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They Have Not Died!

A Tribute to the Jews of Warsaw

By

JACOB PAT

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Outlines Role
The sound of'-the Shofar, - ush- 'COIlege is a friagnifiCent collet.
In War Effort
ering in the New Year of 5704, tion of 25,000 VolUme "Many of

marks also a milestone in the which are rare and precious be-

Cares for Tuberculous Men history of the Hebrew Theologi- yond price.
. cal College of Chicago.
I read the report and read it head in the ghetto. Jews began
The Teachers Institute
Who Were Rejected by
once -

again. It had come from
Underground Warsaw. It con-
sisted of 80 photostatic sheets,
chronicling the horrifying story
of the death of 350,000 JeWs in
the Warsaw ghetto from April
20 to Sept. 21, 1942. The report
is authenticated and document-
ed. That picture of hell in the
Warsaw ghetto could not have
been imagined even by the
,devil himself.
"The last chord in the. mass
murder and extermination of
Warsaw Jewry,", the report
says, "was sounded on Sept. 21,
.the. Day. of Atonement. On that
.day :there were sent to the
_death chamber at Treblinka for
slaughter 200 young Men of the
Jewish police force together
with their wives. That was the
last batch sent to its death.
There are still a number left
vegetating there, but they all
feel that their tragic fate can-
not be escaped, if no help comes
from the outside."
In that ghetto death was a
blessing, a release. • Jews offer-
ed themselves for death as
though they were seeking sal-
vation.
Lose Features
The Jews themselves lost
their human features in that
holocaust. The ghetto became
, smaller and • smaller, until it
consisted of only a few streets,
which were cut off by ropes
and barbed wire. Every day six
to eight thousand more Jews
were driven into the death trap.
* * •*
And then suddenly the dark-
ness was pierced . by a divine
fire. Here and there a human
being came into his own, t h e
Jew recognized his own spirit.
The spark lighted up for these
prisoners of Warsaw the know-
ledge that somewhere outside,
no matter how far, there was a
sun. That was in July, 1942.
Then officials of the Jewish
communal institutions in the
Warsaw ghetto were told to col-
laborate with the deportation
orders. They were called upon
-to- compile the lists and select
the victims. Officials who might
decline to cooperate, the warn-
ing was given, were marked for
extermination at Treblinka.
Ignore Nazi Edict
"The Jewish corrimunal insti-
tutions," the report before me
says. "boycotted the . instruc-
tions and stated that not one
of the officials would do the
dirty work that had been or-
dered."
, The staffs of the institutions
ignored the Nazi edict a qd: thus
automatically chose the doom of
death.
A new spirit was manifest in
the midst of the Warsaw mass-
acre. Sabotage began to rear its

to put Nazi stores and munition
dumps to the torch. Within, a
few days there were 102 fires.
"A series of illegal newspap-
ers began to appear," the report
says. "They dealt with the
events in Warsaw, with the
murders at Treblinka. They
Called for resolute anti-Fascist
action."
I can never forget the details
of how Jewish blood irrigated
the fields of Treblinka, • where
more than one million Jews lie
buried.
Armed Uprising
That was how it was until
April 23. It was then that
there occurred the most heroic,
the most awe-inspiring incident
of the second world war—the
armed uprising in the Warsaw
ghetto.
The resistance lasted three
weeks. One thousand Nazis paid
with their lives. The villas of
the Nalewka area became the
catacombs of the uprising. The
ghetto disappeared in fire and
smoke.
No one knows how many re-
mained in that ghetto. There
are Jews who remain and there
will be Jews.
In the recesses of the ghetto,
Jews still move about with the
sign of divinity on their faces.
The curtain will yet rise and
in those very fields of the dead
a new life will yet appear.

(Copyright 1943. J. P. S.)

Warburg Named OW!
Propaganda Director

WASHINGTON (JPS)—James
P. Warburg has been made di-
rector of OWI propaganda direct-
ed at enemy and occupied na-
tions, it was announced here.
Ferdinand Kuhn, former corres-
pondent for the New York Times,
has been given authority over
programs aimed at neutral and
Allied countries. The reorganiza-
tion is intended to strengthen
America's psychological warfare
in Europe.

Selective Service _

Nathan R. Epstein, president
of the Detroit Auxiliary of the
Los Angeles Sanatorium and Ex-
Patients Home, this week re-
leased a statement outlining the
war-time role of this national,
non-sectarian institution.
Mr.' Epstein said that h _ e re-
ceived the statement from Sam-
uel H, Goiter, executive . director
of the sanatorium. Mr. Goiter's
figures showed that 361,471 hos-
uital days:;:Of -treatment were
given sufferers frcini.:tUberculosis'
since the; outbreak the war.
At the same time, the:::adult and
children'S c3inic , ga-Ve 14,967
treatments to '4,865 individuals.
Rejected -Car0:- For
Also revealed, .:Nyas: the fact
that young men rejected by se-
lective- service when. medical ex-
aminations showed them to have
tuberculosis are, now -being cared
for at the . Santorium. .
Stressing the .need fOr intensi-
fying the fight against the White
Plague, Goiter pointed out that
selective service, nationwide,
had already uncovered more
than 100,000 new cases of tuber-
culosis. If young women had
been given similar- examinations,
a similar number of additional
cases would have been found.
"Our casualties since Pearl
Harbor on all battlefronts," he
said, "both in mortality and
wounded, are estimated at one-
sixth of the total of tuberculosis
victims in America in the same
period."
Depends On Health
"Victory depends largely up-
on national morale and morale,
in turn, depends upon national
health," Goiter said. "Thus, we
of the Los Angeles Sanatorium
and the Jewish Consumptive and
Expatients Relief Association
feel that we must redouble our
efforts as a war-time responsi-
bility."

- For on this epochal date, the
Hebrew Theological College will
widen its service embarking on
a nation-wide million dollar en-
dowment fund campaign.
Members of the board of trust-
ees for the Endowment Fund
are John Balaban, Alex Eisen-
stein, Rabbi Ephraim Epstein,
Louis Ets Hokin, Max Goldberg,
Nathan Goldblatt, Samuel Katz,
William Lavin, and David Wine.
Officer's of the College are Rabbi
Saul Silber, • President; Rabbi
Samuel S. Siegel, executive di-
rector, and an administrative
board of 62 . directors.
The Hebrew Theological Col-
lege, created nearly a quarter of
a century ago, has become a
great articulate center of tra-2
ditional Jewish principles and
scholarship. •
As a center for traditional
study of Torah, the College has
an enrollment of 50 students.
They study in the Rabbinical
department, the Teachers' Insti-
tute for Girls, and the Jewish
Academy. Among the faculty
of 34 eminent educators are
world renowned scholars.
The College has ordained more
than 100 rabbis. Other gradu-
ates and formed students are
serving as chaplains with every
branch of the armed forces.
Housed in the library of the

A BENNY BAKER STORY
Benny Baker tells about the
peasant whose house was just on
the border between Russia and
Poland. It perturbed him con-
siderably not knowing which
country he was living in. Finally
he called in surveyors, asked
them to figure out his location.
.After much mathematical calcu-
lation they announced that by an
eighth of an inch his property
was in Poland. "Thank good-
ness!" he cried. "I never could
have stood another Russian win-
ter!"

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Girls was established in 1940 to
train young women as -Sunday
school and Hebrew school teach-
ers.
More than 100 of the College's
graduates serve as principals
and teachers in Jewish educa-
tional institutions , throughout
the -1.f. S. Student -rabbis offic-
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in communities that have no
rabbinical leadership.
.• Each year the enrollment of
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