Page Eighteen

An Historic Address

flame. I belong to the 'fortunate
who are allowed to remain in
the ghetto. I am with my
family and small baby without
shelter, but soon we are helped.
"On Oct. 28, 10,800 • are mas-
sacred at the fort. The popula-
tion of the ghetto has diminish-
Sends Text of Speech Delivered at St. Ott;lien by Jewish ed; there is no longer any il-
lusion and the whole population
Physician; Detroiter Awarded Distinguished Service
is in a mood of deepest depres-
sion, sorrow and mourning. Then
Cross for Heroism in Action
SA Hauptsturmfuerer Jordan ar-
S/Sgt. Robert M. Warren's platoon forms the guard garrison rives and declares• that . hence-
of a German military hospital at the Cloister of St. Ottilien. In forth there will be nothing to
this hospital are housed 420 Jews, victims of the notorious Dachau worry about, all will work for
concentration camp. Most of them are afflicted with typhus, but the German Wehrmacht and
are showing remarkable im-%
will be taken care of. However,
provement under the care they organized under German leader- nobody trusts him, we are all
are receiving. They are treated ship and the worst kind of mas- suspicious.
by Wehrmacht doctors who are sacre ever heard of was begun.
Round Up Children
supervised by two former prison- Sucklings were shot; ears, noses
"Then came March 27, 1944.
ers who previously had practiced and fingers cut off, the bellies
medicine in Kovno (Kaunas), of young women slit—the devil The ghetto had been transformed
Lithuania, and who had been celebrated his greatest triumph. into a concentration camp and
the SS raids were started. A
concentration camp victims.
The little houses in 'the suburbs brutal hunt for children up to
An address delivered by Dr. of Kovno were flooded with the ages of 13 began. As hunt-
Z. Grinberg, head physician of blood. Men were machine- ed and wounded animals the
this hospital, who is assisted by gunned, women were plagued, children were thrown into the
Dr. Katz, at a liberation concert violated and shot.
trucks. I still see the heart-
at the hospital,
"Thousands lost their lives rending scenes. Mothers cling to
proved one of
this way, but gradually the their children; mothers cover
the most soul-
massacre died down. A civil their children 'with their bodies
stirring experi-
government was established in in order that they be shot rather
ences for S/Sgt.
Kovno. The first order issued than the child.- All the camp is
Warren and all
by SA-Brigadefuhrer Cramer, crying. I see the tears of innocent
whit, heard it.
the newly appointed commissar children. I see wild despair.- In
S/Sgt. Warren
of the town, was that all Jews the meantime the SS is shooting
wrote the facts
must by death penalty wear on in all directions and fighting a
and sent the
the breast and on the back a fierce battle, a battle against in-
text of this
yellow star. The Jews were not nocent children. Naturally every-
speech to Her-
allowed to walk on the side- one endeavors to hide his child.
man Jacobs, ex-
walks, only the gutter. We felt `some parents poison the children
ecutive director S/Sgt. Warren humiliated, hurt and exasperat-
of the Jewish Community Center ed, but' there was still hope that and commit-suicide. On the 29th
of Detroit. In his letter to Mr. the war would not last forever. of March, the camp- of Kovno
has no children.
Jacobs, S/Sgt. Warren states that
Ordered to Move
"On July 12, after the success-
the Stars and Stripes as well as
"Then came the second order,
the Jewish flag waved through- the entire Jewish population was ful Russian offensive, the Soviet
armies approach Kovno. SS
out the performance.
to move to a little suburb of
Here are the salient points in Kovno by Aug. 15. Any Jew Obersturmbannfuhrer G o e c k e
declares that the camp must be
Dr. Grinberg's speech:
found outside the borders of the evacuated and that there is no
"The Common Graves"
ghetto would be shot.
reason to fear, we were going to
"Four hundred Jews, - among
"Nobody knows how he is to Germany and would be well
the last represent atives of feed himself and his family, but treated there. We are taken to
European Jewry after the hard- one soon learns to think only the newly established concentra-
est period of suffering ever about the present day. We hope tion camp of Stutthof near Dan-
heard of, are now here in the that the hardest is over and zig. At Tiegenhof the previous
hospital of St. Ottilien. These that here in the ghetto we shall SS guard is replaced by new
people are the remnant of the be able to carry on a regular Stormtroops. An order is given
venerable, old Jewish communi- existence. We axe imprisoned. that all women . and any remain-
ties in Europe. Budapest and
"Within the ghetto a self-ad- ing children must get out.
Prague, Warsaw, Kovno and ministration is established. The
"After 144 hours of travel we
Saloniki are represented here.
venerable Dr. Elkes takes over arrived at an unknown place and
"Millions of members of these leadership of this tragical coin- were ordered to get out. Every-
communities are annihilated. munity. A hospital is establish- thing we possessed was taken
What is the logic of destiny to ed and all the doctors bring their from us, even the photographs
let these individuals live? We instruments and medicines there. of our families. Passports and
belong in the common graves of
"The Germans behave brutal- oiler documents were destroy-
those murdered hi Kharkow and ly, men, women and chilrden are ed.
Lublin; we belong to the millions beaten. There is shooting on a
12 Hours of Labor
gassed and burnt in Auschwitz; big scale going on. The groaning
• "We must go daily the long
the tens of thousands who died of wounded men, shrill crys of way to the firm, Moll. This
under the strain of the hardest despairing women are heard all means 12 hours of hardest labor.
labor, tormented by lice, in over the ghetto. All of our world- Moll is a terror; Moll means
mud, by starvation and freez- ly goods have been looted by death. Fifty to 60 men die every
ing in Lodz, Kielce, Buchenwald, the invader.
day. Those who are unable . to
Dachau, L a n d s h u t, Utting,
Surrounded by Soldiers
work any more, tortured by lice
Kaufering, Landsberg and Leons-
"Oct. 4—Part of the ghetto is and the inhuman treatment and
berg.
surrounded by heavily armed conditions, are transferred to
"We Are Still Dead"
soldiers, the inhabitants driven Camp 4 and they, too, die. Eighty
We belong to the great army to the street and aimlessly per cent have lost their lives. As
of millions fallen in battle. Me driven forth to be murdered. The Germany meets defeat on all
are not alive—we are still dead. hospital is locked and set on fronts, Himmler orders us to be
Nevertheless, there may be fire, the patients, doctors and evacuated, in truth to be an-
some sense in it if I am able to nurses perishing in the glowing nihilated. But fortnUately Herr
address you today. We are
merely the delegates of millions
of victims to tell all mankind,
to proclaim all over the world
how cruel people can become,
how much animal there is con-
cealed in human beings and what
a triumphant record of crime
and murder there has been
achieved by the nation of Hegel
and Kant, Schiller and Goethe,
Beethoven and Schopenhauer.
"Everyone of us has travelled
a different road of torture. Dif-
ferent were the roads, various
were the stations of torture, dif-
ferent was the space of time,
but common is the red thread of
blood, torture, torment, humili-
ation and undignified death.
"I shall try to give you a
picture of the stations of torture
through which I personally
passed.

