Bernadotte Credited With Rescuing I Better Position
19,000; Trevor-Ro per View Rejected I Of Soviet Jews
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A slight
are as unwanted in Sweden as
in Germany." This letter the improvement in the situation of
Swedish White Paper branded the Jews of the Soviet Union—
and that primarily in the reli-
a forgery.
gious field—has been reported
While the White Paper- did here by a newly arrived immi-
not contest the fact that Ker- grant from the USSR. The re-
sten had played a part in influ- port was given by 75-year-old
encing Himmler, it said that Itzhak Mazor, of Moscow, who
both his efforts and those of the arrived here with his wife and
Swedish Legation in Berlin four other Jews from the Soviet
could be traced to representa- Union.
tions by Hillel Storch, an agent
Mazor .reported a great de-
of the World Jewish Congress. mand for religious objects like
Mr. Storch appears to have in- ,"mezuzoth" and phylacteries.
formed the Swedish Foreign Explaining his views on the im-
Office after Kersten's return provement in the situation, he
from Germany -,that Himmler noted that a Jewish ritual
was prepared to release 10,000 slaughterer was now allowed to
Jews. It is reasonablg to sup- work openly in the yard of the
pose that supplementary instruc- synagogue. He also mentioned
tions from the Swedish Foreign the approval, a half-year ago,
Office to Bernadotte to inter- of .a new Jewish prayer book,
vene in behalf of non-Scandi- Which, he said, would be printed
navian Jews v%'ere - connected soon. Synagogues were paCked
with the Storch memorandum during Passover, he reported.
the White Paper said.
Twenty-one immigrants from
The document also reported Communist 'c o u n t r i es were
that Kersten and the StoCkholm among a part yof 850 who ar-
representative " of . the World I rived here aboard the S. S. Jeru-
Annual Jewish Literary Awards Jewish Congress, Norbert, Nasur, salem today.
To Be Made by Book Council visited Himmler on April 21,
Citations and cash prizes tot- 1945, and obtained his consent `Illegal Returnees'
alling $700 will be awarded to to the release of 1,000 Jewish
the authors of 1955's best works women in the Ravensbrueck Sent to Other Camp
MUNICH (JTA)—The bulk of
of Jewish interest in the fiction, concentration camp. Asserting
poetry and juvenile fields at the that' the Foreign Office negoti- the Jewish "illegal returnees"
annual meeting of the National at-6d with Himmler through 41 in the Foehrenwald DP camp,
'Jewish Welfare Board's spon- variety of channels, including were transferred by the Bava-
sored Jewish Book Council of Kersten - and Bernadotte, the rian state authorities to the Lud-
America, it was announced by White Paper notes that Himmler wigsfeld camp, on the outskirts
Rabbi Ely E. Pilchik, Newark, became more amenable to re- of Munich. Affected were 84
Council president. The meeting leasing Jews . and other prisoners former DPs who had trickled
will be held at the N. Y. 92nd as Germany's military position back to Germany some years
Street YM-YWHA on Wednes- became more desperate. • ago, mainly from Israel with-
out visas or residence permits.
day.
_ The Ludwigsfeld stone bar-
HIAS Finds Difficulty
racks house non-Jewish refugees
Locating May 20, 1946 from Eastern Europe, for the
most part. The Foehrenwald
Group of Immigrants
residents transferred there are
United Hias Service, _the those who expect to emigrate
Jewish international migration to other countries later in the
_agency, which is planning to year. Left in Foehrenwald are
observe, next month, the tenth about 50 "illegal returnees,"
anniversary of the arrival in consisting of those who either
this country - of the first DP are on the point of emigrating,
ship, announced that it was ex- or else who have little hope of
periencing difficulty in locating being able to leave Germany
a sizeable proportion of some this year. The "illegals" are not
),IGlamour & Health Spa 800 Jewish immigrants who entitled to government help for
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
possible..
remains of Nahum Sokolow, late
president of the World ZioniS1
Organization, w ere reburied
khlOur tki
April 24 in .he _ cemetery on
Mt. Herzl. Mr. Sokolow's re-
'' ‘StANt. Witt StAAk t at
mains arrived here from Eng-
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land where he died in 1936.
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STOCKHOLM, (JTA) — The
Swedish government published
a White Paper crediting the ef-
forts of the late Count Folke
Bernadotte with having saved
19,000 persons, many of them
Jews, from death in Nazi camps.
Acting on instructions from the
Swedish Foreign Office, Berna-
dotte negotiated with Hitler's
Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler
to secure the transfer to Sweden
or Danish, Norwegian and other
civilian prisoners, the White
Paper said.
The document was issued in
reply to published statements
by H. R. Trevor-Roper, a Brit-
ish writer on World War II, that
credit for the success of the
negotiations should not go to
Bernadotte and the Swedish
Foreign Office but to Felix Ker-
sten, Himmier's personal mas-
seru. Mr. Trevor-Roper charged
that Bernadotte had written a
letter to Himmler early in 1945
in which he said that "the Jews
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Three Congress Seats
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JERUSALEM — The World
Zionist Congress Court, after
four days of deliberations, allo-
cated to the American Progres-
sive Group only three mandates
to the Congress, instead of the
13 demanded by them.
Commenting on the ruling of
the Congress Court, the ZOA
delegation issued the following
statement:
"In the United States we were
prepared to allocate to the dis-
sident group five or six 'Maces
on the official ZOA list of dele-
gates. Here they have been
awarded three places after the
Court had found that the elec-
tions conducted by all the
American Zionist organizations
and parties through the Central
Election Board were in accord-
ance with the rules and legally
valid." •
The distribution of U.S. dele-
gates, on the basis of a united
slate from all Zionist parties
in the U.S. approved by the
U.S. Central Shekel and Elec-
tion Board, was as follows: ZOA,
34; Hadassah, 34; Labor Zionist
Bloc, 24; Mizrachi, 12; Hapoel
.
14—Detroit Jewish News
Friday, May 4, 1956
Hamizrachi, 6; Revisionists, &;
Hashomer Hatzair, 4; Ahdut
Ha'avoda, 2.
Hebrew Students Volunteer
For Fortification Work
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
entire student body of the He-
brew University, led by those
faculty Members who are phy-
sically fit; left for a week's vol-
unteer work building fortifica-
tions and other defensive works
in the border settlements. The
university- will be shut all week.
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Mexico Shortly to Appoint
First Diplomat to Israel
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—The
appointment of Gustavo Ortiz
Hernan as Mexico's first diplo-
matic representative to Israel
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director general o ." the Mexican
government's tourism depart-
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