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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 18 NO. 4.
IT HAPPENED
THIS WEEK
BY MILTON BROWN, JTA
JEWISH EXTERMINATION
The Jews of North Africa this
week were happy over their lib
eration. But the question arose
whether the liberation which came
for them will not come too late
for millions of Jews in other
parts of the world. There came
evidence, revealed by the Polish
Goverament-in-Exile, for example,
confirming the long suspected
plan of a deliberate Nazi plot for
the mass-extermination of the
Jews. It was estimated last week
by the Polish Government-in-
Exile that in conformity with this
plot, at least 1,000,000 Jews have
already been put to death by the
Nazis in Poland. Formerly, there
were half a million Jews in War
saw alone. Today, only some
40,000 Jews are left there.
The cattle cars into which Jews
are loaded, ostensibly for depor
tation, are really not trains, says
the Polish Government report,
but execution chambers. A car
which can hold 40 persons is filled
with 150. When the trains ar
rive at their destination, all but
the strongest are dead and these
are used by the Nazis for forced
labor.
So the report goes on in a har
rowing tale of Murder, Inc., which
has no match in history. All
over Poland, the Nazis have es
tablished “extermination camps”
where Heinrich Himmler's min
ions feast on death.
These reports are confirmed
this week by other sources besides
the Poles.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise said this
week that a representative of
President Roosevelt, recently re
turned from a mission abroad, in
formed him that “Die worst fears
about the fate of the Jews under
Hitler are true.” Dr. Wise esti
mated that “one half of the five
million Jews in the territories oc
cupied by the Nazis have already
been destroyed.
Governor Lehman, who has just
been named to the new post of
Director of Relief and Rehabilita
tion, for the populations liberated
by the United Nations, in a state
ment this week, predicted that the
plight of the Jewish people after
the war will be so desperate “that
the survival of large numbers will
hinge on the opportunity of ob
taining healing arid home in Pal
estine.” Indeed, there is occasion
for apprehension that it may be
even more desperate than that,
for the mass extermination of
Jews which is now taking place
may not leave any Jews to go to
Palestine. Let us hope that our
fears will not be fulfilled.
Hitler deported many Jews to
the desert to build that Trans-
Sahara railroad with which he
hoped to help conquer the Middle
East. The victory in North Af
rica, from reports which came
this week, is leading to thousands
of these refugees fleeing these
camps. Many are joining the new
African army now being raised to
fight for the Allies.
There were numerous stories
this week citing the valor of Jews
in resisting the enemy. There
was a Jewish girl in Stalingrad
who took command of a Cossack
regiment | when its commander
fell in battle. In our own coun-
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942
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Reports 10,250 Os
B’nai B’rith In
Armed Forces
Washington (JPS)—In a statis
tical report on a year’s contribu
tion to the war effort by B’nai
B’rith, Henry Monsky, President,
revealed that 10,250 member* of
B’nai B’rith and its youth groups
arc in the nation’s armed forces.
The report also stated that 20,184
B’nai B’rith and A. Z. A. members
dcnated blood to thi Red Cross;
that $22,000,000 worth of war
bonds was sold; that $355,000 of
B’nai B’rith funds are invested in
war bonds and 160 Torahs were
obtained for use in army cnapels.
During the period, B’nai B’rith
also contributed $135,000 to the
Red Cross and other war relief
agencies, while 19 pieces of mobile
equipment were given to the Red
Cross.
HITLER S LETTER TO PETAIN
AGAIN BERATES JEWS
London (JPS) —Unable to deal
with any problem without men
tioning the Jews, Adolf Hitler
dragged the Jews into his lengthy
letter to Marshal Petain trying
to explain away the betrayal of
the Fuehrer’s promise not to en
ter Toulon.
Reviewing the relations be
tween Germany and France, Hit
ler declared: “It is to be re
gretted that unscrupulous Anglo-
Saxons and primarily Jewish
wire-pullers succeeded in inter
preting every conciliatory gesture
Cites Nelson
Statement On
Junk Profiteering
Chicago (JPS) —Saying that
“Jewish factors are prominent” in
the junk industry, Richard E.
Gustadt, Director of the Anti-
Defamation League, cited with
approval in a weekly column is
sued from here a repudiation by
Donald M. Nelson, WPB chief, of
“widespread charges of profiteer
ing levelled against the junk in
dustry.”
In, his letter to E. O. Barringer,
president of the Scrap Iron And
Steel Institute, Mr. Nelson assert
ed that “the patriotic spirit and
co-operation of the junk dealer is*
highly commendable.” Mr. Gut
stadt added that “spreaders of un
founded rumors of our war effort
would do well to read and heed
Mr. Nelson’s timely statement”
try, there was the moving story
of State Senator Lazarus Joseph
of New York, who after receiving
news of the death of his son, 22-
year-iold Captain Joseph of the
Marines, is now seeking to enlist
in the Marines.
