$2,000,000 in Relief Sent
To Polish Jews, JDC Reports
Blasts Charge of Unnamed 'Leaders of Jewish Communities
of Poland' That Survivors Are Receiving 'Very Small
Aid From World Jewry': Million Spent in 1946
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Joint Distribution Committee
took issue with charges made by unnamed "leaders of Jew-
ish communities of Poland," who, in .a statement distributed
by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, declared that Polish Jews
are receiving only "very small aid from world Jewry."
Describing the plight of the Jews in Poland as "excru-
ciating," the statement said that
"the help received from the JDC
has not been enough even to wipe
off the tears of the Jewish or-
phans," and appealed for the im-
mediate sending of funds, cloth-
ing and food. --
Replying in behalf of the JDC,
Moses A. Leavitt, secretary,
pointed out that more than
$1,000,000 worth of relief goods
was made available to the Jews
of Poland by the JDC in 1945,
in addition to $500,000 trans-
mitted during November and De-
cember, when transmission of
funds from the U. S. to Poland
became possible. One million dol-
lars worth of supplies also have
been purchased for the Jews of
Poland since the beginning of
1946 and these supplies are being
sent as rapidly as shipping and
other conditions permit, he said.
"In the first three months of
1946, JDC has shipped from the
U. S. $460,767 worth of relief
supplies," Leavitt emphasized. A
total of 500,000 pounds of mat-
zoths also had been shipped for
Passover since March 11.
Declaring that the JDC has re-
ceived acknowledgment from the
Central Jewish Committee in
Warsaw of funds given it by the
JDC and of large quantities of
relief supplies, Leavitt concluded:
"The JDC recognizes that the
help it has provided is limited in
terms of the need existing among
Polish Jewry. But it is shocked
to see that no recognition has
been made of the substantial as-
sistance it has already furnished.
The latest statement made by
unnamed Polish representatives
can only serve to have a harmful
effect on the great fund-raising
efforts now being made in the
United States to meet not only
the needs of Polish Jewry, but
the enormous needs of a dis-
tressed Jewry throughout Europe
and many other parts of the
world."
Jews in Europe Receive
$1,100,000 Worth of Supplies
NEW YORK (JTA) — More
than $1,100,000 worth of relief
supplies of food, clothing, medi-
cines and machinery—the great-
est three months' shipment in its
31 year history—were sent to
Jewish survivors overseas in the
first quarter of 1946 by the JDC,
it was announced by Edward M.
M. Warburg, chairman of the or-
ganization.
He disclosed that the supplies
are shipped "in an ever-increas-
ing stream in a program designed
to meet the extensive and imper-
ative needs of Jewish sufferers
in nearly fifty countries through-
out the world." He pointed out
that the chief recipients of the
JDC relief shipments, totalling
more than 2,000,000 pounds, are
Jewish survivors in Poland and
Germany. "JDC activities in the
displaced persons centers of Ger-
many and Austria are supple-
mentary to the basic needs which
the Army meets," Warburg said.
ZOA Chapter I Here
Plans Program April 18
An entertaining program has
been planned for the regular
meeting of Chapter I of the De-
troit District of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, to be held
Thursday, April 18, at 8:15 p.
at the Jewish Center.
Willie Shanfield will present a
talk on Palestinan music, ac-
companied by recorded musical
selections. Current events of
Zionist interest will be discussed.
The sports committee, under
the chairmanship of Selma Ja-
kont, has planned for the monthly
outdoor activity a hike and wei-
nie roast for Sunday, April 28.
Tickets must be obtained in ad-
vance from Miss Jakont, TO. 7-
7861.
Chapter I is cooperating with
the Detroit District ZOA in its
current membership drive. This
chapter is open to membership
of young men and women over
18. Prospective members are in-
vited to attend the meeting on
April 18. For information, call
Harold B. Weisman, president,
TO. 6-3356, or Jack Kape, mem-
bership chairman, TY. 4-4152.
Warns of Fascist
Danger in Mexico
Although there is little racist
or deep-rooted anti-Semitic feel-
ing among the masses of people
in Mexico, pro-fascist forces in
that country are becoming in-
creasingly active, declared Rabbi
Bernard Lander, associate direc-
tor of the Mayor's Committee on
Unity in New York City, on his
return from a tour of Mexico
made on behalf of the American
Jewish Committee.
