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VOL. 48, NO. 16
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946
SECTION TWO
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HE LITTLE MAN FROM DACHAU-- By AL SEGAL
Yes, this was a man from Da- dren up to 13. . . "The children corpses but all the despairing men
chau. He had been there and had are thrown into trucks, some of who still lived. He said he knew
lived all the deaths he had seen; them wounded and dying. .. We that some of us were non Zionists
banquet hall of our best hotel, cil of the Liberated Jews of Ger- at Dachau and on the long way to try to hide our children in bar- or anti-Zionists and he wasn't
Dachau. . . "Turn back and travel rels, in garrets, in cellars, among asking anyone to change his mind
that the man from Dachau came many.
s tel i on tgh eur s o only
fn h ew h.‘al itb ehre.
into most of our consciences.
He arose and we saw a slender, with me along the road to torture the bed clothes. Some parents poi-
son their children and commit and was the
The dinner had been a gay af- smallish man, about 35. We no- over which I passed," he said.
fair, the windup of the conven- ticed he didn't smile at all, as
He was residing in Kovno, Lith- suicide. . . On March 29 the ghet- ated" desire. . . "We wish to go
speakers always do upon being uania, when shortly after June to is kinderrein; we have no more to Palestine. We want to leave the
tion of the Un ,
presented; he had none of the 21, 1941, the Nazis came in on children. Some, a pitiful few, have soil of Europe forever. Every day
ion of Ameri-
spent on the soil of Europe is a
wisecracks by which speakers try their invasion of Russia. . . The been hidden.
can Hebrew
Finally, the day when the rem- day spent with our past. . . We
to break the ice.
devil celebrates his triumph. In-
gr ega •
C o
"I come to you from a people fants are shot, ears, noses and nant of the ghetto is shipped off believe we have learned what is
tions (Reform)
who have died and who haw. fingers are sliced off. . . The lit- to Dachau. . . "They order all our best for us."
and there was
come alive and who today do not tle houses in the suburbs of Kov- women and remaining children
He looked at us over the micro-
a lot of con-
know whether they are living or no run with blood. Groups of separated from us. The women phone. Yes, he said, we might not
gratulatory feel-
s
weep.
.
.
My
wife
weeps
and
re-
dead," ho began. "We are a small men are machine-gunned... Many
all agree with him about Pales-
ing because
proaches me for not taking her tine, but, please, we shouldn't set
remnant of the 6 millions who thousands are dead."
peace had been
advice
to
commit
suicide.
.
.
At
were murdered. There are but
any obstacles on the hopeful way.
made in the
This was the first of the mas-
100,000 of us in Germany. A chain sacres of Jews in Kovno. Those last,we arrive and are ordered to Please! Please! . . "All that wo
Segal
Union.
get
out.
.
.
We
are
to
live
in
little
Many of the ladies had put on of miracles saved us. For us, des- who were left said it must be
ask is that you should do nothing
their best dinner gowns after tiny knew no logic.
that the worst was over. What tents. . . We are clothed in striped to make our task more difficult."
"In reality we belong in the could be worse? But on August suits and heavy clogs. We cease
much troubled consolation as to
The man from Dachau had a
just which dress to wear on an mass graves of those who were 18, 500 Jewish intellectuals of being humans. We give up think- train to catch for New York and
shot in Kharkov, Lublin and Kov- Kovno are marched away to work ing. We are mere animals."
occasion so gorgeous.
hurried away from the banque'
Then, in May, the U. S. Army board, leaving all this with our
Then the dessert and the inevi- no. We belong with the millions in the town, but they don't return.
table tinkle of spoons against cof- who were gassed and burned in After days, the Jewish leader of comes rolling into Germany and consciences. They were heavy on
fee cups which told us that the Auschwitz and Birwenau. . . Yet, Kovno, Dr. Elkes, ventures to ask to Dachau and liberation. Libera- my conscience. I
had been one
toastmaster desired our attention. perhaps, after all, there is logic the local fuehrer about them. He tion, indeed! . . "Liberation was of the opposition to the Palestine
the greatest disillusionment of state idea and I still felt in oppo-
He said the usual felicitous things in our survival. For it is we who replies:
of toastmasters and finally got remain as witnesses to tell man-
"I can inform you that these all," the man from Dachau was sition but I didn't have to make
around to introducing the man kind, to proclaim to the world people do not exist any more. saying. "It is better today in Ger- a fight about it, to stand in the
who turned out to be from Da- how cruel were our oppressors. When the German troops moved many to be a conquered German way of these homeless people
And it is we who remain, not into Kovno they found 50 sacks than a liberated Jew. There is no striving toward a safe place. The
chau.
