JEWISH   WESTEBN BULLETIN
Friday, April 2, 1943
NAZI MASS-MURDER OF JEWS CONDEMNED BY U. S. CONGRESS
WASHINGTON (WNS)—The United States Senate unanimously ad opted a resolution this week condemning "the mass murder of Jewish men, women and children" as "a brutal and indefeasible outrage." The House of Representatives concurred in the resolution which was introduced by Senator Alben W. Barkley, majority leader.
The adopted resolution reads: "Where as the American people view with indignation the atrocities inflicted upon the civilian population in the Nazi-occupied countries, and especially the mass murder of Jewish men, women and children; and
"Whereas this policy of the Nazis has created a reign of terror, brutality, and extermination in Poland and other countries in eastern and central Europe; Now, therefore, be it
"Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That these brutal and indefeasible outrages against millions of helpless men, women and children should be and they are hereby condemned as unworthy of any nation or any regime which pretends to be civilized:
"Resolved further, That the dictates of humanity and honorable conduct in war demand that this inexcusable slaughter and mistreatment shall cease and that it is the sinse of this Congress that those guilty, directly or indirectly, of these criminal acts shall be held accountable and punished in a manner commensurate with the offenses for which they are responsible."
Meanwhile, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York introduced a bill in the House which would bar anti-Semitic literature from the mails. Post Office officials are now preparing a report on che number of publications preaching racial hatred that are sent through the mrils.
PUNISHING NAZIS WILL NOT SOLVE JEWISH TRAGEDY
, NEW YORK (WNS)—Rabbi Meyer Berlin, president of the World Mizrachi Organization, speaking at a farewell dinner given in his honor prior to his return to Palestine, told the 800 guests that "punishment of the Nazi murderers for the unprecedented cruelties and mass massacres which they are committing daily against thd Jewish communities in Europe, will not right the wrong tha: has been inflicted upon the Jewish people." •
"Abolition of the Nuremberg laws and the restoration of equal rights in principle will not in themselves solve the problem of Jewish home-lessness and do away with Jewish tragedy," Rabbi Berlin added. "Only the establishment of a free Jewish commonwealth in Palestine to serve as a home and a haven for the survivors of the Nazi mass massacres will create the foundation for the permanent solution of this truly urgent problem."
Schara Tzedeck Ladies Aux.
Members, wives and friends of Schara Tzedeck synagogue gathered on March 28th at the Centre to celebrate the festival of purim in a fitting manner. So large an attendance did this affair attract that it was impossible to accommodate all present, and sincerest apologies on behalf of the Auxiliary are hereby tendered to those who were disappointed in this manner.
Under the genial chairmanship of Rabbi M. Pastinsky a very enjoyable program was enjoyed. Talmud Tor-ah pupils contributed to the evening's program as well as Miss Esther Okulist and Mr. Phil Lieberman with selections of Jewish folk songs.
The raffle of the beautiful decorated basket laden with Purim goodies donated by Mrs. A, Wosk, was won by Mrs. ML Gurevitch and due to her kindness in redonating - it for resale by auction a very substantial amount was realized. Success in realizing such a very nice sum by way of "Shalach Monuis" was chiefly due to the highly qualified auctioneering ability of Mr. Ben Pastinsky.
Special thanks are hereby extended to all bidders and contributors of donations and to Messrs. E. Morris, Harry Morris and Louis Davis for
210 JEWS SENT TO HUNGARIAN LABOR CAMP; 8 SURVIVE
MOSCOW (WNS)—Ludwig Hart-man, one of 210 Hungarian Jews who were conscripted last year to serve in a Jewish labor company in the Hungarian army, this week described to Red Army officers who captured the unit on the Voronezh front the brutality which cut down the Jewish company of 210 men to 8 in a period of nine months.
._Hartman's story, as released by the Russians, follows: "In April of 1942, Ober-Lieut. Murois before sending Labor Battalion 101, to which my company was attached, to the front, addressed the subordinate of-fiicers, telling them that they had 210 Jews, each, under their command and that 'you must not give them any rest, day or night. Anyone who comes back with more than. 10 men will be considered a good-for-nothing.'
"During the following months we v/ere literally driven from place to place and forced to construct fortifications. The food was vile and the only reason we ate it was because we had been reduced to a state of starvation and the slop was warm.
"Finally we were sent to Archan-gelskoye. Here we were worked frequently from three in the morning until midnight. During the two-and-a-half months we were, there, dozens of men died from typhoid fever, dys-entei'y and pneumonia.' There was no medical assistance or medicine of any kind. It was during this period that most of our men succumbed.
"Thirty-two men between the ages of 23 and 26 were listed by the officers as having died 'from old age.' Many men froze to death. When the Russians forced the Hungarian troops to retreat, there were only eight of us left."
their great assistance to the Auxiliary in the help they rendered and to all those who made the affair the success it was.
