Leaders of
250,000
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 20, 1946
DPs Visit U. S.' to Aid UJA Drive Haganah Denies Civil War
Among Resistance Groups
Four _elected representatives of the 250,000 Jews
in the displaced persons camps in the American
and British occupation zones of Germany arrived
in the U. S. by plane last week to help launch the
$170,000,000 nation-wide campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal. The DP leaders, survivors of
Nazi concentration camps and former under-
ground fighters, will visit key Jewish commu-
nities throughout the country to bring a special
message from the quarter of a million Jews still
in DP camps. Left to right: NORBERT WOLL-
HEIM, vice-chairman of the Central Jewish Corn-
NEW YORK (JPS-Palcor)—An editorial in a recent issue of
Eschnab, unofficial puL•ication of Haganah, central Jewish resist-
ance movement, gave lie to all rumors of a civil war between var-
ious Jewish resistance groups.
"We know that immoral actions by Jews bring us great po-
litical damage." Eschnab says. - However a civil war among Jews
would deplete our resources and break our front and we would be
forced to accept the dictates of our opponents who are eager to
bring this about. Rumors of war between Haganah and Irgun are
merely. as far as the British are concerned, in the category of the
wish fathering the thought. We have no,intention whatsoever to
mittee of the Liberated Jews of Germany, rep- fulfill our opponents' wishes. We will doilwhat we can to prevent
resenting the 23,000 Jews in the British zone, dissident groups from being harmful, and ven dissidence itself. but
LEON RETTER, 24-year-old general secre-
tary of the Central Jewish Committee, represent- there will be no civil war among Jews."
Eschnab's intelligence writer says it was not because of his
ing the 200,000 displaced Jews in the American
zone; SAMUEL SHLOMOVITZ, chairman of the anti-Semitism that Lt. Col. Webb was removed from his command
Frankfurt regional committee of the Central Jew- in Palestine but because of an anti-Soviet remark he made to a
ish Committee, which embraces the 38,000 Jewish Canadian journalist which caused embarrassment to the government.
DP's in the Frankfurt-Berlin-Gross Hesse area,
Following Col. Webb's anti-Semitic harangue to correspond-
and DR. BORIS PLISKIN, member of the Presi-
dium and chairman of the department of physical ents in Jerusalem. the military sent instructions to all military posts
which
said: "Following certain declarations—unauthorized—made
education of the Central Jewish Committee.
to newspapermen by a high officer. your intention is called to the
fact that it is forbidden to make any statement to newspaper men
that has not been approved beforehand by the High Command."
Leaders of DPs Visiting U.S., Fascist 'guard'
Group in London
Reveal Despair in Camps
Fires Synagogue
Urge Immediate Large-Scale Aid Through $170,000,000
United Jewish Appeal; Praise U. S. Army for
'Humanitarian Action' in Europe
NEW YORK — Four official ; eluded considerably less proteins
spokesmen for more than 180,000 and fats than were included in
Jewish displaced persons in Ger- the diet last year.
many paid tribute this week to i Mr. Woliheim said conditions in
the American army for its hu- the British zone were worse,
manitarian action. in permitting pointing out the food rations re-
100.000 Jews from Poland to find cently had been reduced from 2.-
haven in the American zone, but 000 to 1 500 calories daily
emphasized that only through
Mr. Woliheim said British au-
large-scale support of American thorities, in an attempt to halt
Jews through the $170,000,000 the influx of Jews fleeing terror-
United Jewish Appeal campaign ism in Poland, had refused to is-
in 1947 will the homeless Jews of sue food rations to 3,000 Polish
Europe be saved from despair.
Jews who recently reached the
The leaders of the Jewish DPs DP camp in Belsen, making it
who expressed their views in a necessary for the displaced Jews
press conference at the national already in the camp to share
UJA headquarters, arrived by air their rations with the newcomers.
last week to confer with Ameri-
20,000 DPs Employed
can Jewish leaders on programs
Another contributing factor to
for supplementary relief, reha-
t h e deterioration of morale
bilitation and resettlement assist-
among the Jewish DPs, they said.
ance.
was absence of employment op-
•From U. S., British Zones
portunities. At the present time.
