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RAYMOND ARTHUR DAVmS out he again outdid himself in battle. Peretz-Folk School Tea" ~~~:cislil:, Po,tls COMING TO, WINNIPEG Jewish Stretcher-Bearer It was dnrign the decisive' Soviet To Be Held On Nov_ 22 IAnglo~ offensive near Leningrad. One of "e!cly ~!i Mrs. Slonhn is one of the the rifle units ·cleared a village from Anne Raymond Arthur Davies, Cariadian Canada Sub': Awarded Five conveners 0 f author and journalist who has just 'To A News Decorations the enemy. But the Germans S0011 the . United I. returned from Russia, Poland and . Service. received reinforcements and opened Rumania where he has visited areas By CAPT. I. ZHIGALOV cepted an offer to become a stretcher­ L. Peretz-li'olk just liberated from the enemy, will ern"e;, Of The heavy fire against the rifle unit. , .Telegraphic bearer. Several Red Army soldiers fell schools tea, to give an eye-witness account of con­ ditions there at a mass meeting at Moscow - Simon Meclmik, Jewish It was in the fall of 1942. Fierce Wounded in no-man's land. be held at the stretcher-bearer, has been decorated home of Ml'S. the Playhouse theatre on the evening battles were being fought on the The company commander ordered of Monday, Dec. 4, under the aus­ 11M;M;M;------~~M;~M;M;------M; ____M; ____ M;M;M;=_M;M; ____ M;M;M; __ ~ __M;M; __ M; __ _=i~ __M; ______M;M;M;M; __ M; ____ ..,) ~ W. Keller, 349 five times for courage and gallantry. Leningrad front. The enemy was Mechnik to carry the 'wounded from pices of the. Canadian, Jewish Con- Red Army men and officers on 0e attacking from three sides. The only the battlefield. The brave stretcher­ College avenue, gress. Vol. XX. WINNIPEG, T!HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944 I-:P No; 47 Leningrad front pronounce his name road left free was a narrow corridor bearer left with three of his com­ on W ednesda·y, Mr. Davies had been in Russia for --~------~------~------.------~-----~------~------~I.~~.,~ ~ ~ ~ some months as the correspondent of - ______with the greatest love and esteem. of impassable marshes. Ammunition rades to carry out the commander)s November 22,' '.. I·f'i'bi) ITom 3 o'clock the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora­ Mechnik hails from NovogrB:~­ and provision deliveries ceased. It orders. Hardly had they reached the tion, the Canadian Jewish Congress, Volynsk. In 1914, as an orphan, "e was particularly hard to render aid wounded than they saw the Germans in the afternoon until late in the Saturday Night and Jewish Tele- enlisted in the Russian Army and evening. . 'Agency. He· was one of the French G,overnment To Aid Jewish qis.munity In Rome to the wounded and get them to a rummaging among the dead, search­ • was gravely wounded in battle near hospital. But Mechnik and one other ing their pockets. The four Red ----,:c-:::-::-::: -- correspondents' to visit MOSCOW SENDS DOCUMENTS and Lublin and to examine the Carpathians. With the warmest stretcher-bearer offered to carry the Army stretcher - bearers feigned ON ATROCITIES AGAINST JEWS the extermination camps. in which gratitude, he recalls today how the wounded through the marshes. Fac­ death, waiting for the Germat:ls to the, Germans had murdered over Families OF Deported Jews Split By -Internal Factions; Russian stretcher - hearers carried ing grave danger, they carried the leave. On that day Meohnik and Word has just been received by 1,500,000 Jews and other citizens of I him from the field of battle. first wounded man through the his companions saved 27 wounded the American Committee of Jewish Allied countries. He personally I . examined the gas chambers and By MEYER LEVIN' : and Switzerland was insuf- basic suggestions for the restoration Twenty - five years have passed swamps, their. feet sinking into the ,.gi~rri Board Election Postponed Red Army men. Writers, Artists and Scientist~ that ovens where those victims of Nazi_ (JTA Wa~ CorresPQndent) I ficient. . laws which are now being put into since that time. In the wiriter of swampy ground and the water some­ This time Mechnik was decorated the Jewish Anti-Fascist COInIIllltee brutality were killed and their bodies I Paris (JTA) - The FFimchGov­ final form by the Ministry of Justice, i 1941 Mechnik enlisted in the Red times reaching up to their necks. with the Order of the R,ed Star. Sev­ of Moscow is sending material on destroyed, and witnessed the exhum­ -Restitution of Confiscated Jewish By PAT FRANK decades. Under the concordat,· Jews ernment has deCided to grant finan­ he emphasized that doubters of thl"! .JTA War Correspondent) Army. And again as in 1914 Russian , From