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Fi:iday, September 'IS, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Exclusive Cable From Feffer
30,000 Jews Back in Kiev;
Rabbi Restores Synagogue
In Spite of Evidence of Destruction, Children Laugh Again;
Repatriated Jews Find Words to Express
Nazi Atrocities
By ITZIK FEFFER
Noted Soviet Yiddish Poet
NHJC Pioneer
In Rescuing
Ailing Children
DENVER—Nestled at the foot
of the snow-capped peaks of the
Rocky Mountains in the - dry
clime of Coloiado's mile high
KIEV (JPS)—I came here anxious to meet the surviv-
ing Jews of this once booming Jewish city. Kiev already has
about 30,000 Jews.
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I talked to Rabbi Sholem Twersky, whom I found pre-
occupied with the restoration of the Jewish community and
the rebuilding of the synagogue,. His wife and child had
perished in the burning pits of •
Babi Yar on the outskirts of the
dragged there and the same fate
city, where 32,000 perished at
overtook the pediatrician, Dr.
Nazi hands. The rabbi couldn't Dukelsky. The latter had a dif-
bring himself to utter the words ferent opinion of the Germans
Babi Yar and referred to the
than Dr. Rothenberg, but he
place as the "black spot" and the
"comm-on gijave." He has a rela- couldn't be evacuated - because
his wife was very ill. The Bishop
tive in Chicago. (Rabbi . Henoch of Kiev interceded in behalf of
Twersky, known as the Maliner Dr. Dukelsky. who had saved
rabbi of Chicago, is the Kiev tens, of thousands of- children
rabbi's brother.)
from death, and his execution
• Children Laugh Again
was postponed. But some time
I saw Ukrainians, Russians and later the Gestapo fiends came
Jews working at the restoration for him and took him to Babi
of the - Kreschatik district of the Yar.
MRS. LEON ZECKMAN
The pianist Kaminskaya, wife
city, of the factories and cultural
institutions. _I talked. with Maria of the composer Sheinin, left city has been discovered a haven
Dorozhenko, librarian of the Kiev on one of the last trains. for - suffering children—a home
Ukraine Acad- The train was encircled by the whose directors have gone about
emy of Sciences, Nazis. She was brought back to their work of saving and re-
who had hidden the city and taken to__ the Ges- habilitating a segment of Amer-
away manu- tapo where she was violated. ica's allergy-afflicted youth for
scripts by Jew- After that she disappeared. Here whom all known scientific treat-
ish writers and too, the blind father of David
preserved them Hofstein, the Yiddish poet; the
during the en- parents of Israel Trokman, peda- even today, when almost all
tire period of gogue; the mothgr of the Yid traces have been erased, this
the Nazi occu- dish writer Shnorovsky, and 20,- place is terrible to behold.
To my dying day I'll never forget
pation. At the 000 other innocent Soviet people
the plait of black hair still pro-
Jewish Culture met their end.
truding from the sandy soil and
Department of
Miraculous Calmness
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the Academy I
I sat next to Yacov Kaper Who blowing in the wind. I saw a pair
became acquainted with its had been in a concentration camp of children's sandals washed bry
plans. The Department has ex- near Babi Yar. He was one of many rains. And a little further
tended its work.
300 prisoners who was forced for —a- heap of spectacle cases which
The street signs bearing the six weeks fo dig out the muti- had evidently been cast aside
names of the Yiddish writers, lated bodies for burial. When when the spectacles of aged vie-
Sholem Aleichem and J. L. Babi Yar was completely cleared tims were being "utilized," ac-
Peretz, had been torn down by and all the bodies burned,. the cording to the German utilitarian
the Germans, but had already Germans decided to build . a pyre vocabulary.
