Warsaw—Aftermath of Holocaust;
Depressing Realities of New Era
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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings -
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
of which not only are anti- formed that this Yiddish news-
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Polish Jews and another three religious, but distort historical paper now is permitted in Rus-
and the truth about Spin- sia and that, through incidental
United States
million Jews from the rest of facts
oza.
There
was some talk about references to Israel, the few
NEW YORK—The Larger National Board of Pioneer Women
Europe who were shipped to the this theatrical
group coming to Russian Jews who may be see- concluded a two-day policy-making session here with adoption of
Polish camps for the ghastly the United .States
on a cultural ing this newspaper thereby are a resolution commending the U.S. Government for helping to
'final solution."
exchange. Your correspondent brought closer 'to Israel—even restore the arms balance in the Middle East in making defensive
But there can never be a asked a spokesman for the if it is in a minute fashion. missiles available to Israel and also expressed support of Presi-
final solution because even group whether they 'would dare The pro-Communist policies of dent Kennedy's actions with regard to Cuba ... The American
here, with only an approximate come to the U. S. with a play Folshtimme are acknowledged. Jewish " Committee urged the Argentine government to take
25,000 Jews left — and a pos- like "Baruch fun Amsterdam," It is, after all, the policy of "vigorous legal action" against perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts
sible additional 10,000 crypto- and his reply was: "Nu: welen the government under whom in that country at a reception here for Gen. Pedro E. Armburu,
Jews — there must be a rem- mir shpielen Mirele Efros"- the paper and the people who former president of Argentina and a leading member of the
nant that may survive to re- "then we'll play Mirele Efros." read it function.
recently formed United Front Against -Anti-Semitism in Argen-
constitute a Jewish spiritual-
Warsaw is preparing a memo- tina . . . The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
The president of the City
cultural community.
Council of Warsaw, Janusz Za- rial to the resistance heroes on announced that the Standing Conference on European Jewish
The remaining Jewish com- rzycki, who welcomed the group the occasion of the 20th anni- Community Services has been named recipient of its 1962 Wil-
munities left in Poland, as of visiting Americans at a re- versary of the Warsaw Ghetto liam Shroder Memorial Award for "superior iniative and achieve-
listed in the luakh, are: Bialy- ception arranged at his own Uprising, next April. It will be ment in the advancement of social welfare.". . . Jewry outside
stok, Przemysl, Lublin, Noi,vy- suggestion, makes a fine im- recalled that the United States Israel must make Hebrew its second language and must never
Sonch, Krakow, Lodz, Chensto- pression. A former general of Congress has adopted a resolu- ignore the fact of Israel, Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairman of the
chow, Sosnovic, Wloczlawek, Ka- the Polish army, a survivor tion setting April 23 as Warsaw .1 Jewish Agency Executive, declared here at the Jewish Theologi-
towic, Bielsko - Biala, Bytom, from Buchenwald and Ausch- Ghetto Memorial Day, and cal Seminary at its Israel Institute . . The elimination of racial
i
Gliwice, Wroclaw, B i e 1 o w e witz, one of the few surviving President Kennedy's signature
For , and religious prejudice in the United States, despite "remarkable
approved
the measure.
(Bielsko Biala), Zgorzelec, members of his family — his has
more
than a decade
the Jewish progress in various fields," still has a long way to go, C. Douglas
Swidnica, Legnica, Walbrzych, first wife who was murdered
I Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, said here at the ninth annual
Yelenia-Nura, Szczecin. by the Nazis was a Jewess— Community Council of Detroit human rights award dinner of the Joint Defense Appeal which
So many of our people in General Zarzycki spoke with has been sponsoring Warsaw presented him the award on behalf of the American Jewish
deep feeling about the events Ghetto memorial meetings, and Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith.
the United States hail from a
it is conceivable that the trib-
LOS ANGELES—A resolution calling upon the governments
Polish areas that this list will marked the war tragedies. ute to the heroes in Detroit will
of the Middle East "to resolve their differences through direct
be of more than passing 'in- "The
memory
of
those
who
be
more
impresive
than
the
one
fell in the ghetto is still vivid,"
terest to them. But it will be he stated. He referred to the on the spot where the uprising negotiations between Israel and the Arab states" was adopted
useless for them to try to locate Jewish tragedy . and he ex- took place—on ulica Mila. But at the annual convention of the California Labor Federation of
members of their families in pressed gratitude that the Jews this, too, is understandable: De- the-AFL-CIO . . The West Coast Institute for Jewish Studies,
other areas, and the chances who survived in Poland "help troit Jewry is a healthy Jewry, the first branch of Yeshiva University outside its New York City
that the few are left of locat- us rebuild it." He commented Warsaw Jewry is a very sick headquarters, was inaugurated here at the Torah Eduction Center
able relatives. Hurban Poland that not only the Jewish The- Jewry—the people among with Dr. Leon Stitskin, professor of philosophy at Yeshiva Uni-
-the destruction of Polish Jew- ater under the leadership of whom Detroit Jews live are a versity ,as acting dean.
