7, 1945 courses sto Is ,Ind col. themselves ..tion. They ,elves with by e the qtics ' New Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle VOL. 47, NO. 36 Bldg. B o nds S 10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year OUR HOPE FOR TOMORROW By DR. JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ lbot SECTION TWO DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945 EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European Director of the Joint Distribution Committee, accompanied Earl G. Harrison, American Representative on the Intergovern- mental Committee on Refugees, on a special mission in Europe for President Truman to study the conditions of displaced persons still in Germany, including Jews. To the Jews of Europe the year 5705 brought the priceless gift of liberation from the ever-present terror and death at the hands of the Nazis. This new year must, however, bring something equally important — liberation in the fuller sense of the world. The Jews of Europe must have the opportunity to take up normal lives again — to build homes in Europe or abroad, to earn their bread and be assured of a future. Above all, that future must be assured for the 150,000 or more Jewish children 01. Europe. In them rests the destiny of our people. J. D. C. CARES FOR JEWISH CHILDREN IN EUROPE spoke slowly in stilted English— "My name is Suzanne Gold berger. My parents were taken to prison in Piacenza 18 months ago and I have not heard from them since. My little sister and I," her eyes softened as she looked at the lovely little child who was tug- ging at her hand -- "My sister and I need our parents. People said the 'Joint' could help us." Finding English difficult, she broke into French and continued her story. Suzanne's family had fled from France to Italy when the Germans came. Their father was a skilled watchmaker, so it was not difficult for him to earn a living in the small Italian vil- lage. "One day," Suzanne said in a low voice, "Mrs. Rossei, our neighbor, met me and my sister as we were coming from school and told us to run to a little farm on the outskirts of town and stay until she told us to come home. She was very upset." Two days later Suzanne found out the rea- son. In a sudden raid in the town, all the Jews had been shipped off to Piacenza. Suzanne and her little sister then tried to reach southern Italy where they had an uncle. Walking at night, begging for food, hiding every time any- one in uniform approached, they reached their destination only to find that the uncle had disappear- ed. Undaunted, Suzanne found work as a dishwasher, and was able to support herself and her little sister. She was a child with the poise and responsibilities of an adult. The J.D.C. fortunately wag able to retinire Suzanne with her parents — they had escaped to Switzerland. I'll speak of just one more child — little Bettina, beautiful and blonde. When I admired her long golden curls, she whispered that they were really very dark. "Mama fixes my curls every week," she said, and the Nazis who sometimes came into the lit- tle Dutch streets where the Van Netts lived, believed that Bettina was Frau Van Nett's daughter. At first Bettina couldn't un- derstand why she had to call her mother's dressmaker and friend "mother." But she is an obedient child and, since the memory of a five-year-old is short, she has nearly forgotten the dark-haired woman who cried so sadly when she kissed her and said "Be a good girl. I will come back for you some (lay." The J.D.C. has Jewish children like these who look so helplessly from their army transport truck are being brought out of the Nazi concentration camp; where they had existed prior to their liberation to havens of safety in France, Belgium and other coun. tries. The Joint Distribution Com. ntittee gives them emergency relief —nourishing food, warm clothing, medical attention—and then cares for them until their parents can be located or permanent living arrangements made. Nearly half the J. D. C. appropriations this year have been used for emergency work for children. Over 24,000 children who are orphans, or have yet to be reunited with thrir receiving J. C. aid in France, Belgium and Holland. parents, are On my brief furlough to the United States to report on the condition of Europe's Jews and the work of the Joint Distribu- tion Committee, I found that the interest of American Jews is fo- cused on the problems of Eu- rope's Jewish children. Over and over I was asked — what is being done for them? Let me say in brief that the J.D.C. considers the problem of saving the chil- dren so important that nearly half its 1945 appropriations are being used to give direct aid to 0- dldren. Cites Examples Before I go into the story of what is being done, let me tell you about a few of the children I saw in Europe—Suzanne Gold- berger, for example. I saw her in Rome, a thin, tired-looking 15- year-old who stood quietly in line at our Office of Personal Inquiry and Tracing, although her little sister was impatient and bored. When it came her turn, Suzanne I think that you would also he , interested in knowing David, one I of the few boys to escape a Ger- man concentration camp and tell the story. David's parents were Belgian Jews. When the Nazis took over, the whole family ex- cept the mother, who was in Swe- den, was loaded into a sealed car and taken to the Westerborck concentration camp. Here the 11- year-old child was forced to do the work of an adult. In Westerborck, David saw his father beaten for a minor infrac- tion of the rules. His little bro- ther died of starvation and the lung disease he developed in camp, and his older brother was executed for trying to get extra food for the baby brother. When his father died, David determined to escape. He never told us exactly how he did it, but once out, David eventually reached the nearest J.D.C. station. We found that Da- vid had incipient tuberculosis, and pending the location of his mo- ther, placed him in a sanitarium in Switzerland. since arranged for Bettina to live in a Jewish home again. Lost Parents Today the problems of these little ones have a first call on the attention Of those who seek to aid them and on the generosity and sympathy of the American Jewish community. The children must be helped to rejoin parents or relatives or find safe homes. Those still in the newly liberated concentration camps must be helped to leave them, even before the adults. 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