The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest German newspapers, reaching here today from Berlin, carries a series of charges against Dr. William Filderman, Prominent Rumanian Jewish leader, who was arrested recently in Bucharest and whose deportation to Transnistria has been ordered by the pro-Nazi Rumanian premier Ion Antonesou. The charges are:
1. Dr. Filderman was in close touch with the American legation in Bucharest, maintaining contact with the first secretary of the legation, prior to the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Rumania.
2. Dr. Filderman received, through the American legation, aid for Jews in Rumania sent to them by Jewish groups in America.
3. Dr. Filderman sent a memorandum to Jewish organizations in New York complaining of the lack of interest displayed by the American legation in the position of the Jews of Rumania.
4. Dr. Filderman supposedly received thirty million lei in exchange for which the American legation received extensive material dealing with German cruelties against Jews in Rumania, including a film and photographs.
5. Dr. Filderman “lavishly supported a great press campaign” against Nationa. Socialism in Rumania.
The same newspaper, which is close to the Nazi foreign office, also reports that the Bar Association in Bucharest, of which Dr. Filderman was a member, has started disciplinary proceedings against him.
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