ry — is nearly complete. The Ida Kaminski but other Polish tower of strength for freedom
CHICAGO — A proposal to establish a vocational develop-
religious element is small and artists had visited Israel and he and democracy; Warsaw Jewry ment program for mentally retarded youth who are educable
the synagogue's influence is said "there should be no diffi- lives in an orbit of control and was presented here to the staff of the Jewish Vocational Service
minimal. There are no rabbis culties in establishing further in a spirit of submission. But with vocational maturity for mentally retarded youth as its goal.
and no rabbinical academies. cultural exchanges between Is- wherever Jews are, the prayer
MILWAUKEE — Plans for a census and detailed study of
Jewish school attendance is rael and Poland."
—we might be forgiven even in the Jewish population of this city were unanimously approved
small and the regimentation in
Under the editorship of H. Warsaw for resorting to prayer by the board of directors of the Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund.
the direction of current politi- Smoliar, a Yiddish newspaper, —is that the memory of the
MIAMI — Donald Branch, a member of an extremist group
cal influence is overwhelming. the Folkshtimme, appears four heroes of the resistance may al- accused of plotting to murder several Miami Jewish leaders, was
There are only 16 Jewish times a week. While in London, ways inspire all free men to re- given a six-year prison term here for possessing and transporting
exposives after having already been sentenced to a similar term
pupils in the religious school your correspondent was in- sist tyranny and oppression.
for plotting the bombing of the Anshe Emet Synagogue in Miami.
of Warsaw's Kehillah, and the
young people are assimilated or
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Latin America
assimilating. Few know Yid-
SAQ PAULO, Brazil — A call to the Catholic Church to take
dish and few care. There is a
a stand against anti-Semitism in South America was voiced here
valiant effort on the part of the
by Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, director of the international affairs
cultural community—the non-
department of the World Jewish Congress, at a four-day meeting
religious element — to spread
of the WJC South American Executive . . . At the same session,
culture in the form of Yiddish
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress,
books. But it is outside War-
urged the establishment of a program for Jewish cohension and
saw, where nearly half of the
unity in dealing with anti-Semitic developments.
entire remaining Polish Jews
MEXICO CITY — Bernard Weinberg, an Israeli, was elected
reside, that the more successful
vice-president at the fourth annual conference of the Inter-
task is evident.
national Union of Travel Agencies here despite solid opposition
Having been in only two of
by the Arab bloc of delegates.
the Polish Jewish communi-
Europe
ties, your correspondent must
LONDON — The Earl of Mountbatten, chief of Britain's
rely on supplied statistics. The
Defense Staff, will visit Israel next month for two days and will
information is that there are
participate there in the dedication of the Edwina Mountbatten
nearly 1,500 Jewish children in
folk schools — in non-religious
Forest of the Jewish National Fund . . . - The Council of Christians
and Jews issued an appeal to all Christian churces in Britain
schools—in communities other
than Warsaw and Krakow. That
to avoid presenting the Easter passion story "in such a way as '
being the case, those of us who
to bring the odium" for the crucifixion of Jesus "upon all Jews
stubbornly refuse to write off
or upon Jews alone.". . . While many members of the United
as dead any Jewish community
Nations would like to see direct peace talks between the Arab
—not even the German Jewish
states and Israel, "very few would approach the Arab govern-
one—can retain hope that the
ments on this problem and still fewer would press them to agree
hurban that stares at us here
to negotiate," Mrs. Avraham Harman declared at the annual
may yet be defied and another
meeting of the Federation of Women Zionists here.
creative Jewish community may
PARIS — December has been designated "Israel Month"
develop here. But if it does, it
throughout France with a number of Israeli events scheduled
will be another of the miracles
Planning the champagne supper in advance of the Balfour in major French cities, including a lecture by Israeli Education
of Jewish survival.
