Friday, SepfartiLer 29, I 944 Page Thirteen. THE JEWISH NEWS Post-War Reconstruction Responsibilities Facing Jewry in Post-Hide- r Era National UJA Chairman Describes Jewry's Duty in the Approaching Reconstruction Period; Detroit First Large Community to Conduct War Drive By RABBI JONAH B. WISE National Chairman, United Jewish • Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine (Written for The Jewish News) Few of us can adequately express the full meaning of the words post-Hitler era. The deep emotions crowding to the surface on the occasion of the great and final release from suffering are, like the horrors which preceded them, beyond description. Only history will be able to fill , in, in true perspective, everything but the superficial manifesta- tions of deliverance and rejoic- DR. JONAH B. WISE acting through its special ., repre- sentatives in Turkey, succeeded in arranging for the emigration of Jewish refugees from the in g- Balkans, the Joint Distribution Since many historians regard ing, During the past five years Committee was called upon to of war, the United Jewish Appeal the calendar as an indispensible provide the funds for their trans- factor, we shall find recorded a for Refugees, Overseas Needs and portation, and the United Pales- Palestine has been an instrument specific line of demarcation be- tine Appeal was required to give tween the Hitler and post-Hitler of major importance in provid- assurance that funds would be ing the sinews of rescue. Through period. And that, the newspaper this campaign, s American Jews available for their adjustment dispatches advise us, will be effectively unified their efforts and maintenance in Palestine. known as V-E Day, which the Wherever the War Ref4gee to help large number of Jews military experts tell us, may Board opened a door of escape, overwhelmed by Nazi oppression. come not later than Tuesday, the funds of the United Jewish What the constituent agencies of Appeal had to be ready to fur- Octber 31, the United Jewish Appeal—the nish the means for bringing its First Drive in Detroit Joint Distribution Committee, Under the circumstances, the the United Palestine Appeal, and rescue ptans to fruition. As Mr. Jewish . community of Detroit the National Refugee Service— Pehle himself has said, the will be the first large section of have accomplished in the war agencies of the United Jelvish the Jewish population in this years, in the face of almost in- Appeal and the War Refugee country to engage in a post- superable difficulties and ob- Board work as a team, with the European war campaign. In stacles, has clearly indicated Board carrying on its activities other words, funds which will that they are destined to play chiefly in the diplomatic field, be raised by the Allied Jewish an even greater role in the large- and with the agencies meeting Campaign through its affiliation scale reconstruction and rehabi- the principal costs and assisting with the War Chest of Metro- litation projects of the immediate in the actual job of rescue. Youth's Escape to Palestine politan Detroit will be raised for future. The experience of the Perhaps the following story of meeting Jewish needs in the first past years has clearly demon- year after Hitler. As the Jews strated that while governmental a young Polish Jewish boy nam- of Detroit prepare for this cam- aid is essential in alleviating the ed David will help illustrate how paign, they must recognize the plight of the refugees, many im- the board and the United Jewish fundamental fact that they will portant tasks will have to be Appeal agencies are working to- iireet the obligations of the first carried on by such private gether. When David saw his par- stages of reconstruction in the agencies as are represented in - ents killed in Warsaw by a Nazi firing squad, he ran away to post-war era in Europe which the United - Jewish Appeal. the woods. For weeks he wand- involves far greater needs and Obligations Remain ered alone until a kindly Christ- opportunities in the tremendous The establishment of the Presi- ian farmer and his wife hid him program of putting the Jews on dent's War Refugee Board early in their home. Later the under- their feet again. No one any longer entertains in January of this year and the ground helped him across the- the illusion born of wishful operations of UNRRA and the border to Romania. But there he thinking that victory will auto- Allied Control Commission in was caught in the general round- matically, • restore the homeless liberated territories have not re- up of foreign Jews and sent to and hounded Jews of Europe to duced the obligations of the pri- exile in Transnistria, the bbrder a normal status or release the vate organizations. On the con- region of Romania and Russia Jews of the United States from trary, as these governmental where more than 150,000 Jews all further obligations and res- bodies opened up new avenues perished by massacre and starva- Diplomatic pressure exert- ponsibilities in salvaging the of rescue and relief, the responsi- tion. ed by the War Refugee Board wreckage of Jewish life and re- bilities of the agencies of the storing its shattered structure. United Jewish Appeal were tre- through State Department offi- During the past year it has be- mendously enlarged. Since its-in- cials resulted in the return of come increasingly evident that ception, the War Refugee Board, David and 40,000 fellow-exiles to as we meet the emergencies of under the able and dynamic dir- Bucharest. Through the combin- war we must also face the tasks ection of John W. Pehle, Execu- ed efforts of the Joint Distribu- tive Director, has relief almost tion Committee and the Jewish of ponce. entirely on the resources of the Agency for Palestine, which re- Slow Liberation - major private agencies, such as ceives its funds from the United Enslavement descended upon those of the UJA, to finance its Palestine Appeal, David obtained a Jewish people with almost rescue projects. passage on a ship which sailed. blitz-like suddenness. Liberation When the War Refugee Board, from Constanza across the Black has come in comparatively slow stages. Out of this process of progressive liberation has emerg- SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL . — MASONIC TEMPLE ed a pattern which now appears SUNDAY MATINEE and EVENING, OCT. 1 to be established as the nucleus The Famous Yiddish Stars foi the reconstruction program of Mithal Michalesko * Celia Adler * Max Dozhik the days of peace. This pattern and this nucleus are being shap- ed by what we are doing today in meeting the problems of (Es Kumt Die Goldene Zeit) rescue and survival of the Jew- Ity Ostrow ish. people. Music by Jacobson In the Cast: Looking Into 1945 Reizel Bozhik Leo Schechter Looking ahead into 1945 cer- Anna Levine Ben Bonus Anna Siegel tain basic facts emerge as signi- Sylvia Fishman Rose Schlechter Sam Senby ficant guides for the future. The Prices: Matinee, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00.. 