Friday, December 22, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Prof. Dubnov Slain by Ex-Pupil

Noted Jewish Historian
Among Vietihuuts of Nazis

Soviet Commission Searching for Diary He Had Kept
During Stay in Riga Ghetto; Former Heidleberg Stu-
dent Directed Mass Execution 3 Years Ago

By CAPT. E. GEKHMAN

Special to the Independent Jewish Press Service

Jewish General
Littman Brings Noted Stars in
Helped Free Riga Jewish Play for 2 Performances

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By S. PERSOV
With only a few Yiddish per- Gertrude Stein, Mania Schloss-
Special to the Independent
formances to be brought to De- berg, Isaac Arko, Benny Seid-
Jewish Press Service
troit by Abraham Littman, De-
RIGA (JPS) — Major General
man, A. Doner, Ben Bonus and
Nikoli Levin, Red Army artillery
others.
commander, is officially credited
Tickets are available at Metro
with having planned and exe-
Music House, 10328 Dexter, TO.
cuted the attack which led to the
8-4114; Atkin's Confectionary,
fall of Valga, Latvia, on Sept. 19,
8640-12th St., TR. 2-8884 or TR.
leading 24 days later to the rout-
2-8889; at Littman's, TY. 6-9186,
ing of the Germans fortified in
and at the box office only on the
Riga.
day of the performance, TR.
The terrain on this sector was
2-6648.
particularly difficult; swamps,
lakes, and rivers had to be over-
come. The artillery literally had
Youth Guidance to Have
to carry their guns in their hands
Annual
Banquet Jan. 1
in pressing forward. Within sev-
eral days Maj. Gen .Levin's unit
Youth Guidance of Mich., Inc.,
destroyed fortifications which it
which was formed to promote the
had taken the Germans months
welfare of young boys and to
to build.
train them for good citizenship,
Maj. Gen. Levin, son of a
will have a banquet on Jan. 1 at
Leningrad tailor, served with the
Workmen's Circle Bldg.
Red Army throughout the Civil
Reservations may be made by
War period against the bands of
calling the secretary - treasurer,
Denikin, Kolchak and Balakho-
Samuel Ravitz, 2293 Ford Ave.,
vich. At the outbreak of this war
HERMAN YABLOKOFF
TO. 5-7294.
he held the rank of Lieutenant
Other officers besides Mr.
Colonel and was appointed the
Ravitz are: M. H. Shepherd,,pres-
chief of staff in his sector. In the
ident; Max Sampson, exe4 itive
winter of 1943, when the Ger-
vice - president; Joe Sternberg,
mans were sent reeling back
vice-president; Dave Liebow, fi-
from Stalingrad toward the Vo-
nancial secretary; A. Hyman,
ronezh steppes, the artillery un-
Scoutmaster of Troop 421; The
der his command was credited
Rev. I Rosin, Lewis Levin, Abe
with the destruction of 38 Ger-
Sampson, A. Altman, E. Shep-
man battalions, 15 artillery bat-
herd, R. Brod, members of execu-
teries, 156 machine guns, 48
tive board.
tanks, 102 lorries, and 64 bill-
boxes. He was promoted to
Major General in April, 1943,
Rep. Bloom to Address
and has been decorated three
Chicago
Sentinel Fete
times.