The group of DP leaders 'in- they reported, 30,000 displaced
cluded Leon Retter, 24, general Jews were employed by the U. S.
secretary of the Central Commit- Army, UNRRA, the Joint Distri-
tee of Liberated Jews in the bution Committee and the Cen-
American zone of Germany; Dr. tral Jewish Committee.
• Boris Pliskin, chairman of the
The U. S. Army had helped to
committee's health department:
Samuel Schlomovitz, chairman of alleviate this situation to a cer-
the Frankfurt Region of the Cen- taro extent, Mr. Ritter said. by
tral Committee, and Norbert providing land on which 4,000
Jewish DPs were now engaged in
Woliheim, vice chairman of the
Central Committee of Liberated farming.
JDC Parley Jan. 12
Jews in the British zone of Ger-
Four leaders of overseas Jewish
many.
communities will be among the
In 1946, $3,200,000 was made featured speakers at the thirty-;
available by the UJA for the pro-
second annual meeting of the
gram carried on by the Joint
Distribution Committee in behalf Joint Distribution Committee. to
of the Jewish DPs in Germany be held on Sunday, Jan. 12, at!
as pointed out the Hotel New Yorker, New York
and Austria. It, v.,
that $17,500,000 will be required City. it was announced this week
by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, a vice-
in 1947 for these areas alone.
chairman of the JDC and a na-
Offered Salvation
tional chairman of the UJA.
Expressing their gratitude to
The overseas speakers are: Dr.
the U. S. Army which they de- Frederic Goerceg of Budapest.'
scribed as "the only army in the president of the Hungarian JeW-
world which offered salvation ish Relief Committee, through
and a haven to our people," the which JDC carries out its activi-
visitors said the German people's ties in Hungary; Rabbi Alexander
deep-rooted hatred of the Jews Schafran, Grand Rabbi of Ro-
made the continued stay of the mania; Leon Bernstein, secretary
Jewish DPs in Germany "intoler- general of the Jewish Refugee
able" and eliminated the possi- Organization in Italy, and Retter
bility of Jewish settlement in
The annual meeting will open
Germany or elsewhere in Europe. at 10 a.m. when members of the
Mr. Retter, German-born veter- JDC National Council convene
an of the underground resistance to elect Council and Board mem-
movement, who speaks 10 lan- bers, review 1946 operations and
guages, served as spokesman for examine plans for a program of
the DP leaders from the Amer- expanded activities during 1947.
ican zone. He emphasized failure
Dr. Pliskin, who served as a
medical officer with the Polish
Army at the outset of the war
and subsequently was arrested
three times by the Gestapo for
his underground activities, said
the daily food rations now given
DPs in the American zone, while
of the same caloric content as the
nations provided a year ago, in-
THE OPA IS GONE
LONDON, (JTA)—A fascist or-
ganization calling itself the "Na-
tional Guard," set fire to a syna-
gogue in the East End after burn-
ing one of the Holy Scrolls.
An anonymous caller phoned a
newspaper office, describing him-
self as a representative of the
National Guard, and said the
desecration was a "warning to
terrorists in Palestine that unless
,their policy against British troops
ceases. the National Guard will
meet terror with terror."
The charge that Jewish refugees
who come to the American zones
in Germany and Austria en route
to Palestine are backed by a
highly organized movement with
ample funds and great influence.
was made here in a report of a
sub-committee of the House of
Commons Select Committee on !
Estimates.
Sir Oswald Mosley, fascist
leader. has been denied permis-
sion to leave England, "because
there is a chance he might make
mischief abroad," Chancellor Jow-
itt stated in the House of Lords.
The London press features sen-
sational stories topped by head-
lines of threats by alleged Jew-
ish extremists to blow up British
government buildings and sub-
way stations. Scotland Yard is
checking the possibility the
threats may have been made by
fascists seeking to arouse anti-
Jewish feelings in Britain.
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were killed and many seriously
injured.
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of the American Jews to provide
large-scale relief assistance in
More Convicted
1947 through the $170,000,000
Kielce
United Jewish Appeal campaign
"would result in an overwhelm-
ing and absolute despair among
WARSAW, (WNS)—Nine more
the Jewish DPs from which there persons were sentenced to prison
could be no recovery."
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ticipated in the Kielce pogrom
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