75c, plus tax Nazi devastation of Europe has Evening, $2.50, $2.00 $1.50, $1.00, plus tax decimated the Jewish population Tickets on sale at Jewish Daily Forward, 9124 Linwood, TY. 5-3682, 11 to 5:30 daily; Federation of Polish Jews, 9124 Linwood, TY. 7-9650, 5:30 to wtih the result that the end of 10 daily, and all day Sunday. Oct. 7, at box office. the war will find organized Jew- ish life intact only in the United States, Palestine and England. The depleted Jewish communi- " ties of Europe will not be in any position to engage in an ex- UNiversity 3-9054 tensive program of self-help. It RAndolph 6900 405 Fox Bldg., Detroit 1, Michigan will, therefore, be our responsi- bility to assist them until such Sales Representative _ a time as they can provide ade- quately for themselves. More- over, we shall have to face the problem of the many hundreds Advertising of thousands of uprooted Jews SAINT PAUL 4, MINNESOTA who will not be able, or will REMEMBRANCE ADVERTISING serves your customer not desire to return to the coun- and by this service reminds him of you. tries from which they were * CALENDARS * UTILITY ADVERTISING * DIRECT MAIL driven by anti=Semitism. * PLAYING CARDS * BUSINESS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Problem of 'Great Magnitude * MORALE BUILDING PATRIOTIC PUBLICITY Obviously the problem will be * MISSION LEATHER of • such magnitude that private agencies will be unable to - cope Never Forget a Customer— with it alone. It is expected that Never Let a Customer Forget You intergovernmental cooper at ion and assistance will be forthcom- Sea to Istanbul. Unfortunately, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Ye.. David had neither the exit nor men, - and North Africa. Recent- entrance permits required of ly the Joint Distribution Corn- travelers. But thanks to the ef- mittee made an emergency allot. forts of Ambassador Steinhardt ment of $3,000,000 for the relief and the War Refugee Board rep- and transvortation of 8,000 Jews resentative' in Turkey, he got from the Balkans to Palestine. through Turkey and on to Pales- Throughout the past year Pales- tine. tine has been the major . haven. Another illustration of how the for refugees in. the Balkans flee- agencies of the United Jewish ing Nazi deportation. The steady Appeal are supplementing gov- influx of men, women, and ernmental assistance to homeless children, almost all of whom are Jews is the story of the Jewish destitute, has greatly taxed. the refugees at Ferramonti. resources of the United Pales- tine Appeal, which must provide The Shipment of Clothing Shortly after the Axis forces housing for the newcomers and were driven out of Southern retrain and adjust them. I t a 1 y, t h e JDC established ResponsibilitWo War Chest The creation of the Emergency headquarters at Bari and took steps to bring aid to thousands Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, of refugees who had been intern- which is now housing some 982 ed at Ferramonti. UNRRA p -ro- refugees for the duration of the vided clothes for the male adults war, has also increased the res- in the camps who were given ponsibilities of private agencies. cast-off uniforms. But the task While the government is provid- of clothing the women and ing full maintenance, supple- children presented a problem mentary services are being fur- which - could not be immediately nished by the National Refugee solved. At this point the J.D.C. Service with funds raised by the offered its services and prompt- United Jewish Appeal. The Na- ly ordered the purchase of $40,- tional Refugee Service has made 000 worth of clothing which was steady progress in adjusting new- comers to the American way of shipped from Palestine. Following the Allied liberation life and in helping them take of Rome, the JDC opened a their places on the production special office to minister to the and battle fronts. The Jews of Detroit have oc- needs of many of the 9,000 native Jews as well as approximately cupied a place of leadership in 2,000 refugees in the Italian capi- the American Jewish community tal. which -they have earned through a high degree of service to every UJA Provides Workers In order to give UNRRA the Jewish cause. In periods of crisis closest cooperation in its program their understanding and gener- of rescue and reconstruction, osity set examples for Jews in trained social workers have been other cities. With the approach of assigned to UNRRA's staff by the victory `I am confident that they agencies of the United Jewish will continue to be in the fore- Appeal. The Joint Distribution front in establishing a program Committee has placed ten spec- of action and a standard of ser- ialists in the field of social ser- vice which will be emulated by vice at the disposal of UNRRA. other communities in. the era of In the Middle East the Jewish restoration and rehabilitation for Agency for Palestine has organ- the Jewish people. This, I am ized a trained staff to be attach- sure, will be concretely demon- ed to UNRRA for rescue work strated through Detroit Jewry's in that area. overwhelming response to the There have been many drama- actors will be assisted by Max tic developments on the rescue Chest of Metropolitan Detroit. front during the past year which will go down in history as a year MICHIGAN'S LARGEST of the greatest opportunities and FLORSHEIM. DEALER achievements in bringing relief, reconstruction and resettlement aid to Jews throughout the 'world. • r . 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