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Southern Israelite
1925
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, YESTERYEAR
1950
Special Bullentin To Southern Israelite
over the country have gatherer:
here during the past week. Mr.
Washington. D. C.—H. A. Alex
ander, well-known Atlanta, Ga.
attorney, has been elected as Na
tional Committeeman, Constitu
tion Grand Lodge. B’nai B'rith. at
the fourteenth quinquennial con
vention of B’nai B'rith for which
over five hundred delegates from
Alexander has been for years one
of the most ardent workers of
B’nai B’rith. His election to the
Constitution Grand Lodge follows
his term as Representative from
District No. 5. (5-10-35).
Separate Bathing Hours in Bor,in
In the meantime, the flood of given for such a measure
Nazi decress with a view to perse- the interest of peace and order.”
Conditions Become Intolerable In
Warsaw Ghetto: Starvation Grows
BY BA RINA LAZACY Jewish community. In Kazimierz-
CERXE, (JTA)—Existence in the overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto Wielki adults were lodged in
rrrows more difficult from day to day, according to reports in Clazeta camps while their children were
Zydowsky, on’y Jewish paper in the territory of the Government distributed among the Jewish
General, which reached here. Possessing neither capital, industry or homes. At Tarnow 1,552 eomplete-
r'»w materials the only source of income to feed and house the ghetto ly destitute Jews receive meagre
inhabitants is that derived from continued to be issued by the Nazi relief. In Miechow the Jewish
cuting, discriminating, and insult- In paractice, this new order, if it j skilled and unskilled labor. authorities. Since the hot weather leaders face the prbblem of feed
ing Jews, is continuing without ' comes, will not affect Jews much, I To secure a sum sufficient to condi' ions added to the extreme ing and housing 3,000 destitute ar-
interruption. The Berlin Munici- for very few Jews in Germany meet the minimum food require- discomfort in the ghetto Jews have rivals. In Jedlicz and Koz-lewice
pulity is now considering the es- now attend public places of this ment it would be necessary that taken to iingeiing near the open ^ fiee meal kitchens have been
tablishment of separate hours of kind. But the deliberate insult of j 63,000 Jewish workers be employ- street door after nine o’clock. As
bathing for Jews in the municipal i such an order nevertheless re- ] ed and earning 200 zlotys, approx- | » result the penalties for this “of-
bathing place of Wansee and other mains.—from THE GERMAN
public places. The official reason j SITUATION. (6-30-33).
Nazis Bar Jews from Handling Newspapers
Berlin (WNS)—One more means i Association to bar all Jews from
, .. ... , < , j membership. This means that
of earning a livelihood is now _ , , .
! means Jews can-no longer distn-
dosed to German Jews as a result | ^ u t e p a p ers 0 r periodicals.
of a decision by the Newsdealers’ i (10-19-34).
1 closed for lack of funds. Previous
ly 16,000 portions of milk had
Beats Jewish Boys and Pays
$100 Fine For Each Beating
New York, (YVNS)—The story Court, Brooklyn, by Nathaniel
of a man who likes to beat up j Seligman, attorney for the father
Jewish boys so well that he is of one of the boys who were
willing to pay $100 fine for the j beaten,
privilege was told in Gates Avenue
The man is Chris Spilitios who
once paid $50 fine for attacking a
Jewish boy. Now is is charged
with beating up another boy. He
told the father of this boy that he
would gladly pay $100 fine. Jew-
imately forty dollars, monthly, j fense” have been greatly in-
Despite frantic efforts on the part creased. Another order prohibits
of the Jewish authorities to create Jewish use of gold for dental pur-
employment opportunities only poses. Gold is completely un-
one tenth this number have se-j available to Jewish dentists, while
cured work. It takes 12,600,000 ^ ryan dentists are forbidden to
zlotys, approximately $2,520,000, j reat j ews
monthly to provide food alone.
