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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1943

VOL. 45, NO. 40

"DEED BY DEED"

The Year In
The Capital

:

PRESIDENT

ROOSEVELT

LAUDS JEWISH

WAR EFFORT

IN

ROSH

HASHONAH

MESSAGE

WASHINGTON (WNS)—President Roosevelt sent a Rosh
Hashonah message to the Jews of America lauding the Jewish
contribution to the war effort and praising their loyalty as
American citizens. The message reads:

"To those of the Jewish faith upon this
anniversary of their New Year, I send greet-
ings. At the same time I welcome the oppor-
tunity it affords me to express again my ad-
miration of the contribution which this loyal
group of our fellow citizens has made to the
nation's achievements during the past year on
the inexorable march toward victory."

By MILTON WEILL

By CHARLES BENSON

Chairman. Army and Navy Public relations Committee

Jewish Welfare
WA SHIN GTON
There is an anxient tradition ism and courage on behalf of
The year 5703 was marked by
new sufferings for the Jews un- among Jews. It is as implicit in America's struggle for the "cen-
• make-up as is their belief tury of humanity".
der the Nazi yoke. But the hope their
of liberation rose here as the
A sampling of this record
year's end brought victories in in God. This tradition is the shows, for instance, that in every
"will to freedom," born of op-
Italy and North Africa.
tyrants, theater of action and in every
the pression under Egyptian
As Vichy France emulated
in the inquisitions o major engagement from Pearl
Nazi anti-Jewish policy , t hou- nurtured
m the Middle Ages, developed fur- Harbor to Sicily, Jewish fighting
sands of refugees foum 1 the em-
ther as the Jews of 19th Cen-
selves once more in peril. The tury Europe participated in the men distinguished
themselves.
United States Embassy made great social and economic strug- Their numbers run into the thou-
vigorous representations. Labor gles culminating in the French sands and their stories cannot,
here spoke out against the bar- Revolution, England's Magna Car- of course, be told in this brief
barism in Europe. Religious ta and the American Revolution. article, but who a few of these
groups of all denominations
Hatred of tyranny is in the men are and what they have ac-
voiced their horror. Congressmen bones
of Americans of Jewish complished on behalf of democ-
condemned the atrocities and faith, and
today persons of that racy is, it seems to me, worth
called for action.
are again serving the an- our attention.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull faith
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
cient code, fighting still one more
denounced the new French Nur- time for a common freedom, join- on Dec. 7, 1941, brought the
emberg laws, the wholesale de- ing fellow citizens of other faiths United States into the war. Timt
portations. Rep. Emanuel Celler, in
combatting the new and mighty (lay, an American destroyer lay
New York Democrat, asked that
to our hard-won democ- at anchor in the harbor. When
threat
refugees fleeing interment and
the first Jap planes came over
deportation in France be allowed racy.
The definitive story of Jewish and made their unexpected and
to enter the United States.
in this new war deadly sneak attack, the ship's
Arrangements were made to participation
of course, be written at commander and many other ship's
rescue the children of persecuted cannot,
i however, an officers were killed.
this time. There is,
peoples. But in December it was impressive interim record avail-
The ranking officer left alive
reported that the aliens admitted
it, incom- was a young ensign, Stanley Cap-
able,
and
a
perusal
of
to the United States in the past
though it necessarily is, lan, of Elmira, N. Y., who had
year totalled less than one-tenth plete
shows that Jews are building,
See DEED—Page 2
deed by deed, a record of hero-
See CAPITOL—Page 8

The Era of Liberation

By RABBI JONAH B. WISE

National Chairman. United Jewish AuPeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine

The New Year is bringing a many dead. When we quote fig-

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SECTION FOUR

new day — a day which we hope ures, we are often accused of
will not know the long night of exaggerating our plight. The vast
suffering and death which has losses which the Jews have suff-
darkened human life in recent ered have been corroborated by
years. The era of oppression is many government reports. I
rapidly coming to an end am should like to quote these lines
the era of liberation is having a from a recent statement by Mrs.
glorious beginning. We stand at Eleanor Roo'sevelt which elo-
the transition from darkness to quently sum up the mass murder
light. All of us seem to be liv- of Jews. Mrs. Roosevelt has said
ing in a so-called anteroom to a that the Jews "have suffered in
new world that will closely ap- Europe as has no other group.
proximate the ideals and aspira- The percentage killed among
them in the past few years far
tions of all free men.
The year which has joined the exceeds the losses among any of
past saw the Jewish people reach the United Nations in the battles
the depths of despair and misery. which have been fought through-
But it also brought the first out the war."
We have come to the turning
flicker of the rekindling of the
lights of freedom. During the point. For the sake of the mil-
past year we witnessed the most lions who have died, we must
horrible examples of oppression now do everything we can for
on the European continent. But the millions who have survived.
we also witnessed the liberation There is no precedent for the
of North Africa and saw the joy magnitude of the tasks that will
of deliverance on the faces of our confront us in the very near-fn-
people that is yet to come to our ture. The problems which we had
fellow-Jews in Nazi-held terri- to face following World War I
will be greatly dwarfed by the
tory.
In looking ahead to the day obligations and responsibilities
of victory, we must pause to pay resulting from the present war.
of organized Jewish
homage to those who shall never Almost all life
in continental
communal
see
the
triumph
of
demos-
to
live
racy. They only know one peace Europe has been reduced to hope-
- the peace of the martyr, the less wreckage. It will be difficult
peace of the soldier who lays to ascertain the extent of the
down his life so that others may devastation of the European Jew-
benefit by his sacrifice. The mil- ish communities, until the liber-
lions who fell at the hands of ating forces of the United Na-
Hitlerism were an army without tions have blasted the Axis out
banners divisions without uni- of "Forteess Europe." It is, how-
forms, which held a strong line ever, already evident that libera-
on the democratic front. Their tion will immeasurably broaden
heroism and their martyrdom the scope of our responsibility.
were epitomized by the Jews of In liberating Jewish populations
the Warsaw ghetto who fought from oppression, the Allied arm-
an unforgettable battle against ies will not liberate us from our
the Nazi extermination squads. tasks of rehabilitation. This has
The Jews of Warsaw lost the been forcefully demonstrated in
battle for their own lives, but North Africa. Far greater respon-
theirs was a glorious defeat and sibilities lie ahead, which we shall
they helped win the war of sur- gladly welcome, for they shall not
vival for a whole people. The evolve out of a further deterio-
w ord "sacrifice" has been used ration of Jewish existence, but
very freely in recent years. It rather out of a concerted plan
i
eaning, new for its amelioration and revival.
has gained a new meaning,
American Jews will not be un-
dignity
new
reverence
and
through the valorous deeds of prepared for the heruclean job
the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. o f post-war reconstruction. The
We have finally come to the far-flung rescue programs which
in
turning point after ten years of have received their support
the
ten
bitter
years
of
Hitlerism
Dur-
tears and tragic suffering.
g that decade of (loon), we lost and, on a much larger scale, dur-
lo
3,000,000 casualties — men, wo- ing the four horror-filled years of
men and children who died with total war have laid the founda-
out a chance to defend them- lion for a carefully planned and
selves. The battlefields of Europe
See LIBERATION—Page 2
are soaked with the blood of our

1943 - 5704

A Happy

stew Year

To You of the House of Israel

• • •

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