Fridley, jay 14,1t44
THE 'JEWISH NEWS
Rabbi of Rome Describes
Iden's Parents
Sufferings Under Germans Get Memorial
Mr. and • Mrs. Ben Idea, of
1926 Hazelwood, received a Presi-
dential Meinorial, Tuesday, as a
tribute to their hero-son, Captain
Ruben Iden,
who was killed
at the age of 26
off Guadalcanal,
Sept ember 20,
1942. The text
of the memorial
is as follows:
• "In grateful'
m e mory of
of Ruben Iden,
United States
M a r ine Corps., Capt. Iden
who died in the service of his
country at sea off Gualdacanal,
B. S. I., 20 September 1942.
.
Matthews reported this week that Prof. Antoh Zolli, the corn-
munity's Chief Rabbi for 30 years., estimated that the Jewish
community of Rome, one of the oldest in the world, •lost 40 or
.50 per cent of its members during the nine:month reign of
German terror. • %
According to the report, those
"Foa accuses me of having de-
who remain are economically, serted my community, but let me
spiritually and physically pros- tell you What; happened else-
trate. Where in, Italy. The rabbis of
f
Chief Rabbi Zolli stated that Modena and Florence stayed with
what the Vatican did to protect their flocks and Were deported.
the Jews "will be indelibly and The rabbi of Genoa did the same,
eternally engraved on our hearts. and one day the • German. Elite
The church was superhuman. Guard came to his office. They
Priests and even high prelates beat him until he was covered
-did things that will forever be an with blood. Then they dragged
honor to Catholicism." him to a telephone and made him
4,500 Deported
call the leaders of the commun-
It was pointed ,. out by Rabbi ity, asking them to come to the
- Zolli that out of the 11,500 Jews temple immediately with all their
of Rome fully 4,•00 and probably, families.
Herded in Trucks
more have been. deported and - 100
"They came in good faith, three
:•. to 200 were
"During my 30 years as Chief generations of them. When all
Rabbi in ,Trieste," Prof. Zolli told had entered. the temple the Ger-
• •the New York Titiies correspond- mans surrounded it, herded the
ent, "I had seen in.miniature• the people into trucks and deported
whole martyrology of a Jewish all of them, including the rabbi.
am an old, sick. man. I could
community, so I .knew • what
•-4:-Rorne• had to expect. The ,presi- die for my community, but sup-
• dent. of the community here was poSe they had taken me and beat-
Ugo Foa, a magistrate about 50 en me an burned the soles of
:years old, whom.I do not blame my feet? How do I know what I
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•for having been a Fascist, because would , have done?
"Foa will be taken care of by
'he • was a young man when - the
-movement began and he knew. no your Colonel Poletti, who is a
grand man with an extraordinary
•better.
"I was always anti-Fascist and intelligence and sense of realism.
on, the Nazi blacklist for preach-, I have told him that our com-
ing anti-Nazi sermons in Trieste, munity is destroyed completely
as early . as 1933, but I - never and must be reconstructed from
• clashed with Foa until it became the bottom up. Colonel Poletti •
:'a question of life or death for the understood.
"Ours is a poor community,
•Jewish community
mostly small merchants and ped-
Both Spoke. Italian
"When the Germans seized dlers. There were few intelli-
ROMe on Sept. 8 and 9, I held gentsia, and they knew enough
'• a conference with him and his to hide during these months. The
;2 : . i. , entourage, a little clique of, Jews Italian 'community never became
• who believed as he did. We both great capitalists or business men,
Spoke Italian, but we could n - t as in other countries. Many , in-
termarried with Italian families.
Understand each other. (Foa h
Turned to Fascism
driven around Rome ostentatiot -
"The Italian Jews accommodat-
ly in the company of a Geste, a
leader, as if to say that Je- .-s ed themselves to Fascism, that
must be admitted, but they did
had nothing to fear.)
- • "So, frOnf.Sept.
