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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
11 -E Day in the Valleys
A LETTER FROM PALESTINE
By DOROTHY KAHN BAR-ADON
It was about four o'clock in
the afternoon when the news
came through. The dinner gongs
in tens of settlements in the Jez-
reel, Beth Shan and Jordan Val-
leys dinged out the long-awaited
bring home wine and sweets. The
cooks dashed back to the kitchen
—only a few hours left to con-
coct some added delicacy which
could convert an everyday meal
into a "Victory supper."
Scores of thousands of Jews in Jerusalem packed the streets before the
Head Offices of the Jewish National Fund and the other National Institu-
tions to hear addresses from the Yishuv's leaders on V-E Day.
From the balcony of the Head Office of the Jewish National Fund, Isaac
Ben-Zvi, President of the Vaad Leumi; Daniel Auster, Acting Mayor of
Jerusalem, and other Jewish leaders are seen (above) addresing the great
gathering of Jerusalem Jewry on V-E Day., The Zionist colors were
bordered in black, in mourning for the Jews murdered in Euope.
announcement—Victory in Eur-
ope. Crowds of workers poured
out of the kitchen, ‘the sewing
room, the barn, the fowl-runs.
Those in nearby fields rattled
their wagons home at breakneck
speed. There was all-round hand-
shaking in the courtyard. The
children went wild, shouting, "The
Nazis are finished and the Jewish
Brigade will come home tomor-
row." The dogs leaped joyously
at the children's heels, as though
fully aware that a new day of
peace may have dawned for a
weary world. Then, fatigued
horses—for they are working
overtime during this harvest sea-
son—were hitched to a wagon and
driven to the nearest village to
It would be an exaggeration to
say that these settlements went
wild with joy. Wounds are too
deep, too fresh, and too frightful.
With the exception of a few for-
tunate Americans and English set-
tlers in En Hashofet and Kfar
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Blum, practically every member
of these communal settlements
has close, personal ties with the
ghettos and concentration camps.
As the gong tolled, I saw one
Polish woman burst into tears,
crying out, "Victory? I haven't
a soul left in the world." It was
under the weight of these mem-
ories that many members of the
settlements retired to their rooms
during the Victory celebrations.
The nearest anyone came to
"wild joy" was when they heard
over the radio that Americans in
New York were "tearing tele-
phone books to shreds"—shrugged
their shoulders and commented,
"What an odd people."
However, there was dancing of
the hora and drinking of toasts
in the evening. Settlements such
as Alonim (one of the first set-
tlements of Youth Aliyah train-
ees, founded on Jewish National
Fund land) which has 40 members
in the Jewish Brigade, carried on
until dawn. In older settlements,
such as Merhavia, it was the
youth who took the lead. Here
there are youth from Yugoslavia
whose parents may be living and
who are now anticipating re-
unions. There are also youth from
Poland and Roumania who have
lost their entire families. For
them, this day meant the realiza-
tion of their long and bitter
dream of revenge.
It also meant a stock-taking. A
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year ago they had been war
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becoming farmers and they have
taken root in a patch of land
which they term, "Selanu" (Ours).
In the settlement school of Beth
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(Tirat Zvi and Sde Elivahu)—
in Sarid—in every settlement of
the valleys, there were hundreds
of youths from tens of countries
who danced the hora on Victory
Day, aware that despite all that
the war had robbed them of—it
had given them the precious word,
"shelanu,"—soil, home, future,
for themselves and their people.
There was a touching scene in
Dagania B when French refu-
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only a few months, told in broken
Hebrew what this day meant to
them. All their sufferings and
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