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Friday Ap ril 19, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Ben Hecht and Congressman Will
Rogers Lead in Underground Exodus
REPORT FROM
GERMANY
Orthodox Jesus
Will Celebrate
18th Anniversar y
Playwright Ben Hecht and for- over, we will be glad to let them.
mer Congressman Will Roger;, If not, we will finish' the job our-
Jr., are constituting themselves a selves. We know that it can be
NEW YORK -- Twelve hundred
channel through which Americar done as quickly as we are enabled
orthodox synagogues th:oughnoi
By IRVING HAVETT
funds will reach the underground to do it."
America will celebrate t:te 48th
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
railway in Europe now moving
Giving these people "a loaf ol
Anniversary of the fouLling of
.
Hebrexvs to Palestine. The twc bread or a pair of shoes," Mr
(Copyright 1946, All Rights Reserved)
the Union of Orthodox Jewish
men, Co-Chairmen of the Ameri- Hecht pointed out, will not solve Congregations of Amen d at
This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
can League for a Free- Palestine, their problem. Eleven hundred of
dinner scheduled for Sunday,
Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.
tread a special Repatriation Fund them now in an Italian port have April 28, at the Hotel
Astor in
launched by the Le. ,tin April 15. refused to eat rather than be New
C i ty.
"Mr. Rogers and I will guaran- thwarted in their efforts to reach
Synagogues
York
o the East, n Sea-
tee to contributors that all monies Palestine. Charity that seeks tc
board are sending delegati o n s to
in the Fund will be forwarded keep them alive without altering
the dinner, while those communi.
"a his is the statement of a wit- afraid of being persecuted and
intact to Europe for use by rep their condition is prolonging a
ness as taken by the investiga- murdered by one of PEIPER's resentatives of the Hebrew Com- desperate situation and leaves still ties which are located to fat
tors of the War Crimes Commis followers, if I say anything mittee of National Liberation. in existence a vulnerable spot from New York have manifested
their interest and support of the
sion in Germany:
against Standartenfuehrer PEI- They will be used specifically for through which enemies of peace Union's program by
sending in
can
attack,
just
as
Hitler
did
and
setting
up
embarkation
points,
greetings for the Yearbook, which
I was asked today if I re- PER.
chartering or buying ships, and as others are trying to do.
is
published
in
conjunction
with
called any further details con-
Ever since my last statement I transporting men, women and
The creation of the special Re- the innpern
ri .
cerning the murder of the Amer- have been afraid that one day children to Palestine," Mr. Hecht patriation Fund is the result of
The
cipal speaker at the
lean PW and concerning any when I am free again I will get stated. Costs of raising and ad- resolution adopted by an emer-
dinner will be former State Su-
other shootings and I was re• a dagger in my back because in ministering the Fund will be de- gency conference of 200 political
frayed out of the general funds of and economic experts, including preme Court Justice Philip J. *-
quested to write down everything conformity with the truth, I told
members of both Houses of Con-
the American League, he said.
else that occurred to me.
that I received the order from
Representatives of the Hebrew cress, who met in New York at Cook.
I therefore report the follow- Standartenfuehrer PEIPER a n d Committee of National Liberation the call of the American League.
Sturmbannfuehrer SICK EL to in Europe report that the under- The Conference, under the Chair-
ing conforming to the truth:
ground railway is still in func- manship of former Senator Gay
1. On the way to the scene of shoot the exhausted frozen Amer.
tioning condition. Additional re- M. Gillette, included Senator War-
the shooting I took the American 'can prisoner of war. In order to
cruits from the Hebrew resistance ren G. Magnuson, Representatives
Hashofar Society for the Ad•
PW's steel helmet off because the be perfectly frank according to movement in Palestine have streng- Dean M. Gillespie, Augustus W.
prisoner was so weak that we al- my own conscience, I acted upon thened the machinery which, in Bennet, Homer D. Angell, Bernard vancement of Jewish Music, will
present Prof. A. W. Binder, well-
most had to carry him. I used the order of PEIPER because he 1937-40, moved to Palestine under W. Kearney, and Gordon L. Mc-
Donough, Professors Edward Me- known Jewish composer, on Wed
this American steel helmet a few was the highest ranking officer the noses of the Gestapo more
Laughlin and Fowler Harper, au- nesday evening, April 24, in th‘ ■
in the place and he conducted than 40,000 people. These repro-
days for washing.
thors Louis Bromfield and Konrad auditorium of the Jewish Com-
the interrogation and the order "entatives have reported that un-
munity Center. Prof. Binder will
2. I believe that the American
der conditions prevailing in Eu- Bercovici, Mayor James T. Kirk
clearly ensued with his under-
speak on the subject, "What is
understood a little German. Wher.
rope today the average cost of of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Judges
Jewish Music." Rabbi Leon Frans
standing.
moving a person from an interior William S. Bennet and Oscar W.
I took him to the CP, ne ap-
will introduce the guest speaker
Ehehorn, and others.
point
to
a
port
and
then
to
the
My
fear
of
being
executed
by
peared to be more hopeful than
and will comment on the musi-
Palestine shore is about 250 Am-
one
of
the
followers
of
PEIPER
he did after the interrogation
cal part of the program.
erican dollars.