In an attempt to remedy the al
most unbelieveable housing con
ditions in the ghetto Jewish auth
orities are redistributing the in
habitants who now average three
and a half persons to a one-win
dow room. Also each house is re
quired to contribute beds, bedding
and line to supply the Jewish hos
pital.
been distributed monthly to un
dernourished children in Kozie-
wice.
Lithuanian Ghettos
GENEVA, (JTA)—Jews from all
the Baltic countries will be as
sembled by the Nazis in Lithuania
From the provincial cities come j to be isolated there in the huge
reports of the transfer of Jews to Jewish ghetto which the Nazis are
example in Itadomsko hundreds of suburb of Kansas, the Novoye
newly arrived homeless refugees siobo, a pre-Nazi Russian news-
were housed in the synagogues paper published in Berlin reports,
and fed one meal daily by the Aug. 8, 1941.
BERNE. (JTA)—Two thous
and Jews axe dying every
month in the Warsaw ghetto
as epidemics of cholera and
typhus rage in the overcrowded
unsanitary quarters, it is re
ported in the Gazeta Zydowska.
Welfare Fund Drive Nears
Quota in Record Campaign
Further restrictive regulations
Enlisting over 300 Atlantans in stein, campaign chairman, in a
city-wide activity, the 1938 cam- s t a t eme nt issued at the first report
paign of the Atlanta Jewish Wei- |
fare Fund neared the $61,000 , luncheon held today at Hotel An-
quota 'fixed as Atlanta Jewry’s sley, declared that continued re
goal for the year, with indications sponse from Atlantans will set a
that the figure will be surpassed , record in Atlanta Jewish philan-
by a wide margin. Meyer Regen- thropy. (Excerpt, May 13, 1938).
Armand IV!ay Will
Serve as Advisor
For Export Bank
Armand May, president of the ish parents in the neighborhood
American Mills Company of At- have gotten up a petition charging
lanta, was notified Thursday of Spilitios with spreading Nazism,
his appointment by Eugene P. | He is said to have beaten scores of
Thomas, of the advisory commit-j other Jewish children. (11-2-34).
tee of exporters and importers for j ___ _____ ■■■ ■>')
ZSTfiSZ™ * W C Secret Photograph Taken of J ews Confined in Warsaw Ghett o
A. A. Synagogue
Will Inaugurate
“Bas MitzVahs”
Joyce Jacobs will make history
at Ahavath Aehim Synagogue Fri
day, Dec. 19.
She will be Bus Mitzvah at 8; 15
p. m. in the first such ceremony
for girls at the Synagogue and
among the first throught the
country.
The idea, according to Rabbi
Harry Epstein, is to have a cere
mony for girls comparable to Bar
Mitzvah service for boys in which
to impress the convictions and re
sponsibilities of Judaism.
About seven other girls are be
ing trained for Bas Mitzvah cere
monies during the coming year,
Rabbi Epstein revealed.
(12-12-41).
Jewish Group
To Open Clinic
For Children
A children’s dental clinic,, for
the treatment of needy children
under thirteen years of age, has
been added to the Morris Hirsch
clinic, Edward M. Kahn, Executive
Director, of the clinic, announced.
The Atlanta Federation of Jew
ish Social Service, in co-operation
with the Atlanta section of the
Council of. Jewish Women, has
made the clinic possible. It will be
held at two o’clock every Monday
afternoon, and will be limited to
those, known to social agencies or
those who cannot afford private
treatment. (11-9-34).
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SMUGGLED TIIROl (.1! TIIL UNDERGROUND—'1 his actual photograph of a group of the huddled masses crowded un
de- ir.svfferable and inhumane conditions described in the ac cempan.ving material was taken by a hidden photographer
and stealthily passed from the Warsaw Ghetto through the un derground. Notice the armbands of identification the Jews
were forced to wear as a badge of their religion, despite their confinement within the confines of the Ghetto. (Residents
later gave fight against their persecutors rather than submit to the certain death which faced them—but they were at a
loss for want of food and arms. Overwhelmed, most of them were exterminated and tortured, the Ghetto razed by fire —
THE EDITOR).