alamy, Palestine repre-
sentative of the Arab League in Cairo, with the
assistance of Lord Kellern and Pinckney Tuck,
British and United States Ambassadors to
Egypt, respectively, it was disclosed in an ar-
ticle in the Arab weekly "El Vhada," of Jeru-
salem, by Al Haldi, former mayor of Jeru-
salem.
A protest against the appointment to the New
York City Board of Education of George A.
Timono, who is charged with associating with
the Christian Front, was lodged with Mayor
O'Dwyer by the American Jewish Congress.
The New York City Council, in a resolution
adopted with only one dissenting vote, went
on record as favoring the ending of tax exemp-
tion for non-sectarian schools which practice
racial or religious discrimination in admission
of students and selection and promotion of
faculty.
Establishment in Brooklyn of a $2,000,000
college to train Hebrew teachers and grant
degrees in Hebrew literature was proposed in
a bill introduced in the State Legislature by
Assemblyman Bernard Austin.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, former president
of the India National Congress, in an interview
with the Moslem newspaper Morning News, of
Calcutta, assailed "British imperialist demands"
as responsible for the crisis in Palestine, and
stated that if Arabs and Jews had tackled their
problem directly, a solution might have been
found, Reuters reports in a Calcutta dispatch
to the Christian Science Monitor. The Hindu
leader paid tribute to the "constructive effort"
of Jews in Palestine.
The Toronto Globe-Mail, in an editorial, ex-
presses sympathy for the plight of European
Jews, but declares that "it is a pity" that Zion-
ist leaders do not show more "restraint and
ordinary accuracy" in placing the "mantle of
Hitler on the British people. If . the Jews have
had a friend in the world during the past fifty
years, that friend was the British people," the
editorial says.
Seigfried Lonner, German-Jewish restaurant
owner, who came to New York from Nazi Ger-
many 10 years ago, told reporterS here that he
Vas assaulted, beaten and arrested \nithout
provocation by a policeman who said he was
a German and "You're afraid to tell me you're
a Jew and not a Nazi."
Edgar J. Nathan Jr., former Borough Presi-
dent of Manhattan, has been appointed by Gov-
ernor Dewey to an interim term in the State
Supreme Court to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of Justice William T. Collins. Mr.
Nathan is a cousin of the late United States Su-
preme, Court Justice Benjamin W. Cardozo.
Mrs. Archibald Silverman of Providence,
Zionist leader, for more than 30 years, left by
air March 10, to tour the British Isles on behalf
of the United Palestine Appeal of England.
OVERSEAS
Pope Pius XII, in an audience with a United
States commission studying immigration prob-
lems in Europe, appealed, in the name of
"Christian charity" to the United States to re-
lax its immigration bars to helpless Europeans,
and assailed present moves for forced repatria-
tion of displaced persons and refugees in
Europe.
Two Jewish soldiers, David Glicenstein and
Simon Getreuhendler, who deserted from the
PoliSh Army in England, in 1944 because of
anti-Semitism, and subsequently were arrested,
have •been sentenced to indeterminate prison
terms by a military court - representing sections
of General Wladyslaw Anders' exile army now
stationed in Scotland. The two soldiers deserted
with 200 other Jewish troops who later joined
the British Army.
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New Settlement
Left Intact as
Troops Withdraw
DETROIT
WILL
GIVE
TO
THE
RED CROSS
Incident at Birya Creates
Tension; Jews in Haifa
Protest Brutality
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Troops
withdrew from the vicinity of the
Birya settlement, leaving intact a
new settlement which was erect-
ed Friday by several hundred
Jewish veterans and other youths,
who labored in a pouring rain,
within a cordon established by
British military units.
The incident at Birya—which
resulted in a four-hour general
strike by Jews in Haifa March 15
to protest police and military
brutality—began at dawn March
14, when several thousand Jews
converged on the settlement,
which has been occupied by troops
since an attack on a nearby Arab
Legion camp, a fortnight ago.
Their first attempt to found a
new settlement was frustrated
the previous evening, when 3,000
troops forcibly dispersed the set-
tlers, some of whom attempted to
cling to rocks and other foot-
holds. Many were beaten and
several hundred were arrested
and taken to Tiberias. They sub-
sequently were released.
After the troops had destroyed
the huts which had been erected
by the first group, a second de-
tachment of several hundred
young Jews arrived after dusk,
and began re-erecting the build-
ings. They also were driven off.
Canadian Officer
Given U.S. Award
MONTREAL, (JTA) — Squad-
ron Leader Gerald Bronfman, of
the Royal Canadian Air Force,
has been presented with the U. S.
Legion of Merit for "outstanding
services from June, 1943, to
August, 1945, while assigned to
the RCAF division of the Can-
adian Joint Staff, Washington,
D. C."
The presentation Was made by
North Winship, U. S. Consul-
General, at his office here. The
34-year-old airman, who joined
the RCAF as an aircraftsman in
1940, was commissioned in 1942
and held several appointments
prior to going to Washington. He
retired from the air force last
October.
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