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Commentaries
Dr. Barry J.
at Broadcast, auspices of Montreal Junior Board of over Station C/AD, by flabbl Harry J. Stern. Participating : were the Rev. G. Goth and Dr. L. P. NeZIiganJ
�.� No more appropriate occasion could hare been .chosen for K& rabbi minister, and Catholic leader on which to speak from g common platform than that of the Jewish Passover Week and Jhe Christian Holy Week. The concurrence of these eventful days m the calendar of church and synagogue should stimulate the Imagination of lews and Christians to remove misunderstanding regarding each other, and to live and labor for the "fleshing" oi the teachings oi church and synagogue in daily living. ^ . m this frightful Year One of the Atomic Age, the hope oi ^�/civflisatton Kes not in science, not in the machine, not even in the mere spread of knowledge. We are convinced that dvilua-iton-can only have meaning and stability if mankind resolves ' Mve .by those ethical precepts taught by church and syna-Alas, the tragedy oi our age is that man has advanced in the discoveries of science, but has lagged behind in growth of the humane qualities which come through obedi-�te God's moral law. *
% y We oi the Allied nations have won the "outer" war. We van-<ftiiheH the Ncnd and Fascist pagans. Ours is victory indeed, a �flftary victory. But there is the "inner" war we must now wage. ^ IwJrviduals, we must fight the virus of Nazism and Fascism ' lurks in the hearts and minds of multitudes. There is, alas, rtfon in every walk of life, the "dislike for the unlike". i remember that if we limit the lives of the people we op-we also limit our own lives. Our challenging task today �bike off the bonds that bind men's minds.
a committee of the world Council of Churches de-Geneva thai Christians "*TH to oppose anti-Semitism it is a "denial of the spirit and teaching oi our Lord." a timely statement, and one that can prove helpful in the "war for world redemption. I, as a rabbi, firmly believe � If Christians the world over would remgnise that nothing is blasphemously anti-Christian than is anti-Semi* be hope that antt-Iewtehness in aU its cruelties
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the causes of friction in personal and com* relationship. Jews and Christians, through understanding which their respective faiths summon them to prac-' can do much to bear common witness to the obligations oi and the precepts of righteousness, truth and love foundations of the Godly society.
^Hasten and Fascism, which singled out the Jew and Judaism their chief foes, are bankrupt.. They have been discredited, ideals ol the synagogue and the church�freedom, democ-f. IffflnffVlnrhiMn. Justice, brotherhood and peace, have come of the fiery crucible stronger than ever before. The Judaeo-oongepnon oi life has triumphed. Church and syna-must now inspire �*ilB�n� of men and women to go forth f war upon war and the things which lead to war, upon greed selfishnnss imperialism, poverty and prejudice. We must now for the hallowed moralities of life, otherwise there is hope for our civilisation.
m this hour we find ourselves entering in the back-wash _ oi the greatest war m history. It is a time when the spirit *fjf man is seeking release in all forms of relaxation and the mind
elf man in ail forms of "let go" philosophies. Shan we experience a psychological rebound as we underwent after the last Shall we lose in peacetime the great visions of world frat* which we beheld in war and apathetically because of dis-and disenchantment give up the faith in the good of universal righteousness and universal fraternity? Christian and Jewish youth in devoted comradeship foacrht bled and sacrificed and died on every battlefront of the ffrorid that the Judaeo-Christkm conception of Hie which is the of dvittntton shall not perish from the earth. Can we in crvUkni file match this brotherhood and five daily in fellowship in oar business and social striving? If so, there is everv hope for Canada and democracy everywhere. Each of us* CathoHr. Jew, cmd Protestant most undergo in i Passover-Easier season a flagellation of the spirit a catharsis heart and mind. We most ask ourselves, are we doing aU to evfl and to esvabfisa understanding? Our individual seek-of the good may pkry a small part in the creation oi unity essential among the nations oi die earth today. Bat mat email 1 Cfsdribatfoti. when placed upon the scales, may throw the bal-''SjBjosj in favor oi world peace founded on Justice.
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The following letter to the Re- New York, Florida, or anywhere
view is published at the request of the tender who has just returned home to Montreal from overseas. The identity of the letter-writer is known but is withheld by request. The writer says:
Some people may call me an interfering busy-body, perhaps I am.
