Friday, December 15, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Pap 2
The New Maccabean Spirit -
By CARL ABRAMSON
Resistance and Rescue—these
have been the twin aims of the
modern Maccabeans—the Jews in
the underground movements of
Europe, the pioneers and soldiers
of Jewish Palestine. Many acts
of bravery and daring have been
revealed in recent months as the
Allies have broken through the
walls of "Fortress Europe."
Through them all runs the single
thread of a two-fold objective:
Destruction of the enemy and es-
cape and rescue for his victims—
the men, women and children
marked for death by Hitler in an
extermination program whose in-
credible proportions are only now
coming to light.
A Jewish member of the Ma-
quis in France risks his life to
bring a group of women and chil-
dren to a hiding place where they
will be safe from the Gestapo.
Emissaries from Palestine run
the gauntlet of Nazi torture to
organize rescue measures for
Jews in the Balkans threatened
with deportation to mass execu-
tion centers. On every Allied
battlefront, from Leyte to Aach-
en, Jewish soldiers in the Amer-
ican armed forces, many of them
former refugees, spontaneously
offer contributions to the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine.
As liberators, a great many of
our boys have seen at first hand
the destitution and the distress
of the Jews freed from Axis op-
pression, and they know that the
reconstruction of their fellow-
Jews is part of the job of win-
ning the peace.
In sonic cases Jewish soldiers
in the front lines have been the
first to bring aid to liberated ref-
ugees. This was the case in
Southern Italy where Jewish sol-
diers from Palestine, advancing
with the British Eighth Army,
discovered the refugees interned
at Ferramonti. Before the agen-
cies of the United Jewish Appeal
reached the internees, the Pales-
tinian soldiers, aided by the other
Allied soldiers, had sought to help
them through personal measures.
They shared their food and cloth-
ing with the refugees. They set
up classes for the children. They
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ministered to many of the needs ing packages via neutral coun- escape oppression and deporta-
of their fellow-Jews until the Joint tries and international relief tion.
With the aid of the U.P.A.
Distribution Committee assumed agencies. Funds are also being
responsibility for their relief. borrowed in these areas for the 10 new agricultural settlements
Subsequently, 571 of the refu- continuation of relief on the have just been established, bring-
gees were settled in Palestine promise made by the J.D.C. to ing the total number to 300.
with the help of the United Pal- repay such loans after the war. These new settlements will pro-
Large sums have been appropri- vide for demobilized Jewish sol-
estine Appeal.
In observing the Feast of ated for the rescue of Jews who diers as well as for newly ar-
Lights this year, it is this new remain in Nazi-controlled areas. rived refugees. New land areas
The spirit of Jewish rebirth must be acquired with U.P.A.
interpretation of the Maccabean
spirit which has instilled new and revival is eloquently embodied funds so that agricultural devel-
hope in the hearts of all Jews. in the rebuilding of the Jewish opment and settlement may keep
Few holidays in the Jewish cal- homeland in Palestine supported pace with the increasing influx
endar more fittingly symbolize by the United Palestine Appeal. of immigration. At the present
the spirit of liberation and re- The pioneers and builders who time the total land possessions of
newal than the Chanukah festi- now number sonic 600,000 have the Jewish National Fund, which
val. Few more cogently reflect by their sacrifice and toil added together with the Palestine Foun-
the fundamental purposes of the new luster to the Maccabean tra- dation Fund comprises the U.P.A.,
organizations which American dition. With the aid of the amount to approximately 720,000
Jews have established to rehab- U.P.A. they have created the dunams.
Continuing their full-scale war
ilitate and rebuild Jewish life. means not only for their own
As the foremost unified instru- reconstruction, but for the salva- effort on all fronts, the Jews of
ment to finance Jewish rescue tion of hundreds of thousands of Palestine will require the aid of
and reconstruction, the United others yet to come to Palestine. the U.P.A. in furthering the mo-
At present the U.P.A. is pro- bilization of all available man-
Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine to- viding adjustment, relief and inte- power for the newly created Jew-
day stands on the threshold of gration for more than 15,000 ish Brigade and in extending aid
its greatest responsibility, re- homeless Jews who reached the to dependent families of Jewish
flecting the paramount position Jewish homeland during the past soldiers as well as in the rehab-
of American Jews in the tasks year from all corners of Europe. ilitation of returning ex-service-
of solving the most pressing Jew- As part of its rescue program, men.
the Jewish Agency for Palestine
ish postwar problems.
The U.P.A. is also supporting
The liberation of the conquered has sent emissaries into Nazi•oc-
countries and the collapse of the cupied areas to help many Jews See MACCABEAN—Page 15
vassal states of Nazi Germany
have greatly broadened the hori
zon of activity of the constituent
bodies of the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine. They arc
now faced with greater needs
and larger responsibilities than
ever before because barriers to
full rehabilitation aid have been
removed by the Allied armies.
We have only to glance briefly
at a bare outline of the current
activities of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, the United Pal-
estine Appeal and the National
Refugee Service to comprehend
the full significance of the needs
which the United Jewish Appeal
at the present time is attempt-
IN THE SPIRIT
ing to meet.
During the past nine months,
the Joint Distribution Committee
OF THE SEASON
has helped more than 10,000
refugees emigrate from Europe
to Palestine and the Western
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Hemisphere. Included in this
number were 8,000 Jews in the
Balkan danger zones for whose
transportation the J.D.C. appro-
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To meet the greatly enlarged
emergency and other needs of
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the present hour, J.D.C. repre-
sentatives have been stationed in
the leading world capitals in-
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cluding Paris, Rome, London,
Lisbon, Cairo, Istanbul, Teheran
and Bucharest. J.D.C. personnel
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are also attached to the overseas
staff of UNRRA.
Acting promptly to bring aid
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to Jews in liberated territories,
the J.D.C. has allotted an initial
sum of $500,000 for the ship-
ment of food and clothing to
Jewish survivors in liberated Po-
land. It has also appropriated
$1,250,000 for emergency relief
for the destitute 270,000 Jews in
Romania. A special fund has
been appropriated by the J.D.C.
to aid in the maintenance of
8,000 children in France who
were orphaned or separated from
their families during the Nazi
occupation. Rehabilitation meas-
ures are also being taken on
behalf of Jews in liberated Italy
and North Africa, and the sum
of $150,000 has been appropriat-
ed for aid to Jews in Belgium.
In addition, the J.D.C. is con-
tinuing to give aid to refugees
in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland
and Sweden and sending an av-
erage of 10,000 food and cloth-
ing packages monthly to help the
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