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MONTREAL. SEPTEMBER 13, 1946
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Record Shows How Nazis KHM Polish Jews
: fcedering that Palestine alone ' '* not offer a eolutioa to the oftfca Jewish refugees of . fifty-nine prominent per-have urged, in a letter to " at Trnaem, that the United and all other nations open doors to,a number of immi-The letter was made pnblk York by Mkftael Straight . i, the letter said: � moved by the fate �$*r brethren of Jewish faith, by - slaughter of unnumbered mil-at a' remit of the Nasi per-by the plight of homeless M for whom the future no security, we are dis-that so little has been in their behalf.
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</et their need, we believe tragk situation most be 'MP* broadest possible alone cannot con-a solution to that
urge that all na-open their doors
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Mthat the United States une its just share responsibility. We _ eoBTinoed thai by ...... we will make a signi-
osn*ribution to the solution and* in so our country with and spiritual humjgrattts haTe tra-maght na, a nation of tsssaigrantj from all
who signed the Wydc Brooks,
Ninety-eight per cent of the Jews who remained in Poland after September, 1989, died%as a result of the war. This statement was made in a statistical report issued by the Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes, set up by the Polish Government*
One of the nine sections of the report, headed "Extermination of Polish Jews," is a record of what happened to the 3,474,000 Jews in Poland from the outbreak of the war.
Because of the lightning-like advances of the Germans st the beginning of the war, 2,317,000 Jews remained within the Nasi sone of occupation, while 1,167,-000 were within the territory annexed by the Russians before the war.
Tracing the course of German policy towards the Jews, the report states that the concentration of Jews in urban areas facilitated German persecution. In a chapter entitled "Phases and Methods of the Solution of the Jewish Problem under German Occupation," it is noted that the Germans started to carry out their program of extermination on the first day after the war started. Although Poles were considered citizens of an inferior race in the districts incorporated by the Nazis, Jews were excluded from this category, and were therefore deprived of any protection by the State. y This contempt for the Jews led to a series of
ORTHODOX BODY DENIES JEWISH AGENCY SPEAKS FOR ALL
The right of the Jewish Agency for Palestine to speak for all Jews in negotiations with the British Government was challenged In Paris by the executive committee of Agudath Israel, a world-wide organisation of Orthodox Jews.
H. A. Goodman, a member of the executive committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association and of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: UI do not believe the bravado politics of the Jewish Agency leaders are doing any good at all to the Jewish people. If the Orthodox snd non-Zionist Jews were represented in the Jewish Agency, ss they ought to be, the position would be very different"
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Refugee Orphans Get Ashore In New York: Strike Ban Is Waived
To Aroise literett h Bi-Natioiil State
Retail Of Property Evaded In Treaty
A new article in the Rumanian peace treaty to protect the rights of Jews was proposed to the Rumanian political and territorial commission by the United Kingdom delegation. It was a result of representations made to the Council of Foreign Ministers by Jewish organisations.
What the sttitude of the Rumanian commission to this proposal wul be was not indented. The
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stiver, flee to the itions allowed >n were smaB-those allowed
the Poles, the Commission added.
The report then goes on to give details of Nazi methods for the extermination of Jews, details of which are now well known.
By dividing the Nasi policy of extermination into two phases, the Commission found that up to the time of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, f*00,000 Jews had perished. From the summer of 1941 to February, IMS. 2^00.000 Jews died at the hands of the Germans. The Cote-mission also reports that 1.000.000 non-Pohsh Jews were killed in Poland by the Germans.
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cludina* that jfor Romania. Subss representatives of the four major powers who conferred with Jewish representatives told them that -the amendments proposed were too long and that agreement could not be expected on s number of them but that there might be ground for amending the treaties.
"There- has been a tremendous wsve of anti-Semitism in Hitler's Europe during the wsr years," Mr. Jebb said. There is still the great apprehension of Jewish colonies in Europe, and we think we should try to provide for this situation tn the treaties. What is worrying the Jews is that the treaty does not mention them or say anything about the return of their confiscated property."
Mr. Jebb said the British delegation had circulated the proposed article to its colleagues of the Big Four, but had not had time to discuss it with them. The proposed article follows:
A proposal that the British Government authorise a Palestine Mission, similar to that of the British Cabinet Mission to India, which would be vested with full power to reach a final settlement on the Palestinian situation, was msde in New York by Dr. Judah L. Mag-nes, president of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem.
