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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE August 11, 1944 BUeunrdl in the ILolblbie Committee Conference in Protest Against Hungary's Persecution of Jews WEEKLY REVIEW OF Weir Ml Mew (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) By ARNOLD LEVIN Borrowed The residents of Oswego, N. Scripps-Howard nature writer J. Otis Swift is the source for the information that the benzoin or turned out full force to welcome 982 "token refugees," of whom 912 are Jews, on their arrival to take up residence for the duration at Fort Ontario, the only "free port so far established in U. b. territory.

At a welcoming cere mony, a message was read from International Grapevine We do not vouch for the authenticity of these rumors which we are passing on to you for what they are worth Soviet Russia, according to the grapevine, will support Jewish demands for unrestricted immigration in Palestine, but take no position as to the country's status While Zionism as a movement will remain taboo in Soviet Russia, emigration to Palestine will be permitted and relations between Palestine and Biro Bidjan will be fostered Soviet Jews will even be permitted to contribute financially toward Palestine Resumed restiveness among the Arab nationalists and failure by Communists to wield a noticeable influence in Arab politics is one of the motives for the change of policy The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow will be dissolved shortly after hostilities cease and will be reconsti The Swiss Legation in Budapest was instructed to proceed with the registration of Jews holding Palestine immigration certificates, the Swiss government announced officially. The Swiss government communique revealed that the International Red Cross was already rendering aid to the Jews- who cannot emigrate. The emigration followed representations made to the British government by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, as a consequence of which the British government began negotiations with the Swiss. Referring to a confirmation by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of reports that Regent Horthy had agreed to the temporary suspension of the deportations of Jews pending their classification by Swiss authorities for emigration, the Manchester Guardian expressed fears that Britain and the U. S.

were not going "all out" in assisting the Swiss government in its rescue work. The Swiss cannot do it alone, the newspaper warned. In Florence the Jewish popula-lation emerged from hiding to welcome the liberating forces as secretary of the Interior Ickes. At the same time 2,000 Christian ministers, speaking through the Christian Council on Palestine, addressed telegrams to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cor-dell Hull, requesting that the United States establish more "free ports," that it take the lead in demanding that Britain abrogate the White Paper, and at least, admit the Jews to temporary havens in Palestine. The Philadelphia transit tie-up was laid, by newspaper reporters, to followers of Gerald L.

K. Smith and the KKK in Pennsylvania. Benjamin bush, "the table tea of Southern montaineers," is so called for Benjamin, the son of Jacob and Rachel Add the following quote from Broadway columnist Leonard Lyons to the store of Einstein anecdotes: "During the inflation period which followed the last war, Prof. Einstein boarded a Berlin street car, and asked what the fare was, '3 said the conductor. Einstein gave him a 20-mark bill The conductor started to give him the change, then suggested: 'Give me lVt Einstein did.

3Ms plus 1 makes the conductor told him. 'So here's your change 15 Einstein hesitated, made his calculations, then nodded and said: Liberation Note One of the cities recently liberated, Brod, has its firm place in Modern Jewish history. It was there that the Yiddish theatre was born. Die Broder Zinger (Brod minstrels) were among the first entertainers in Yiddish. They toured Galicia (the town is Gali-ciari), Russia and Rumania It I' vYjA ii 1 -UiiJJ x4: i Vmk I mil liwni vKrffTt' Bernard Lerner, Independent Jewish Press Service staff writer, recalled that Coughlinite elements had pulled a "cat-strike" in New York several years ago in an attempt to discredit the Transport Workers' Union and obtain control of it.

He also found that this tuted as the "foreign office" of Soviet Jewry, its leaders chosen by the ballot We repeat: we do not vouch for the authenticity of these rumors Time will show whether they are true. Cute The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation has openly declared, and reiterated on many occasions, that it has "suspended" political demands with regard to Palestine, pending the termination of hostilities. Through its other committees it has charged the Zionists with "sabotaging" rescue they rolled into the city. Even while fighting was still going on in was an attempt to stop the Fair the streets, the Jews of Florence Employment Practice Commission rededicated their synagogue, closed for over a year and partially in by direct action, Congressional ac tion having failed. ruins.

The survivors of Florence is an ancient Jewish city, the first Jews having settled there in the sixteenth century The first Jewish community council in Brod was; established three hundred years ago Jewish merchant Jewry revealed how the Nazi Governor Thomas E. Dewey commandant, several days before evacuating the city, lured some of their number out of hiding by again blasted Gerald L. K. Smith, princes irom western Europe announcing an amnesty for the and Governor John W. Bricker, Dewey's running mate, repudiated the vice-presidential nomination ex Jews.

Those who trusted the am nesty promise, and went into the Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, President cf the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky, President of B'nai B'rith; Sen. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, and Ass't. U.

S. Attorney General Norman Littell, who were among those who addressed the gathering of more than 50,000 persons. The American Jewish Committee and seven other national organizations joined with the American Jewish Conference in sponsoring a 'monster mass meeting held in New York City's Madison Square Park on July 31st to protest the wholesale deportations and slaughter of Hungary's 750,000 Shown above, 1. to are former N. Y.