The Right Words
been restored when I visited of the three hundred men who
there. In the Podel. district of had been _made to dig up •the
At my side, walking through
the city I saw many Jewish chil- dead. On the eve • of the ex- Babi Yar were the Russian writ-
dren running about, playing and ecution several of them succeed- ers Nikolai Tikhonov • and Leonid
laughing merrily. Children once ed in escaping, among them was SobOlev; the. Ukrainian poet Mi-
again laugh in Kiev, and when Yakov Kaper. He spoke about kola Bazhan, and the Polish
children laugh, Germans cry.
everything calmly, with a calm- writers Yuri, Boriesza and Put-
ness that made his listeners shud- rament. We were silent. Words
Evidence of Destruction
But the destruction wrought by der." I wondered as I looked at seemed inept to express our feel-
him how he kept from going ings. Suddenly a voice quite
the Nazis is still evident every- insane.
near us said: "Yasya!"
where. I met, strolling among
I came to Babi Yar, where 32,,
It was a young Red Army man
the - 'familiar but unrecognizable
ruins, Dr. Meihiborsky, the noted 000 perished, and found that addressing his comrade.
"Yasya!" he repeated,. "Where
Kiev doctor who had recently there was something terrible
about the grass that had again is that German buried? I want to
returned from evacuation.
I heard from him the tale of covered the earth and seemed dig him up and kill him again!".
He had found the necessary
Dr. Rothenberg, a prominent greener and fresher than any I
Jewish physician who remained had seen for a long time. But words!
in Kiev when the Germans came.
He told Dr. Mezhiborsky before
the latter left. the city, that he
knew the Germans, had studied
in Frankfurt and had many Ger-
man friends.' He said that he
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couldn't imagine that the peo-
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Goethe and Schiller could . kill
innocent people. That was the
make this the year of
autumn of 1941. Dr. Rothenberg,
like many others, still harbored
Victory . . .
illusions. Babi Yar dispelled these
illusions.
Bishop Interceded
He was one of the first to be
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ments have proved ineffective in
their home environment.
For several years the National
Home for Jewish Children has
opened its doors to young Jew-
ish boys and girls between 5
and 12 who cannot afford ex-
tensive private care and for
whom all treatment of asthma
and other allergy manifestations
has proved unsuccessful in their
home towns.
Genuine Progress
Recommended for a change of
environment and climate by
physicians or clinics and social
service agencies, these children
have in the majority of cases
made genuine and lasting prog-
ress on the road to recovery.
Authorities have experimented
extensively on the place of en-
vironment -, in the alleviation of
allergies and results have proved
that when all else has failed the
transfer of the sufferer to a
completely new climate - and en-
vironment has brought relief to
the allergy-afflicted.
This is where the NHJC comes.
in. It has opened its doors to
youngsters for whom all hope
of relief has been abandoned.
Views by Authority
Dr. M. Murray Peshkin, au-
thority on the treatment of asth-
ma and chief of the Children's
Allergy Clinic of Mt. Sinai Hos-
pital, New York, says of the
results achieved by the home,
"I can state without any reserva-
tion that the great majority of
children especially selected for
a change in. climate by compe-
tent physicians show a rapid and
favorable response which is
maintained in the new environ-
ment and also subsequent to
their return home."
Children accepted by the home
are those who cannot afford pri-
vate care,, as the institution is
a charitable as well as a sec-
tarian one. They clan come only
on the recommendation of a
reputable physician, or clinic and
social agency and only after
every medical, social and psy-
chological investigation indicates
the necessity for a climatic and
environmental change.
Officers of the NHJC are:
Mrs. Fannie E. Lorber, president
Dr. J. M. Morris, secretary; Gra-
ham Susan, financial secretary,
a n d - L. K. Sigman, treasurer,
William Cohen is the superin-,
tendent and William R. Blumen..
that is the executive director.
The Detroit League is . headed
by Mrs. Leon Zechman. Other
officers are Mesdames Sidney
Wallace, Robert Drew, N. Kam.
terman, Sam . Goldman, LOWS
Davidson and Sol Brock.
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