a distance Red Army men, ation of thousands of bodies by the Propeliy Defended by French ·restoration principle have no legal are responsible for raising their own j eral months later he received a sec­ Fascist atrocities against the Jewish cial aid to families of Jews deported Government Expel't stretcher-bearers carried him, from Atrocities Commission. Justification s~nce early_ enactment funds for their own charitable and holding their breath, watched appre­ ond medal for valour. Mechnik has people to the United States to be from France by the Gennans, similar Paris (JTA) - The legal basis for religious organizations. The same i the battle-field when he fell wou"d­ to the assistance given - families of of an ordinance enforcing restoration Rome (JTA) - Acting on the hensively lest the stretcher-bearers saved the lives of hundreds of Red included in the Black Book of Nazi the restitution of property to Jews recommendation of Col. Charles principle also applies to Italian Pro­ I ed. He was brought to a hospital IWBRINSKY ADDRESSES war prisoners, it was reported here is the normal sequence to the pro­ I I should sink under the mud together Army men. Crimes against the Jews. The Black in France -whose holdings were con­ cedure which began in 1943. Poletti, head of the Allied Military testants. Thus,· the· president of the ANNIVERSARY MEETING by Marc Yarblum, president of the fiscated by the Germans and by and after recuperation gladly ac- with the wounded. But determina------Book is to be published by the World (Continued from Page 1) , Government in the Rome area. the Jewish community has almost official Federation of Jewish. Societies, . in _Vichy was .. outlined here, by Prof. authority over the Jews of Italy arid Hon and the desire to save their ·British Government Approves Desig·n Jewish Congress, the Vaad Leumi of .the· course of a conference with Sir Italian Government has again de~ided II Fene. Cassin, chief of the Juridical Talmud Torah Activities is practically a govelJ1ment official. I Palestine the Jewish Anti-Fascist anti-defamation work, in public Herbert Emerson, director of .the to postpone elections to the board of I wounded comrades overcame all dif- for Jewish Brigade Flag , ' committee for the Presidency, and Quality Fluorescent relations and public services, and Intergovernmental Committee for Reported At Meeting Of _the local Jewish community. ,The The leaders of the _ two Jewish ficulties. And no sooner did' they Committee of the U.S.S.R., and the foremost legal -authority in France. action was taken as a result of the groups fn Rome are both promine:t;lt I London (JTA)-The British Gov­ its contribution to the war effort. ,Refugees. Teachers, Education Board " Lighting Fixtures bring the first wounded man to Conunittee of Jewish Wri~ers, Artists The restitution of Jewish property conflict between· two groups of Jew­ lawyers. One, Hugo Foa,. ··was the ernment has informed the Jewish Following this, Rabhi Frank spoke .. The refugee aid director assured is on ·the same legal plane as the safety, than they returned for other and Scientists. ish leaders in Rome,· each of which president of the Jewish' commWlity Agency for Palestine ·that it has on behalf of the founders. Rabbi Mr. Yarblum' thateffor.!s will be property of peolpe of Alsace-Lor­ ~ At a joint meeting. of the board men. During the next round a wh.ole authorized the design submitted by The material, wlhich is to be sent Frank was present at the odginal made to ascertain the fate of, the os accusing the other of haviqg council, prior to the liberation of i'aine, of peasants chased from their of education and teachers .of th€' Fascist tendencies under Mussolini's Rome by the Allies. Following its group of stretcher-bearers with the Agency for a £lag for the Jewish this month, consists of documents founders' meeting. h;;ns of thousands of .Jews who ·were farms by the Germans, and of de Talmud Torah,· I. Bogoch; chairman Brigade. _ ' The candles on the birtbday ca1<;e deported from France to Poland by regime. The controversy has aroused policy of replacing leaders of all wounded Red Army men followed describing "Fascist atrocities in Kiev, Gaullists who left France to continue of the board of education, reported considerable excitement among the groups with new men, the AIHed The banner will have two horizon­ were lighted by Mrs. E. Yoell, first the Nazis .. He_ said that the· comInittee the battle against the en~my, Prof. Mechnik through the swampy road Odessa Zhitomir, Minsk, Vilnius, that this year three more Taimud followers of both groups. . Military Government ousted FDa mid , tal blue stripes on a white back­ president of the General Monash hope~ to obtain, shortly, a report on Cassin, said. Torah students had left for New I to safety. ground with a blue Star of Davi4 in Kaunas, Berdichev, Dniepropetrovsk) Branch Ladies' auxiliary, and Mrs. the numhe"t· who may still be -alive, The status of -the Rome Jewish "1>pointed Silvio Otiolenghi to head As· the expert who prepared the York to contInue their Hebrew stud­ commlJnity was fixed by the con­ the Jewish community council. Eight times the·y covered the rpad the centre. A blue-white shoulder Gomel, Borisov, Bobruisk, Vitebsk, J. Weinberg, first vice-president of and that it intends to consult with ies, one at the Rabbi Isaac EIChanari NOW ' AVAILABLE flash with a golden Star of Dayid the auxiliary. the Soviet Government on the possi':' cordat concluded between the Italian Since then Foa has been demand­ before they were discovered by th~ Lvc)v, Siauliai, the Caucasus, Crimea, I{ENORA NAVIGATOR MISSING Theological seminary and two at the Government and the Vatican in 1933 IMMEDIATE DELIVERY has also been authorized. Above .the Sam Cohen sang several Jewish bility of securing information as to ing new elections. He has been enemy. A bullet hit Mechnik while Majdanek, Tremblinka, and other Beth Medrosh L'Morot (teachersl and is based upon customs of m,my flash will be the designation "Je\\~h;h numbers, accompanied by Clara their whereabouts. . Mr. and Mrs. S. Zimring, of Ken­ directing an attack against Chief places." seminary for girls)._ Harry Yanofsky Phone Mr. Holloway, 86681, he was up to his chest in water. Brigade" in white letters on a khaki Pearlman, who asIa played the­ . Sir Herbert. expressed special inter- oraj Ont., received word that their had been accepted as third year Rabbi Israel Zolli' of Rome, and or write Though suffering excrutiating pain background and also the Hebrew Soviet representatives on the edit­ National Anthem. est in the problem of orphaned Jew- . son, PO. Bermird Zimring, 20, of student at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan against" Ottolenghi, pointing out that he did not let the stretcher out of initials for "Jewish Fighting Fonna­ orial board for the Black Book in­ Joseph Wilder was chairma!].. ish children and said that the com- the· RCA• . . F'.., IS mlS. sm' g a fter an. Yeshiva and Brocha Ziskraut as Davies To Report the latter, together with other Rome Jews, in 1938, signed a statement Dominion Electric his hand until he reached a safe tion" . elude Ilya Ehrenburg, famed Soviet inith~e- planned to care -for some operations over Germany. He en­ fourth year student in the Teachers' ------U.J.R. of them in France, while- others will" listed.in February, 1943, trained at seminary. Condition OF Jews condemning international Zionism. CO. LTD. place. He was brought to hospital correspondent and writer, and Vas­ APPEAL Ottolenghl's friends explain that this Camrose Hadassah LAUNCHED BY he sent to Palestine, or other lands. Lachine, Que., Toronto, Mountain r. B. Cohen reported that the spe­ Wholesale J;>istributors and a month later his regimental sily Grossman, outstanding Soviet statement was a necessary step in NOTABLE SUCCESS Mr." Yarbluni pointed out that the View,- Chatham, _N.B., and Calgary, cial adult evening Hebrew classes In Eastern Europe commander visited him at the hos­ On Sunday, Nov. 5, the Debor:ah novelist. number of Palestine certificates receiving his commission· in March, which were being conducted· twice view, of anti-Semitic propaganda 87 PRINCESS ST., WINNIPEG (Cont. from Page 1) which was, at that time, being con­ pital and decorated. him with a medal chapter of Hadassah held a meeting Previously announced members of al~otted rece:ntly by the British Gov- 1944" as navigator-bombardier. He weekly for both beginners and ad­ ermhent for children in France, Bel- went overseas in June, 1944._ vanced were proving successful and ducted tbroughout Italy by Fascist for valour. in Camrose at the ho~e of Mrs. H. the editorial board are Rabbi Maur­ Mr. Caiserman examined the pupils officials. . of Rabbi Tabachnik at the Hebrew. ------that new pupils were· continually Waldman. Owing to the resignation ice Perlzweig, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, ,; Aiter recuperating, Mechnik stu- , being enrolled. He also st~ted that On the other hand, Ottolenghi1s' • Baruch Zuckerman, Dr. Henri Sin­ school and his report was that he died for two months and became an of the secretary, Mrs. R. Goldstein, was pleased with· the results of in the very near futul'e lectures for supporters, including Chief Rabbi instructor in the medical corps. In Mrs. S. Fisher