RIGA (JPS)—Prof. Simon Dubnov, famous Jewish historian,
was shot to death in a mass execution of Riga JeWry in the early
morning of Dec. 1, 1941 on the orders of Johann Siebert, one of
the German commandants of the
ghetto who many years ago at-
tended Dubnov's occasional lec- sary of the first ,barricade fight-
tures at the University of Heidel- ing in Riga against the Germans.
berg.
On that day the workers of the
This fact was brought out by Quadrat factory went on strike
surviving eye-witnesses address- in protest against the murder of
ing a memorial meeting here
on the third anniversary of the the Jews. Gendarmes were call-
death-martyrdom of Riga Jewry. ed out.
Ostentatiously sauntering
Workers barricaded. the en-
through the ghetto on his first trances to the factory. The
day in Riga, Johann Siebert re- Germans went against them 'with
cognized the aged historian shuf- an S. S. unit armed with artillery
fling down a narrow lane. From and mortars. Fifty workers and
that day onward he began to office employes died in the un-
taunt the patriarch, "inviting" equal fight. Riga honors the
him for questioning to Gestapo memory of the fighters and mar-
headquarters, swooping down on tyrs, among them the unforget-
his home, and taking every oc- table name of their eminent fel-
casion to insult and humiliate low citizen and scholar Simon
him.
Dubnov.
Once Foolish Enough
"Professor," he once said, "I
was once foolish enough to listen
to your lectures. You spoke to
us at length about the ideas of
humanism which you asserted
MOSCOW, (JTA)—The Jewish
were going to triumph through-
out the world. I remember that Anti-Fascist Committee reports
you criticized the Jew-haters and that Dr. Jacob Vigodsky, 85,
prophesied that the twentieth well-known Vilna Jewish leader,
century would be a century of perished in the Vilna prison dur-
complete emancipation and ing the German occupation, and
equality for the Jews. Yesterday that Noah Prilutsky, former War-
I was over in the Bickern woods. saw Jewish leader and famous
We shot 480 Russian war prison- philologist, who in 1941. was ap-
ers, and just think of it—we shot pointed by the Lithuanian Gov-
exactly the . same number of ernment to the newly-created
Jews, which goes to show that chair for Yiddish language at
An immediate new trial of the
the Jews have gained equality Vilna University, was shot by 26 dangerous defendants, indict-
the Gestapo.
with the Russians."
ed for sedition, before they can
"How many Jews did you say
Prior to his execution, Prilut- succeed with their treasonous
were shot yesterday?" the histor- sky, arrested Aug. 1, 1941, was plans of bringing fascism to the
ian asked an ostensibly laconic surrendered by the Gestapo to U. S., was urged upon Atty. Gen.
question.
Dr. Gothardt, German expert on Francis Biddle in a .telegram
"Four hundred and eighty."
Jewish affairs who was sent sent by the National Committee
"Thanks, it is important for me
from Berlin to Vilna to collect to Combat Anti-Semitism, it was
to know."
rare Jewish books and man- announced by Dr. Emmanuel
Kept Diary of Events
Chapman, chairman of its execu-
scripts.
To the last day of his life, Prof.
tive board.
Dubnov kept a diary in which
The defendants "are as guilty
he recorded all events in the
of treason today as Benedict Ar-
Riga ghetto. The notebooks
nold was in his day" and "we
with his entries were conveyed
would all be derelict in our duty
to friends living disguised as
to the men and women in our
Aryans in the city. They have
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Dur- armed' forces if we did not pro-
not yet been found. Apparently ing the first quarter of 1944, the ceed with a new trial," he declar-
the custodians of his manuscripts population of Palestine increased ed, adding that these defendants
were deported to Germany. If by 21,298 persons to a total of must be made "historic examples
they left the manuscripts behind, 1,697,869 by the end of March, it to the world that those who
they may yet be found some day is disclosed in official figures would betray our beloved coun-
and thus the world may learn now available.
try" and must pay the price for
how the 82-year-old historian
their iniquity.
Natural increase in the first
viewed Jewish history on the
basis of the happenings of the three months consisted of 14,661
excess births over deaths and Lady Reading Honored
past five years.
6,637
immigrant newcomers, By the Jews of Paris
In the early hours of the
morning of Dec. 1, 1941, the ex- about 4,000 more than in the
termination of Riga's Jews began first 1943 quarter when combin-
PARIS, (JTA)—An appeal for
when 500 Jews were marched off ed natural increase and immi- Jewish unity was made here by
by the Germans to the Bickern gration was 16,000.
Lady Reading at a reception tend-
woods. In front of the Jewish
Of the total 68,820 births dur- ered to her by the Federation of
Community Council building ing 1943, 49,621 were Arab Jewish Societies.
s tood Chief Rabbi Zak, of Riga, (72.1% of the total) and 14,317
Lady Reading, who is here in
wearing a talith, and with him Jews (20.8%), and the remainder the interests of the World Jew-
t he other members of the Coun- in other communities. In the ish Congress, said that such unity
cil, driven out into the street to January-March 1944 record, there is essential so that a small group
oin the procession of death.
were 4,023 Jewish births, 15,738 of recognized Jewish spokesmen
Abraham Rosenthal, not in- Moslem births, 1,170 Christian may be able to speak at the peace
luded in the first group, passed births, and 194 "others."
conference in behalf of all Jews.
b y the herded Councillors. One,
Figures for 1943 show that of
Dr. Blumenfeld, whispered to 8,507 Jewish immigrants, 2,158
im:
came from Turkey, 1,999 from
"Convey our message that we Poland, and 1,598 from the Ye:
ied with firm faith that our men. Only 356 immigrants be-
eople cannot be destroyed. In- longed to the category of "capi-
ide his house Prof. Dubnov is talists." Persons who took Pales-
w riting the last lines of his
tinian nationality last year num-
hronicle. He's sure it will see
bered 5,881 Jews, 118 non-Jews.
he light of day."