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of a nation; a manifesto which asserted that being Jewish was a religious identity only; a manifesto attacking those 96 rabbis who had been dead 100 years; manifestos of excommunication.
Zilch and Blitz passed each other on the streets without a nod of recognition. The only sign that they were aware of each other's existence was a stabbing glare of their eyes.
"He calls himself a Jew," Zilch thought.
Blitz said: "Tat Zilch!  Auch mir
a Jaw!"
Zilch felt that it was only the grace of God that let an unjewlsh Jew like Blitz keep on living.
Yes, the ancient recriminations continued even to these last, two Jews. Neither would let the other have the last word. When, at last. Blitz lay on his deathbed his one regret was that Zilch would have the last word on the latest manifesto. It was on the matter of the Jewish army concerning which there had been such furious controversy back in 1942.
But Zilch was sincerely sorry to hear that Blitz was dying. He felt that with Blitz gone there would be no more Jewish life, since the debate at last would come to an end, and
what could there be of Jewish life without the heat of controversy. Even if the debate gave no ligh1; Zilch could keep warm by its heat.
At Blitz's funeral Zilch made a few remarks. . . . "He was a foeman worthy of my, steel. I say this even though he was never right. We were both true to our forefathers; we never gave in on anything."
The. death of Zilch occurred not long afterward. He, the last Jew, couldn't keiep on living without argument with another Jew. Jewish life was no longer happily to be lived and Zilch folded his hands and closed his eyes forever. His last words were "That Blitz!"
Anjrway, I hope that all Zilch-like and Blitz-like people will stay away from the first meeting of the American Jewish Assembly which is to be called within the next few months It will come to no good and if it is taken over by Zilches and Blitzs wiio debate just for the pleasure of disagreeing.
It will be a democratically chosen Asembly of 500 delegates of whom 375 will be elected directly by the Jewish people in the various communities. It is to be the spokesman for the Jews in the post-war settlement. Only a united Jewry can speak authoritatively for Israel. (After the last war the peace-makers were confused by a Babel of diverse Jewish voices.)
May I suggest to the voters that they refrain from electing delegates who may turn out to be just Zilches or Blitzes.
282 Professors Urge toosevelt to Save Jews n Nazi-Occupied Europe
WASHINGTON (WNS)—President Roosevelt was called upon this week to do his utmost to rescue the mil-ions of Jews facing extinction in Nazi-occupied Europe, in a petition submitted to him by 282 professors of 83 American universities and colleges.
The university professors asked the President also to find a way of warning the German people that they will be held responsible for generations to come unless the present Nazi massacres of Jews are halted. The petition was circulated throughout the country by the Yiddish Scientific Institute of New York.
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Nazis Give Two Priests Prison Terms for Protecting Jewish Children
GENEVA (WNS)—A Nazi court in occupied LiTixemburg sentenced two Catholic priests, Jacob Shanke and Camille Warms, to five years in prison each after they were found "guilty" of giving sanctuary in their churches to six Jewish children, between the ages of 4 and 8, whose parents had been deported to Poland, according to information received here this week.
The Nazi prosecution charged that the two priests cared for the Jewish children during the past two years and concealed them from Gestapo agents during the round-up of the remaining Jews in the tiny occupied country.
The approximate 30,000 B.C. volunteer women Red Cross workers are doing a magnificent work. During 1R42 they macte 1,440,786 articles of every type of supply and comfort for hospitals, men and women in the services, and civilian war victims. Materials for these cost $221,897. It 15 estimated that the value of the finished comforts and clothing made by these workers is three times the cost of materials.
CQUNCiL OF CHURCHES CALLS UPON PRES. TO SAVE JEWS IN EUROPE
CINCINNATI (WNS)—The Council of Churches, meeting in joint session with the Church and Social Work Division of the Council of Social Agencies in this city, called upon President Roosevelt this week to do all possible to save the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries.
The church parley adopted a six-point resolution for the rescue of European Jews, which was sent to Mr. Roosevelt. The high points of the resolution follow:
1. Efforts be made through neutral nations urging them to try to prevail upon Grormany to permit Jews to leave the lands Germany dominates, especially to permit children to escape and go elsewhere in the world.
2. The opening of the doors of Palestine to refugees who may find harbor there, and a generous policy of giving sanctuary on the part of the United Nations themselves to those who may knock at their gates.
3. Conversations with adjacent neutral lands, like Sweden and Switzerland to pursue a generous humanitarian policy in regard to Jews who may find their way across the borders.
4. Every effort be made to reach an agreement for feeding the Jews of Central Europe who are reported to be now given one-fourth or one-fifth the low ration allowed to Poles, or other subject populations.
5. The immediate liberation of all prisoners in North AJfrican concentration camps whose imprisonment is the result of racial discrimination.
6. The public statement that all leaders and followers responsible for the massacre of Jews will be brought to justice, and will be given the utmost rigor of the law, after the war shall be over.
