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Thursday, September 22, 1919

maybe, but something was show- not only not related to her, but
ing in her face. There were many who seemed much too old and
nights of much worry, and little not nearly well enough to do.
It was very unpleasant over
sleep.
•
there at the end of 1937 anyhow,
VIENNA— (WNS) —The num-
'ALL I KNOW—'
and the more so if it became ber of Hungarian Jewish refu-
The letter Hanna was given known that one had tried to gees now arriving in Vienna has
was unusual, indeed. It came emigrate. Shortly after her un- declined to about 20 a day, as
from Chicago. It was short, and it successful visit at the consulate, compared with several hundred
said: read your article about Hanna had to be happy to be who were arriving here daily last
Rosh Hashonah. I don't know given a chance to flee the country spring.
The bulk of the Hungarian
anything_ about you. All I know is for one of the neighboring coun-
Jews who have been staying in
that a person who writes and tries in Europe.
In the small countries in Eur- two transient centers in this city
thinks this way should not be liv-
ing where you are today. Would ope that bordered on Germany, have already been transferred to
you like to come to America? anxiety gave way to a mad of camps in the western zones of
panic during the summer of 1938. Austria or have departed for
Please answer—"
• • •
Israel.
The answer Leo Luka received
RECEIVES NOTE
Recently, 355 Hungariau Jews
to his letter, about two weeks
HANNA SPENT that summer were permitted to cross the bor-
later, was as unusual, or unex-
pected, as the letter had been to on a ?arm, taking care of chil- der from Czechoslovakia to Aus-
dren. It was the day of Rosh tria en route to Italian ports,
Hanna.
Hashonah when she received a whence they left for Haifa.
She thanked him for his letter, notice from the American con-
thanked him very much, and also sulate of that country, saying that
Social Club Organizing
for his suggestion—and told him a renewed affidavit for her had
at the same time that she realized come from a Mr. Luka in Chicago, for Married Couples
fully the extent of her decision, and asking her to appear.
A Young Married Couples
but that she had made it anyhow:
When she went to the consu- Club is being organized, Fall so-
To hold out, to prove the right by late the city already was in tur- cial activities are to be planned.
this very fact of holding out, and moil. Facts mixed with the ap- Interested couples between the
she explained the need for some proaching Nazis; the facts were ages of 20-35 call Rose Goldstein,
people, especially young and bad enough.
TE. 4-5323.
strong people, to stay where
And her own outlook was not
many many were in need of help, bright, either; Leo had not be-
and many more would be, physi- come any more related since the
A Happy and Healthy
cally as well as spiritually.
first rejection of his affidavit in
New Year
From this resulted an extensive Berlin, neither had he become
correspondence between Leo and younger or richer. But Hanna
fr om
Hanna. The histories were ex- would try.
changed, of a long, full life, and
She was at the point most Eur-
a short and hard one; pictures opeans were at, whom the Nazis
were exchanged, of an old man for reasons of religion or political
and a young girl; opinions were thinking disliked; they would try
Kosher Meat and
exchanged between the one who anything, no matter how unlikely
Poultry Market
had the wisdom and calm of ex- to succeed.
perience, and of one who was
12733 W. 7 MILE RD.
The procedure at the consulate,
groping for sense amid turmoil, I was exhausting. It started with
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for hope, for a decent life and
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justice.
Leo kept insisting that Hanna
should leave; it became harder
TO all our patrons and
and harder for her to continue
Holiday Greetings
the argument since she felt how
friends . . . wishing
right he was—but still, she had
A VERY HAPPY
made up her mind.
Restrictions and terror increas-
NEW YEAR
ed at the same rate as chances
for a brighter future, for surviv-
al itself, lessened.
Wholesale Jewelers
In time, it seemed inadvisable
to receive letters from abroad;
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besides, Leo's constant urging
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was proving too much for Hanna's
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strained nerves; so she stopped
11714 Dexter Blvd.
answering his letters. That was
in 1935.
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SENDS AFFIDAVIT
It was just before Rosh Hash-
onah, in 1937. Again, Leo Luka,
was cleaning up his desk for the,
holidays. Again, he wrote a letter
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to Berlin. Again, it was a short
one.
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Hanna wrote him immediately
that she finally agreed with him,
New Year's Greetings and Best Wishes
that her hopes of being able to
win out had gone; and that there
MR. AND MRS. MORRIS SKLARE
was no way how she could man-
AND FAMILY
age to come to America. His next
4095 LESLIE
letter was no letter at all; it was
a big envelope, containing an af-
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fidavit.
Hanna Mann was practically
BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR
thrown out of the consulate with
From the
the affidavit from a man who was

ngarian Jeivs
to Vienna Down

• •

Born in the Shanghai ghetto, Doris Newman now studies her
ABC's in anticipation of her first semester in an American school.
Doris' family was resettled in the U.S. recently by United Service
for New Americans.

Tor What, After All,
Is Life Without Truth?'

By HILDEMARX
TT WAS THE TIME just before Rosh Hashonah, in 1933.
In his downtown office in Chicago, Leo Luka was trying hard
to get his most important work finished before the holidays.
' At the age of 66 he was still 1a'»
very young man as far as his once more, carefully this time,
capacity for living was concerned; and then he wrote a short letter
he was full of energy and the 'joy which he gave his secretary to
of working; he loved his wife and mail with the rest of the day's
his home with a youthful depth correspondence. .
of emotion, and he loved his
It was just after Rosh Hash-
books as well as everybody else's
knowledge with a vigor that onah, in 1933. Hanna Mann was
would have honored a young man preparing sonic lunch on the
who was just about to start life. tiny stove which the landlady
permitted her to have in her tiny
In addition to all this, his was
room, when the .telephone rang.
the experience of long years, IC was the editor of the Jewish
fruitfully spent as a conscious paper she worked for,
as a free-
Jew and a responsible and devot- lancer., He asked her to come to
ed citizen of this country—the
the office to get an unusual letter
country that had become his home he had just received. That was all
after he had rome here as a he said.
youth of 13 from his native Po-
Hanna was not particularly ex-
land.
cited. There were so many un-
That day in 1933, in Leo's office
all the telephones were busy, the usual things happening these
days. And you ,did• not discuss
clerks were running back and
them over the phone. And most
forth, the visitors dropping in
of them did not turn out too
and out, and he was forever
pleasant, either. Maybe a new re-
cleaning his desk. There was .a striction.
newspaper—apparently one of his
When she put on her hat in
visitors had left it behind. Leo
front of the mirror, Hanna could
looked at it wonderingly.
not help thinking that she look-
• • •
ed older than 21; not really older,
GERMAN NEWSPAPER

IT WAS WRITTEN in German,
published in Berlin. It was a Jew-
ish newspaper, too. Leo, with his
extensive knowledge of Ian-
guages, had no trouble reading it.
In his superficial scanning of
the pages something suddenly
held Leo's attention.
It was a short essay, entitled
First Rosh Hashonah Away
From Home." It was signed
"Hanna • Mann." And it told • of
someone, apparently someone
young, who had never been away
from home before these very
holidays now approaching.
• It may not have been a literary
masterpiece, but it touched Leo
with it's sincerity and its brilli-
ance of style. He read the essay

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