•to 18 I w _At so as other Italians did and for
to the synagogue and preaciled the same reasons: They could
every day to warn • the comm-..m-; not take the Fascist anti-Semitic
ity what was- going • to happen. laws seriously. They have never
I told them that they should scat- appreciated the s•ffering of Jews
ter, hide and close all their..busi- abroad because the Italians are
nesseS and administrations, _and, so wonderful to theta, an& that
. until. advised -differently, all pub-: is why-they listened to Foa and
not to me. •
lic .services in temples • were to
"Fascism was not physically
be 'suspended.' There • is ,,an Old
. Roman- proverb: 'First live, .then ferocious to the Jews until the
worship God'—for only the living fall of Mussolini and then it ' was
the German influence."
can praise God.
Declaring that "Mussolini voy-
Opposite AdVice •
_• aged or the great sea. of history
, •"However, Foa gave exactly
without a compass," Prof. Zolli.
the opposite advice to the coin- described Il Duce as a man who
triunity and said that he had had took himself too seriously and let
assurances from the authorities. himself be used by others without
He offered hope, which is 'the realizing it.
last goddess,' and they believed
him; '• especially as they had been
lulled to security by the fact. that Lithuanian Jews Seek
• the ,Italians - had always treated $500,000 for Rescue
the Jews well: - We have. been
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here for more than 2,000 years NEW YORK (JTA)A fund
. and it is difficult for us to think of $500,000 to aid Jewish refu-
. Of .danger. They are divine peo- gees from Lithuania scattered
pie, but the Germans were an- throughout the world will be
other matter, raised here, it was decided at
"They ..put a price of 300,000 a conference of the Federation
lire on 'my head—a piaor bargain' of Lithuanian Jews held at Hotel
for the Nazis, for I was' not worth Picadilly. About 150 delegates at-
it. First I took refuge with one tended.
...-Catholic ;family. narned-Pieran-
It -.Was estim a ted that., 10,600
toni who did not know me. The Lithuanian JeWs • are ''ito* in
father and son were Partisans Russia. The • rtiajOrity -ate in
.; • •and the -son :was •soon: caught, and: Turkestan and are '' in "need of
shot. I had to hide somewhere immediate relief. Some have le-
ase:
ceived food packages through
,
TKeatid Like lather -
the Joint Distribution Cornmit-
Then - another Catholic family tee. About 8,000 packages also
rj. named,. Falconieri . took me in= were :sent to _ Litlyuanian_jews
•
heard of ih''AUSsialay the Federation of
!"-•:.
Aandithey tre4tedine4ilietheir , I.Lithua•blamt'jewS'
PAAtirie.,
_even .icallecl,irn.e
er. S‘uCh are the -goOl,, hear,ts of 8,567.,•,Iews. Falter FaleStine
"
in 'tag%
llitonths
"It - was a bad period for thy, 'ffERUSALEM, tjTA).--00-iotal
peOple. The Germans made raid of 8,507 Jewish immigrants have
after Once they .clemanded. arrived if s palestiine,,,d,pring the
• 50 'k11160art:IS' of 'god, iri 'default' fast six mOnthl,It is • reported in
_of .which they threatened to seize; the .statistical bulletin of the Pal-
tt.Wilostagrs,-.ana.-*4;„04.01iectille estane government. Of these,
told.. Another .tithe - they finea
2,121 came• from Yemen, 2,158
-
lire. Their 'chief . act *of from Turkey; 1,9:99 are Polish na-
...,;.:.-3.goting..was. to•,,seize,ollthe pre- tionals, • and the balance cantle
cious manuscript and books in from the Levant countries, and
.G,,ermany,;,
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mical C ope ge.
anal.
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Czechs Desaibe How Nazis
Murdered 1,750,000 Jews
From Roosevelt
Prof. Zolli Views Vatican's Role in Protecting Jews
"Thai- Will Ever•Be an Honor to Catholicism";
Tells •Beginning and End of .Fascism
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Ina cable to the New York Times from Rome, Herbert L.
