34 THE SENTINEL November 2, 1939

a . Labor Conclave Will First Authentic Tale of Nazi Reign [Thirty Lands Will Open Saturday Night Aid Keren Hayesod OfTerror in Poland Is Sent by Mozes 0 New York, Nov. 1-More than two Jerusalem, Oct. 30 (JTA)-Launch- MENDEL MOZES thousand delegates from labor, frater- By allaying the fears of the Jewish pop- i ng a world-wide Keren Hayesod ---- ulation. ( nal and other organizations are ex- Palestine Foundation Fund) cam- Following is the first authentic, compre- Within the second week of the oc- p pected at the emergency convention con- >aign, Director Leib Jaffe declared at hensive ac count of the fate that has cupation, however, a violent anti- a voked by the National Labor Committee press conference here that the war overwhelme d more than 1,500,000 Jews Semitic program was adopted by the h for Palestine. The convention, which iad imposed grave new tasks to main- in the Na;zi-held areas of Poland. The authorities. Remnants of the Polish t commu- will open on Saturday evening, Novem- ain the work of the Jewish writer was for many years chief of the parties tried at first to alleviate the n that 30 ber 4, will work out plans for raising lity. Mr. Jaffe announced Warsaw biureau of the J.T.A. He re- situation. Thus, the Lawyers' Union c support one million dollars for the Histadruth ountries had already assured mained in Warsaw during the first five resolved to treat all its members with- o in Palestine. Efforts will be made to f the Keren Hayesod. days of thee war, then evacuated his staff out distinction as to religion. Kaplan, treasurer of the raise this sum in the shortest possible Eliezer and family to Krzemieniec, Southeastern The Nazis, however, employing anti- j Agency for Palestine, said that time, due to the increased burdens and ewish town whichh was the temporary seat of Semitism to win mob approval, gave t he war-time needs of the Jewish obligations which the Jewish pioneers the fleeinAdolf Hitler is a question ofhecked J. T. A. regarding the exclusion of months, if not weeks. Unchecked by the authorities, mobs Palestine from the British import Reinstates Two Noted Men Every b)ranch of life has already even tore the coats from the backs of scheme, it is stated in reliable quar- been close d to the Jews in the areas women and children. Jewish men of tters here that the marketing of citrus Paris, Oct. 28 (JTA)-The Polish held by t he Nazi troops and some 15 to 60 were drafted for forced fruit is not regarded pessimistically. government, itself in exile here, has 1,500,000 of their number are threat- labor, cleaning up the debris and just made belated amends to two ened iby st;arvation and extinction. often working 48 hours without food. of her most noted sons who had many Many were shot dead when they IForm Plans to Build Center years ago been forced into exile be- Property Confiscated collapsed. And Synagogue in Rochester cause of their opposition to a previous The Nayzis have forbidden Jews to Under the pretext of arms searches, raided regime. possess mo re than two thousand zlotys Jewish houses in Warsaw are Rochester, Minn., Nov. 1 (Special)- and all valu- The Cabinet, at a session presided (about $4()0 at pre-war rates) in bank nightly by the Gestapo Construction of a fifty thousand dollar confiscated. over by Premier Wladislas Sikorski, deposits and have prohibited them ables, even food, are center and house of worship, for the approached au- issued a decree restoring full political from buyiing such things as clothes Jewish leaders who thousands of Jews from all over the to publish a rights to Dr. Herman Lieberman, in- and shoes without special permit. All thorities for permission world who come to Rochester each year in- ternationally known Polish Jewish goods in J ewish shops have been con- Jewish newspaper were bluntly for medical aid at the famous Mayo in a state of Socialist leader who has been in exile fiscated and the more well-to-do formed: "We are still Clinic, is being planned by the 22 Jew- against the Jews." here since 1927, and Wincenty Witos, among tihe merchants have been war ish families residing here. In many towns, the ancient yellow former Premier and leader of the arrested. Organized as B'nai Israel Center and introduced for Jews. Polish Peasant Party, who had re- The sadistic treatment of the Polish badge has been Synagogue, the group is launching its every Jew has been given turned to Poland from exile shortly Jews by the Nazis overshadows the In others, drive for funds under the direction of number which must be worn on his before the war broke out. persecutio:n suffered by the Jews fol- a Morris J. Myrow, Rochester business Witos, who is known for his demo- lowing the German conquests of Aus- coat lapel. man, who has been named executive cratic views and racial tolerance, is tria and (Czecho-Slovakia. Every Ger- It can now be estimated that 35,000 director of the organization. Isaac one-tenth of the cap- considered the most important figure man is free to maltreat and humiliate Warsaw Jews, Rubenstein is president of the group; ital's pre-war Jewish