Rabbis to Appeal to U.N. on Dutch Failure to Return War Orphans to Jewish Community

Publication of a “Black Book” outlining instances of “spiritual oppression” in Holland where the Jewish community has failed to achieve the return of hundreds of Jewish orphans from non-Jewish foster homes where they found refuge during the war was decided upon last night by the Commission on the Status of Jewish War Orphans.

The Commission, which met here under the chairmanship of Dr. Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, called on the rabbinates and representative Jewish bodies of all countries to approach their governments and urge action at the United Nations to bring about recovery of the children by the Jewish community. The “Black Book” will be circulated among various governments and in the United Nations. It was also decided that Chief Rabbi Brodie, or a leading American Jew, shall speak for world Jewry on this matter at next month’s meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission.