Friday, September 11, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

We Must Not Fail Them!

A New Year Plea for Jewish
Victims of Nazi Terror

By ISADORE SOBELOFF
Executive Director, Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit
(Exclusive to The Jewish News)
In the war crisis facing our crux of the challenge confronting
nation, we, as Americans, are do- civilization today.

they would have to live outside
the law. And finally, he has shut
them off in ghettos to demon-
strate to the world that the Jew
has no place in society. In this
way Hitlerism has sought to use
the Jewish people as a scape-
goat and buffer to divert and
delay the mounting resistance
against the Nazi scheme of world
domination.

Great Human Front

This is a struggle in which not
The world may be weary of
, , national defense and help insure
only the material but the spirit-
hearing of the degradation, hu-
rvictory. Our sons are enrolled in miliation and persecution of the ual values of our time hang in
the armed forces. All of us stand Jews. Perhaps that is as it should the balance. We have always
ready to answer President Roose- be, for we must not lose sight thought of the men and women
velt's call to give our energy, our of the fact that of the more than in the lands conquered by Hitler
treasure and our very lives to 150.000,000 men and women now as victims completely dependent
preserve the freedom and hap- imprisoned in Hitler's Europe, upon us for survival. It would
piness which we share with all only 6,000,000 are Jews. Surely be a more realistic view to con-
sider them as part of the great
other loyal and patriotic Amer-
the world has reason to ask human front against intolerance
icans.
why we should stress over and oppression. Though every
The Jewish people who are
and over again the plight
now prisoners in Hitler's ghettos of the Jews, who, after all, rep- weapon of brutality has been
used to silence them, their voice
represent an important sector in
resent only a small fraction of can still be heard. Though every
the front line struggle against
the many peoples - crushed by means has been employed to sup-
Nazism. They must not lose
Nazism. The answer can be press their freedom, their will to
faith in us. We must not lose
found in every land which Hitler live has not been destroyed.
faith in them. It is quite clear has singled out for attack and
Theirs is a courage which does
from the historic utterances of
annihilation. Hitler has sought not rely upon arms. No prisons
'President Roosevelt and Winston
the destruction of the Jews not can shackle their spirit. What
Churchill that the Jews and other
merely as an end in itself, but we as Americans do to sustain
oppressed peoples of Europe are
a vital part of the struggle to as a means of creating division, their morale serves to strengthen
confusion and internal
our own faith in the future of
restore democracy and freedom within the ranks of men strife
and human liberty.
to all mankind.
women who would otherwise
Thanks to our own Allied Jew-
Message of Hope
stand united and strong against
During the past year, signs of his assault. The suffering of the ish Campaign and to similar ef-
encouragement and concrete as- Jews, the fate of the Jews must forts in Jewish communities
throughout the land, that faith
isistance reached large sections of be the concern of the entire
is being preserved. Some twenty-
the Jewish people , in Europe, world because anti-Semitism is
three thousand Detroiters, repre-
Palestine and the Americas. being used as a means of creat-
senting practically every Jew-
American Jewry has spoken
ing dissension within the lands ish family in our community
words of solace and hope through
in which every ounce of unity contributed to the 1942 drive.
the instrumentality of the United must be conserved for the fun-
This affiliation has made it
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, damental struggle against slavery possible for Detroit to fulfill its
Overseas Needs and Palestine. and brute force.
communal obligations to the
These messages were sent by the
United Jewish Appeal agencies,
Campaign
of
Terrorism
American Jewish community in
to the HIAS, the ORT, the He-
The
Nazi
regime
has
forced
the form of urgently needed aid.
They were sent through the pro- the Jews in Poland to wear yel-
gram of emigration, relief and re- low patches, white armbands and
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an lands by the Joint Distri-
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shame.
The
Jews
have
been
ution Committee; through the
program of Palestine immigra- driven out of normal economic
The management wishes the
tion, rebuilding and settlement life so that they would be made
community a Happy New Year
pported by the United Pales- helpless. Hitler has denied the
Startiag Sunday, September 13
tine Appeal; and through the Jews the right to buy shoes, so
First Showing of Yiddish Talkie
work of readjustment and other that they would have to wear
HER SECOND MOTHER
iforms of assistance extended to rags. He has denied them the
Also
ugees in the United States by right to buy soap, so that they
Personal Appearance of the
the National Refugee Service. would have to go unwashed. He
very 'of-ell-known Comedian
The United Jewish Appeal has has denied them the right to
AARON LEBEDOFF
ormed a strong link between the work, so that they might be
ws on the firing line of Europe branded as parasites. He has
Sunday, 4 to 11:30
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d Palestine and the Jews in denied them a home, so that they
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and hearts must be joined in denied them passports, so that
mplete dedication to the strug-
le for the preservation of hu-
an liberty.

,ing our share to promote the

brew University and the scores
of other agencies and services at
home and abroad.
As the coordinating force in
support of all these causes, the
Jewish Welfare Federation has
used the widespread aid from
our entire community to keep
alive a program of life and hope
at home and abroad. Essential
social services in medical aid,
cultural work, education, relief,
rehabilitation and all the other
manifold phases of social wel-
fare have been maintained and
are being continued, as the re-
sult of centralized fund-raising
and community-wide giving for
general needs.
The coming of the New Year
sounds the call to new hope and
faith to the Jews in the Nazi
ghettos of Europe, to the coura-

geous pioneers working with
plow and gun for the defense
and upbuilding of the Jewish
homeland in Palestine, to the
refugees on the high seas and
those who are celebrating their
New Year for the first time in
this blessed land of peace and
freedom, as well as to the other
beneficiaries of our local, re-
gional and national services.
As ' a well-organized, alert
community, we are participating
in e- rery direction in a total war,
as Americans, as Detroiters and
as Jews. The year ahead re-
quires continued, intensified ser-
vice and giving. There is ample
evidence that we stand ready to
do our full share in manpower
and in material to help achieve
the victory that will bring com-
fort and peace.

'

A New Year's

Message From

t

Survival of Our People

. The United Jewish Appeal is
t antamount to the mobilization
o f American Jewry for the de-
ense and survival of the Jewish
People. It has been the one great,
!towering source of -moral and
material aid to Jews herded into
the ghettos of Europe, to Jewish
pioneers building new colonies
and arming to defend democracy
din Palestine, and to Jews reach-
dng the United States to begin a
new life here.
1. During the past year new con-
;quests by the enemies of democ-
racy engulfed all of Europe from
he English Channel to the Med-
terranean, from the Baltic to the
Black Sea. It is not necessary at
this hour to dwell upon the ruth-
aessness with which the Nazi
conquerors have sought to up-
root all vestiges of freedom and
[human liberty in the lands which
Are now in the grip of their mill-
itary machine. There is one point
lin the Nazi scheme for world
!domination which lies at the

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In spite of the hysterical waves of prejudice,

which from time to time rise up, the good

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know no sectarian lines and certainly no

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Anyone who has given any thought at all

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founded cannot but be conscious of the

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The New Year

spiritual liberty and fairness to all which

they were intended to maintain.

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Brings
a Call to
Service

I am very glad to present my greetings to

the Jewish people of Michigan in the hope

that the New Year may bring every citizen
peace, happiness and prosperity.

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