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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, April 12, 1946
Jewish Youth Faces
T
oward
Palestine
By MRS. S. KAMARSKY
National Chairman, Youth
Aliyah Comm. of Hadassah
taneous banding together of the
Jewish children to prepare them-
selves for the new life. Harry
Lerner, UNRRA director of the
What has happened to the DP camp in Munich, told mem-
Jewish children of Europe since bers of the Anglo-American Com-
V-E Day? How are they faring mittee who visited the camp in
physically, morally, economically? February that it is virtually im-
Do they want to go to Palestine possible to organize camp life
like their elders? How• do they along any other than Zionist
adjust once they get there?
lines. "We tried to organize a
These questions conic regularly boys' club," he said, "with de-
from Jews in the United States bating, classes, dances, but by
to Hadassah's national office in the time the third meeting was
New York, indicating a burning held it was a Zionist rally." In
concern about the welfare of answer to a question by one of
what remains of the once great the members, he said that there
Jewish community and especially were no outside elements influenc-
about its shattered and tormented ing the DPs to think along Zion-
children,
ist lines. "If we wanted to give
The answers are meaningful. an agricultural program," Mr.
First there is the question of Lerner said, "it turned out to be
Hachsharah (preparation) centers a couple of farmers talking about
which were originally set up in Palestine. If they sang songs,
Germany in 1933 to "process" they turned out to be Palestine
Jewish youth for their life in songs. If they spoke about trees,
Palestine, and which were forced it was about planting trees in
to suspend operations during the Palestine." Yes, these young DP
war years. We know now that inmates have been briefed, not
these centers have sprung up only by their Zionist elders, but
anew, either spontaneously, in the inadvertently by their Nazi task-
Displaced Persons camps, or de- masters from whom they have
liberately, among various Zionist learned that only in Palestine will
groups. Whether this is the result they find inner security and free-
of a natural upsurge or not, ac- dom to lead a constructive life.
credited observers say that Hach-
During the past four months
sharah has returned to stay, be- nearly 1,300 children have been
cause Jewish youth demands that rescued from the European mo
it be "briefed" for the part it rass and transferred to Palestine.
can and wishes to play in the After almost seven years of sus-
upbuilding of the Jewish National pended operations, Youth Aliyah
Home.
offices have been opened in Brus-
One . of the most significant sels, Athens, Stockholm, Prague,
sights to be seen in the Displaced Amsterdam, Geneva, Paris, Rome,
Persons camps today is the spon- Istanbul and London. Youth Ali-
yah workers are laboring over-
time winnowing out frantic ap-
peals from parents whose only
desire is to send their children to
Eretz Israel. These parents are
fully aware of the long hours of
loneliness that are in store for
them when thousands of miles of
land and water separate them
from their offspring. But they ac-
cept it joyfully. For they are sus-
tained by the knowledge that, like
Lazarus, their children have risen
from the dead, not to haunt the
living, but to take their places
among them, to work and build
in freedom.
When the Youth Aliyah (immi-
gration) movement was organized
in Germany in 1933 as German
Jewry's defiant response to Hitler
and his declared policy of mass
extermination of the Jewish peo-
ple, IIachsharah centers were part
of the focal point of the plan to
remove thousands of children
from the hotbed of anti-semitism
in Europe to the safety and se-
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trainees to reach Palestine ar-
rived at Ain Harod, a large co-
operative settlement, in February,
1934. There, the young pioneers
eagerly began a daily routine
which correlated four hours of
physical work with four hours of
classroom study. During the first
six months, they were allowed to
work in all branches of agricul-
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curity of a land that wanted
them, Palestine. At the outset,
only youths between the ages of
15 and 17 were admitted and un-
derwent a one to six months
course to determine their ability
to adapt themselves to the rigor-
ous pioneering life of the Yishuv.
This age range was not chosen ar-
bitrarily. It was necessary because
Youth Aliyah workers realized
that children in that age group
would be given a priority rating
by the Nazis for residence in con-
centration camps and work in la-
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