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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. 35
between you
AND ME
BY PAUL A. PETERS
CEMENTING FRIENDSHIP :
Unity between the Jews of Russia
and the Jews in America is being
successfully promoted by the
Jewish delegation from Russia
which is now in the United States.
. . . - The delegation, composed
of the noted actor Solomon Mik
hoels and the poet Itzik Feffer,
paid a visit to Dr. Weizmann in
New York a day before the Zion
ist leader left for London . . . -
The conversation was pleasant
and centered chiefly around the
greetings which the delegation
delivered to Dr. Weizmann from
his brother in Russia ... - And
leading Zionists, including Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise and Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, could have been seen
at the reception which the Soviet
Consul in New York tendered to
the two Jewish delegates from
Russia ... - Also leaders of the
JDC such as Paul Baerwald and
James N. Rosenberg ... - The
delegation paid a visit to Prof.
Einstein and spent several hours
with him at Princeton ... - May
or LaGuardia of New York, re
ceiving the delegation at City
Hail, gave them the surprise of
their lives by talking to them in
Yiddish ... - This was especially
helpful since the delegation does
not speak English and the mayor
speaks no Russian ... - Itzik
Feffer, who holds a high military
post, came here after service at
the front ... - And Mikhoels has
to his credit the fact that he or
ganized the first front-line the
aters in the Soviet Union . . . -
He was in Leningrad when the
Nazis attacked the Soviet Union.
... - Hit brother was killed dur
ing the defense of the city . . . -
PLANfc AND ACTION: Have
you heard of a $100,000,000 plan
for post-war Jewish settlement?
... - A very prominent Jewish
refugee banker is said to be the
father of this plan ... - And
speaiking of wealthy Jewish ref
ugees, August Auchnitt, former
Rumanian industrialist, is now
richer by two million dollars in
cash and securities which were
held by the Alien Property Cus
todian ... - This is the first re
turn of property seized from an
alien since the United States en
tered the war ... - Some Amer
ican papers are now severely
criticizing the Inter-Departmental
Committee in Washington which
passes on the admission of refu
gees .... They claim that this
committee has raised extra-legal
qualifications for entry of im
migrants that many a founding
father would not have been able
to satisfy had these standards
prevailed in the early days of the
republic ... - Do you know that
Radar, the radio trap for Nazi
raiders, was actually discovered
b y a German-Jewish scientist,
Henrich Hertz, way back in 1888 ?
• • . - Experimenting with ultra
high frequency electro-magnetic
waves, Hertz found he could
make them jump through space
and register a signal on an in
strument at a distance ... - He
also found that he could make
the waves rebound toward his
sending instrument much as a
ball bounces back when thrown
against a wall ... - Now 130,-
°°o,ooo Americans can sleep
JEWISH FLIER HERO
TEACHES AT
FLORIDA AIR FIELD
At 23, Lt. Norman Segal
is a veteran of 30 air opera
tions against the Italians
and Germans in North. Af
rica. He has taken part in
daylight bombings of Abbe
ville and Rouen. He pilot
ed a bomber in the Dieppe
raid. He holds the Disting
uished Flying Cross, Air
Medal, and three Oak Leaf
Clusters. Now, at Mac Dill
Field, Fla., this youthful
navigator and bombardier
from New York City is
teaching the secrets of nav
igation t o other young
Americans.
JUDGE EMANUEL LEWIS
IS SAVANNAH DELEGATE
TO AMERICAN
JEWISH CONGRESS
The Savannah, Georgia, election
district has named Judge Eman
uel Lewis as its representative to
the American Jewish Congress
which will be held in New York,
August 29. Other southern dele
gates whose names have just been
released by the Congress acting
committee include Ike Abelson,
who has been named by the Bir
mingham, Alabama, election dis
trict, and George Berke who was
elected by the Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tennessee, election dis
trict.
better at night and go about
their business at ease during
the day because Radar —t h e
“raid detector” —not only can de
tect the presence of an enemy
plane or ship while it is still
many miles away, but also can
determine its direction and dis
tance . . .
America Wants Brandeis’ Palestine Vision Fulfilled,
Said Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
“What true American would
not rejoice to see fulfillment of
Brandeis’ vision that men of his
stock should resurrect this life
and culture of the people of the
Bible in that little land where
our faith was founded?”
This was the keynote of the
message brought by Supreme
Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943
Nazis Send 50,000 Jews to 7/ Death Camps 7/
In Reprisal For R.A.F. Bombing of Dams
Axis Use Anti-
Semitism To
Check Defeatism
ZURISH (JTA) —German and
Italian newspapers reaching here
this week reveal increased ten
sion both in Italy and throughout
the Reich, which the governments
of both countries are trying to
check by intensified anti-Jewish
propaganda, with the emphasis on
allegations that the Jews will re
venge themselves on every
“Aryan” should the Axis be de
feated.
