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JLRY 9. 1845
THE CANADIAN JEWISH BEVIEW
Blood And Money
By Hya Ehrenburg
^vky ^sapsv are called psasts. A beast be fierce, bat never base. But Strikes me about the Gar-�v,      m their baseness, a combina-^ jlen.ef ernelty and avarice.  They 5    �turned the  murder of mfl-of people into a profitable
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tha Germans killed the whole of v-^w tile Jewish population in Siauliai, jg^V^en la other erties. This, of course, I. we* a fact known to all Germans ^srnt only at the front, but in Berlin ^^�waaV
A very significant letter has into ray hands. It is headed *Artibus and Ltteris. Society of HamanHarian and Natural Scion-oaf. Berlin, Marienstrasse 40, Am* IS, IMS.
Schavelski. Gebietskom-In reply to a request for the hook Great If asters of Music leesived from a Lithuanian sub-Sect. VUdas Levitanas (Siauliai, �a*3shu Gatve 107),' we sent the at the beginning of 1938. Le
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ettaass owed us 48 marks, 25 pfennig*. We regret that we have only new learned that Levitanas was a Jew. whose present place of residence it is impossible to ascertain. We suppose that the authorities will take measures in regard to the book we sent, when they are dmpeeing of Levitana's other nrop-artv. We will be grateful if you wfll kindly inform us if you know anvthinc of the matter, and help to westore our property They have a nice way of ex-tfomselves. theee German it is "impossible to ascertain the present place of re*i-d\aace" of a man , who has been oVme to death. Knowine that tens of defenceless people in Siauliai. the hucksters are wor-their 43 marks.
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Tbe Mood of fashed.
Here I have a note written in a rosmd, childish hand in Polish.
"Deer nether: I am sayio* goodbye to yen before I die. We went to live, but all is lo*t: not let us. I am so afraid of tins death, because thev throw Bttle children alive into the grave. Goodeye. father. I kin* you very, verv hard. Your Unis."
Of what were the gentlemen from the Society of Hwmanitarian Sciences thinking? Of 43 marks, 29 pfennigs.
On April 2. 1043, the chief of the enadtag department of the Galkia Beeion, a German named a rather unusual re-to the chief of the Ternopol He required stones for read repairs, and there were some in the two Jewish cem-
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fhat would do. To this the chief of tae Ternopol territory replied:
�A�ril 14. 1048, 800-*ll: The l^mnseanadaaar of Ebaraah agrees to place the tombstones from the �i your eSsnoeaL How-tne I^ndVossnusear e the tombstones  for
toe.  Tea meat cease to ae U price with the X snggeet that the
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and child tan. He particularly valued the building firm of Richard Reckman of Kottbus.
On August 1, 1492, Richard Reckman wrote to Von Brauns-araig, "Please sand me 300 people. Foil Hitler."
Meantime, what was taking place in Zberash? The town was deserted; townspeople were taken to Belihets, where tha largest death factories were situated. Whereas in Maidenek, Sobibur and Tremblyanka, doomed people were asphyxiated, in Belzhets they were kffled by electric shock.
Mothers clasped their children to their breasts and wept They knew they were to be taken to Belsbets. One woman found strength to smother her,own child and then herself.
Von Braunsweig said, "We are clearing Zharsth This is an excellent measure.? But at the same time, Von Braunsweig was doinr. business with Richard Reckmanvs firm, and he understood that unless he gave Reckman workers, Reckman would not pay him his money.
On December 12� 1942. Von Braunsweig requested the chief of the Tarnopol territory not to send all the doomed people to Belzhets. His letter. No. 1007-3, contains the following admission:
"After the last action , the dis-trict was left with very few hands." In German, the word action means action, that is, what the Hitlerites call their actions� which is to say, the mass extermination of people.
Money is money and blood is blood. The Lahdkomraissar did not forget about the blood either.
On November  16,  1942.  nuns working at  a  Roman   Catholic found  near it an  infant old. On learning of
provided with tabs saying, "not for immediate dispatch" to Bel-shots. But afterward? Afterward Von Garbut sent the money to his wife and ordered the unfortunate victims to be shot: the Kremin firm had wound up its activities.
