The Canadian English -Jewish Weekly
VOL. XXV
MONTREAL, AUGUST 13, 1943
No. 45
Document Revexih Tragic . Destruction Of Yugoslav Jews
DELIBERATE DISPERSAL AND DEVASTATION COMPLETES THEIR HISTORY
Palestine Jewry Zionists Protest
Believes White Paper Will Not Survive
Militant Rivalry Pictured In Palestine
Arab Distrust Of Jews Shows Effect of Qerman Propaganda
CONFLICT IS CRUCIAL QUESTION AMONG MIDDLE EAST PROBLEMS
When peace comet to Italy, thousands of Yugoslavian Jew* who were sent to internment centers there when the ex-Duce'e armies appropriated areas of Yugoslavia, will share the joys of freedom with the liberated Italians. Through the uaaTedtetatole turns of war, these refugees have become the fortunate survivors of Yugoslavian Jewry whose tragic dispersal and devastation are detailed in a report received at the Joint Distribution Committee headquarters in New York from its European headquarters in Lisbon.
The report, baaed on first-hand experiences, was made available to the JJXC. by refugees arriving in Portugal.* It describes conditions in Yugoslavia as late as May of this year. The Italians, the report discloses, were' lenient in their treatment of the Jews in the area* they occupied in comparison with the brutality meted out by the Germans in the sections of the country they look oyer. The Nazis followed the pattern used in* other occupied sections- of Europe: executions, starvation, exposure* deliberate contamination with fatal diseases and deportation. There are practically no Jews left in German-occupied Yugoslavia, the task of making the region "Judeo-reia" having been carried out by the Nasi* in co-operation with the native Fascist*, known as the Us*
**fhe Jews who to the
were taken against them. Many of them are in Camp Ferramonte In the province of Cosenxa In Southern Italy. Others are in small places of Northern Italy in so-called forced residence. The total number, of Yugoslavian Jews in Italy amounts to about 6.000. The number of Jews who at the time fled to Yugoslavia from Germany, Austria and Poland, who are now in Italy, is estimated at about 1,500. They receive a dally subvention of 8 lira per adult, 4 lira for each child, and a monthly allocation for their rent."
(A list of 277 Yugoslavian Jews In Italian centers has Just been issued by the Joint distribution Committee.)
On the evening of April 10, 1941, immediately after the entry of the German troops into Zagreb, largest Jewish center in the Nazi-occupied region, all Jewish institutions were closed and sealed by the Gestapo, the report reveals.
"Religious services in the synagogues were discontinued, and the Great Synagogue on Prasca Ulica (Continued on Page Two)
Nazis In Poland Steam To Death 2,100,100 Jews
Remarks which David Ben Gurion made before the Zionist General Council in Palestine, to the effect that the White Paper will not survive after the war under the pressure of the Jewish people's opposition, coupled with the compulsion emerging from the paramount needs which will then prevail, may seem somewhat over-sanguine from the point of view of the present stage of developments, but strangely enough -this optimistic prognostication, based on a good deal of realism, is shared widely through the settlement, says a London Jewish Chronicle correspondent
Post-war construction inevitably looms more prominently in the settlement's political thinking, for understandable reasons, in** creased, by the knowledge that Sir Douglas Harris, Palestine's Reconstruction Commissioner, continues planning along these lines unobtrusively, albeit, effectively.
The effect of the perpetuation of the White Paper restrictions after April. 1944, means the fta-biluahg of the settlement at Its present ratio � � two Arabs for (Continued on Page Three)
Grant Receive Supplements Aid
In a statement issued last week, the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs, headed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, took exception to statements contained in recent dispatches to The New York Times by C. L. Sulzberger and reported in last week's'Review, -dealing with relations between Arabs and Jews in Palestine, with special reference to mounting ten-slon between the two peoples.
"These articles relate that Jews and Arabs are arming in antic-pat ion of violence, and convey the impression that Jewish eagerness to assist in the prosecution of the war is motivated by a desire to militarize the Jewish population in preparation for the threatened conflict with the Arabs," the committee's statement declared.
This is misleading and grossly unfair. The objective observer who knows the temper of the Jewish people in Palestine must recognize that the goal in Jewish recruitment, mobilization and sacrifice is the winning of the war. That is dominant and unquestioned .
To suggest other motives is to cast a slur on the gallantry and idealism of the Jews of Palestine. The record refutes the suggestion. (Continued on Page Bight)
One of the crucial questions perplexing those who wish to settle Middle Eastern problems is the clearcut conflict between the aspirations of political Zionism and the political federation of Arabs, says the New York Times.
The matter has been only temporarily bridged by the policy of the British White Paper, under which 29,000 more Jews will be permitted to enter Palestine by next March, when ail immigration will be permanently halted. Arabs
Jewish Historian Dies, Was Called To U.S. From
Germany
Dr. Ismar Elbogen, historian of Jewish religion and former lecturer in, the Lehranstalt fuer der Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, died in New York in Mount Sinai Hospital. He resided at 434 West 120th Street. His age was 68.
At his death Dr. TTlhoaurt was a research professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway. He was an authority on Jewish liturgy and was a joint editor of the Encyclopedia Judesce and Germania Judaka.
tend to support this policy but wonder if it will prevail forever and the Jews ere opposed to it as unjust
When the Palestinian mandate was granted by the League of Nations there appeared to be no par* ticuhur reason why Jews and Arabs could not get on weH in the land where they had lived together for many centuries. Lawrence of Arabia wrote of the Jewish national home scheme that the Jews, "by the exercise of their skill and capital hoped to make Palestine as highly organized as a European state."
The success of their scheme will involve inevitably the raising of the present Arab population to their own material level," he continued. "It might well prove a source of technical supply, rendering them independent of industrial Europe, and in that case a new confederation might. become a formidable element of world power.
"However, such a contingency will not be for the. first or even for the second generation, but it must be borne in mind in any laying out of the foundations of empire in Western Asia. These to a very large extent must stand or fall by the course of effort."
Unfortunately, the Arabs, on then- eventual political control of part of the Are* State
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given to the Jewish as well as to the general population of Tunisia by the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, beginning within a few days after the Axis defeat.
Heavy fines and other discriminatory measures imposed by the Axis during the occupation of Tunisia have left the Jewish communities there almost entirely without resources, Mr. Hyman revealed. -With the loss of their property and bank accounts, coupled with the ruin brought to their homes and businesses," he said, "the Tunisian Jews have found themselves fmanctatiy unable to undertake the reconstruction of their communities. Prompt �ad effective emergency help was given them by the OFRRO. The (Continued am Pnge Threw;
People of meeting in New York. Dr. Maurice William, author and (Continued on Page Seven)
Djv Elbogen was born bT Germany on Sept. 1, 1874, and studied (Continued on Page Sight)
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Status Of Native French Jews Is Falling Rapidly
Life is daily becoming more difficult for Jews hi France, it was reported in Use on at the European headquarters of the American Joint Distribution Commit, tec Hostility,
the deportation or unit of most of this group, transferred to the native Jewish population. As a result of this haereaaed miasm i. it has be-
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