Friday, September IS, T944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Annual Education Month

Palestine Unveils
Urge Community to Quicken. `Giladi' Sculpture

Support of Hebrew Schools

Text of Proclamation Issued on Occasion of Eighteenth
Annual Observance of Special Month in
Interests of Jewish Learning

JOHANNESBURG (JPS)—Cpl.
T. Goldberg, a 28-year-old Polish
Jewish soldier who took 'Art in
the last ditch defense of Warsaw
in 1939 and who -subsequently
escaped from ghetto confinement,
dodging the Nazis for nearly a
year before arriving in North
Africa to take part in the de-
fense of Tobruk, was awarded
the Polish Cross for Gallantry by
Dr. S. Lepkowski, Polish Consul
General, in a special ceremony
in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cpl. Goldberg, a high school
teacher in Warsaw when the war
broke out, joined the desperate
defenders of Warsaw in their 12-
day suicide campaign. Locked in
the ghetto by the Nazis, he es-
caped to Trieste in April, 1940.
He Was refused an entry permit

of the Hebrew year 5704 showed
that since September, 1939, 38
to France and was sent back to communal and smallholders' set-
Austria where he hid in Vienna tlements have been established.
for four months. He finally suc
ceeded in making his way to Pal-
estine, where he immediately
joined the Polish Carpathian Bri-
gade. During the defense of To-
bruk, he was seriously wounded
in both legs, and later lost his
right arm. He was evacuated to
a South African hospital and now
works in the Polish Consulate in
Johannesburg.

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Vilna Survivors
Had Underground
Town Under City

Nazi occupation. The assembled
material includes documents on
Jewish life in the ghetto, penal
announcements by the German
command, and the most unusual
Yiddish newspaper in the world,
Ghetto Yedios (Ghetto News),
issued within the ghetto.

VILNA (JPS) — The remnants
of Vilna's Jewry that survived
the Nazi massacres and managed
to go underground . used remark-
able resourcefulness in equipping
a full "underground city," in-
cluding electricity, fresh water
supply, baths, radio and a burial
ground in which they brought to
rest Jewish remains rescued from
Nazi desecration. The "under-
ground city" was under the
drainage system.
Of the 1,200 Jews who have
taken up residence here, at least
half are partisans who played an
important role in the final days
of the battle for Vilna.
Taking up positions in the
north of the city, they battled
the last Nazi troops, cutting off
their escape. Most of the "others
drifted in from neighboring
towns or are of the group that
survived in the "underground
city." There are also among them
150 Jews who escaped from the
prison on Suboch Street.
Vilna's Jews already have
begun to reassemble a museum
of archives hidden during the

STOCKHOLM (JTA)—A reso-
lution protesting against the dis-
semination of anti-Jewish propa-
ganda in Swedan was adopted at
a conference of the Wendelsberg
Union for Christian Community
Life, Stockholm newspapers re-
port.
The resolution expresses "deep
indignation over thwp organized
anti-Jewish propaganda that, for
a long time, both openly and
underground, has been sowing
hatred in the minds of the Swe-
dish people, and undermining
their spiritual health."

Strong Features of One of
First Chalutzim Perpetuated
Refuge Built Below . Sewers
"
at Kfar Giladi
Had Electricity, Fresh
Swedes Protest Against
Wafer, Radio
Anti-Jewish Pr9paganda

Like every human being, a People, at least every normal
group or nation, also desires health and well-being. Forward-
looking Jews desire an abundant life of the spirit. To attain
such a goal, in a materialistic world, and by a minority
people, is no small matter. The external pressures pull us in
opposite directions, and it is not easy to maintain Jewish life
today.
But our wise men of the past knew how to preserve
Judaism in a hostile world. There were traditions to live by
and a massive literature. There was the faith of the fathers
to sustain our people through their hardships. All this was
transmitted by means of Jewish learning. The educated Jews
were the nobility of the past, and indeed everyone aspired to
become versed in the law.
Today, more than ever, Jewish education should be the
very life-blood of our existence. Without understanding, our
people become anaemic and self-detesting. Our children are
GILADI, THE CHALUTZ
the victims of their parents' ignorance. Jewish life becomes a
In Kfar Giladi, Palestine, there
misfortune when it should be an inspiration. Knowledge
was recently unveiled the above
alone is the cure for the manifold problems which beset the sculpture
of "Giladi," one of
Jewish community.
the first Chalutzim, Palestine
The United Hebrew Schools is the chief agency in Detroit piOneers, after whom the collec-
for the dissemination of Jewish knowledge. This Eighteenth tive settlement in Upper Galilee
Annual Education Month should serve to quicken the desire was named. Perpetuated in stone
of all Jews to support the activities of these schools.
are the strong features so typical
The United Hebrew Schools is devoted to the task of of the Chalutz who, inspired by
trainincr our children to live as upright and inte'ligent Jews. the great ideal of a Jewish
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of the past has become the up-to-date school -of Homeland and equipped with a
determination, occupies,
our day. A well-organized school system, in modern build- sturdy
tills and defends the soil, un-
ings, and with well trained teachers, is at the service of the afraid of obstacles and yielding
entire community. The means are at hand for the education to no illusions.
of the Jewish children of Detroit.
The growth of the Jewish
This Proclamation on the occasion of the Eighteenth An- Homeland during the five war
nual Education Month should focus attention upon the valued years, speeded up by the ac-
work of the United Hebrew Schools. Unregistered children quisition of extensive land tracts
should be urged to attend a Hebrew'school. Parents are asked by the Jewish National Fund, as
to ponder deeply about the Jewish upbringing of their the property of the Jewish peo-
children.
ple, is due in large measure to
All Jews, old and young, should think NOW, and over the heroic efforts and sacrifices
and over again, • about the fundamental need to enrich our of the pioneers. Their achieve-
ments on the soil created the
lives through the blessings of Jewish learning.
pattern of Rescue and Recon-
To this end, the United Hebrew Schools have dedicated struction for the scores of thou-
Annual Education Month.
sands of refugees who came to
May the message of this yearly observance be carried to Eretz Israel during the war and
the Jews of Detroit and may the response be commensurate for the great influx which is ex-
with the profound needs for Jewish enlightenment in our pected from the liberated lands.
community.
A survey made at the conclusion

Poles Honor Jew
Who Fled Ghetto
To Fight Nazis

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