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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Israel in Egypt. When we con-
sider that since the celebration
of Passover a year ago, the rav-
By MICHAEL FREEMAN
ages of war and oppression have
dismembered the Jewish com-
Passover has taken on tragic munity of Poland and deepened
timeliness for the Jewish peo- the tragedy of Jews in other
ple in a year in which war has parts of Europe, we shall realize
come upon the face of the earth. that Passover this year will find
In recent years we have had large portions of the Jewish
reason to draw a parallel be- people in a graver plight than
tween the suffering of Jews in that of the Jews under Pha-
Central and Eastern Europe and raoh.
the bondage of the children of
Many parts of Europe are
Egypt. In Germany today, Jews
are not permitted to purchase
any article of clothing. They are
allowed to go to food stores only
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after others have bought up all
available food. In many cities
in Poland Jews must wear an
armlet or a yellow patch sewn
on their clothes to set them
apart from the rest of the pop-
ulation. Old men have been
-pressed into labor gangs. Many
thousands have been packed into
cattle cars and transported to
HYMAN ALTMAN
the Lublin "reservation." Others
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have been dumped into open
fields. Large numbers have been
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forced to live in barns and sta-
bles under the most primitive
and unsanitary conditions. Di-
sease and starvation threaten
the lives of women and chil-
dren.
This sad panorama of Jewish
misery will crowd in upon our
consciousness as we partake of
the Seder in the bosom of our
family and in the comfort of our
own homes. It will dramatically
engrave upon our hearts the
need of some superhuman ac-
tion, a channel of escape of the
magnitude and divine force of
the miracle of the crossing of
the Red Sea. In the absence of
such a miracle, some may yield
to a sense of frustration and
despair. Yet if we look back into
our past, we shall find that the
miracles that delivered our peo-
ple from destruction evolved
from our own will and struggle
to survive. We had to prove
ourselves worthy of divine in-
tervention on our behalf.
And today once again when
the Jewish people is confronted
with indescribable trials, we are
called upon to prove ourselves
worthy of a new and better
world and of a new liberation
that will restore us to creative,
progressive endeavor in an at-
mosphere of freedom and peace.
The instrument for such ac-
tion has been fashioned by Amer-
ican Jewry in the establishment
and continuation of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees and
Overseas Needs. The one great,
free Jewish community to which
Jews everywhere look for a sign
of hope has embarked upon a
concrete program of action which
in itself represents a bulwark
of spiritual strength for Jews
weighted down by homelessness
and hatred.
In a world in which evolu-
tionary processes have been
usurped by revolutionary light-
ning strokes, no one can forsee
what the morrow may bring.
Without underestimating the
overwhelming catastrophe that
has uprooted the lives of many
sections of the Jewish people,
American Jewry has reason to
feel encouraged in its plan of
rescue by the fact that the Joint
Distribution Committee, the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service, con-
stituting the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees and Overseas
Needs, are performing extraordi-
nary acts of constructive assist-
ance of a far-reaching nature.
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To what extent those activities
be be continued and enlarged will,
of course, depend upon the read-
iness of American Jews to pro-
vide the $23,000,000 required in
1940 for overseas relief and
rehabilitation, refugee aid, im-
migration and settlement in Pal-
estine, and the integration of
refugees in the United States.
The havoc of war has added
immeasurably to the sorrows of
Jews in Central and Eastern Eu-
rope. In Poland the Jew was
made the victim of a double at-
tack. The suffering which he en-
dured together with other in-
habitants of the country during
the German invasion was follow-
ed by severe cruelties after the
dismemberment of Poland was
completed. This is a chapter of
ghostly horrors, of pogroms, and
mass expulsions which destroyed
many Jewish communities. The
name of one city, Lublin, epi-
tomizes the depth of the tragedy
of more than 1,000,000 Jews in
German-controlled Poland. The
fear of deportation to the Lublin
"reservation" has made more ur-
a ujj
gent the need for emigration
from Greater Germany.
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