Such a mission, he proposed, should be set up immediately, ana should be sent to Palestine "re-jrardles* of the outcome of the London meeting."
Dr. Magnes Issued this proposal at a meeting in his. offices at 1770 Braedws^jtJhd to ja^eemee fee
The tiny excursion boat, Visitor, which normally carries carefree sightseers around Manhattan Island, put-putted into the French Line's Pier 88 with a cargo of sixty-eight bewildered Jewish war orphans. The children arrived in New York from Marseilles aboard the Athos II, but striking harbor uni6ns refused to let the ship dock. The Visitor, pressed into service by the French Line after unions granted permission to remove the children, delivered them to American relatives twenty-eight hours later. The Visitor tried earlier to remove the children, but failed because it was too late for immigration officials to process them.
With a stoicism learned during years of hiding and flight, the youngsters accepted the fact that they had to debark down a steep and unsteady gangway from the Athos to the Visitor and the older ones managed their battered luggage with the ease of long practice.
They rallied in time to sing a farewell song, a French Boy Scout tune called ''Unite Our Ways Before We Part" to the 1,817 disconsolate passengers left aboard the Athos, anchored off Stapleton, S.I.
Blin Says "TerrerisgT b Revolt lie
As the Visitor chugged up the Hudson, snd the children crowded the rails to look at the skyline and the Statue of Liberty, Mrs. Eugenie Masour, of the Oeuvres de Secours aux Enfants, escorted the children.
Hundreds of them had already reached France when the' Germans occupied the country. The story of eight-year-old Judith Koeppel is typical
Judith was not quite two when her parents fled from Germany aboard the ship, St. Louis, for Cuba. The 907 Jews aboard* the ship were refused permits to land and the Koeppels returned to a refugee camp in France.
Judith's parents had her placed in an O.S.K. orphanage. Then, when France was occupied and the O. S. E. went underground. Judith was one of hundreds of children placed with Christian families under an assumed name. Her parents were deported to a German camp and died there.
O.S.E. women in the occupied zones risked their lives to deliver money to the Christian families each month. Thirty-five of these women were caught by the Germans, and all but four died in concentration camps, says the New York Herald Tribune.
After the liberation Judith's uncle located her through Dr. &H. �-Wachsman; chairman of the, Aaeav ican CommipM esVtss) �JM6> Most of
doafcfes and who ed to negotiate with aB on the spot and whose function it is to effect a settlement.''
There win, of course, have to be . compromises," he continued. (C<mttK��d on Page restive)
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that, with the exception of such special regulations affecting foreigners as are by international custom normally applicable, the laws in force in Bmnsnts shall not either in their content or application, discriminate or entail any discrimination between dff-
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A denial of s statement attributed to aim in a Router dispatch from Paris, printed m the New York Times, to the effect that Hungarian and Ri�slsn Jews did aot wish to oaiigTito to Pales-on behalf of Meier of the
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Rabbi Isaac landman of Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, president-elect of the Synagogue Council of America, editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, director of the Academy for Adult Jewish Education and former editor of The American Hebrew, died ' of a heart attack in his summer home at Starlake in the Adiron-dacks. His age was 66.
Born in Sudilkov, Russia, son' of Dr. Louis Hyamson Landman, an ophthamolgist, and Ada Ge-daliah Tetndman, Dr. landmen was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10. He received a B.A. degree at the University of Cincinnati and his rabbinical degree st the Hebrew Union College there in 1906. An honorary DJ). degree was conferred on him by the college in IMS.
He fought the Ku Xlsx Can, the promulgators of the spurious "Protocols of the Elders of Zkm," the anti-Jewish attacks of The Dearborn (Mich.) Independent and similar movements.
Dr. landmen was executive secretary of the National Farm School and he founded a farm colony of Jews tn Utah with the aid of Jacob H. Sehiff, Juttus RosenwaM and
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in Palestine. itisaVwas rorism in Palestine, he said, was in fact a desperate form of revolt due to the destruction, bye British action, of. every hope entertained by the Zionists,
Mr. Blum's article, reprinted in the Manchester Guardian, was tn protest against the use made by the Palestine radio of his recent article in Le Populaire on the srtu-
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