When I escorted him into the as a traitor is probably inconi-
"Movement has already begun,"
woods, he gave the impression of orehensible to the Americans but Mr. Hecht declared. "The number
being completely broken down I am certain that the same fear of people who can be moved and
It is possible that he already holds many of my comrades back the tempo of their movement will
You are welcome to attend
S. Ralph Lazrus, Treasurer if
depend on the American response
knew, from the interrogation from telling the truth.
the
Benrus
Watch
Company
and
the Yiskor Services at the
to the need.
Standartenfuehrer PEIPER is
which had been conducted ir.
leading figure in New York's civic
"We want to increase the pres-
life, will be the guest speaker nt
English, what awaited him. The a well known and dynamic per-
Downtown Synagogue, 1205
ent trickle to a mass exodus,
prisoner died instantly. I ob- sonality. Ever since he took over Thirty-two hundred years ago Etc a dinner of the Jewelry Group of
Griswold St., on the conclud.
the Allied Jewish Campaign, April
served from the way he collapsed, the regiment, I have known hirr Hebrew people Teft Egypt for Pal-
24, in the Crystal Ballroom of the
i.e., as if struck by lightning and the incredible influence which estine in the first Exodus. The Book-Cadillac Hotel.
ing day of Passover, Tuesday,
modern Moses is hidden some-
that my shots had hit his heart he is able to exercise over men
As
President
of
the
American
April 23, beginning at 9:00
where in the anonymity of the
I then looked at the bullet holes If the situation ever changes in
resistance movement but the sec- Watch Assemblers Association, Mr.
Lazrus is a top leader in the jew-
too, from which it was apparent Germany and t h e occupation ond Exodus has begun.
A. M. and continued until
that two shots went through the ends, PEIPER, who is a mos ,
"Official observers, starting with elry industry and an active parti-
1:00 P. M.
cipant
in
communal
and
Jewish
heart. I could also observe from enthusiastic Nazi and a marked Dean Harrison last August and
affairs. He is National Chairman
ending
with
Judge
Rifkind
last
his lifelessness that the man was type Fuehrer besides, will be one
week, have reported, from first- of the Jewelry Division • of the
dead. As I have recalled since of the greatest personalities of
hand observation, that more than United Jewish Appeal and is an
my last written statement, I did the Fourth Reich. Then all of ninety-eight percent of the mil- officer of the Weizman Institute
fire one more shot into the head those who did not deny all the lion and a half Hebrews surviv- of Science, the . Jewish Statistics!
Bureau and the Jewish Telegraph-
of the dead man from very close accusations, and of course, those ing in Europe want to go to Pal-
SCHAPEN
ic Agency.
range because the directive re- who gave him away, will be estine or death. We mean to get
an /IOU Me the
Invitations to the Jewelry Group
them
to
Palestine.
It
is
not
an
quires that when somebody is "bumped off" by his people.
impossible task. In a few months dinner have been issued by Fred
Grand Opening
I remember, for example, that
shot under orders, another last
after V-E day, official action re- F. Simmons, chairman and Harry
of j
shot is to be fired at close range on the day that it was obvious patriated 7,000,000 displaced Rus. Clark and Harold N. Ehrlich, co-
chairmen.
even when the man who is to be to every SS Man that the war :'fans, Norwegians, Czechs and
New Kosher-Style
shot is dead anyhow. I saw that was finally lost, (it was the day other Europeans to their hor.v.
Delicatessen-Sandwich
countries.
Diplomatic
red
tape
has
I hit the American in the back on which the death of the Fueh•
nrevented application of this offi-
Shop
of the head. Nevertheless, when rer was made known), Haupt- cial action to the Hebrews. W,
On or About
this bullet hit him, he did not sturmfuehrer SCHULZE said to propose to wait no longer. We
W. McNichols, nr. Cherry.
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move any more because he was me and my other comrades, "The are going to start the flow. If the
lawn, opp. Marygrove Ctiller.te
official
machinery
wants
1..)
take
Fuehrer is dead, but we will ral-
al-early dead in any case.
15
West
Lamed
Pick-u
p
ana
De.ivery
Service
ly around our Kommandeur. In
3. To the best of my knowl
Near Woodward
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edge, he was not buried by us the future, we must never go
when I received the order to "dig out of touch with him. We wil'
SS Statement
Hashofar Society
Presents Prof. Binder
AJC Dinner to
Hear S. Lazrus
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him in". I sent a man, whose
name I no longer remember. to
continue the work of the Fuel'.
•or with Standartenfuehrer PET-
the scene of the shooting. This
man then returned and told mr
that he could not bury the corpse'
because the ground was frozen.
4. I also remember that just
PER as our leader, even after the
war is lost."
before the offensive, the fac'
that "this time again, no prison
ers are to be taken" was univer•
sally known in the Stabskompa-
gnie (Hq Col.
I declare, in conformity with
the truth, that I was never pres-
ent when such an order was rear'
to our company.
I declared in my oral interro-
gation that I would say so if any
such formal order had been read
to me, "in spite of my fear." And
I was asked why I should be
afraid to make this declaration if
it were true. I therefore desire to
explain what I meant by that .
Since it was universally known
In the Stabskompagnie (Hq Co
of the 1 SS Pz. Rgt. that nc
prisoners were to be taken in
this offensive, this order (or in
case it was not a formal order,
these instructions for conduct or
directive) undoubtedly came from
the Kommandeur (Standarten-
fuehrer Peiperl. At least it must
certainly have been known to
him that there was general con-
versation in the Stabskompagnie
(Hq Co) of his Regiment about
the fact that no prisoners would
be taken In this offensive.
, I admit openly that I ora l ,
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