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April 23, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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A Letter to Two Million Souls in Heaven
Hitler appeared and sworn to ex-
terminate you, the world of Hu-
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manity and Civilization would not
Si, SAMUEL DUKER
permit it.
Editor's Note—A stirring plea for ■ vorld action to save from death
See how proud is our record
the millions of Jews still alive in Nazi-occupied Europe. The of care for animal lives. The
letter appears originally in "Furrows," publication of the buffalo is sheltered: the rein-
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"Habonim."
deer, the heaver, all have been
I am writing to you, two mil- words are addressed to those four given their little islands of safety,
lion souls of Jewish men, women million of our brothers and sis- their seasons of life. In the dark
and children, who have been mur- tars whom, too, Hitler has fore- continent of Africa there is the
dared by Hitler in the three years sworn to wipe out. My words Kruger National Park, 8,000
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miles of land set aside to
since September, 1939.
cannot reach them. I cannot tell keep
p
animal
kind
safe
from
I write to you in !leaven, for, them what is in my heart. Yet .
I hunters, to preserve their breed
however evil your liv es b e fore , must write.
I know that in f .
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your agonies since September, every moment preceding their al-
It was once thought that we,
1939, have cleansed you o f all lotted destiny of death they want
guilt and sin.
to hear from us, they want our too, should have had our island
Though written to you, my help. In her death vision the of safety; not much bigger than
mother sees her babies saved by Kruger Park—we are Jews, not
Children share their last chimpanzees and zebras—but our
us.
crust in the hope of extending island of safety nevertheless:
their hold on life until the day Palestine. It was ours, Human- 1/4
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of liberation.
Their eyes ate ity and Civilization told us.
There are many of you who
turned to us for help. And we?
"Hold fast," we say, "Human, could be there now. Among the
FOR YOUR
ity and Civilization will never living you left behind. many
forget you. We will liberate you. could be rescued yet. Through
Hold fast. We will avenge you. S w e d e a• through Rumania.
Bulgaria, through Tur-
You are a shining light of hu- key.
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man courage and sacrifice. Hold Ke y.
fast. Hold fast.
Would Hitler let them go? Who
Thus three years have passed. knows? The nations who make
And all this time Hitler has been up Humanity and Civilization
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Freeing you forever from life, let the Jews go. They might be
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Hitler
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e should liberate them in his own
minute—day after day, night al-
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ter night, weeks spinning into w ay.
months, into years.
I hear you souls in heaven say
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"Hold fast. You are not for- that I am unnecessarily bitter.
Perhaps.
Now, you souls in
gotten!"
Heaven, look around for some
No, indeed. On the third an- 760 among you who were once
niversary of the beginning of t he,
passengers on a boat called
slaughter, you, the two million, "Struma." Hitler sought to
were remembered.
remembered. Not too prom- crate them from their earthly
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inently, lest sonic think that this
ub
war is being fought on your ac- die.
r les. But they refused to
They fled to Turkey, whence
count. An editorial, a news-story, they sought entry into Palestine,
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a stern warning. to Hitler. You their
islan
me of sa fety. So
were not forgotten. Nor will the 760 men, , w
oen an d children
next two million be forgotten; or were
e put out to sea in a leaky
the two million after them.
I have thought, dear brothers • fifty-ton cockel-shell which went
I and sisters, that it is a great down to the bottom.
Mrs. Wagner's Pies ! pity that you were Jews. How "But," the souls in Heaven
much sweeter your lot had you whisper, "you cannot condemn
been born dumb brutes, animals England. The two survivors from
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of the field and forest. Surely, that sinking were allowed to en-
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a world of Humanity and Civi- ter Palestine."
lization would have decreed a
How can I, my four million
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limited hunting season on you , brothers and sisters, speak of the
Surely had a dread huntsman like Powers constituting Humanity and
Civilization when they have such
defenders in Heaven? How can
I mention the "St. Louis," the
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"Patra," the "Darien" or the
"Atlantic," ships of our misfor-
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tune, when the practitioners of
Humanity and Civilization have
warm defenders?
I cannot. For I hear a voice
PHOTOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS say to me: "It is better for us
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Even in Palestine, our little is-
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there is no limitation on Jews'
admission. None at all."
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