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 • •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 • 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,;, - mical C ope ge. anal. • 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 • 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 • 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. 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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: - CAMP 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. 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