1 JEWISH   WESTEEN   BULLETIN Friday, February 9, 1940
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Dear Jewish Brother and Sister:
This call is directed to your heart. Again you are asked to come to the aid of the Wandering Jew. His hopes have been shattered. His very existence as a breathing human being is in danger. He knows of no tomorrow. For the vast majority there is no place of security.
You cannot shirk this responsibility of giving. So long as a single innocent, suffering victim of persecution remains, our task—to that extent—remains yet undone. Only then can we find satisfaction in our accomplishments when we hav^ brought the healing message of help to all our stricken brothers and sisters wherever they may find themselves.
Living in this great land of freedom, away from actual conflict, the sacrifice you are called upon to make is infinitely small. YSm^ is the opportunity to give. Think what it means to be placed in the position of one, formerly independent, now obliged to stand with outstretched hand waiting for what you can share.
The headlines of today portray a grim story of the European Refugee catasti'ophe. READ THEM.
NAZI'S BURN SYNAGOGUES; MALTREAT JEWS
PARIS (WNS)—Nazi authorities in Poland, pushing their program of expulsion of Jews from cities througbout German-occupied Polish territory, have begfun to drive out Jews from Kalisz, Begun and Sand-omierz, according to information reaching here Wloclawek, Cierpz and other localities.
Many of these expelled were said to have been killed by Nazi guards when they halted because of exhaustion. Nazi vandalism in Poland was demonstrated frequently, Nazi authorities ordering synagogues destroyed in the. towns from which the Jews had been driven, the report said.
Later reports received by Polish circles here said that Nazi authorities have expelled all Jews from the towns of Pabianio and Zdunskavoli near Lodz, "into the interior of Poland," which is taken to mean the Lublin or Siedlce regions.       ^ . .
In Warsaw, the Nazi administration ordered the Chamber of Commerce to prepare lists of "aryan" and Jewish enterprises, and a special office has been set up with authority to "collaborate" in transferring Jewish enterprises into "aryan' hands.
GHETTOS eiVED FOR THE JEWS
PARIS (WNS).—A Budapest dispatch to newspapers here disclosed that the Slovakian government has established a ghetto in the ancient capital city of Bratislava, known to Jews in Slovakia as Pressburg, where for hundreds of years a ghetto section had existed. This ancient ghetto section will be the centre of the new ghetto to be established by Nazi authorities in Slovakia.
Jews are permitted to leave the "Judengasse" only between 6 a.m. and 4 pjn. when they may shop for food In two stores designated by authorities for that purpose.
JEWS IN CHEIM TERRORIZEO
PARIS (WNS)—Newly arrived refugees from the territory near the Jewish"reservation" in the Lublin area of Nazi Poland reported that more than 30,000 Jews have been dumped into the ghetto section. Of this number, 12,000 have come from the old Reich, 3,000 from Austria, 4,000 from the "protectorate" of Bohemia-Moravia, and 10,000 from the Polish areas including Kalisz, Sier-dz, Koin, Kolo, Unijow and the Suwalki region.
The refugees further reported that a reign of terror in the city of Clielm, which has a -Jewish population of more than 25,000, brought pogroms, and plundering of Jewish property. All Jewish leaders were arrested and several were shot. More than 2,000 Jews were rounded up in the market place, driven to an unknown destination, reportedly the Soviet frontier, and ordered to find their way to some settlement.
Other sources disclosed that several hundred men, women and children perished in the town of Bend-zin when a Jewish-inhabited street was raked by machine-gun fire and set afire. Those who attempted to escape were shot. All synagogues in the town were destroyed.
In the town of Sosnowiec, 250 Jewish merchants were arrested. Thirty-five Jews and Poles were executed following the discovery of the bodies of four slain Germans in the vicinity.
2,000 JEWS STRANOED IN ROATS IN DANUBE
NEW YORK (WNS).—An agreement to return to Vienna 2,000 Jews who have been marooned for weeks in boats on the Danube was reported here to have been made between Rumanian and German officials, according to a statement issued' by the American Friends of a Jeviish Palestine and in protecting Jews there against Arab attacks, asserted here that news of the agreement had been received from its representative in Rumania via Italy.
The agreement, it was said, meant
NOTORIOUS BRUTAL ; GESTAPO LEADER DIRECTS EXPULSIONS
PARIS (WNS)—Expulsion of J"6ws from; the "protectorate," originally scheduled to start February 1/ was launched last we^k, before the established deadline for Jewish emigraT tion, according to reliable advices reaching Czech -official, circles here.
