Page Twenty-two THE JEWISH NEWS PrTday, April 26, 1946 800 Jews Slain In Poland, Says Dr. Tennenbaum Weekly Review. of the News of the World (Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA A shakeup is expected in the Immigration Service of the Department of Justice, as a result of the parole and deportation of Dr. Rudolph Mattfeld, Nazi party member, who sought per- manent admission to the United States. The Immigration Service was ordered to ascertain the number of other aliens in this country who have been paroled as was Dr. Mattfeld. By. a , vote of 339 to 4, the House of Repre- sentatives approved contempt charges against Dr. Edward K. Barsky, chairman of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee of New York. The action was requested by the Committee on Un-American Activities, because Barsky re- fused to furnish it with records of his organi- zation. The OPA has authorized an average increase of four-tenths of a cent per pound in retail ceiling prices of kosher beef cuts, effective April 8. The increase wa granted to compen- sate kosher meat retailert for higher wholesale prices resulting from wag boosts given to meat packers. Getting the Jews out of Poland is far more urgent than relief, according to a report by Louis Segal and Dr. Samuel. Margoshes, dele- gates of the World Jewish Congress, who have just returned from studying Jewish conditions in Poland and DP camps in Germany. French Communists, during the summer of 1945, adopted Jew-baiting as an integral por- tion of the "party line," in an effort to stir group hatred among the French people, and thus heighten their bid for power, during the post-liberation confusion, Donald B. Robinson, former U. S. Army Civil Affairs Officer in France and Chief Historian of the United States Military Government, reveals in an article in the April issue of American Mercury. A large-scale prograin of economic rehabili- tation for displaced Jews in Germany has been launched under an agreementORT (Or- ganization for Reha&litation through Training) and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilita- tion Administration, it is announced by Dr. David Lvovitch, vice president of the World ORT Union. Bandits Financed by Agents of Gov't.-in-Exile. Blamed for Postwar Murders OVERSEAS The Frendh Governinent, so far, has failed to comply with a long standing British request for extradition of Haj Amin el Husseini, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, but the British Gov- ernment is pressing the matter and constantly has the request before the French Government, Foreign Minister . Bevin stated in Commons in reply to Barbara Ayerton -Gould, Labor_ MP. The Mufti, under ihdictment by the Yugoslav Government as an. Axis war criminal, has been living in France Unde r technical . arrest, since shortly after the collapse of Germany. Jewish newspapers subsidized by UNRRA in the United States occupation zone of Germany, have refused emphatically to folio* a directi -ve ordering them to suppress reports of the Ger- man police raid on the Jewish DP early at Stuttgart during which a survivor of Oswiecim death camp was fatally shot, and four other Jews were wounded. The directive claimed news of the occurrence would inflame Jews in other DP camps. Jewish inmates are furious already about the allegation by United States military officials that the Jewish victims of the Stuttgart raid dealt in the black market. This slander whitewashes the criminal shooting of defenseless Jews by German police, the Jew- ish papers state. PALESTINE The foundation stone for the new Ramat-Gan theological college was laid by Chief Rabbi Herzog. The three-story building will cost $80,000. Frank Admits Responsibility In Extermination of Millions • WARSAW — Eight hundred Jews have been slain in Poland since the country's liberation and more are being killed *daily, re- ports • Dr. Joseph .Tennenbaum, president. of the American and World Pederation of Polish Jews. A two-weeks study of the Jewish situation in Poland had convinced him that the Jews are being killed• mostly by bandits financed by agents of the former Polish government in exile in London, he 'declared. Dr. Tennenbaum asserted that the Warsaw regime is "sincerely well meaning, free from racial prejudice and really a govern- ment of the people." He announc- ed that his federation has sent $800,000 worth of clothing, food and medicines to Polish Jews. He said that there are only 70,000 Jews in Poland. A Polish League to "Fight Ra- cial Hatred" has been organized, he said, by representatives of Poland's six political parties and social and religious groups. Story of Jews in Siberia During War Revealed By Refugee in America NEW YORK,' (JTA)—A report on the life of Jewish refugees from Poland in Russian camps in Siberia was given here by one of the refugees, Leah Halberstam, at a press conference arranged by the Vaad Hatzala, the relief organization of Orthodox Jews. The first Jewish refugee to ar- rive in this country from Siberia, Mrs. Halberstam said that the Jews who were evacuated by the Russian authorities from the Ga- lician part of Poland to Siberian camps at the outbreak of the war, appreciated the fact that the Rus- sians did not separate families, were completely free from anti- Semitism, did not interfere with religious observances. , "What surprised