Spontaneous demonstrations, provoked by recent reports concerning the Nazi extermination of Jews in Poland and other occupied countries, took place here today with thousands of Jews mraching through the streets carrying black banners and shouting, “Our brethren are being massacred,” Save our brethren,” Death for the Germans.”
One of the demonstrations was headed by Chief Rabbi Herzog who earlier in the day visited the Papal Nuacio and submitted to him the latest information on the intensified mass-slaughter of Jews by the Nazis. It is understood that the Papal Nuncio promised to communicate this information to the Vatican. It was also learned today that Rabbi Herzog will shortly visit Turkey and Egypt to contact high Christien church leaders and diplomats to enlist their aid in an attempt to save the Jews of Europe.
The Chief Rabbinate of Palestine today proclaimed Wednesday, December 2, as a day of national mourning for the hundreds of thousands of Jews massacred by the Nazis in Poland and other occupied territories. Jews in Palestine will stop their work on that day and the orthodox Jewish population will fast and offer prayers in the synagogues throughout the country.
The entire Hebrew press in Palestine will appear for seven days with black bordered pages, beginning today, A special gathering of all rabbis in Palestine will be hold on Sunday to discuss the gravity of the Jewish situation in Europe in the light of the latest Nazi massacres there.
A call to the Jews of the world “not to rest until the civilised world understands that the German nation must pay for the Jewish and Polish victims of Hitler’s atrocities,” was cabled by Prof. Stanislaw Kot. prominent member of the Polish Cabinet, to the World Orthodox Agudas Israel Organization. The cable was road last night at a mass-meeting called by the Agudah in Tel Aviv to protest against the Nazi cold-blooded mass-extermination of Jews.
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