Heads J.D.C. Junior Division
■b ' BP
Mrs. Roman Totenberg (above), wife
of the concert violinist, has just be
come the National Chairman of the
Junior Division of the Joint Distri
bution Committee. She succeeded Lloyd
C. Whitebrook of New York as Chair
man of the Junior Division, which aims
to train young men and women for posi
tions of leadership in Jewish communi
ties by encouraging them to participate
in Jewish welfare fund campaigns.
of the new Reich as a sign of
weakness and every, peace offer
later as proof of impending col
lapse.”
The man who has ordered the
ruthless slaughter of millions of
Jews and who has confiscated
billions of dollars worth of Jew
ish property, said that “French
inciters” in Paris were demanding
“above all, however, complete
restoration of the unrestricted
right of plunder by the Jewish
race which had been pushed back
into its proper place in Germany.”
The world’s greatest aggressor
then pleaded self-defense for
Germany, saying that Germany
was compelled “to fight those
who brought about this war and
who today are continuing the war,
with the aim of destroying the
whole of Europe, in the service of
a European, extra-European and
Jewish-Anglo-Saxon clique.”
Piling lie upon lie, Hitler said
that he had learned of the
breaches of promise by French
officers and admirals and “their
proved intention to open for the
Anglo-Jewish war criminals
France as well as North Africa.”
REFUGEES FLEE FROM
SOUTHERN FRANCE
MANY IN POSSESSION OF U. S. AND SOUTH AMERI
CAN VISAS CROSSED SPANISH FRONTIER
As the news of the Hitler slaughters of the defenseless
Jewish populations in Nazi-occupied lands spread, a panicky
flight of Jewish refugees from Southern France has begun.
Cable advices received by the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immi
grant Aid Society from its repre
sentatives at the Spanish-French
and Swiss-French frontiers, speak
of a continuing flight of refugees
to these neutral territories.
Among a group of 1500 that
crossed the Spanish frontier sev
Ad Agency Fights
Anti-Semitic Rumors
New York (JPS) —Young & Rubicam, 1nc.,1 powerfu
New York advertising agency, has launched a campaign of
institutional advertising, in which “rumor-wardens” are
called upon to fight anti-Semitic rumors which are part of
the Nazi propaganda machine.
In a full-page advertisement in
the December Fortune magazine,
Young & Rubicam lists “three
cancerous campaigns” launched
by the Nazis that are “making
headway in this country.” One
tries to set white American
against black American.” An
other tries to “set Christian
American against Jewish Ameri
ican” And the third aims to "set
all Americans against the Eng
lish.”
"Hitler’s policy of demoraliza
tion,” says the ad, “makes every
group, every creed, every class
suspicious of every other group,
creed and class, always aims at
engendering hatred of Jews.
“Be particular alert to rumors
that Jews are unwilling to fight,
will do anything to avoid being
drafted, or, once drafted, will
take every means to get soft jobs,
avoid combat duty.
“Induction figures of Jews ac
cepted and casualty lists of Jews
killed in action continuously give
the lie to these rumors, but they
Darlan Still Practicing Anti-Jewish
Laws In North Africa,
French Deputy Charges
LONDON (JTA) —The charge that Admiral Darlan
who is now the head of the French forces in North Africa
is still discriminating against Jews and refusing to accept
somje of them for military service was made here by Pierre
Bloch, Socialist member of the French Parliament who
reached London to join General Charles de Gaulle.
“Only Jews who are holders of
Legion of Honor and war decora
tions have been called up by Dar
lan for military service in French
Morocco and Algeria, while all
other Jews are still treated by
him in accordance with the anti-
Jewish laws which prohibited
Jews from serving in armed
forces,” Mr. Bloch said. (A re
port last week from Algiers stat
ed that Jews in the classes of
1938 to 1942 have all been called
up for service in North Africa.
Nothing was said about Jews in
other classes.)
The former French deputy also
reported that students at the Sor
bonne University in Paris have
eral days ago, there are many in
possession of immigration visas
issued to them by the U. S. and
by the consular services of South
American countries. 5,000 men,
women and children are reported
to have crossed the French fron
tier into Switzerland.
persist. Spike them!”
The advertisement calls on
Americans to “do your country an
invaluable service by fighting the
Nazi barrage of lies, if you have
appointed yourself a Rumor-
Warden to protect American un
ity and morale, be alert for ru
mors” that seek to spread the
“three cancerous campaigns.”
Mrs. Roosevelt
Sympathizes With
Jewish Army Aim
New York (JPS) —Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt “fully sympathizes”
with the statement issued by the
Committee for a Jewish Army de
manding the right of stateless
and Palestinian Jews “to fight in
their own army, under their own
insignia, on every battlefield of
the world to which the United
Nations’ High Command will
assign them,”
formed an organization called
“Union of Inter-Allied and French
Youth,” the members of which
wear a yellow Mogen David in
solidarity with Jews.
Unverified reports published in
London this week state that Jew
ish leaders have been arrested by
the Axis military authorities in
the Tunisian harbor city of Biz
erte which American and British
forces are approaching. The
same reports state that Jews have
been deported by the Axis author
ities from certain localities in
Tunisia “to unknown destina
tions.”
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