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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

POLAND AND THE JEWS

A Message From General Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister

EDITOR'S NOTE: A statement by the Premier of the Polish Gov-
ernment-in-Exile, pledging the equality of treatment of Jews
in Post-War Poland.

In Europe today millions are
suffering in 411 the occupied coun-
tries. To compare the atrocities
or to assess the greater or less
degrees of horror which whole
people are sustaining would in-
deed be an odious task.
It can, I think, with truth be
said that no nation is suffering
more cruel treatment than the
Polish people. Among these Pol-
isn citizens, who are today ex-
isting under the barbarous yoke
of the Nazi regime, no section is
being made to feel the humilia-
tion of their position more than
the Jewish community. It is only
right and natural that both the
anger and sympathy of the whole
world has been aroused by their
plight. It is, of course, diffi-
cult to give accurate figures, but
on a conservative basis, there is
adequate evidence to show that
200,000 Jews at least have been
massacred by the Germans and
in the Warsaw ghetto alone sonic
400,000 are dying of starvation
or maltreatment.
The problem of the Jews in
Poland has always been one that
must be a real concern of the
Polish govermnent. Before the
war they numbered more than 10
per cent of the whole of the
population. One of the reasons
why such a large number of
European Jewry lived within the
frontiers of Poland is because,
in the 17th and 18th Centuries,
Poland was one of the few asy-
lums in Europe where the Jews
were allowed to find a refuge.
In the end of the 19th century

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almost one million Jews were
fcrced by the Tzarist regime to
cross the frontier into Poland.
After this war, the Jewish
problem will once again confront
any Polish government. On nu-
merous occasions I have publicly
stated my own views and the
views of my government on this
question. We have declared that
in the future Poland all citizens,
irrespective of race or creed, will
be given the same rights and
privileges. Such privileges nat-
urally will entail responsibilities
and loyalties to the Polish na-
tion from all those upon whom
full rights of citizenship are con-
ferred.
Before the last war a large
number of Polish Jews found
their way to Palestine where they
have contributed greatly to the
prosperity ofthe country. I am
convinced that when the war is
over, many Polish Jews will wish
to assist in building up the Jew-
ish National Home in Palestine.
Full facilities will be given for
those Jews to seek a new home
with their relatives and co-reli-
gionists in the Middle East.
It will nevertheless be the pol-
icy of the government that no
Jew should be forced against his
wishes to leave Poland as long
as he remains a loyal member of
the Polish commonwealth. We all
trust that in the post-war period
toleration will prevail throughout
Europe. This toleration, however,
must not exclude from full jus-
tice those who have been respon-
sible for the atrocities which Eu-
rope is experiencing today. We
who are outside the Continent
can, at the moment, do little for
the suffering millions under Ger-
man domination. We can, how-
ever, promise them that in the
hour of victory retribution will
overtake their persecutors. We
can tell them that our thoughts
and our sympathies are constant-
ly with them and that the hour
of delivery may be nearer than
they anticipate.
I am glad to join with other
distinguished allied leaders in of-
fering both my own sympathy
and that of my government to
Jews throughout the world for
the terrible sufferings and per-
secution through which their co-
religionists are passing in Eu-
rope today.

Junior Congregation
Of Shaarey Zedek

The regular service of the Ju-
nior Congregation of Shaarey Ze-
dek will be held Sabbath, Febru-
ary 13, at 9:30 a. m. in the
Prayer Room of the Frank Me-
morial Building. Myron Rosenthal
will act as Cantor. Phyllis Zieve
will give an interpretation of
Yismach Moshe, and Elaine Weis-
man will lead the reading of the
Ashrey. Philip Caplan will act
as Ba'al Koreh. At the Sabbath
service of February 6, Milton
Smith gave a beautiful rendition
of the Haftorah.

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LARGE-SCALE RESCUE OF CHILDREN
SUPPORTED BY UNITED JEWISH APPEAL

The major task immediately confronting the 10E1 United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine is to provide adequate funds to
enable the Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Na.
tional Refugee Service to carry out large scale rescue operations for the
emigration of Ilionsands of refugee children orphaned by Nazi war and mires-
shin. from Russia. North Africa and the Balkans, to Palestine and the VS'estern
Hemisphere. With international sanction already granted for the transfer
and immigration of these Address. this life-saving project awaits only the
generous response of American Jews to bring it to fruition. Photos show
above) Polish-Jewish children somewhere in Russia: (below Irro. a y oun g
Jewish girl happily settled in Palestine; and right I, three youngsters smiling
joyfully on their arrival in the lnited States.

THE JEWISH PROBLEM AFTER THE WAR

By LORD MELCHETT

EDITOR'S NOTE: Lord Melchett analyzes briefly some of the diffi-
cult problems now confronting the Jewish people.