Concert are, from left, (standing) Mrs. I. Walter Silver, co- Minister Abba Eban at the University of Paris . . The trial of
Meanwhile we see in Warsaw chairman of the Balfour Conceit; Mrs. Moyer Firestone, co- rightist leader Pierre Poujade on charges of criminal libel for
the serious effort—within the hostess; Mrs. Ira G. Kaufman, Balfour Concert co-chairman; having made anti-Semitic comments in his weekly, "French Fra-
confines of the only building , (seated) Mrs. Richard Kramer, Women's Division co-chairman; ternity," and with having slandered the memory of Jewish
soldiers who died for France in World War II ended this week
that withstood the Nazi destruc- and Mrs. Paul Borman, hostess.
with a verdict expected from Iimoges Criminal Court on Nov. 7.
tion, the Jewish Historical Mu-
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BRUSSELS — Paul Henri-Spaak, Foreign Minister of Bel-
seum—to perpetuate the mem-
Additional sponsors to the gium, will visit Israel soon as a guest of the government and will
One of the leading social
ory of the holocaust and to re-
tain the documents exposing events of the year has been concert are: Mrs. Leon Kay, be accompanied by Robert Rothschild, his chef du cabinet.
the Nazi destructionists. In set for next Thursday at the Philip Stollman, Mrs. Theodore
AMSTERDAM — The West German government will pay
Bargman and Mssrs. and Mes- $31,250,000 for indemnification for the victims of Nazi occupation
such negative fashion, there are
no conflicts anywhere, since home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bor- dames Al Borman, Tom Bor- of Holland after ratification of a Dutch-West German treaty.
even in Germany it is conceded man. Taking the form of a man, Harry Becker, Avern L.
BONN — Dr. Martin Hirsch, president of the West German
that the memory of the de- champagne supper, preceding Cohn, Philip Dubrinsky, Reuben parliament's Claim's Committee told a press conference here that
struction must not be erased the 30th annual Balfour Con- Dubrinsky, Nathan Freedland, parliament is due to adopt an amendment to the Federal Indem-
lest we be unprepared for de- cert to be held at Ford Audi- Max Fisher, Louis Hamburger, nification Law enabling Jews who escaped from East Europe
fense ideologically against any torium Nov. 4, the concert will Samuel Hamburger, Maxwell after 1953 to file reparations claims for imprisonment, loss of
recurrence of another menacing feature George London, leading Jospey, Morris Karbal, Abe health and other effects of Nazi persecution.
situation.
baritone of the Metropolitan Kasle, Joseph Holtzman, Joseph
Israel
Kron, Edward C. Levy, M. Ben
More practical on the face of opera, and Lorin Hollander, 18- Lewis, Morris Mersky, William .
ISRAEL — Thousands took part in public Torah processions
things in Warsaw is the work year-old piano virtuoso.
The black tie champagne sup- R. Roth, William Robert Rosen- throughout Israel in marking the Simhat Torah Festival . . . The
of the noteworthy group of
per,
hosted by the Paul Bor- thal, Nathan Silverman, M a x special ministerial committee appointed by the Cabinet to deal
artists who are banded together
into
mans
and Dr. and Mrs. Morey Stollman, Hugo Slatkin, Lew with the question of whether television should be introduced
in the Jewish Theater. Not only
Wisper, Charles I: Wolpin, and Israel was reported to be inclined to accept an offer by -the Ed-
the leading actress, Ida Kamin- Firestone, will honor Mr. and Progressive Linen Service, Con- mond James de Rothschild Memorial group to finance the instal-
sky, but the entire cast pos- Mrs. Abraham Borman for their sulting Engineering Associates lation of a pilot educational television network here. '
sesses great skill. Yet, when efforts in behalf of the Zionist and Friedman, Meyers & Keys.
TEL AVIV — A proposal to expand production at the Timna
this theatrical group chose to Organization and Israel. ,
copper
mines with a $10,000,000 investment was presented to the
A
limited
number
of
tickets
The hosts expressed the hope
present a play before a visiting
Advisory Board meeting in Haifa with plans to
American delegation, it selected that many Detroiters will en- are still available for the con- Technological
a Communist product, "Baruch roll as sponsors of the annual cert. Contact the Zionist House, increase production to 15,000 tons annually, some nine tons over
10424 W. McNichols, DI 1-8540. present output.
fun " h contents Balfour Concert.
3otll Balfour Concert gets Boost
at CAampagn-e Supper Jhursday