The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-06-28
Million Jews
Slain in Poland
One-Third Of Whole Number
In Country Are Put to
Death by Nazis.

LONDON-One million persons,
nearly third of Poland's Jewish
population, persisted in three years
of German occupation. DR.. Ignacy
SzWarcbart, Jewish member of the
Polish national council in London,
told New York Times correspond
ent, simplifying Polish government
information on the new Nazi on
slaught on the Jews.
Plans outlined by DR.. Alfred
Rosenberg-Who says that the Jew
ish problem of Europe will be solved
when no Jews are left-are system
atically carried out. The victims Of
executions by mass-murder and
gassing are only part Of the thou
sands dying through the organized
spreading Of diseases and the arti-
fetal creation Of conditions in which
children, elderly people and the sick
cannot survive" as DR.. SzWarcbart
described it.
Million Others Menaced.
A million more persons, at least,
are menaced by starvation and the
lack of medical supplies. The Nazis
make it plain that all Jews not
wanted for military reasons must
die. Poland is now a mass grave
Jews from all Europe are brought
to the Warsaw ghetto and separated
into two groups: the able-bodied
young and the children, old and sick,
who are dispatched eastward to meet
sure death. Lublin, indeed, has two
ghettoes, one for able workers, the
other for the useless condemned to
destruction.
One hundred twenty thousand
have been brought from Czecho-
slovakia and tens of thousands from
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Hol-
land, Belgium and France. The LODI
ghetto, containing many Jews from
the West, has been completely closed
for several weeks and no news has
been allowed to penetrate through
its walls.
A government report tells how a
mass electrocution was carried out
at Belzac. Deportees from Warsaw
we're packed into barracks and or
dered to strip naked, ostensibly to
have bath--then they were pushed
into room with metal floor. The
door was locked and current was
passed. Death came instantaneous
ly. A large digging machine was
installed near by to dig mass graves.
Wise Explains His Stand.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, acting as
chairman of special conference Of
Jewish organizations, announced
here that the organizations were
convinced of the authenticity Of a
rumored Hitler order for the imme-
date extirpation Of all Jews in Ger
man-controlled Europe,
He listed the organizations for
which he spoke as the American
Jewish congress, American Jewish
labor committee, Agudath Harabo-
MIN, B'nai Birth, Synagogue Coun-
Gil OF America and the World Jew
ish congress.
These organizations, Rabbi Wise
said, had authorized him to invite
the aid Of any Christian organiza-
ton ready to speak out on behalf
of the Jewish victims.
Rabbi Wise explained that his
group believed in the authenticity
of the extirpation order on the
strength of affidavits obtained by
the state department from Jewish
sc--~e Of information in free coun-
tries.
Rabbi Wise said the state depart
ment documents included affidavits
from reliable persons who knew
of such atrocities as turning Jewish
bodies into fats and soap and lubri-
Giants, and of the latest Nazi method
of killing Jews by having doctors
inject air bubbles into their veins.
He said the earlier gassing with
prussic acid had been found too ex-
pensive.