Last year, I was in Holland. The first Seder night we drove to the nearest town to what was left of a Synagogue. Many Canadian army and air-fort* boys had come, too. The Congregation was small, about forty or fifty men, a few boys. Each man went around, asking if we had a place to go for a Seder. If anyone said "no", he was invited then and there.
Our family lived above the Synagogue. As we looked around the table we remembered the year before. That year, we went to a London family. That last year our host, hostess and two children had been hiding in a windowless room in Holland unaware that Pesauh had come. Friends kept them supplied with barely enough to live on, at the risk of their own lives.
The Rabbi of the community was present Originally German, he had joined the Dutch Underground after escaping from a concentration camp, He was very thin, hi* cheeks were rtained a vivid red. I wondered what a chest X-ray would show, but chest X-rays had become almost unheard of for Dutch people.
The youngster who wanted to join the Dutch Navy to fight the Nazis and Japs: from our side of the river he could look across to the village where his parents were in safe hiding, lie hoped. He asked us for advice. Some friends disapproved of his plans. What if the village were freed, and he not there to see and help his parents? What if the Nasis found out his name, and captured his
else. The Save The Children Fund claims that $26 will keep one child for a year. The Youth Aliyah says that $25 will keep one child for a month or so. How many children could be saved by the money spent on these Passover pleasure trips?
Every newspaper tells of sickness and famine in Europe. We have heard reports of the sufferings of Jews in UNNRA camps, and Poland, we have heard of Jews and Gentiles suffering all over the world. Canada has rationed many commodities to feed them, but money is still needed to buy food, clothes, and medical stores, How many lives could be saved by the money?
A campaign has failed, a campaign to run boys' clubs, the clubs that keep our boys off the street and out of jail. How may Canadian children could that money help? Or would you rather give more in taxes to keep up our penitentaries and mental institutions?
The Canadian Legion want* money. How many of our boys would benefit by money given to the Legion?
Just think it over: The wanton waste of food, clothes, and money; the total disregard of rationing and the reasons for it, and of the different shortages of food and clothing by a few of our people are deeply shocking to many of us who have just returned home. �*
No I�wish Family In Frqnct) Is Complott) Now
Nerves are the most serious problem affecting children and
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children* After her arrest, intern^ by the Haais and
selle Gonse, who worked with the French underground to rescue children, declared in New York.
Officially there under the auspices of the French Ministry of Public Health to survey public health procedures to help in the restoration of public health facilities in France, she spoke at a luncheon meeting of the architects and engineers division of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York at the Murray Hill Hotel. She sketched her experiences in hiding children from the Nazis as a nurse and social worker, her imprisonment in the Drancv concentration camp and her subsequent work with deportees after the liberation of France.
While directing a clinic near Paris Mile. Gonse set up an office where identiflcatipn papers were forged to aid in the rescue of
residence seventeen times and bet identification papers seven times.'
Only 27,000 out of 260,000 deportees were found, Mile. Gonse said, adding there is "still misery among the Jewish families, with no Jewish family complete now." She noted the vast work ahead in re-educating youngsters taught "the lying, stealing and spying necessary for the underground."
Julian Clarence Levi, honorary chairman of the division, received a medallion from Sylvan Got-shal, president of the appeal for Greater New York. Jacob Mosco-witav who heads the division, announced that it had assumed a quota of $26,000 toward the Greater New York goal of $35,-000,000. The sum of $6,045 was raised at the luncheon, compared with $1,945 by the same group last year, Mr. Moscowitz said.
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(Contvuud from Pagt One) hours. The other one was tubercular.
The foregoing is part of a report by Joseph Wolhandler, who passed ten months at Belsen as a welfare worker for the Joint Dis-
agencies which would benefit by the campaign for $100,000,000 being conducted by the United Jewish Appeal.
Training schools, like one near Fulda, were set up. There, in anticipation of a better future, classes of seventy study farming on a ten-acre school-farm whose equipment includes ten cows and some chickens.
Fifty-five hundred new pairs of women's shoes were delivered to the Jews at Belsen, as were 1,000 men's overcoats, children's shoes, 30,000 parcels from Switzerland and fifty-eight tons of food.
"Search bureaus" were established to trace missing families, as were immigration bureaus, to aid those with a chance to leave Germany or the other countries in which the J. D. C. functions. A plan for schools for the children in the displaojp-persons camps was put into effect. Theatre groups were organised, as were children's homes and magazines.
