News Brief

Three deaths among Jews recently Jailed, one in a concentration camp, have already been reported to their families in Berlin.

Guards at another concentration camp, it was learned today, have been ordered to “use whip or gun when necessary.” The hair of prisoners has been shaved off and they have been given uniforms with special insignia showing the wearers to be Jews. All but the old have been put at hard labor. Upon their introduction to camp life, it was learned, the Jews were put on a 13-hour shift of standing at attention, during which they were not fed. Since then, it was reported, they have been receiving sufficient food.

Meanwhile, Jewish communal workers turned to the task of bringing emergency relief to hundreds of Jews in isolated communities whose welfare funds have either been exhausted or impounded by the authorities. Foreign funds were reported available as soon as a survey of the needs has been completed. It was pointed out here that the crisis had arisen on the threshold of the Jewish winter relief campaign, which last year supported 77,000 in Old German It was believed that an additional 70,000 Jews would require aid in Austria. In most communities, Jewish welfare work has stopped altogether or has been severely restricted. The welfare department of the Berlin Jewish Community has not yet been permitted to resume doles, although its public kitchens are functioning.

Meanwhile, emigration has suffered a double blow at the hands of the Finance Office, which issued a communique on clearance papers and closed the Palestine Office. However, a transport of 100 Jews will leave for Palestine on Monday in accordance with previous arrangements.

Plans for emigration of 1,500 Jewish children were formulated at a meeting at the Netherlands Embassy which was attended by private individuals from the Netherlands, legation officials and representatives of Jewish welfare bodies. Success of the plans were said to be dependent on satisfactory proof that the children would later be able to emigrate from the Netherlands.

The Nazis have released Morris Greentree, American Jewish businessman who was arrested Nov. 10 in the first wave of reprisals on German Jews for the assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris. Greentree, who is 49 years old and a native of San Luis Obispo, California, will leave Germany immediately.