was elected. At the del' from the World Jewish Congress, Rabhi Tabachnik's teachings; , adults on .topics of Jewish history Z611i, point to Faa's Fascist record. and B. Z. Goldberg, Josej;1h Frainin, Jews Rank Second In and current events would be given Foa joined the Fascist party in 1932. the capacity of instructor, he return­ meeting the sum of $27,45 was raised. On Sunday evening, Mr. Caiser­ at the Talmud Torah. A meeting of But _Foa is attacked primarily be­ ed to his unit at the front. The raffle donated by Mrs. S. Fisher Rubin saltzman and Dr. Mahle,' man addressed a meeting of the­ community and had also _an appor­ the parents and teachers will be held cause of the fact that the lists of all LAYHOUSE This 45-year-old Jew and former was won by Mrs. M. Simovitch. from the American Committee of Rome's 11,000' Jews fell into the Sunday night, December 10. Jewish Writers, Artists and tunity to speak to the women's gro"up I. worker in a crockery factory, pos­ ------:-,----:::­ abo u t communal responsibilities, Can~/di~n Rac:eProble~sl hands of the Germans, thus enabling Banquet For Emma Shever Scientists. the Gestapo swiftly to hunt dow;' sesses enormous energy and courage. Sunday morning he addressed a MONTREAL JEWS RAISE $650,000 1 many Jews and seize them. It was Market at Main In the thick of battle he rushes to In honor of Miss Emma Shever, religious meeting at which some of FOR Y. M. H. A. MEMORIAL T~ Isaac Newton Notes the air force men were present , U,Students , Believe. Foa's duty, _, his _opponents argue, to MEMBERS IN WAR SERVIC save his comrades and carries them famous lyric soprano, a banquet will together with the people of the destroy this list. . . to safety. Percy Rubenstein, football coach be held on Saturday, Nov. 18, at. Brandon Community, speaking on the Montreal (JTA) -, A new Youn at Isaac Newton high school, has theme "The Necessity of Unity and .- In a questionnaire distributed by_. greatest support was better educa­ Soon after returning to his unit," 6.30 p.m., in the Zionist hall, under the Inter-Racial Fellowship league, Men's Hebrew association buildlng!l he was again decorated with the been assisted by the arrival of FIt.­ the UNRRA". ' tion toward cultural and social dis­ the· auspices of the Pioneer Women's 1;125' students of the University of tinctiveness, accompanied by mutual for which Montreal Jews raised Egypt To Take Lieut. Border to help in coaching In a last minute telegram from $650,000, will be erected in the Notre medals for meritorious service and organization. Mrs. I. Parr is in charge Lethbridge, Mr. Caiserman reports Manitoba almost unanimously recog­ understanding and co-operation. A the team. The former coaches, Nor­ Dame de Grace section of the city, for the Defence of Leningrad. of arrangements. that $2,500 was raised at a most nized· ... the -existence in Canada o{ more, profound belief in religious - WEEK - man Geller and Don Dumo, were race prejudices. An overwhehning principles and education toward· it was reported here following the Census OF All After saving 16 wounded Red Army On Friday afternoon the guest enthusiastic meeting of the Jewish approval of the project by the city transferred- to the R.C.A.F. stabon community of that district. number expressed the belief tliat assimilation were next in. order. men from under the enemy's nose, artist wi! be entertained by the · the problem could be solved. council. . at Gimli. From Lethbridge lVIr. Caiserman On the question of immigration, Mechnik was again wounded. He Pioneer Women at the Hudson's Bay is proceeding to visit Moose Jaw and The majority were convinced that opinions ranged from an absolute The building will serve as mem:­ Foreign Jews ; Nov. 20 to orlal to the the Y.M.H.A. members ";- 25 spent four months in' hospital and tea room. Mrs. Tennebaum is . in Medicine Hat during this week. \,·.there. were no ·basic differences in closed door policy, or adriUssion of Jewish Daily Courier, in the armed services. Councillor J. Raymond Arthur Davies will bring 'I, several days after he was checked charge. · the innate ,capacities of the various Anglo-Saxons only, to the complete Cairo (JTA) - Egyptian authori­ 100 Weeks in Chicago Oldest Yiddish Newspaper, , Room To Let races. A total of ,4,50 students de~ removal of immigration restrictions. Gagne who originally opposed the a first-hand account of the newly Room to rent. Board optionaL· project on racial grounds, withdrew liberated territories of Russia, Poland ties will 'shortly take a census of, Ceases Publication · dared that race problems affect their all Jews -who have arrived here ,I Phone 58757. 