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Friday, December 20, 1946
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Munich's Jews Labor
to Rebuild--for Zion
Page Eleven
Supplies Rushed to Polish Jews
Organize Lives Anew With Thought
of Eventually Leaving Germany
By HAL LEHRMAN
M
UNICH—The best of surgeons
can cut and stitch till he is
silver-haired and thumbtied, with-
out being able to claim that he
has saved 1,000 lives. Dr. Wolf
Peisachowitch, late of Dachau, is
only 38, but he can already claim
several times that number. His
record was not made on the oper-
ating table. It was made on the
line forming outside the Nazi gas
chambers.
Dr. Peisachowitch had privi-
leges. He had been the chief physi-
cian at the Schavel Ghetto in
Lithuania. At Dachau, the jailers
found him expert enough, though
a Jew, to trust their families to
him for medical attention. He
treated the Nazis so well they
were afraid to lose him or even
annoy him.
The only fee he took was the
right to examine all Jews who
had been selected for extermina-
tion because they were too ill or
weak to work.
During five years of internment,
he scratched thousands of names
off the waiting list for death. He
sent the condemned to bed, wan-
gled food and drugs for them, and
made them strong enough to tot-
ter back to their labor and a re-
prieve from destruction.
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REMAINS IN GERMANY
WOLF PEISACHOWITCH is
still in Germany, but he no longer
has to buy Jewish lives with Nazis
lives. He is doing a full-time Jew-
ish job now. He is director of
Munich's Jewish Hospital. He runs
a clinic, a nursing school and a
medical seminar. Most important
of all, he is also a symbol—of the
vitality which in this despited land
has made the Jews of Munich one
of the most dynamic communities
in Europe.
There are about 8,000 Jews in
this city of National Socialism's
birth. This does not include the
many thousands more who live in
displaced persons' camps in the
Munich area. The 8,000 in what Is
known as the Jewish Community
are those who set up "homes" of
their own, some kind of makeshift
dwelling, temporary and pathe-
tically inadequate, because the DP
shelters reminded them of the con-
centration camps, and they could
not endure another day of that,
not even of the memory.
Munich from Internment as soon
as they could after liberation.
The rest chose Munich later.
Those had survived the ghettos
of central and eastern Europe
or returned to them from exiI9
in search of surviving relatives.
They finally came here because
Munich, from all reports drifting
back to the lands of fresh pogroms
and nee-anti-Semitism, seemed the
best transit point for America or
Palestine and a new beginning.
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2801 BRUSH ST.
CL 2932
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Until recently the Jews had no
hospital of their own. One day
they rebelled at having to lie in
a displaced persons' hospital In
beds next to Poles and Hungarians
whose very languages were re-
miniscent of new massacres. So
they established a separate hos-
pital, and inaugurated another
school where 30 selected Jewish
women are training to become its
nurses.
Nothing In all this activity Is in-
tended to give an ounce of com-
fort to the Germans one minute
after the Jews leave. Character-
istically, the 50 membOrs of Mu-
nich's newly-formed Union of Jew-
ish Engineers took a solemn' oath
to produce nothing which might
contribute in the smallest degree
to restoration of German economy.
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ENERGY MIRACULOUS
THE JEWS OF MUNICH have
a double creed during this period
of German limbo: to make maxi-
mum preparation for their emigra-
tion and to make the hated Ger-
mans help them do it.
Even under normal circum-
stances, the energy of the Jews of
Munich would be singular. When
the sufferings they have endured
—and the frustrations they are en-
during—are taken into account,
the energy begins to verge on the
miraculous. So do its results.
In nearby Berchtesgarden, for
example, actually within sight of
the proud crag where Adolf Hitler
once looked out from an "Eagle's
Nest upon his "Judenrein" world,
Munich's Jews have taken over a
swank hotel and converted it Into
a sanitorium for the sick and the
weary. The main synagogue in
bomb-crushed Munich is what
used to be the • ballroom in the
mansion of a local Nazi Party
chieftain.
Around this nucleus, in build-
ings requisitioned through the
American Army, the Jews are
organizing a community center
entirely dedicated to training for
tomorrow. The center already
has a combined grammar and
Workers are shown here unloading one of the largest Joint Dis-
tribution Committee supply shipments in the agency's 31-year rec-
ord of providing relief for distresed Jews abroad. The scene is
ord of providing relief for distressed Jews abroad. The scene is
Ing supplies of food, clothing and hospital equipment to Polish
Jews are loaded aboard trucks from the train. The supplies were
purchased with money contributed to the UJA in the U. S.
high school with more than 100
Jewish children enrolled.
Two hundred adults attend
Fachschule where they take in-
tensive courses in auto and electro-
mechanics, radio, carpentry, ma-
sonry, anything that will contrib-
ute to a new life overseas. The
students use German classrooms
and equipment.
The Joint Distribution Commit-
tee provides the food and clothing.
ORT supplies the tools and equip-
ment.
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