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DiTROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle
April 7, 1944
Jewish Appeal agencies in Euro- Dr. Nahum Goldmann to Address Hashomer
pean lands, in Palestine and
among refugees in the United Hatzair Convention in Chicago April 11-15
By RABBI JONAH B. WISE
States. But, in view of the havoc
that has been wrought in Jew-
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair- work, and the movement for th-
National Chairman, United Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
ish life in recent years, it is not man of the administrative com- rebirth of Hebrew culture. Of
0
Needs for Palestine
sufficient merely to speak in mittee of the World Jewish Con- the forty collectives which Hash-
We have turned the corner in horrible nightmare of mass de- generalities of the life-saving gress and political representative omer has established in
the history of our people. Hope struction which may yet be visit- and life-restoring work which of the Jewish Agency in America, Palestine, two have been built
is definitely the keynote of this ed upon those who still cling to American Jews are making pos- will address the opening session by members of the American
Passover. The prospect of an the thread of life in the areas sible through their generosity. of the 10th national convention movement. They are Ein Hasho-
Allied victory is bringing us under Nazi control. It is reason- It is particularly significant in a of Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist phet, named after Justice Louis
daily closer to the liberation of able to assume that we are ap- year when they will take part in youth movement, which takes D. Brandeis, settled in 1937, and
the millions of oppressed and Proaching the end of the era the largest campaign in the his- place in Chicago from April 11 Kfar Menachem, in memory of
homeless. It is bringing nearer of destruction. The arena of suf- tory of the Jewish community in through 15. Dr. Goldmann, who Menachem Ussishkin, established
the day of deliverance from bond- fering is being reduced by the this country that some of the has just returned from a series in 1941.
age under Hitler. The darkness forward march of the United concrete activities now being of London conferences with Di.
that has encircled Jewish life Nations. The Allied armies have conducted by these agencies be Chaim Weizmann and the British
is lifting. And yet it would be already freed hundreds of thou- discussed even if only in brief Foreign Office concerning the
fate of remaining European Jews,
a form of excessive optimism to sands of Jews in North Africa outline.
permit ourselves to bask in the and Italy and the great offensive
The progress of the war makes will speak on the situation of
Passover Greetings!
glow of the dawn to come and that is to come will undoubtedly it clear that as the areas of lib- world Jewry today.
give ourselves over to unrestrain- restore liberty to even larger eration widen, the opportunitie3
The convention will be attend-
ed rejoicing. numbers. But we must not lose for service increase. The Joint ed by over 300 delegates from
CASSIDY'S
In the 11 years of wholesale sight of the fact that the road Distribution Committee is financ- branches of Hashomer Hatzair in
devastation of Jewish life in to ultimate rehabilitation for the ing a new feeding program for North America, including dele-
PRESCRIPTION
many parts of Europe, in the Jews will be long and arduous Russia; with Governmental per- gates from Canada, Cuba and
systematic decimation of the and that not only an Allied vic- mission it is already making avail- Mexico. The latter representatives
LABORATORY
Jewish population in those areas, tory but what the Jews them- able substantial help in certain from the new and rapidly grow-
such profound damage has been selves are prepared to do will occupied zones—and it may be ing Jewish communities in Cen-
done to the Jewish people that decide the fate and future of expected that these activities will tral America, will report on prev-
To Win the Wer—We All MUST
we cannot look to liberation their brothers across the seas. be greatly expanded as the satel- alent conditions among Jews
alone to solve our problems and It is encouraging that we have lites withdraw from the Nazi there, and upon the growth and
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restore the wreckage. And while entered the period of transition camp as the shadows of the development of Hashomer Hat-
we may take courage in looking from sorrow to hope and that United Nations armies come clos- zair among the youth.