All that most of us knew about merely as ghosts of a haunted of watered sugar. We were told firm ground under our feet, no little man from Dachau certainly
him was the program suggested. and cruel past, but as pioneers to it was done by Jews and we decid- permanent roof over our heads... had a right to command me to
His name was Zalman Grinberg rebuild Jewish life on a firm ed to shoot ten Jews for every We can not think of tomorrow. get out of the way and keep still.
and we could guess he was some- foundation."
sack of watered sugar. Well, ten We think only of yesterday. We
(I was happy to learn after-
intellectuals equal one sack of live still with our dead:"
ward that ultimately Dr. Grin-
The
man
from
Dachau
seemed
sugar."
berg was reunited with his wife
Then the people felt this must to come tramping into our con- and also with his little child, and
sciences,
bringing
in
not
just
these
be the worst; but there were still
that's another story.)
the 10,800 of them to be butchered
in a block at one of the forts
"During the war years, Jewish
around Kovno; there still was to
turners in the United States like all Jewish male farmers in the come the dreadful day (March 27,
an American farmers toiled and 18-44 age group were in service 1944) when the SS rolled through
sweated to do their bit. In short, compared with 6.2 percent for the Kovno ghetto demanding that
MOSCOW (JTA)—The surviving
they gave their full measure of male farmers in the country as a parents turn over to them all chil- Jews of Rostov will eat matzohs
work and devotion to the nation's whole."
this Passover, for the first time in
cause." So says the forty-sixth
five years. Machinery for baking
ahnual report of The Jewish Ag-
the unleavened bread, which was
riultural Society just issued by
hidden at the approach of the
Dr. Gabriel Davidson, its execu-
Nazis, has been unearthed and is
once more in use.
tive head. The report tells of the
activities carried on by the So-
The synagogue at Rostov, which
ciety to expand and strengthen
was desecrated and partly de-
the American Jewish farm class.
stroyed by the Nazis has been re-
It also deals with the Society's
stored and is in full use again. A
work to help establish in farming
new wing has been added to the
those veterans, displaced workers,
two-story stone building and the
white collar men and others who
interior has been enlarged to ac-
see in farming a means of liveli-
commodate one thousand worship-
hood.
pers.
The report points out that in the
Two thousand prayer books and
last ten years, over 10,000 people
a number of torahs have been col-
sought the Society's advice and
lected and contributed to the syn-
that the Society was responsible
agogue. A large part of the books
for the establishment of farms of
were saved by workers at the
almost 1,000 Jewish families di-
local museum, who, at the risk of
rectly, many more indirectly. Last
their lives, hid them in cellars
year the Society dealt with 569
and garrets throughout the Ger-
farm seekers — of whoin 145
man occupation of the city.
were veterans. Concerning the vet-
When the Jewish refugees from
erans, Dr. Davidson has this to
the city returned, a small congre-
say: "The Society will naturally
gation began meeting at the home
put its service at their call to
of Wolf Lipkowitz, chairman of
make as certain as is possible
the Jewish community. After a
that farm minded veterans get an
while the group grew too large
honest view of opportunities in
for Lipirowitz' home and they
farming, an unvarnished picture
rented a private hall in which they
of farm life and that those who
held services. With the aid of
decide to make the plunge get
the Council on Religious Affairs
guidance to do so under the best
of the Regional Soviet and indi-
possible conditions."
vidual Jews of the community,
Since Its founding, The Jewish
the congregation collected funds
Agricultural Society has granted
and rebuilt their house of worship.