Jews in the "protectorate" had hoped that the date set for Jewish expulsion might somehow be postponed, preparing meanwhide to mo^ bilize: all available necessities ^as: a; precautioa against epidemics and extreme cold.
As a warning to the Jews that the expulsion would begin in earnest on the first of the month,' the Gestapo loaded several hundred Jews on "two cattle trains and transported ; them to an unknown destination, the "report said. These Jews were said to be of Polish origin,  v      :   . ' -
Information reaching here several weeks ago confirmed reports that the notorious Gestapo leader Klein, known for his brutal treatment of Jews during their forced; deportation to Lublin from- Nazi-occupied Polish cities, had been transferred to Prague to effect the mass expulsion of; 90,000 Jews from the "protectorate" starting February 1. In preparation for the mass expulsion the Grcstapo leader ordered all Jews in Bohemia-Moravia to submit detailed lists of their belongings. These orders were issued'orally 'to (leaders of Jewish communities; who in turn conveyed them verbally to individual Jews, with use of mail and telephone for this V purpose prohibited.
It was further disclosed that despite the Nazi ultimatum to Jews to emigrate by February 1, nurses and chemists were being prevented from leaving.
Meanwhile mobilization of Jewish physicians in Berlin is expected because of a shortage of medical staff members, reliable reports from Berlin said. '
ORDER JEWS TO EVACUATE LODZ
COPENHAGEN (WNS) —Expulsion of Jews from Lodz, Poland, has been ordered, it was reported here. No details were available.
The German authorities; have officially; announced discontinuance of mail deliveries from abroad to persons in the occupied territory. Mail will continue to be delivered, however, in areas annexed by the Reich.
Because of continued illegal immigration, further rigorous meas-.ures are reported to have been introduced in Soviet areas. - They include three-year prison terms for refugees caught crossing the frontier. Polish currency will be invalid starting January 1 in the Soclet territory.
that these refugees would be rushed to concentration camps. Willard G. Stanton, national secretary of the organization, has asked Rumanian representatives in Washington to intercede with their home government.:
DRAFT POLISH JEWS FOR 2-YEAR TERM OF FORGED LABOR
PARIS (WNS)—Intensified raids on Jewish homes in Nazi-occupied Poland to obtain draft labor are reported from Nazi-occupied Poland. Many, were being sent to an unknown destination.
The Berlin Boersen-Zeitung reports that VHerr Kriiger, Gestapo chief in Poland, has proclaimed two years of forced labor for all Jews, between th3 ages of 14 and 60," adding that "the length of this term will be prolonged should the educational aim of this measure not be achieved within the specified time."
THE DRIVE
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ation of Polish Jews of Canada, etc.
The Canadian Jewish Committee for Refugees, which was organized early in 1939 by the Canadian Jewish Congress, and which already has a number of achievements to its credit. It has facilitated the entry of refugees into Canada, and aided them to re-establish themselves, and rebuild their lives in a new land. It has already given assistance to hundreds of refugee families in Ontario and Western Canada. It has found employment for them, settled them on land, provided farm loans, and rendered the services required to make the burden of the refugees easier and their path surer. It has borne in mind in all its activities a double obligation:
(1) The obligation of the hunted and persecuted seeking a haven of refuge.
(2) The obligation to the country of our allegiance, whose prosperity is enhanced by the infusion of new blood. It is the duty of this Committee to look after refugees that
are expected to come into this country in the near future. For the last three years the Federation of Polish Jews of Canada has directed its attention to the sufferings of the Jews in Poland and has launched appeals to the Canadian Jewry during the High-Holidays, for the purpose of raising funds to help Polish Jewry. Today, in the light of current events, the duty to help Polish Jewry is becoming more urgent with every hour. If la the past years the condition of Polish Jewry was pitiable, there is today no adjective with which to describe it The tragedy of three and a half million broken Jewish lives is one of the most horifying spectacles in the European panorama of disaster. Today the Federation of Polish Jews of Canada is a part of this great unified campaign.
This skelotonic outline of the three foregoing beneficiaries gives a brief summary of what their objectives are.
The  other  beneficiaries  are all worthy charitable activities deserving of the fullest support Information as to how the Monies
Collect^ are sure to be Transmitted to the Sufferers.