Noted Vilna, Warsaw
Leaders Executed

Page Thirteen

Urge Retrial of 26
In Sedition Case

Population Increase
Noted in Palestine

BELLA MEISELS

troiters will have an oppor-
tunity to witness an outstanding
theatrical production Sunday
matinee and evening, Dec. 31,
at the Scottish Rite Cathedral
of the Masonic Temple.

Herman Yablokoff, Bella Meis-
els, Leon Gold and a star sup-
porting cast will be featured at
these two performances in "The
Jolly Landsman" (Der Freilicher
Landsman"). The production,
prepared by B. Friedman and I.
Rosenberg, music by the noted
composer Eli Trilling, features
15 musical numbers.
The supporting cast includes
Mildred Blau, Anna Lillian,

Sholem Aleichem Schools an-
nounce the formation of a spe-
cial class for beginners.
Information may be gotten by
calling the office of the schools,
3754 Monterey, HO. 5404.

Human Relations Consultant

Unusual Personal Problems

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in Liberated Poland

* The American Federation for Polish

To the Menorah

A PRAYER

By ROSE ELKIN FARBER

Oh Candelabra, so full of flame,
Help us continue your great aim
To unite our people, young and old
To welcome back unto our fold.
Together we stand, divided we fall
Help us heed your mighty call.

Oh Candelabra, so bright thru the
years,
You shine on our pathways — thru
laughter—thru tears.
Your light—for which the Maccabees
so bravely fought.
It shall not have been for naught.
Oh Candelabra with flame so bright.
Help, us, help us, see the light!

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HELP The Surviving Jews

Women, Children, Too
Just then the door opened and
P rof. Dubnov was hustled out by
wo Germans. He had the look
0 f a man conscious that he had
d. me his duty. He looked about
im. Everything in the ghetto
h ad the hue of blood. Hundreds
0 f women and children, prodded
.b y S. S. men, were going to their
eath. Dubnov turned his gaze
o the Germans.
Johann Siebert bared his teeth
n a grin. Dubnov -apparently
w anted to say something, but
he tommy guns began to rattle,
m owing down the .Jewish elders
0 n the steps of the Council build-
in g-
Observance of the third anni-
V ersary of the first mass shoot-
ng, coincides with the anniver-

CHICAGO (JPS) — Rep. Sol
Bloom, (D. N. Y.), chairman of
the House Foreign Relations
Committee, will speak at the ju-
bilee banquet here, Jan. 6, hon-
oring the Sentinel, English-Jew-
ish Weekly. -

Jews has responded to the urgent call

for help by sending packages of food

direct to the Jewish Committee in

Lublin. WE NEED YOUR HELP in

saving as many lives as possible. Send
your contribution to the:

American Federation For Polish Jews
9 124 Linwood
Detroit 6

Signed

United Relief Committee
For Jews in Poland

Henry M. Abramovitz, Chairman

Endorsed by the
UNION Of
ORTHODOX JEWISH
IONS'
C ONGREGAT
Of AMERICA

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