Page Four 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 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 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 Dealers Wholesale Supply 12871 EATON AVE. HOGARTH 1340 GREETINGS • KEN-WOOD MARKET 9338 Woodward SAM BLENDER Rosh Hashonah Greetings A Speedy Victory and Everlasting Peace MIRRORS Are the New Year's Wishes any size fireplace mirror made to order. Old [mirrors resilvered like new. 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