"The massacres of Jews by the Nazis and their henchmen have aroused the horror of what remains of the civilized world," the resolution said. "As ministers of the Christian religion, we proclaim, in the face of these savage acts, our burning indignation, and our earnest longing to do all within our powers to help these stricken children of Grod."
POLISH JEWS URGE U. S. JEWS TO APPEAL TO POPE FOR AID
NEW YORK (WNS)—An appeal from the remaining Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, smuggled out of that country through underground channels, called upon the American Jewish community to approach the Pope for his aid in halting the bloody mass murder of Jews in Poland.
The desperate appeal, made public here this week by the Jewish Labor Committee, urged the United Nations to take "extraordinary steps" against German nationals in their countries in order to force the Nazis to halt their mass extermination program in the occupied countries.
The appeal, which bore the sig^na-tures of two Polish Jewish leaders well known to the Jewish Labor Committee, revealed that a bitter battle occurred last Januaiy in the Warsaw ghetto with "tens of Germans and a few hundred Jews" killed, when Nazi extermination squads invaded the Jewish ghetto to "liquidate" the remaining Jewish population.
Dated February 7, 1943, the underground message said: "In January the Germans started the liquidation of the remnants of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jews resisted, resulting in the killing of tens of Germans and of a few hundred Jews, among them Marmelstein, Cholodenko and Giterman. (Polish Jewish labor lead-. ers.) For three days after this fight, the Germans stopped their action. The liquidation of the Jews is now going on all over Poland. The Germans intend to have all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto liquidated by the middle of February.
"Alarm the world. Appeal to the Pope for official intervention. Also to the Allies that they take extraordinary steps against Germans residing in the Allied countries. We suffer terribly. The remaining few hundred thousand Jews in Poland are threatened with immediate annihilation. Only you can rescue us. The responsibility is thrown upon you."
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shouted back. . . . "I was depending on your Luftwaffe to finish up the Russians ia a couple of months and to have New York, Washington and Philadelphia bombed to pieces by now." . . . Then sudden, comprehension' ST^ept over CSoertng, and he apologized to his Pqjehrer for his rudeness. ... "You're right, in a way," he admitted, "though it wasn't really my fault at all. . . . It was that American aviator who's responsible for all our troubles. . . . Remember that time when we gave him a medal and let him inspect our glorious Luftwaffe? . . .Well, when he finished reviewing it he slapped me on the back and exclaimed: 'Field Marshall, with that air force Germadpr can lick the world.' . . . And, like a dam-fool, I beUeved him." . . . ABOUT PEOPLE . . .
Corporal Barney Ross of the Guadalcanal Marines, who is using his furlough time to help the Red Cross campaign, is much sicker than his friends realize.... He should, despite his protestations, be prevailed upon
to ask for an extension of his leave.
Latest report concerning ex-newspaper-publisher Herbert B; Swope is that he will become Administrator of Wartime Sports. . . . Publisher Harold Guinzberg, whose firm is the Viking Press, may become the head of the CWI Bureau of Publications. ... To Mischa Elman fans we recommend a new Red Seal album featuring the virtuoso in Debussy's "Sonata No. 3" for violin and piano. . . . You can take our word for - it that the master's famous tone is as beautiful as ever. ...
ABOUT PEOPLE ....
Our deepest sympathy to E. D. Swann, one of the head executives of the Cone, Belding advertising agency, whose wife, the singer Ta-mara, was one of the passengers lost in the recent clipper crash at Lisbon . Swann, one of the most brilliant men in his profession, is deeply interested in the furtherance of Christian-Jewish relations . . . Now it can be told that it was a patriotic desire to conserve gasoline that brought on Paul Muni's recent attack of sciatica .. . Living eight miles from the nearest railroad station, and faced with the necessity of coming into town every weekday to play his part in "Counsellor-at-Law," commuter Muni decided to use, instead, of his ca,r, a small motor-driven scooter that burns much less gas '. . .
RABBI EISENDRATH LEAVES FOR U. S. TO TAKE U.A.H.C. POST
TORONTO (WNS)—Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, who is leaving to become director of the union of American Hebrew Congregations, largest Jewish Religious organization in the world, bade farewell to his Holy Blossom temple congrregation this week. His successor at Holy Blossom has not yet been named.
Rabbi Eisendrath's headquarters will be in Cincinnati and New York, with his formal induction to take place at New York at the Biennial Council meeting April 2-4.
He said he had twice refused the offer of the directorship. The first appointee had died untimely; the second, who had a deep knowledge of the Arabs, was now liaison officer between the United States forces and the Arabs in North Africa.
When the third call came. Rabbi Eisendrath felt be was drafted. The United States was in the War, darkness had spread over the earth. "A darkness well nigh impenetrable for the children of Israel." Only a great ehallenge could have persuaded him to leave.
The new post, he said, would give him mor« opportunity to forward the passions of his life—the service of Israel, the cause of peace and brotherhood, the closer knitting of the tv/o great countries, Canada and the United States—and to forward the cause of co-operation of all mankind.
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