Pointing out that the Avila Co-
macho government has been con-
sistently friendly to the Jewish
population, Rabbi Lander, who
met with Jewish leadership as
well as government officials while
in Mexico, stated that the Mexi-
can Chamber of Deputies recent-
ly passed a strong resolution
supporting the struggle against
anti-Semitism on a world-wide
scale.
Famine, TB Threat
To Surviving Jews
In Czecho-Slovakia
NEW YORK.—Famine looming
over Europe and the threat of
tuberculosis face the surviving
Czechoslovakian Jews now en-
gaged in a grim struggle to re-
establish themselves in that coun-
try, Harold B. Trobe, director of
Czechoslovakia for the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, repoited in
an interview at national :. offices
of the United Jewish Appeal, 342
Madison, New York.
Mr. Trobe, who returned from
Europe last week, disclosed that
the average diet among the 50,-
000 Jews in Czechoslovakia—"all
that remain of a pre-war Jewish
population of 357,000"—is only
1,700 calories per day, "less than
that of Jews still in the displaced
persons camps of Germany and
Austria."
Urging full support of the
$100,000,000 campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal, Mr. Trobe
said that the JDC program in
Czechoslovakia, amounting t o
$254,000 during February, pro-
vides aid for 15,000 Jews depend-
ent on JDC help. Relief in kind
this month will total $50,000, he
said.
Rabbi Aaron to Speak
On Marriage at U. M.
Hillel This Friday
This Friday evening Rabbi Mil-
ton Aaron, director of the Hillel
Foundation at Wayne University,
will discuss "Marriage and Inter-
Marriage" at the University of
Michigan Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation. Preceding the talk, Sab-
bath Eve services will be conduct-
ed by Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen,
U. M. Hillel director, and student
cantors Eugene Malitz of Detroit
and Morris Stulberg of Marshall.
Following the discussion an in-
formal social hour will be held
under the direction of Miss Fran-
ces Pearl of New Jersey. The
forum committee is headed by
Misses Helen Alpert of New York
and Joyce Siegan of Benton
Harbor.
One of America's Finest
Temple Israel Sets
Passover Services
At Art Institute
"The First Passover Since Vic-
tory" will be the subject of hte
sermon by Rabbi Leon Fram at
the Passover service of Temple
Israel at 1:30 a. m. Tuesday
in the Lecture Hall of the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
. Cantor Robert S. Tulman and
the Temple Israel choir, directed
by Dan Frohnia.h, and accompan-
ied by Karl W. Haas at the or-
gan, will render Passover music.
Members are invited to come
with their children for the Pass-
over Family Sabbath Eve Ser-
vice on Friday night, April 19, at
8:30. The Confirmation Class of
1946 will sing Passover anthems
and Passover folk songs. This
choir is directed by Cantor Tul-
man. "Passover in Jewish Le-
gend" will be the subject of Rab-
bi Fram's sermon. The Sisterhood
will serve refreshments at the so-
cial hour.
On Monday morning, April 22,
at 10:30, Temple Israel will con-
duct the traditional Yizkor me-
morial service in the Lecture
Hall of the Detroit Institute of
Arts.
This Friday night, Rabbi Fram
preaches on "Who Shall Inherit
the Atom?"
PRAGUE (JTA)—References to
religious preference or racial ori-
gin of Czechoslovak citizens no
longer will be made on official
forms of government agencies in
_Bohemia and Moravia, Minister of
the Interior Vaclav Nosek an-
nounced here.
The Page One Photo'
The Jewish News is indebted
to Dr. Maeanna Cheserton-Man-
gle of the Committee on Produc-
tion and Syndication of Religious
Education Materials for the pho-
tograph appearing on the first
page of this Passover issue.
Palestine Rail Blast
Skirmish Fatal to Youth
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Abner
Ben Shemen, 18, a Jewish youth
who was wounded in an engage-
ment near Batyam between Brit-
ish troops and a group of 31 Jews
following the blasting of the Ash-
dod railway station, died in a
government hospital at Jaffa.
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In The Hope for
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Passover Is Studied
By Farband Classes
Passover studies mark activi-
ties at the Farband schools. The
children are taught the details of
the Seder and the history of the
festival.
The graduating classes are pre-
paring for examinations to be
held May 9.
It is reported that the classes
of the Farband schools have
raised $3,000 for the Gewerk-
shaften campaign.
Ten free camp scholarships will
be awarded this year to students
with highest marks to the Far-
band Camp.
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Friday, April 12, 1946
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