Page 'Seven:
"He stands in the unbroken
line of patriots who have dared
to die that freedom might live,
and grow, and increase its bless-
ings. Freedom lives, and through
it, he lives in a way that humbles
the undertakings of most men."
• Signed,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
PreSident of the United States
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of . America.
Iden, returning from an obser-
vatiOn excursion over Gualda-
canal; discovered a landing party
Of Japs and did not hesitate to
give them attack, although his
w.as not a fighting mission. Thus
"he swooped out of the sun, and
gave the enemy a taste of high
explosives" as Lt. •Col. Bailey
vividly describes this exploit in
his "Last Man Off Wake Island."
Enlisting in the Marine Corps
in 1939, Iden attended Pensecola
and was 'graduated a 2nd Lt . He
was shipped to Pearl Harbor • and
did battle with the sons of Nip :-
pon when they first attacked on
Dec. :7, 1941. Later he was ad-
vanced to the rank of 1st Lt. and
then . Captain, commanding a
'squadron over Gualdacanal.. His
gunner informed Iden's parents
that their son had played a major
part in wiping out --TM) Japs.
Iden was attending Detroit-In-
stitute of Technology before his
enlistment and. was an excellent
athlete, fioring prominently in
football and -boxing. He was
gradUated from Northern High.
.13esideS hiS parents, he is .sur-
vived by three brothers: Marine
Sgt. Sam, 21, who, when last
heard of, was somewhere in the
Marshalls, Pvt. Isadore, 25, a
medical corpstnan stationed in
Kansas., and Jack, 15, whd al-
though only thirteen at the time,
attempted to enlist when he -heard
the news of his . eldest brother's
death.
* * *
LT. LAWRENCE OBERSTEIN,
son of Mrs. Sophie Oberstein of
'3749 Monterey Ave., was reported
missing in action in the Asiatic
theater of war:
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Victims Taken fo Gas Chambers of Two Camps in Poland,
With 2,000 a Week at One Site Over Two-Year
Period; Allies Urged to Warn Hitler
NEW YORK (JPS)—Earlier confirmed reports by two
international Christian relief organizations, telling of the one
and a half million Jews slain by the Nazis in two camps in.
Poland between April 15, 1942, and April 15, 1944, received
further confirmation from the Czechoslovakian government-
in-exile, according to a London dispatch from Frederick Kuh,
correspondent for the Marshall
Field newspapers.
The Czechs, Mr. Kuh reports,
are addressing notes to the Brit-
ish, Soviet and U. S. govern-
ments and to eight gdvernments-
in-exile proposing a new "solemn
warning to Hitler's government
which is ;undoubtedly responsible
for the crime."
The camps mentioned by the
Czechs are Birkenau and Os-
wiecim. The relief organizations
mentioned the same camps, The •
Czech government reports:
Between April, 1942 and APril,
1944 from 1,500,000 to 1,750,000
Jews were put to death by gas
or other means. Half were Poles,
the others Jews from Holland,
Greece, France, Belgium, Ger-
many, Yugoslavia, Czechoslo-
vakia, Italy, Norway, Lithuania
and Austria, all brought to Os-
wiecim from other camps.
"Twice weekly, the camp doc-
tor selects those to be gassed. In
a single block of Birkenau camp,
the average deaths in a week
were about 2,000 of which the
`natural' deaths were 500 by se-
lection."
The Czechs know the killers at
both camps.
Spain Expects New Refugees
From Occupied Frante
LONDON, (JTA)—With .500
refugees transferred from the Mi-
randa refugee camp in Spain to
a "temporary refugee shelter" in
North Africa, the Spanish author-
ities are now. rearranging the
camp, vhich is in northern .Spain,
to accommodate hundreds of
other refugees who are expected
to flee from France and Belgium
47,000 Jews Decorated
For Russian War Deeds
MOSCOW (JPS)--By May 15,
the total number of Jews decor-
ated by the Soviets for heroism
on the battlefields and civilian
war contributions reached 47,-
000.
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