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April 14, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Moscow Jewish Conference Hears Nazis
Slew Four Million Jews in Europe
:110SCOW ( WNS). -- Prof.
Solomon Mikhoels, president of
the Jewish Anti-Fascist Commit-
tee, declared in an address at
the third annual all-Jewish con-
ference now in session here that
the Germans slew more than
4,000,000 Jews in Europe and in
th e regions formerly occupied
by them in Soviet Russia.
Calling upon the Jews in the
Soviet Union and throughout the
world "to take revenge for our
massacred brothers and sisters
who c onstitute one-quarter of
he entire Jewish nation," Prof.
Mikhovls stated that Russian
Jews are playing an important
and heroic role in the fight to
destroy the forces of Hitlerism
and in ridding the "motherland"
of the German aggressors. He
disclosed that Jews hold fourth
place among the Red Army men
who were decorated for feats
of heroism on the Ukrainian
front. "We are proud to know,"
he said, "that many Jewish men
and women under German occu-
pation refused to be meek and
dumb victims of the German
butchers and went off to join
partisan detachments, or raised
revolts in their ghettos with in-
credible heroism and courage."
Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish
poet from Vilna who fought as a
partisan in the Lithuanian for-
ests, gave a graphic description
of the destruction which the
Nazis wrought upon the Jewish
population of Vilna and of the
heroic accomplishments of the
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Jewish partisans. "I come to you
from another world," said Sutz-
kever as he described how a
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It has been three years since era at the Masonic Auditorium,
I stepped on a city pavement. Thursday, April 20, Fortune Gal-
The hallucinatory scenes I wit-
nessed are still burning in my
mind, and they give m e 11 . 0
peace."
Vilna Massacres
I11r. Sutzkever, who prior to
the war belonged to the group
of , Jewish poets bearing the name
"N oung Vilna," related how he
fled from Vilna and joined a
group of partisans who were op-
erating in the Lithuanian forests.
He disclosed that on Sept. 12,
1941, the Nazis rounded up the
male Jewish population of Vilna,
under the pretext that they were
needed for slave labor and then
proceeded to execute them in
the gulleys near the city. Some
of the 60,000 Jews who were
rounded up in the streets of
Vilna, Sutzkever said, were
driven into the old ghetto and
the others were taken to an old
prison, from which they never
returned alive. On Yom Kippur
of 1941, the Nazis staged a
"mass execution" in the second
ghetto of Vilna, under the super-
vision of the Nazi hangman
Schweinberg. Not a single Jews
of the 20,000 who lived there
escr.ped with his life.
Sutzkever related that on No-
vember of 1941, when the Nazis
gave evidence of intention to
liquidate the first ghetto, he man-
aved to escape. He hid himself
in the home of an old peasant
woman who fed him and shel-
tered him for an entire month.
"One cold December night," re-
lated Sutzkever, "when I realized
that my presence in the woman's
house had become noticeable and
that I was thus endangering her
life, I fled the village. I wan-
dered through the snow-covered
forests until I reached the old
ghetto. Of the 30,000 Jews that
were there when I mare my es-
cape less than half were left.
There I met my teacher Mira,
former directress of the famous
Vilna Gymnasium. She told me
of the risks that were being
taken to educate the remaining
Jewish children, despite the fact
that it was forbidden."
He said that the Jews in Vilna
organized themselves into small
units and that they even issued
a bulletin carrying news picked
up from an underground radio
station. Later the partisans spread
out to various towns, hamlets
and villages, urging theJews
to flee. After the liquidation of
the Warsaw ghetto, the Nazis
dispatched special units to deal
with the partisans and with the
remaining few Jews in Vilna.
Unable to continue the resistance
against a superior force, the par-
tisans fled Vilna through sub-
terranean channels. Those we . re
the only ones who remained alive
of the 80,000 Jews who lived in
Vilna prior to its Nazi occu-
pation, Sutzkever concluded.
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All-Beethoven Program with Robert Casadesus
Opens General Motors Symphony Spring Series
With Dr. Frank Black con-
ducting and the noted French
pianist, Robert Casadesus, as so-
loist, the first concert in the
Spring Series of the General Mo-
tors Symphony of the Air will
be devoted entirely to music by
Beethoven. The program will be
heard Sunday. April 16 ( NBC,
5 to 6 p. nr. EWT ), and will in-
clude two celebrated Beethoven
works, the Egmont Overture and
Concerto No. 5 in E flat for
Piano and Orchestra, popularly
known as the "Emperor".