population, were among the exiled Polish leadership. the Jews. Charles Bemel, vice-president; I. Coppe, killed during the Nazi bombardment His whereabouts at this time are The sitilation in Warsaw is beyond secretary-treasurer; and Max Shapiro, unknown, but it is reported that he descriptioi i, but is exceeded by that of the city. chairman of the board. Rabbi A. R. Rabbi Senator Moses Schorr was wounded while trying to escape prevailing in the provinces. Entire Chief spiritual leader of the com- who had been reported Prero is from Poland. Jewish po:pulations have been expelled of Warsaw, munity. Dr. Lieberman was for many years under the most cruel conditions, often executed by the Nazis, is in fact safe With an estimated twenty thousand together with a stormy petrel of the Polish political upon less than half an hour's notice. in Soviet-held territory, Jewish patients visiting the Mayo world, both before establishment of Towns w'here such expulsions oc- Deputy Emil Sommerstein and Deputy Clinic here each year seeking medical Henry Rosmarin. the republic and afterward. He first curred inc lude Mlawa, Prasnyz, Kras- and surgical aid, the community's Ostro-Maziowiec, Meanwhile, the most efficient relief achieved public attention when, in nosielsk, Rozany, "shut," while adequate enough for the Stoc- work for the refugees has been put 1905, he was arrested in Paris on the Wyszkow, Wyszygrod, Wengrow, permanent Jewish population of Roch- ' into operation by the Joint Distribu- request of the Russian Embassy, zek, Ostrc)lonka and Poltusk in- t ester, has outlived its usefulness which charged him with conspiratorial and Poltusk. tion Committee, under the direction So viet Russia Is Kinder of Isaac Giterman, head of the War- sofar as the transient population is activities in connection with the concerned. Situated in an old house Polish revolution of that year. wo mJw e e saw office of the J. D. C., who has in- About 1 bo Sioe Rssa's o e stalled a smoothly functioning appara- quite some distance from the clinic, it In 1907, Dr. Lieberman became a Nazi pogr is inaccessible to patients in Rochester. member of the Austrian Parliament,l pation of the Eastern provinces. These ------The new center and synagogue will representing the Social Democrats include 5 00,000 who managed under YOUTH ALLIANCE URGED t provide a religious, social and cultural from Przemysl until 1918. During his the most difficult conditions to cross i center for the patients; a synagogue parliamentary term, he joined the from the German zone into the Rus- New York, Oct. 28 (WNS) - A and spiritual leader who will conduct Polish Legion and headed its legal de- sian areas. They left empty-handed, three-fold plan whereby Young Judaea regular services and special prayers fense activities until arrested by the the Nazis having seized all their prop- will ally itself with other Zionist and (T'illim); a Jewish home in pleasant Austrian government. erty, and leaving them only 20 zlotys American Jewish youth organizations 1 surroundings; a hospital visitor to con- In 1916, Dr. Lieberman took an ac- each. in an effort to bring about a closer J sole those who are hospitalized; read- ileaders and journalists were relationship and unity between the tive part in driving the Austrians ou1 Many ing rooms; radio; periodicals, both arrested by the Gestapo, Nazi secret various movements was outlined in a of Poland and four years later he was English and Jewish; lectures; study S police, a id transferred to the Reich. report by Esther Mallach, chairman elected to the Constitutional National classes and all forms of social activities. Diet. When the Pilsudski governmeni The presiident of the Warsaw Jewish of the committee on relations with On starting a tour which will take in 1926 turned to the right, both Merchant's Association, Abraham Gep- other organizations. Pointing out that him to every Jewish community in the Lieberman and Witos rebelled, werE ner, and a leader of the Bund (Jewish a grave responsibility rests with United States and Mexico where he jailed on charges of conspiracy, es- Socialist party), Arthur Seligbaum, Young Judaea as a national organiza- will outline the plans for the proposed caped and fled into exile. Shortly be- were hel(i as hostages. tion and as part of the community, B'nai Israel Center and Synagogue, fore the war, both were offered the Two daiys after the Nazi occupation to develop a rich and full life for said, opportunity to return to Poland or of Warsa w, a Polish newspaper issued young American Jews, it was urged Mr. Myrow condition that they spend a symbolic with the permission of the German that relationship ties be fully ce- "Rochester Jewry has pledged itself term of one day in prison. Witos is military forces, announced that the mented with Zionists groups, youth to maintain this national institution understood to have accepted the con * Jews worild be treated on a basis of councils, Jewish centers and inter- which is to be created through the dition but Lieberman refused. equality "with the Poles, thus partially community movements. generosity of American Jewry."