The same thing happened at Sanko. The firm of Kirhof, builders from Stuttgart, was working there. Its representative, engineer Egelefer, selected from the ghetto 600 adults and 100 children. The German overseers beat the slaves with sticks and set dogs on them. The unfortunate victims had to break stones, push wheelbarrows and work standing up to the waist in icy water. Thus they worked from September 8 to December 15, 1942. Then engineer Egelefer arrived, and after looking over the slaves, said, "These are no good for anything anymore.'* They were forced to dig pits and in these they were buried.
Many of the victims who had been captured by the Germans were working outside of Meirov in the wintertime. Commandant Ge-nig and a representative of the German firm of Maindl, examined the footwear of the doomed people every week. If a worker's boots were quite worn out he was killed because he could no longer work. The firm knew its business, and the hangmen, too, and they acted together in perfect agreement. At
first the tradesmen wrung out of the people the last drop of their sweat, and then the hangmen shed their mood.
On AprS 7, 1948, the laadTmm-misssr of Zsnrsath was m aaeel-lent humor. The Has ef Richard Reckman had completed Ha operations very sueteesfuBy. That day Von Braunsweig had killed, with the help of a tommy gunner, over 2,000 people. Old people cursed the hangmen, isaleant children wept �they could not understand that these were Germane. Von Brsens-weig careened until morning. He had arranged a lavish haaquet to celebrate tins latest Maewen.w
And the next morning the land-komissar sngeged in mmmiiTrr. He sold the tiashetnnii to this firm. What was tt to Mm that he risked imprisonment for. the eesecration of graves? He anew that the already deserved the halter; for he had kfliSb* 5,000 people.
Base and loathsome creatures! Merchants Richard Reckman and Kirhof made money out of human agony, out of the last convulsive shudder of the doomed. Merchant Kremin collected garments of those who were shot Other tradesmen made money out of the women's hair. And after this day they dare to assert their innocence!
Some "humanist*" in Berlin, on learning that their countrymen were killing  millions of innocent
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people in the East, felt only anxiety about their 43 marks, 26 pfennigs. They are not only frightful, they are abominable. After hanging them, one would have to ask pardon of the trees from which the gallows was made.
Before my mind's eye arises the version of the little girl Unis, lisping, "They throw   children   alive
into the grave." This child wOl recall everything. This child will visit the house of merchant Reckman, the house of the chairman of the Society of Humanitarian Sciences, and the house of hangman Von Braunsweig.
In Rome, Jews have raised 800,-000 lire to match JDC's contribution.
tae ehfld take the
Measures were taken, and the year-old chad of "probably Jewish origin" was killed.
Blood is blood, money is money.
The chief of the Tarnopol territory, Von Qarbut, worked with the German firm of Kremin, which was engaged in collecting junk. Von Garbut pleaded in Lvov that the dispatching to the death factory of Jews sold to the Kremin firm should be temporarily postponed.
In Order No. 912, signed by SS Brigadenfuehrer. we read that the doomed people who were working for the Kremin  firm  should  be
US. COAST GUARD RESTORES RIGHTS TO JEWISH OFFICER
Lt Jack Hajim, Senior Lieutenant and Chief Radio Operator in the U.S. Maritime Service, has been, returned to service with his fun rating restored, following an order is-aued by Admiral R. R. Wseahe, Commandant of the VS. Coast Guard.   Hajim had been sue-
� . a _ and decks of the United States in July, 1944. following an altercation in which the Captain unamending Ms ship had insulted Hajfaa's Jewish religion and race, finally charging Hajim with "hsanaor-n when the latter at-to insist upon his own
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Friendship flourishes when its roots are deep
THnopGB the generations a mutual friendship and understanding has grown between the British Commonwealth and the United States., .flourishing over the years from seeds sown long ago.
Working together �ae>y for victory and peace, it* is essential that England and America stay together ttmtmw for the future security of the worjd. We, of Canada, can best assure the preservation of this great partnership, for we are the link that >oins them in dose accord. Long the friend of both, we can inostpret one to the other... foster the mutual understanding that is deer>f uuteti in rise past.
Every Canadian can add to this guarantee of lasting peace for all the world by culri-varing condoned co-operation between Britain and the United States. More than a duty, it is a proud privilege.
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