Supreme Court tended to him by Gerald Smith's America First party. Westbrook Peeler. Scripps-Howard columnist, streets, were immediately hauled off to the Gestapo where they were tortured in an attempt to make settled there and introduced Western standards of culture Some moyed from there to Odessa and thus the Black Sea port became a "Jewish City" Irony of fate: Brod Jews nurtured on German culture, introduced German among the Jews of Russia Odessa rabbis preached in German for many years. (Copyright, 1944) declared that Representative Ham them give information as to the ilton Fish was not maligning the whereabouts of others. The final Jews, but was simply stating facts Nazi act was to line them up in the Gestapo courtyard and mow them down with machine gun fire.

when -he stated that-the Jews were for Roosevelt. Only a week ago Ease Blockade for Neutrals Admitting Jewish Children Pegler "expressed concern" that the arrival of the 982 token refu JEWS RETURN TO YILM FROM throw their doors open to refugees gees might lead to the arrival of many more. In a vehement attack on recent immigration, he charged that they came as tourists and then proceeded "for a little trip to Canada," thus becoming citizens. from the continent. Such havens, rather than Palestine, will provide a solution for the refugee problem, by int: educing a Jewish Commonwealth resolution in Congress, instead of a resolution restricted to the demand that the White Paper barring Jewish immigration be abolished Nonetheless, now that both major parties have included planks endorsing Jewish political demands in Palestine, the "Boys" are circulating a letter claiming the credit for themselves This is why they are now referred to as the "credit boys." Subject: Worries That handful of German Socialist emigres (with alleged Jews among them) who have been beating the drums of mercy for Germany and attempting to pad out nice careers for themselves in the politics of their fatherland, have now broadened the scope of their pity They are canvassing pity not alone for the German people as a whole, but individually for the so-called German "colonists" who moved into occupied territories, into the homes whose Jewish proprietors had been "liquidated," and benefited to the maximum from the loot and plunder accumulated by the Reichswehr killers We are not at all surprised at Attorney General Biddle's reported impatience with the emigres Besides pleading for assassins, this bir John says in a letter to the Times.

CONCEALMENT Jewish Partisan Leader Made In Palestine's first election in An official Vichy communique revealed that Jewish guerrillas, organized in separate Jewish units but fighting in actions coordinated with the Maquis, were harrassing Vichy police and German military. In Warsaw, Jewish guerrilla bands had broken through the Nazi ring thrown around the city and joined the Polish underground in its fight against the Nazis and in support of the forward-pressing Red forces. The anti-Semitic and semi-Fascist Endeks were accused by Jewish guerrilla leaders, reporting to the National Committee of National Liberation at Chelm, of delivering Jews to the Gestapo. two years in a well-established forest community in the Baranovici district of Byelorussia, in the heart of German-held territory, was told by Henach Levin, a 13-year old Jewish partisan who frequently visited the camp. The residents of the settlement had fled from ghettos, labor camps and concentration camps in the cities of Mir, Rakov, Slonim, Baranovici and the surrounding hamlets.

Among them were 90 Jews who had escaped from a camp at Kildychev by an underground tunnel which they had dug secretly over a period of three months. The forest community, which was under the protection of neighboring partisan bands, provided the guerrillas with shoes, caps, clothes and other articles which were manufactured in shops established by the refugees. Articles not required by the partisans were given to local farmers in return for food. When the Red army liberated the thirteen years for the Assephath Hanivcharim, Jewish Representa Boy Guerrillas Head of Vilna Economy Department tive assembly, Mapai, the Labor Return to Minsk London (JTA) Dingle Foot, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Economic Warfare, told the House of Commons that both the British and American governments had assured neutral countries that additional supplies would be passed through the blockade if they allowed Hungarian Jewish children to enter. Both governments, he added, have offered to see that the supplies are forthcoming.

No word has been received yet from neutral countries on their willingness to receive Jewish children under ten years of age according to the plan advanced by Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, the British official reported. He added, however, that certain party, was again in the lead. Hapoel Hamizrachi, the religious Moscow (JTA) Eight boys from Minsk, ranging in workers' organization, and the Ali age from eleven to fifteen, re yah Hadassah, New Immigrants turned to that city after spending group, were tied tor second place Moscow (JTA) Although virtually no Jews were found in Vilna ard the surrounding townships when the Red army first entered the region, hundreds of Jews who formerly dwelt there are beginning to return from the forests in which they hid to escape destruction by tie Germans. These are mainly Recent tendencies in Palestine bankiner. the erowing demand for nine months with a partisan band in the neighboring forests.

A report of their exploits appears in credits simultaneous with increas the Moscow press this week. ing deposits, were taken as an indication of a return to normalcy The boys fled the ghetto about He who turns away from the works of love and charity, turns away from God. Talmud. a year ago after they had seen V3une able-bodied persons who from the war-time economy. their parents and friends mas flzd to the woods and joined par sacred.

