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THE JEWISH

Jan Karski's 'Secret State'
Tells Tragedy of Polish Jews

A Review by LOUIS PANUSII

STORY OF A SECRET STATE:
by Jan Karski. Houghton Mifflin Co.

practices. Two: Since Hitler con-
siders all Germans as one compact
racial group, let Germans in Al-
For four years Lt. Jan Karski lied countries suffer the fate of
served as official courier be- the Jews. Let them know and
tween the secret state in con- feel what it means to be in such
quered Poland and the Polish a desperate plight of hopeless
Government-in-Exile in London people being exterminated. with
and also as liaison officer be- ruthless cruelty.
tween the political and military
Evacuate Children
authorities in the undtrground.
Three: Arrange the wholesale
Unlike most underground evacuation of Jewish children,
soldiers, Jan Karski has lived to women, the sick and the old.
tell the tale, an eyewitness and Germans and money should be
participant's account of a cour- offered as exchange. Thus a
ageous and tough underground fraction of the unhappy and
state.
hopeless Jewish people could be
Of p?rticular tragic interest to rescued.
the Jewish readers are chapters
To the Jewish leaders they
29 and 30 which tell about the addressed this plea: "The earth
Warsaw Ghetto and the Jewish must be shaken to its foundation,
death camps. Before leaving the world must be aroused . . .
Poland, Karski met two repre- They must go to all important
sentatives of the Jewish Under- English and American offices
ground, one — the head of the and agencies . . . Not to leave
Zionist Organization, and the them until they have obtained
other—the leader of he Bund. guarantees that a way has been
From these. he was supposed to decided to save the Jews.
get "the information, sentiments,
"Let them not accept food or
requests, and instructions of the drink, let them die a slow death
entire Jewish population" for while the world is looking on
transmission to the Polish and
. This may shake the con-
Allied governments.
science of the world . . We do
not demand such sacrifices out
Beyond Description
What he learned from them of cruelty. We expect to make
and what his own eyes saw in them ourselves .. The Ghetto
the Ghetto and in the death is going to go up in flames . .
camps was horrible beyond des- We are not going - to die in slow
cription. "Never in the history torment, but fighting . . . We
of mankind, never anywhere in will declare war on Germany."
Hopelessness- of Jews
the realm of human relations did
anything occur to compare with
Such was the abysmal hope-
what was inflicted on the Jewish lessness of the Jewish people in
population in Poland", says Poland. Karski, according to his
Karski.
story, told everything to Jewish
And this is what they wanted and Allied leaders in London.
Karski to tell the leaders of the We know how the world react-
Polish. and Allied governments: ed to Jewish suffering. We know
"Our entire people will be des- how many Jews were saved! .. .
troyed. This can not be prevented We also know that one Jewish
. by any force in Poland. Place leader kept faith with his dying
this responsibility on the should- brethren in Poland . . . Szmul
ers of the Allies. Let not a single Zygelbojm, after he failed to help
leader of the United Nations be his perishing brothers, chose to,
able to say that they did not die with them.
know that we were being murd-
And while the sufferings of the
ered in Poland and could not be Poles and their dead had a pur-
helped except from the outside." pose—liberation, independence, a
resurrected Poland after the war,
Murdered 300,000
By October, 1942, the Nazis in Hitler won his war against the
two and a half months, in one Jews of Europe, with the Allies
single district in Poland, murd- looking on . . . And no Allied
ered 300,000 people. Thousands victory can bring them back to
upon thousands were murdered life • • • •-
daily.
What did the Jewish under- German Jews in Belgium
ground leaders demand in the No Longer Enemy Aliens
way of help from the Allied
governments? One: to impress
BRUSSELS, Mar. 20 (JTA)—
Germans with power and vio- German Jewish refugees in Bel-
lence, with a threat and warning gium will henceforth be con-
that unless they stop the slaught- sidered • as non-enemy aliens,
er of the Jews, they will suffer a Minister of Justice Charles de
similar fate.
Waranaffe told Max Gottschalk,
Such an official declaration, special representative in Europe
backed by force would pressure of the American Jewish Com-
the Germans into changing their mittee.

NEWS

Birthdays of
Next Month

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Harry M. Shulman, vice-presi-
dent of Shaarey Zedek, will
observe his birthday on April 1.
Other birthdays include the
following:
Julian H. Krolik, April 9;
Fred A. Ginsburg, April 10;
Mrs. Paul R. Freeman, April 10;
Harold B. Desenberg, April 17;
Charles N. Agree, April 18; Sam
Marwil, April 18; Maurice Drei-
fus: April 18; Emil T. • Stern,
April 20; Abraham Cooper, April
25; Milton J. Doner, April 25;
Bendetson Netzorg, April 26;
Walter H. Blucher, April 28;
Mrs. Harry..L. Jackson, April 30.

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Friday, March 30,

Marrano Revelation
In New HUC Annual

Wounded Jewish Officer
Captures 67 Prisoners

"Hebrew Union College An-
nual—Vol. XVIII" is replete with
very important scholarly articles.
Names of imp( rtance in Jew-
ish culture—Robert Gordis, Ju-
lian Morgenstern, A b r a h am
Cronbach, Cecil Roth-- and a
number of others appear as sig-
natories to the scholarly works
in this book.
Dr. Roth'; "The Strange Case
of Hector Mendes Bravo, a
Marrano who returned to the
Christian fold, is a fascinating
essay and is especially timely
now in view of the Zolli inci-
dent. Bravo's confession — the
document being reproduced in
this volume—is presented "as a
human document,;' giving "con-
siderable insight into the mental
workings of the uneducated Mar-
rano of the 17th century." There
is a complete picture in this
confession of the Marrano world,
and Dr. Roth's work is a great
contribution to Jewish scholar-
ship.
Dr. Gordis writes on "T h e
Social Ideals of the Apocrypha."
Dr. Eric Werner has an im-
portant essay on "Manuscripts
of Jewish Music in the Eduard
Birnbaum Collection."
All of the essays attest to the
annual serious effort of Hebrew
Union College to produce the
results of great Jewish scholar-
ship.

NEW YORK (JPS)—Second
Lt. Sidney Goldstein of Glen
Cove, L. I., accompanied by 11
enlisted men, led a successful as-.
sault against a heavily defended
enemy position in the Gothic line
in Italy, and was responsible for
the capture of 67 prisoners, the
New York Times reports.
Lt. Goldstein, who had been
wounded in the leg the day be-,
fore, was given the assignment
of taking a hill which the Nazis
were using to decided advantage
in holding-up an Allied advance.
After capturing two enemy dug- .
outs, Goldstein, who speaks per-
fect German, induced two Nazi
officers to order the surrender
of the remaining defenders.

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