The Joint Distribution Committee is negotiating with the Americain Red Cross, the International Red Cross, the American Friends Service Committee, and other non-sectarian and inter-denominational agencies, in "an attempt to affect a formula, whereby through channels safeguarded under international auspices, assistance may be rendered by way of medical aid, child care, feeding and emergency service. ■
The Joint Distribution Comniit-tee offered its facilities and personnel both here and abroad, to co-operate with any broad relief effort which" is being organized by the major American non-sectarian and inter-denominational War Relief Agencies. ;
We are reliably informed, that the Jewish Welfare leaders of Poland, for example, are eager to place .at the service of the Red Cross or any other non-sectarian afency,' their organizations, experience and services. In this way the monies collected by the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies are sur0>.to reach the desired goal. '
HITLER PLANNING
ADDITIONAL
"RESERVATIONS"
PARIS (WNS).—Chancellor Hitler has adopted a four-reservation plan instead of his previous program of establishing a nominally independent Polish state, French newspapers declared, pointing to an annoimcement originating in Berlhi which said that three "reservations" for Poles would be set up in the districts of Cracow, Warsaw and Radpm, in addition to the Jewish "reservation" in the Lublin area.
The , Berlin announcement was quoted as saying that Poles will not be allowed to reside in the Jewish territory and neither Poles nor Jews will.be permitted to move from their "reservations" to any other part of German-held land.
LESS FOOD FOR JEWS ON RATIONS CARDS NEW NAZI MEASURE
PARIS ' (WNS). — The Schwarze korps, organ of Hitler's Elite Guards, discloses in a current issue that stamping of food cards held by Jews VTili mean that they will henceforth meek with difficulties not only in getting rationed foods but also in obtaining cards, which no longer will be delivered to Jews as hitherto.
Jewish circles here see in the introduction of specially marked food cards for Jews a Nazi attempt to prevent Jews from buying food at any time.
JEWS PUBLICLY FLOGGED; OTHERS EXECUTED
COPENHAGEN (WNS).—The sort cf treatment to which Jews were subjected in the occupied sections of Poland by German forces -were partially disclosed In extracts from- dah:-les of Nazi police, published in the Schlesische Zeitung.
In Lask, Pabjanice, Radom! and Kolo, himdreds of Jews were executed and countless numbers of others were publicly flogged and then interned in concentration camps.
In Lask, 100 Jews were shot while Germans: searched the township^ When the Jewish crowd tried to prevent the Germans from entering a synagogue, police used thehr gims and killed several hundred, razing the synagogue to.the ground.
In Sieradz, 35 Jews were executed. In Pabjanice, 9 Jews and young Jewr esses were flogged for refusing to salute the Nazi flag.
In Radom, 3,600 Jews were arrested and interned in a concentration camp and more than 100 were executed for Vresistlng'^ the Nazi police. The diaries said that the task of the police was '^facilitated'' -by.many suicides of Jews to avoid arrest.
In the township of Kolo, 21*7 Jews were publicly flogged and then imprisoned in concentration camps.
COPENHAGEN (WNS); — Fifty Jewish children gathered here by relief organizations from "Austria and Poland started for Amsterdam in two Netherlands planes en route to Palestine.
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NAZI THUGS STEAL AND PLUNDER JEWISH PROPERTY
Official Polish circles reported tha Nazis were confiscating; Jewish//^ an Polish property in Posen and otib parts of Poland which Hitler has
nexed as German provinces. In P en, no Pole ;i5 permitted to trade longer, it was said. "Liquidation the entire Polish commerce is cally completed and everything passing into German hands."
The Nazis in Lodz are subj: the Jews to a "war of nerves" by., a ternately?telling;them tbiat th^ not be sent to the Lublin, *'rese tion"^ since Lodz is now: considered province of Germany^ and then iiig them to leave Lodz before l,:When expulsion of Jews to Lub will be resumed. Searching and pl-dering of Jewish homes continu" Lodz where the Borochov Hecha colony,'a hachsharah (training) f has been dissolved by the Gesta~
- The reports further disclose several leaders of the Jewish cb niunily in Lodz have been sent jail in Radagosz, where the authorities have announced that releaseican only be secured on ment of foreign currency;.
BRUSSELS (WNS)—The G« newspaper Keelnische Zeitung clared that the government has en measures to simplify the " nomic dejudaization" of the Local   administrations hencef^ will have the power to approve.** tracts since'the central adminis tive   bodies   are overworked, newspaper said.
IN THE WAKE OF A POGROM came this J. D. C. truck laden with food, clothing,' miedicines for the Jewish inhabitants of Przytyk. Mo.'-e than SSO.OOO was expended by the Joint Distrbution Committee for emer* gency relief and rehabilitation work in the pogromized areas last year.