me," said Mrs. Halberstam, "was that at no time was any comment made about our religion. Everybody knew we were Jews, but no mention of it was ever made by any official, nor was there any discrimination of any kind." Rabbi Wohl Will Visit Latin American Countries CINCINNATI (JTA) — Rabbi Samuel Wohl, who has been ac- tive in American Jewish commu- nal affairs for many years, will soon leave on a three-month trip to Latin American countries to study Jewish life there. Dr. Shatzky Will Write History of Zamosc Jews NEW YORK—The Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), 535 Former Nazi Governor of Poland Is First of 20 Defendants, W. 123rd St., announces that Dr. Jacob Shatzky, research secre- at Nuremberg War Trials to Confess Part in Atrocities; tary of its section of history, has 'I Feel Terrible Guilt Within Me,' He Says accepted an invitation, extended- by a group of former ZamoSc - By MOSES SCHONFELD (Jewish Telegraphic A gency Correspondent) residents now in Tel Aviv, to NUREMBERG (JTA)—Admitting that he had participated write a history of the Jewish in the extermination of Jews, Hans Frank, Nazi governor- community of Zamosc. general in Poland, reported that it will take 1,000 years for YIVO is now gathering docu- mentary material for the pur- Germany to rid itself of the guilt for these crimes. The first of the 20 defendants in the War Crimes Trials pose. All persons having ma- here to admit his role tri murdering millions of European terials about Jewish life in Zam- osc are requested to lend them to Jews, Frank, in reply to questions YIVO. of his counsel, asserted that dur- boasted before the tribunal that ing the five months of testimony Mrs. Hattie Amberg Dies since the trial began he has be- he had organized the camp so GRAND RAPIDS.—Mrs. Hattie come aware of all the atrocities efficiently that most of the 2,500,- committed by the Nazis, and "I 000 persons murdered there be- Amberg, 87, mother of Julius Am- berg, former assistant to Secre- feel terrible guilt within me." tween the Summer of 1941 and tary of War Stimson, died here. "If Hitler drove the German the Autumn of 1944 never kneW people to this course, the evidence which has been presented here that they were going to their of which we have seen, then I, death. too, must accept responsibility," Hoess, who is to be taken to he continued, adding that "I can- Poland shortly to be tried as a not allow that responsibility war criminal, was called to testi- should be pushed on smaller fy by counsel for Ernst Kalten- men." brunner, former chief of the Nazi Security.Police. He told the court Admits Ordering Ghettos The man who became known that in the three years that he as the "butcher of Poland," de- commanded Oswiecim 3,000,000 nied he had been responsible for persons died there, of whom al- the establishment of concentra- most all were Jews, and that 500,- tion camps, but admitted he had 000 died of starvation and dis- eases. ordered the creation of ghettos. Of the Jews, Hoess said, Alfred Rosenberg, chief expo- nent of the Nazi racial theories, 100,000 came from Germany, continued to deny that he knew 400,000 from Hungary, and the of or participated in the exter- others from all occupied Euro- pean countries. All children were mination of millions of Jews. When U. S. Prosecutor John H. destroyed, he testified. Hoess related how in the Sum- Amen confronted him with docu- ments proving that he advocated mer of 1941 he was told by Hein- extermination of European Jew- rich Himmler, Gestapo chief, that ry, Rosenberg attempted to enter he was being assigned to Oswie- into a debate as to whether the cim to carry out Hitler's order German ward "ausrotten," used for "a final solution" of the Jew- by him in several of his ad- ish problem. dresses, meant extermination. Nazis Exterminated 1,500,000 ' Methodical Policy Amen admitted several docu- In Byelorussia, Moscow Reports ments prepared by Rosenberg and MOSCOW (JTA)—More than his subordinates when he was 1,500,000 Jews were exterminated "Reichscomissar for the East," in- by the Nazis in Byelorussia dur- dicating that they pursued a me- ing their occupation there, it was thodical policy of wiping out all revealed last week in a report re- Jews in the territory under his leased by the Soviet Jewish In- rule, regardless, as one document formation Bureau. said, "of the effect - upon the gen- The report said that "of the eral economy." 1,800,000 Jews who lived in Bye- Turning to Rosenberg, who con- lorussia before the war, there are tinued to deny his responsibility now only about 300,000." It em- for atrocities, Amen said, "Do you phasized that the terror practiced know that (Rudolph) Hoess who by the Nazis in such cities as murdered 2,500,000 people, mostly Minsk, Gomel, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Jews, was a reader of your Orsha and in other towns in books?" Earlier, Rosenberg had Byelorussia, "are beyond human insisted that he was only the Nazi imagination." Party philosopher and had steered clear of participation in Danny Kaye confides that he material things. knows an actor who still loves Boasts of Efficiency his divorced wife. "He worships Hoess, former commandant of the ground he'd like to see her the OsWiecim death camp, had buried under," Danny adds. l it ifirni11111011110M1 T11. 5-8400 HERE'S , REAL REFRESHMENT!