On the other hand, the report emphasized the need for supplying increased quantities of such essential* as food, fuel, clothing and quarters other than displaced-per-SOTIB camps, many of them former
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Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Mr. Wolhandler, a former member of the American Field
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broadcasts by Poles to enlighten the public on the Jewish question and to explain the disservice to the State and humanity brought about by anti-Semitism. Prominent people in politics, science, art, and literature are to come to the microphone. Then there is to be a series of lectures and meetings all over the country, when the dangers of anti-Semitism will be pointed out. Booklets and period* icals on the subject will also be diatribirted,. The ^
I am home in Montreal' for Pesach. What was once a family festival of rejoicing is now celebrated in a new way. Instftad of a Seder at home, have a Seder in a Kosher Hotel in Atlantic City,
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Ministry for May 1, according to reports published in the Romanian press.
Included among those called up are Jews who did forced labour service (although, according to the law, this was to be considered as equivalent to military service), as well as Jews who have returned from concentration camps�which gives them a legal claim to be exempted from military service.
Three wagon-loads of clothing for refugees and Jews repatriated from Transnistria reached Bucharest from Palestine. The supplies were sent bv the Organisation of Jewish Settlers from Romania.
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Mr. Wolhandler had also visited Buchenwald�described as a Naxi "extermination factory" � as a member of a J. D. C. team which removed 1,000 boys under fourteen and started them on their way to Palestine in less than a month after the camp was liberated. Youngsters under fourteen receive priority certificates from the British permitting them to enter that country. Buchenwald was liberated by United States troops just a little over a year ago.
"These children were quiet and unusually well disciplined," Mr. Wolhandler said in a recent interview. MThey did not have the sauci-ness of American children. The Buchenwald kids, many of whom suffered from chronic-type ailments like those from Belsen, are now at Palestine training settlements studying farming and other subjects."
Mr. Wolhandler's description continued, pointing out on the one hand some of the efforts being made by the J. D. C., one of three
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iah borned the area in which the prisoners were formerly confined. While the day of the "living skeleton" has faded, the report continued, there is hunger. "Tuberculosis is anywhere from 10 per cent to 40 per cent higher among the survivors than anywhere in Germany." Heart and skin disease* and stomach disorders are widespread.-
POLES
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turiesvold Jewish libraries and academies of Torah have been devastated by the modern bar hoi ions! ft is therefore incumbent upon us, the iartnnatei prosperous Jews-of TiertiPfffgtK' K�^*. to build anew and compensate in the Western Hemisphere for the
Let us baOd sanctuaries of beauty that will symbolise our pride and loyalty to the faith oi oar fathers. In lands oi
our reoatous heriftao/e. We wen forced to erect little sanctuaries in the secluded places. Hardly had we the opportunity to bufld on the highways.
We have a contribution to make to the Hie and dviBaatton oi America. We can beet do so tf oar spiritual and cultural values are held aloft and we advance the Jewish spiritual herttage) with its affirmation of B>e eftkxd and the aeethetic.
What a Qjorteos ouportmiiy there to tor our aeoeration to
/rorn Pag* One) take immediate action to this terrible evil As a "The Polish League to Combat Racialism and Anti-Semitism" has been formed in Warsaw, and branches of it are to be established in all the larger cities of the country. ._
The League is assured of the fullest possible official support.
The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Polish Socialist Party. Among thoee present were Poles who helped Jews at the risk of their own lives during the German occupation. Many ware members of the , Committee to Assist Jews> of aH parties. ' The Leagrie's first step will be-to arrange a regular series of
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a view to arranging for spedai lectures to be given by all teach-era to school children. Human rights and respect for human beings, including, of course, the Jew, will form the main theme.
The scheme for the Universities haa been deferred. As was the case before the war, the Universities are still largely reactionary with professors of the old type. It will take some time before a fight change can be introduced, as moat alt, of Poland's progressive elements were murdered by the Germans.
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Jewish victims of Nasf oppression in concentration camps, prisons, aad slave gangs* it waa announced fa Canberra by Arthur CaldweU, Minister of Immigration.
These people are cloee relatives of other Jews now in AuetranV Mr. CaldweU said. "It te a humanitarian gisstms en Australia's pert baeaeas of tise suffering they have hi
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