14,629 loans aggregating over $10,-
000,000 to Jewish farmers in forty
In addition to the synagogue's
states. During 1945 its loan grants
restoration, the congregation has
aggregated $188,231 to farmers in
also rehabilitated the local Jew-
eleven states. This financial serv-
ish cemetery, which the Nazis had
ice provides the Jewish farmer
desecrated, and a new burial so-
with a source of credit not readily
ciety has been organized. Funds
obtainable elsewhere. To quote the
are also being collected to erect a
report again, ". . . the Society's
monument in memory of the
loaning record is a demonstration
martyred Jews of the city.
that a loan based on character,
accompanied by guidance as to
Its use, friendly follow-up, forbear-
ance in time of stress, may be no
less safe than one in which the
security is prime and the other
'actors absent."
Dental care for 1,300,000 dis-
The Society's Farm Employment
placed persons in camps in Ger-
d N.1.0 epartment, the oldest specialized
many, Austria and the Middle
farm employment agency in the
East is now available, according
country, affords young Jews the
opportunity of acquiring agricul-
to a statement issued in Vienna
by Lt. Col. George A. Nevitt, chief
tural training by actual work on
right,
this
orphan
was
a
slave
of
Hitler
in
dental consultant at United Na-
farms. Since its establishment it
The historic $100,000,000 campaign conducted by them);
Germany,
but
Passover
finds
her
free.
CENTER,
left,
has secured farm employment for
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
once-doomed
children
of
Israel
study
to
become
fu-
19,952 young men. Some of these
Administration's London Head-
Needs and Palestine gives new meaning to the story
ture
leaders
in
the
Land
of
Promise,
whither
they
were
workers have developed into suc-
of deliverance on this memorable Passover, first
quarters. This treatment consists
brought
by
UPA;
right,
new
settlers
in
Palestine
recite
cessful farm operators.
of extraction, fillings, treatment of
Pesach since the redemption of 1,400,000 European
traditional
prayers
in
the
fields
and
give
thanks
for
The report brings out an inter-
diseases of the mouth and re-
Jews from the Nazi bondage which doomed 6,000,000
their
deliverance.
BELOW,
left,
a
5-year-old
French
esting fact concerning Jewish
placement of missing teeth.
others. These pictures form ■ chapter in the modern
orphan
telephones
relatives
in
New
York
where
they
the
services
during
farm men in
illaggadah of Israel, whose suffering and pain are
Colonel Nevitt expressed sur-
were
reunited
by
NRS;
right,
Oswego
refugees
are
with
the
the war. "In'collaboration
being alleviated by American Jewry through the three
prise at finding a better average
sworn
in
by
U.
S.
consul
in
Canada
before
receiving
Bureau of War Records of the
agencies that constitute the UJA—Joint Distribution
dental condition among victims
National Jewish Welfare' Board, a
Committee, United Palestine Appeal and National visas admitting them here permanently after years
of concentration camps and for-
of
flight
and
the
wilderness
of
internment)
JDC,
Ul'A
'spot check' study was made in
Refugee Service. TOP, left, a toast to freedom by an
mer slave labor, than among the
and
MIS
are
supported
by
the
record
$100,000.000
sections of Connecticut, Michigan
aged inmate of a JDC Paris home is joined in by
general German population. He
United
Jewish
Appeal,
through
which
American
Jews
and New Jersey containing typical
Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of UJA National
attributes this to the absence of
Jewish farm settlements. The re-
Women's Division, and JDC aide in France Oast let- solemnly rededicate themselves this Pauoser to the
sugar in the diet.
turns Indicate that 7.5 percent of
ters of Am Y Wool Chai are inscribed on wall behind task of [reeks dm remnants of their /brethren.
body from Europe. The toastmas-
T WAS IN THE Hall of Mir- ter said he was a physician, s
rors, which is the glittering Lithuanian, chairman of the Coun-
Jewish Farmers in U. S. Making
Progress; Veterans Return to Land
-
Russian City Helps Jews Rebuild
Synagogue in Time for Passover
Passover 5706 — U. J. A. Redeems Them
Get Dental Care
From UNRRA