THE JEWISH NEWS .Page Fifty-two Friday, September 20, 1946 op-Over for Refugees Story of Bratislava: Meeting Place on Flight From Poland -Witness Account of Polish Jewish Emigres Escaping the Terror of Pogroms in Poland By ROBERT SCHIFFER Joint Distribution Committee Staff Member BRATISLAVA. — Thousands of ws are making pilgrimages tc is quiet Czechoslovakian city or. e Danube. Eighty years ago •en Bratislava was known a' •essburg, the city was fameci roughout the continent as one of e great centers of Jewish learn- g. Here the sage known as - Has- Sofer" wrote and taught. rom all of Europe, students thered in the great Yeshivoth. wish cultural and intellectual. fe blazed. rivalling that of Mir d Vilna. Today, Bratislava is the final opping-off place for thousands of ws in flight from Poland stream- g across Czechoslovakia en route Austria and the displaced per- ns camps in the U. S. zone. here they seek asylum and- ent ually--new havens. More than 700 a day are pouring to the city, weary after's' journey at has carried them hundreds of Iles to escape terror in their meland. At times there are as any as 1.000 Jewish refugees om Poland jamming all available Icilities here as they wait to con- nue their exodus. Most of the refugees arrive here 'om the border town of Nadler!. ear the Polish frontier, where ley were received at an eine•- e.ney reception center opened for lein by the repatriation office of he Cr. ch government in coop,.ra- on with the Joint Distribution .onimittee. walk across the frontier into Aus- tria and on to Vienna. The train suddenly lurches and starts to pull out. One last scram- ble to board the moving cars and in a few seconds the station is clear. As the J.D.C. staff members. awaiting the next incoming train wave farewell at the refugees, they can hear them sing "Hatikvah." Car after car picks it up, and the words and music rise above the chugging of the locomotive. They are singing and waving farewells as the last car rolls out of the station. The Trek . to Where? tI You're probably one of the millions of people who discovered, during the war, that the Payroll Savings Plan was"a prac- tically painless way of saving money. Millions found, too, that, for the first time, they were able to save real amounts of money. That's a thing well worth remember- ing now, when it's so easy to spend reck- lessly. If you, belong to the Payroll Sav- ings Plan you couldn't have formed a bet- ter or wiser habit. The trip from Nached i, a quiet ne. The refugees arc clouded ito old box cars. freight trains. nything that rolls on railroad •acks. At the station in Bratislava. ley are met by Czech official., and .D.C. welfare workers. They larch to a reception center—the Id Central Hotel — obtained 'rough the efforts of the J.D.C. ; is a welcome haven, for here sere is rest for the -weary, and ere the refugees are given food ckets entitling them to good. nu- •Riot's meals at the kosher kitch- as nearby maintained by the .D.C. And if you're smart you'll keep right Mt Leaving the slave camps of Germany, this liberated mother and daughter are fortunate in having a horse-drawn cart and bedding to rest in. But where can they find a home? Most of the surviving Jews in Europe look to Palestine and the assis- tance of the United Palestine Appeal for resettlement in the Jewish National Home. The Joint Distribution Committee will provide for their immedi- ate needs and passage to Pales.- tine. Both organizations derive their American support from the UJA $100,000,000 campaign. The night is spent quietly at the otel. Bathing facilities are lim- ed. but everyone in the hotel is ashed and clean by the next Corning. After breakfast at the itchen, meager possessions are ace again strapped to tired backs. Drought in Romania Adds To Relief Needs for Jews Suddenly, a voice shouts above BUCHAREST (JTA)—The rep- se din: "Time to go." For a mo- lent, silence fills the yard and the resentative of the Joint Distribu- tion Committee here was present- otel. Then a murmur of voices !gins to rise and feet start ed this week with a request for a shipload of wheat, corn and 200 (arching again. tons of vegetable oil urgently re- Slowly they parade through the quired for the relief of 150.0(1(1 Teets of Bratislava. They crowd Jews in Moldavia, Southern Bu- ie railroad station and once kovina and Northern Transyl- fain squeeze into old box cars. he trains will carry them to the vania, which have been especially affected by the Summer's contin- order and from there they will ued drought. 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