To speak of the "unprece-
dented b r u t a li t ies, oppression,
massacres, starvation, and mass
expulsions" of the Jews by the
German Nazi Govermnment has
become a commonplace of our
time. To affirm that in some
form or other justice must be
done and restitution made is also
a view very commonly expressed
by ministers and responsible lead-
ers of the Allied Nations. While
I do not intend to deal with the
problem of restitution in any
detail, nor to redescribe the hor-
rors implied by the first common-
place, I do wish to point out
some of the major implications
of the situation that has arisen
in our time.
The Jewish death rate in Eu-
rope is somewhere about 100 per
thousand, against a normal rate
of about 10. This means that
nearly half of the Jews of
Europe may have perished by the
end of the war. Those of us who
survive will have the obligation
to see that they did not die in
vain. u
But what of those who survive?
Many well-meaning people are be-
ginning to cherish ideas of which
they should be told to be or to
do and what ought to be done
with them. I hope this attitude
of mind will not be carried fur-
ther than the first essential re-
quirements of relief and recon-
struction upon the cessation of
hostilities.
We must realise that those
who remain will be profoundly
altered by their experiences. They
will have lived on a higher spiri-
tual and emotional plane than
the normal for a long time. Their
sense of values will be as dif-
ferent from ours as the soldier
who returned from the last war
found their standard differed
from the civil population. There
will be difficulty in the exchange
of thoughts and ideas. Ultimately
it will probably be found that
apart from some weaker vessels
who may be totally destroyed as
social entities by the horror of
their experiences, these survivors
will have more to contribute to
the world and on a higher spiri-
tual plane than has fallen to the
lot of any of our tortured race
for many centuries.
Recognition and understanding
of this is essential to any suc-
cessful attempt to render useful
service in this great cause. The

great question is bound to arise
of the merits of resettlement in
Europe in outlying overseas coun-
tries or in the eternal home in
Palestine. On this problem the
voice of those who have suffered
will make itself heard.
On the practical issues involved
it is clear that as between now
and 25 years ago we have in
the national home proved our-
selves fully capable of successful
colonization, both rural and ur-
ban, a point which used to be
gravely questioned. No great
power other than Germany was
in active opposition to our prog-
ress and even Germany was part-
ly prepared to accept the view
that Jews should be released to
leave Germany and not be kept
for slavery. But there was never
a satisfactory agreement with the
indigeious Arab population on the
question of the national home. As
a result successive British govern-
ments compromised between the
contending parties.
It is sure that much of the
trouble derived from Axis sources
via the Mufti, now in Berlin. But
it would be a mistake to believe
that in the absence of such a
stimulus there was nothing re-
quired to perfect the arrange-
ments outlined in the Balfour
Declaration. There are obviously
several ways of satisfying the
Arabs, of whom there are many,
of good will. I do not believe that
the Middle East is so inflexible,
that no answer can be found to
the problems which arose in the
first 25 years of the Jewish na-
tional home.

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Jewish Sporfs World

By VICTOR WAYNE

Barney Roes Wine Dusky Beauty

The latest story anent Barney
Ross to come out of the Battle
of the Solomons is the one in
which the former triple title hold-
er knocked out a "native"' vil-
lage bully and not only won the
Islands championship but the
chief's daughter as well.
Ben Malamude, former Pitts-
burgh basketball player, who was
a standout Jewish basketeer when
he performed for the Panthers
some years ago, related this in-
cident in a letter. Malamude is
now serving as a pharmacist sec-
ond class. Referring to Ross as
one of my patients, Ben wrote:
"Incidentally, in Samoa, the
Marines made Barney get into
the ring with a colored native
French soldier, who was giving
our Navy heavyweights a thor-
ough going over.
"This guy weiged 215 pounds
and was the idol of all the na-
tives. Everyone wanted Barney
(former welter, junior welter and
lightweight champion) to fight but
Ross didn't care for the idea.
The prestige of the Marines was
at stake, however, and the match
was finally made.
"They used 16-ounce gloves,
but Barney had the Samoan on
the deck 11 times before putting
him away in the sixth round.
Ross became the big hero then
and one of the native chiefs of-
fered him his daughter in mar-
riage and wanted him to share
his crown."
The letter from Malamude ends
at this point and to date we
have no way of telling whether or
not Barney accepted the chief's
generous bid.
By the way, the Edward J.
Neil Memorial Plaque which will
be awarded to Barney Ross by
proxy in mid-February in New
York City will be accepted for
the Jewish boxing champ by a
Marine general. The reason of-
fered for this twist is the simple
fact that Barney is "still on duty
not within the territory of the
United States and will be unable
to appear in person."
In case you haven't heard by
now, the Neil plaque was award-
ed to Ross "for having given
the greatest performance by a
boxer during that year." Barney
earned it—the first time a Jew-
ish boxer won it—for his gallant
exploits on Guadalcanal when he
killed 10 Japs and rescued two
of his Marine buddies.
And, speaking of Memorial
trophies, the Baseball Writers'
Association has voted its annual
plaque to Jack Singer, corres-
pondent for the United Press
who was killed in action when
the aircraft carried Yorktown
was crippled by Jap zero fighters.
Singer was a former baseball
writer for a New York paper.

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