Slipping past sentinels tisan bands. More than 1,000 persons have countries, notably Switzerland and Sweden, had always been cooperative in the past. Baranovici district last month the settlement was liquidated and its residents, all of whom were safe and sound despite two years of hardship, returned to their home towns to begin the task of rebuilding their homes and factories. already returned to the town of Glubokoye in the Vilna district and reports reaching here express the The Horthy government, Foot said, had been informed through the Red Cross that the British are Nhm were yo on tte Highi anxious to do everything possible to see that the children are rescued as soon as possible. He said that the failure of previous schemes of this nature had not been the fault of the neutrals, but had been due to the reluctance of the Nazis to and barbed wire, they reached the center of the city where they met a friendly Byelorussian who directed them to the woods where the guerrillas had their headquarters.

After travelling for three days, they finally met up with a partisan sentry. The boys performed various tasks during their stay with the guerrillas: The younger ones helped around the kitchen; the older youths tended horses, acted as scouts and even participated in some forays against the Germans. The thing that hit the boys the hardest, the correspondent writes, was the necessity to part with their rifles and swords before entering the children's home in which they are now being cared for. hope that there may be others still in the forests. Most of the Jews of Glubokoye were massacred in 1941, and the others were crowded into a ghetto which was burned down by Elite Guard troops in August of last year.

The Jews who are returning now are those who through the aid of non-Jewish friends were able to flee the holocaust. In Vilna proper, the new head of the municipal economy department is a Jewish youth named Simono-vich who led a band of 300 Jewish Labor Party Wins in Palestine Elections Jerusalem (JTA) Preliminary results of the elections to the Assefath Hanivcharim, the Jewish National Assembly of Palestine, made public this week show that near ly200, 000 persons voted. This is about 72 per cent of the total entitled to vote. Only 56 per release the children. Sir John Hope Simpson, who conducted the Refugee Survey of the Royal Institute of Internation al Affairs in 1938, and who, in handful of people does the great-j est of harm to the thousands of real refugees from Nazism who have so well acclimatized themselves to the United States No, they do not speak for today's refuges, they speak for tomorrow's refugees, they speak of tomorrow's tribution.

Correspondence Isidore Cooperman, managing editor of The New Palestine and director of the Book Department of the Zionist Organization of America takes exception to a suggestion by this columnist that the English-Jewish press serialize books of Jewish interest. He fears that "it would greatly affect the sale and distribution of Jewish books," and suggests that we recommend that "the English-Jewish press devote more space to book reviews and booknotes and that it urge every Jewish home to build a Jewish library." Now, if Mr. Cooperman aims to obtain a "plug" in this column for books sold by the Z. O. we'll gladly repeat what we have said before the Z.O.A.

is doing a good job in promoting interest in Jewish books The latest work on its 1930 issued an official report ad vocating the stoppage of Jewish immigration to Palestine, urged cent voted in the last elections to the Assembly which were held thirteen years ago. that Britain and the United States PAID ADVERTISEMENT Written and authorized by the Brown for Lieutenant Governor Club. Carl E. Steiper, 870 Algoma Oshkosh, Wis. for which $42 will be paid the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle.

VOTE FOR SENATOR partisans named "The Avengers." The ranks of the "Avengers" were filled with Jews who had escaped irom the ghetto, some who had lied while being led to execution and a few who had been left for dead by the Nazis after a mass execution. In addition to the "Avengers" there were two other Jewish guerrilla bands operating around Vilna. Many young girls fought with -he partisans. Typical are Sonya Burstein, Fanya Varshavchik and a young woman who gave her name as "Betty." Betty told a correspondent that she had killed six Germans and that other members of the band had each killed dozens. 1,000 Jews Dwelt in Secret Forest Community Moscow (JTA) The story of how 1,000 fugitive Jews dwelt for Forty-two per cent of the voters cast their ballots for the Palestine Labor Party which will probably get sixty-five seats in the Assembly.

The Mizrachi, orthodox party, together with the Hapoel Ha-mizrachi, its labor branch, will probably have 24 seats, while 18 will go to the Aliyah Chadasah group. The Hashomer Hazair is expected to win between thirteen and fifteen seats, the Labor Unity Movement, which is the opposition group within the Jewish Labor Party, may get the General Zionist group is expected to get five, while its youth organization the Hanoar Hazioni may have seven. Four seats will probably go to the Women's Zionist Organization. list is Maurice Samuel's "Harvest In The Desert," the most compact, comprehensive brief history of Zionism we have yet come across As to the style Mr. Samuel needs no introduction How ever, we still maintain that the serialization of books can only pro Republican Candidate for LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR mote their sale.

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HIS years of Service in the State Senate, where he sponsored many Republican Administration Bills, has proven his Party Leadership. He was educated at Platte-ville State Teachers College and the University of Wisconsin. He has had experience as high school teacher, county agricultural agent, banker, former mayor of Oshkosh, fair secretary, and has owned and operated a large dairy farm near Oshkosh for the past 26 years. As a result of this broad experience, HE understands the problems of agriculture, education, municipalities, the business man, and labor. 1 A 1 1 i A i zrl'- Could you remember, if you were squirming on the witness stand? Probably not.

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