Friday, September 15, 1944
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
:- REVIEW OF THE YEAR -:-
A Glance Back at Some Headline Events
of the Jewish Year 5704
Israel is like a mother who has
received from the War Depart-
ment a dispatch that her son
is missing in action. She hopes
By MARTIN SILVER
that this does not mean death.
She hopes that somehow he is
The world's eyes the past year high officers was also very signifi- alive and that one day he will
oncentrated
on
the
battle-
cant, and it was particularly come rapping at her door.
were c
fields. It was there we knew the gratifying that the commander
remains of whatever civilization of the White Russian Army, first
w e had left would have to be to reach the German border, was
sa ved. It was there that any a young Jewish military genius
hopes that Jewry had must be of 36, General Chernikhovsky.
The rapid advance of the Rus-
re ali z e d. Hitler's annihilating
hand could only be stopped, in sian armies, however, brought
the last analysis, by choking the gloom also as the liberating
armies entering old Jewish cen-
life out of his armies.
The two main events of the ters of populations, discovered
year were the relentless Russian that Hitler had made good on his
drive in the east, ousting the threats to annihilate the Jews.
Germans from the last vestige of In Odesso, Vilna, Minsk, Pinsk,
Russian soil, pushing them back Lublin, cities which had boasted
in Romania, Lithuania, and Po- large Jewish populations and
land and approaching to the very which historically had been great
gates of Germany, and the Anglo- centers of Jewish culture, scarce-
American landing in Normandy. ly a Jew was to be found alive.
D-Day, which marked the inaug- Some, to be sure, had fled to
uration of this second front, was join the partisan forces fighting
heralded by Jews throughout the roundabout. Others had escaped
world. In Jerusalem, Jews gath- in time to the interior of Russia,
ered at the Wailing Wall. In but there was scarcely room for
Brooklyn, elderly pious Jews doubt that the greater portion
marched in their praying shawls had been exterminated by the
and recited psalms to mark it. Nazis.
This extermination had been of
It came with particular satis-
faction to Jews to learn that the a manifold nature. Doubtless
first assault line of boats on many had died of starvation,
D-Day was led by a Brooklyn others had been worked to death
Jewish boy, Lt. Abraham Condi- by the Nazis, but the greater
otti, and that a Brooklyn Jew- portion had been deliberately put
ish boy, Sargent Halperin, was to death in "death factories" es-
the first to actually set foot on tablished by the Nazis. A Chris-
tian organization with headquar-
French soil.
Jews took great satisfaction, ters in Switzerland, the Interna-
too, in learning of the important tional Church Ecumenical Refu-
part Russian Jews were playing gee Commission, revealed that
in the Russian offensive. The list their reports showed that in two
of decorations for valor con- camps close to two million Jews
ferred on Russian Jews ran into had been put to death in "gas
the tens of thousands during the chambers."
Hope still refuses to down.
year. The number of Jewisl
In ellemory of
Henry Holinstat
who passed away Dec. 1, 1939
Blessed be the memory of one whom we
loved dearly.
How many Jews have survived
in Germany, Austria, Holland,
Czechoslovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Den-
mark, France, Poland?
In Germany, we may take it
for granted, that except for such
Jews from European countries
who may have been imported for
slave labor, there are virtually
no Jews.
In Austria, the Gestapo itself
released figures showing that
only approximately 1,500 Jews
are still to be found in Vienna
and that in other parts of Aus-
tria there are only between five
and seven thousand Jews. It
may be that this figure is rela-
tively accurate.
In Czechoslovakia, what ev e r
Jews may be left will probably
be found in the Therezin fort- mal offer to Hitler to take this
ress or concentration camp.
In Jugoslavia, thanks to the
General Tito, there may be more
Jewish survivors. One report had
it that no less than 30,000 Jews
were fighting under the banner
of the Partisan leader, General
Tito.
In France, too, there may be
hope that the underground has
helped many Jews to escape. Yet
we cannot be too sure that their
number is large.
In Denmark, many Jews es•
caped to Sweden. Swedish fish-
ermen, following the beginning
of Nazi raids, launched a reg-
ular ferry service carrying escap-
ing Jews. It was significant that
in the case of Danish Jews, the
Swedish government made a for-
Mrs. Henry Holinstat and Family
provide them asylum, but the
Nazis rejected the offer as im-
pudent. They were not only
seeking to get rid of the Jews
but wanted the satisfaction of
murdering them.
Happier news (luring the year
came from Italy. At first the
surrender of Italy led to an in-
tensification of drives against the
Jews, particularly in northern
Italy. But after the Allies had
driven them out of Rome and its
environs, the plight of such Jews
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