313 Church Ave. oWn lives; 639 students felt no such Winner Of D.F.C. his opposition and voted with a and Romania when he addresses a IT'S IT'S IT'S Chicago (JTA) - The Jewish majority· of the city.· cOWlcil. mass meeting at the Playhouse recently, it was reported here. They GAS-O-L1NES influerice. ,_.. ,,-, ." .. '-,-- RACY! RIOTOUS! REVEALING! Daily Courier, one of the oldest Jevy"­ Room Wanted theatre in Winnipeg on Monday, will be asked to inform the authori­ Business woman and baby want . :--·'rn. the .students' opinion, it was Dec. 4. Mr. Davies is on a lecture ties where they are living ~d·work,~ ish newspapers in the United States, ing. . has suspended publication after 57 furnished room with board and care - l'evealed, the "Jewish·' problem" sc!jool, and took an Arts degree at tour in Canada under the auspices years. of child. Phone 205 540. 'ranke4 I1ext in. unportance to the the University of Manitoba in 1941. of the Canadian Jewish Congress. It is believed that the census. is "Constantly rising costs, irreplace­ Male Help Wanted problem of, Frenoh Canada. The While· at the :university he trained Mr. Davies is a native of Montreal. being contemplated, in .. connection .. able personnel losses, curtailed busi­ J aPm.iese _ question was third. Dis ... with the C.O.T.C., and he entered . He covered South Africa, Russia, with the· assassination here of Lord Wanted - a cutter apprentice for like of· Jews, the report said, was .. active· service in ·the -R.C.A.F. jn Siberia and Central Asia for various ness due to war conditions and a cloak manufacturer. Apply adv't. Moyne, British Resident Minister in mounting losse-s, all brought about a based on "alleged domineering quali- . ~epte:qIber, 1941. He trained as navi­ British, American and European pub­ the Middle East, by two Jews who No. 1113, Employment and Selective ties,_ unpatriotism, mercenary habits, gator at Brandon, Saskatoon and lications and was correspondent a' situation which led to this decision," Service Office. King and William. came here from Palestine. . the publishers delcare in a statement clannishness, dishonesty, selfishness.. Pearce, Alta, and went overseas ·in the . last session of the League of In an interview broadcast by the announcing the closing of the publi­ 4 Room Suite To Let intolerance and inunorallty." De­ 1942. He made 37 operational flights Nations. During the civil war in Cairo radio, the premier of Iraq .. cation which played an important Four-room apartment for rent. portation of Jews and the yellow over enemy territory, and after D­ Spain he covered the conflict for Hamdy EI Pachaji Proel-Mida, as­ · races was suggested by 147 students Day operations, was posted as an TICKETS NOW! role in the development of J ewi~h Steam heating. Modern conveniences. the Canadian Press and later visit~d sured the Arabs of Palestine that the commWlal life in Chicago. 203 McGregor street. Phone 51639. --':'and indication, the report on the instructor in ·-England. Mexico for the Torontd Star Weekly. neighboring Arab . states would J.J.H_McLean & Co. Ltd. questionnaire comments, that "the . FO. ·Finkelstein is the son of Mr. During his present visit to Russia, short take steps to aid them. Among Nazis have succeeded in infiltrating and Mrs. Max. F'inkelstein, suite 27, Mr. Davies has been instnunental in the steps he outlined were: Estab­ their ideas. into .our universities". Sanhurst apartments. Mr. Finkel­ locating a considerable number of lishment of an Arah propaganda Visit THE WINNIPEG TURKISH BATHS The institution of laws banning racial stein, an active community worker, Box Office at the the relatives o£ Canadians and has bureau in Britain and America I discrimination is advocated by 249 is a past president of the JewiSh conveyed to Canadian Je·wry the financial backing to prevent th~ ~ ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOTEL students. FO Clive L. Finkelstein was re- Children's home. A brother, PO. D. ".,, urgent plea fo rassistance for the sale of Arab lands to Jews and All Night Accommodations The solution which received the cently awarded the D.F.C .. Born in' _Burton Finkelstein, is serving with surviving Jews of the liberated " 86555 Winnipeg, he attended Kelvin Higb th RCA F . I d' ' "establishment of strong dipl~matic , ""j Phone 93 635 - Winnipeg, Man. 'e .... In nla. areas. ,", protection for the Arabs of Palestine" . , ' , More Gas for us means less for war "', • , ':: ----.,;;-- ---._ .. __ .. _-_._-..--_ .• ------_._-- --,~ .-, .__ . ~,. _.-_ ..~:----.;-".- ..--.-. --_. __ ....---_. -- - .. _-_. --_._. ---- _.- ._- ... _----

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