into the future, we cannot ig- we are beginning to see the re- er. In Switzerland, in Spain, in
A Palestine exhibit, giving a
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nore the terrible present which enactment of that portion of the North Africa, the Joint Dis- graphic portrayal of the fight
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will confront millions of our fel- Passover story which deals with tribution Committee has been which the Jewish Community of
low-Jews. The progress of the the deliverance of the Jews from called upon for substantial in- Palestine is waging against the
Allied armies has put an end enslavement and oppression. creases above the support it has White Paper, will also be a fea-
to Hitler's talk of victory. He Above all, we must recognize previously given. In the field of ture of the convention. Moshe
has stopped talking of world the elementary fact that the transportation, new avenues of Furmansky, Palestine delegate to
conquest, but the gathering transformation of Jews from har- help are open. The Mediterran- the movement, and member of
Passover Greetings!
forces of Allied armies has not assed and homeless human beings ean is now a channel through the collective colony, Mishmar
stopped his talk of exterminating into men and women of dignity which Jews are coming from Haemek, will greet the conven-
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the Jewish people. Before we and freedom will not be an Lisbon to Palestine. As an exam- tion in the name of the world
gaze upon the bright vistas of automatic and spontaneous proc- ple of this transportation activ- developments in Palestine.
victory, we must reckon with the ess. Just as the American people ity, financed by the Joint Dis-
Hashomer Hatzair is a move-
have been a great and mighty tribution Committee, some 7,000
force for saving civilization from Jews have come into Palestine executive, and report on recent
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Nazi conquest and doom, so it in the five-month period ending ment which sponsors chaluziut,
i.
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On this Passover we are ex-
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that
the
intended
restric-
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sustaining the hope of the Jews
Palestine. Because we stand on tion on Jews migrating to Pal- behind the battlelines. To that
Passover Greetings to All!
estine
be
,
lifted.
The
immediate
the threshold of a new era of re-
extent we are their strength and
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demption the Jews of this coun- situation, however, is that there their support. But let us also re-
try have been quick to under- are more potential immigrants member that their heroic spirit,
stand the tremendously increased for Palestine than there is money which has remained unbroken
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words—survival and reconstruc- may be deprived of the refuge the nucleus of the rehabilitated
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Jewish communities which must
grams which must be supported the United Palestine Appeal be made to live again in a free
this year and that is why the through the United Jewish Ap- world.
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of its three constituent o rgani- pressure of demands for its aid
Passover Greetings and Best Wishes
zations, the Joint Distribution in migration matters and in ad-
Salesbooks, Manifold Books, Inter- Committee, United Palestine Ap- justment of newcomers, arising
fold Forms, Fanfold Forms. Auto-
peal and National Refugee Serv- from the reconquest of territory
to Detroit Jewry and to those in Service.
graphic Registers. Continuous
from the Axis. Many thousands
ice. It is difficult within the limi- of people in the United States
Forms.
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the major aspects of the far- S ervice with inquiries
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concerning
i
flung activities of the United
of refugee kin,
looking to their eventual re-
union with their families in this
country. As these and other im-
migrants arrive, N. R. S. must
extend the same services and as-
No American wants this war
sistance, economic and otherwise,
to go one minute beyond the
for their speedy adjustment to
American life, which it has af-
time we can bring it to a vic-
forded to most of the 270,000
torious end. To hasten that
refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish,
already in this country.
victory—to save possibly the
Through these three channels
lives of millions of our boys
ofeffort the agencies of the
United Jewish Appeal are speed-
on our far flung fronts—it is
ing the hour of deliberation for
imperative that every Ameri-
large sections of the Jewish peo-
ple.
can do his part. There is an
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look back to the sorrows of Egypt
of yesterday, when before us
stretches the panorama of inde-
scribable suffering of far greater
gravity. The day may yet come
wh en we shall observe Passover
in terms of the past rather than
in terms of crises and dangers
of the present. But until that
happy hour comes, we cannot
forget the mapy hundreds of
thousands who are dying in the
ghettos and concentration camp:
of Europe; we cannot forget the
unbridled savagery with which a
Nazi regime made desparate by
the growing realization of de-
feat, is seeking to exterminate
every Jew on the continent of
Europe; we cannot forget the
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