In Italy this propaganda seems
to have little effect upon the av
erage Italian. Therefore the "In
stitute for Study of the Jewish
Problem” which was established
in Bologna along the same lines
as similar anti-Jewish “institutes”
in Germany, has just published a
“documentary volume” trying to
convince the Italian people that
the Jews, and not Hitler or Mus
solini, are responsible for the war.
In Germany the Nazi propa
gandists are faced with a situa
tion where they are forced to
“explain” the cause for the sud
den intensified anti-Jewish propa
ganda when there are practically
no Jews left in the Reich. The
“explanations” are centered chief
ly around the allegations that
American and British Jews are
determined to have all Germans
exterminated after the war in re
taliation for the Nazi annihilation
of Jews.
The German newspapers also
use anti-Jewish incidents in the
United States. They magnify dis
criminations against Jews i n
American war industries and pre
sented the recent race riots in
Detroit as anti-Jewish rather than
anti-Negro.
to 1,800 union leaders, represent
atives of Trade associations and
figures prominent in American
Zionism who, in the Hotel Com
modore, New York, celebrated an
other milestone of progress in the
realization of the plan for a Louis
D. Brandeis agricultural settle
ment in Palestine. The dinner,
held on June 23rd and arranged
STOCKHOLM (JTA) —Acting in reprisal for the Brit
ish bombing of the Ruhr dams, the Nazi authorities have
deported 50,000 Jews from the fortress town of Terezin, in
the Czech protectorate, to “death camps” in occupied Po
land, the Swedish newspaper Aftontidningen reported this
week.
The majority of the deportees—
who came originally from Czecho
slovakia, Austria and Germany
had been confined at Terezin for
many months. They were kept
completely isolated and were jam
med together in a comparatively
small area with little provision
for food, shelter or sanitation.
They were told that they were be
ing sent to Poland because a Jew
ish refugee from the Ruhr had
advised the Royal Air Force to
bomb the Eder and Mohne dams.
The British Government, however,
had already denied a report that
the suggestion to destroy the
dams came from a Jewish refu
gee.
The Reichsanzeiger, organ of
the Nazi Protector in Prague,
which reached here this week,
carries a list of 88 Jews whose
property was confiscated last
week because they had either suc
ceeded in escaping abroad, or had
German nationals
INTERNED IN
PALESTINE REFUSE
TO RETURN TO REICH
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Ger
man settlers in Palestine
who were interned as ene
my aliens after the out
break of war are refusing
to be exchanged for Peles
tinian citizens interned in
the Reich, and have ex
pressed the desire to remain
in isolation camps here
rather than be repatriated
to Germany.
by the National Committee for
the Louis D. Brandeis Colony of
which Mrs. Isadore Nagler is
chairman, was the second func
tion of its Kind since the com
mittee began its activities a year
ago with a banquet tendered in
honor of U. S. Senator Robert
F. Wagner.
been deported as “dangerous ele
ments.”
Extermination of Dutch Jews
In Polish Concentration
Camps Reported
LONDON (JTA)—The Polish
Government this week reported
that “many thousands” of Jews
who were deported by the Nazis
from Holland were sent to the
notorious Treblinka concentration
camp in occupied Poland where
they were executed in special
“death chambers” which the Nazis
recently “improved” to facilitate
mass-gassing of Jewish internees.
The same report which came
from the underground movement
in Poland, also stated that a
transport of 340 Dutch Jews was
massacred by the Nazis at Sochy,
near Swierzyniec-Lubelski, and
that a group of 100 Jewish women
and children from Holland was
killed in Sarajewka, near Potok.
Another group of 150 Dutch Jews
was annihilatel by the Nazis in
the village of Tursk.
Another report reaching here
stated that the “Jewish camps”
which the Nazis organized to
house Jews in occupied Holland
| are being dissolved as a result of
intensified deportations of Jewish
j internees to Nazi-held territories
l in Eastern Europe.
The report, which supplements
previous advices to the effect that
all the Jews of Holland have
either been deported or are held
in concentration camps awaiting
deportation, reveals that the Nazi
authorities issued an order that
individual parcels intended for the
interned Jews should no longer be
addressed to their camps directly,
since these camps were being dis
solved, but “to a distribution cen
ter from where they will be for
warded,” the report says.
For God And
Country....
Jacksonville Jewish Boy Dies In
Action At Guadalcanal
Word has been received from
the war department that Jerome
Abrams, former Jacksonville boy,
died in action while on duty with
the armed forces at Guadalcanal.
The fallen youth was the nephew
of Ben Laidman of here.
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