NEW YORK (JTA)—Gus
Hall, leader of the Communist
party of the United States, and
an editorial in the Morning
Freiheit, pro-Communist Yiddish
daily newspaper, condemned as
"anti-Semitism" the notorious
pamphlet "Judaism Without
Embellishment" published re-
cently by the Ukrainian Acade-
my of Science at Kiev.
The Freiheit editorial called
upon Soviet authorities to "pun-
ish" those who resort to anti-
Semitism in the course of the
Soviet Union's campaign against
all religions.
Hall issued the following
statement: "I have not read the
pamphlet. I have only seen re-
productions of parts of the
pamphlet, and I don't know
whether the copies circulated
in this country are forgeries.
"There is no doubt in my
mind, however, about the anti-
Semitic character of what I
have seen. Such stereotyped,
libelous caricatures of the Jew-
ish people must be clearly con-
demned without ambiguity—no
matter where they come from.
Certainly they can have no
place in Communism or pro-
gressive literature."
Referring to the anti-Semi-
tic caricatures in the Ukrain-
ian pamphlet, Hall said:
"whatever the 'intention
might be of the artist who
drew those cartoons, such
stereotypes have a specific;
outspoken, anti-Semitic mean-
ing, and their use has precise-
ly the same effect that they
would have if used by those
who are permeated with the
grossest anti-Semitism-"
The Communist leader de-
clared that, regardless, of what
may be learned about the origin
of the pamphlet, the existence
of the booklet must not be used
as a "smoke screen" for anti-
Soviet attacks.
The Freiheit revealed, in its
editorial, that it had queried
its correspondent in Moscow,
who is on the staff of No -vosty,
an official Soviet Government
news agency, asking whether
such a pamphlet had indeed
been issued in Kiev, and about
details in connection with the
booklet.
The inquiry, stated the news-
paper, was cabled three weeks
ago and, to date, no reply has
been received.
Seek Krvehow
Camp Survivors
The fate of the Jewish slave
laborers in a Polish camp run
by the Nazis during World War
If is now under investigation
and a search for surviving wit-
nesses has been initiated by the
World Jewish Congress in New
York.
The camp was situated at Kry-
chow, north of Chelm, in the
Lublin district, and was one of
several such installations which
were under the direction of the
Lublin Water Conservation au-
thorities. The Jewish slave la-
borers drafted to these camps
were used for work on the regu-
lation of rivers.
Many of the slave laborers
were murdered and a search for
survivors able to testify about
the crimes committed in Kry-
chow is now under way.
Any surviving witness who can
provide information concerning
the Nazi crimes or criminals in
charge of the camp is requested
to get in touch with the Institute
of Jewish Affairs at the World
Jewish Congress, 15 E. 84th St.,
New York 28.
Unveil German Monument
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Civil
leaders linked the mass Allied
bombings of Frankfurt 20 years
ago with the unveiling of a
monument to the Jews of nearby
Hanau who died in Nazi concen-
tration camps.
Noting that the existence of
the pamphlet had been acknowl-
edged in the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights a
week ago by the Ukrainian rep-
resentative to that body, Prof.
Peter E. Nedbailo, the Freiheit
declared:
"It must be stated openly that
the caricatures in that book re-
mind one of the well-known
caricatures of Jews in anti-
Semitic publications. These are
caricatures of an anti-Semitic
`style.' This must be stated
openly and clearly."
Asserting that publication of
a pamphlet like "Judaism With-
out Embellishment" cannot be
excused on the grounds that it
was part of an over-all Soviet
campaign against all religions,
the editorial asked: "How is it
possible that such a booklet
against religion, in this case
against the Jewish religion,
should contain such carica-
tures?"
Those who perpetrated this
act, stated the Freiheit, "made
a very serious error. Believers
have the same rights as non-
believers. The caricatures are
very harmful and must be
sharply condemned. They play
into the hands of anti-Semites
generally, also in America,
and--in the hands of the anti-
Semitic remnants of the Czar-
ist days and of those who
were left over from the Nazi
occupation (of the Soviet
Union)."
Insisting that the Soviet au-
thorities should start an official
investigation into the publica-
tion by the Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences of such a malicious
and inciting anti-Semitic book,
the Freiheit, reflecting the sen-
timents of Jewish Communists
in the United States, said in its
editorial:
"There must be, in our opin-
ion, an investigation to find out
whether some persons among
those remnants did not have a
hand in the making of those
caricatures and in the publica-
tion of 'Judaism Without Em-
bellishment.'
"Here, an anti-Semitic and
anti-Soviet act was performed.
It is possible that, under the
cloak of a campaign against the
Jewish religion, anti-Soviet ele-
ments are hiding.
"It is no excuse—as reported
in certain circles here—that the
general antireligious campaign
is being carried out badly, with
bad caricatures. Then the en-
tire drive is not being carried
on properly. But one must not
forget, what the Jews have suf-
fered during the Second World
War; they (the Jews) lost a
third of their people in the
ghettos and in the gas cham-
bers—in addition to their losses
on the battlefields—suffering as
Jews as a result of anti-Semitic
propaganda."
The editorial also _criticized
the Soviet government's cam-
paign for denying USSR Jews
to have matzoth for Passover.
Regarding the pamphlet, the
statement continued by ask-
ing: "What means will be
taken against the carricatur-
ist, author and publishers of
the book, 'Judaism Without
Embellishment'?"
"The masses," the editorial
continued, "especially the Jew-
ish masses, were rightfully ex-
cited over the caricatures, and
the matzoth situation has also
given no satisfaction. And it
would be a serious mistake to
write all of this off as cold-war
propaganda.
"The errors of the antireligi-
ous campaign, and furthermore
the serious errors of the re-
establishment of the Stalinist
errors against the liquidated,
Jewish cultural institutions, or
rather the failure to revive
those institutions, are subjects
that disturb many honest peo-
ple, many of them friends of
the Soviet Union."
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