Casadesus, born in Paris 45
year§ ago, first appeared in thi.,
country in 1935 as soloist with
the New York Philharmonic
Symphony. In the audience was
Maestro Arturo Toscanini who
was so impressed with Casade-
sus' performance that he went
immediately backstage and in-
vited the artist to play with him
the following season. Since that
time the pianist has thrilled con-
cer audiences across the country.
He comes of a distinguished fam-
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ily of musicians, the men and
women members of which are
Frances Solovich Group
Plans Hillel Pilgrimage
The Frances Solovich group
the Young - Girls of Bnai
Brith is planning a pilgrimage,
with the other two Detroit chap-
ters, to Ann Arbor, Mich., on
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April 16.
At Ann Arbor the girls will
lo's San Carlo Opera Company
visit the Hillel Foundation and
of
will offer a performance of other points of interest on the
Bizet's "Carmen" as the first U. of M. campus.
offive performances, one of
which is a matinee on Sunday, I
April 23, the final day of the
four-day engagement.
Coe Glade will have "Car-
men's" title role. Two former
Metropolitan artists will support
her; Sydney Rayner, American
tenor, and Carlo Morelli, bari-
tone. Mary Henderson is a new-
comer who will make her debut
as Micaela.
"Rigoletto," April 21, will pre-
sent Doris Marinelli in the role
of Gilda. Mario Palermo will be
heard as the Duke. Other male
leads are Stephan Ballarini and
Arthur Anderson.
"Aida," April 22, will have
Mobley Lushanya , in the title
role, Marie Powers as Amneris,
Tany Mackenzie in the tenor
part of Rhadames, Mostyn Thom-
as as Arnonsaro. and Harold Kra-
vitt in the basso role of Ramfis.
A new Violetta is announced for
Sunday's matinee of "La Travi-
ata" ; Amanda Chirot, who joined
the company in San Francisco a
fortnight ago. The engagement
will close with the double hill
April 23. Audrey Bowman will
have the role of Santuzza in
in "Cavalleria Rusticana". In
"Pagliacci" which follows, Mary
Henderson will sing the role of
Nedda, and Sydney Rayner the
tenor part of Canio.
Emerson Buckley, the company's
new musical director, will con-
duct the five performances.
Summer Term of Beth
Yehudah Yeshivah Open3
On Sunday, April 16
Dr. Samson R. Weiss, dean
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, an-
nounces the opening of the sum-
mer term on Sunday, April 16.
New classes are being formed for
beginners and advanced students.
Classes meet for two, three and
four hours daily.
The preparatory department of
the Yeshivah maintains branches
in Congregation Beth Tefilo
Emanuel on Taylor and Wood-
row Wilson and in the Hampton
Public School at 18460 Warring-
ton Drive. Enrollments for the
Yeshivah and the branches will
be accepted during the Passover
week. Bus service for students
living at a distance from the
Yeshivah is being provided. Pu-
pils coming directly from the
public schools to the Yeshivah
receive lunch before the start of
the class period. For information
call the Yeshivah oflice, Hogarth
7990.
On the last day of Passover,
at the Yiskor services, appeals for
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will be
made in the Detroit synagogues,
in accordance with an old "Ta-
kana" of the Detroit Council of
Orthodox Rabbis. Detroit Jewry
is expected to respond generously
to the appeals from which the
Yeshivath derives a great part
of the funds necessary for the
maintenance of the institution.
widely known throughout Europe.
The "Emperor" Concerto, in
which Casadesus will be heard,
is regarded as one of the most
technically exacting solo parts in
symphonic music. The work af-
fords brilliant display, both for
the pianist and the full orchestra.
The Egmont Overture was in-
spired by the Goethe drama, Eg-
mont, a play dealing with the
political and religious struggles
of the Spanish and Dutch for
sovereignty in Holland.
Charles F. Kettering, vice
president of General Motors and
directing head of its Research
Laboratories, will speak (luring
the intermission period.
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