S/Sgt. Warren Describes

Hospital Liberation Speech.

Kovno, June 21, 1941

"Kovno, Saturday, June 21,
1941—Life is running' along
smoothly. During the night of
June 22, our sleep is disturbed
• by some kind of detonations. We
assume it to be military man-
oeuvering. However, we learn
the next morning that Germany
attacked the Soviet Union with-
out a declaration of war. .. An
announcement is heard over the
radio declaring that for every
German soldier killed 100 Jews
would be shot. Simultaneously
the Lithuanian mob was being

Friday, July 27, t945

THE JEWISH N.EWS

• Present City Controller Since 1941. • Born and
raised in Detroit. • Graduate of University of Michigan.
• Experienced in civic affairs with an outstanding
record for efficiency in municipal administration.

OAKMAN

A Man of Vision

OAKMAN

A Man of Integrity

Vote in the Primaries Tuesday, Aug. 7th

Himmler is unable to decide our
destiny any more. The libera-
tors come earlier than these
`Herren' had anticipated.
"Even here in this hospital
where the 'people are properly
cared for now, the Nazis are
still exacting their toll of vic-
tims. Men are dying every day
from the results of their ordeal.
"We are meeting here today
to celebrate our liberation, but
it is a time of mourning for us.
For every clear and joyful day
at present and in. the future will
be shadowed by the tragic events
of the years gone by. One per
cent survived to see the libera-
tion and 99% of this 1% are
very ill. Are you able to enjoy
yourselves? Are you able to
celebrate? Hitler lost all the
battles on all the fronts except
the battle against defenseless
men, women and children. He
won the war against European .
Jewry. He was helped to carry
it out by the German nation.
However, we do not want
revenge. If we took vengeance
it would mean that we must fall
to those depths of ethic and mor-
al degeneration to which the
German people have fallen dur-
ing these last years."

.

OPA Price Attorney

S/Sgt. Warren, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Warren of 16205
Muirland Ave., and of Miami
Beach, Fla., is a graduate of the
University of Michigan and of
its Law School, where he won
highest honors. Prior to enter-
ing service on Sept. 3, 1943, he
was chief price attorney for the
Toledo office of OPA. He has
been overseas since February,

1944. He is doing criminal in-
vestigation work and is serving
as an instructor. Word has reach-

ed his sister, Mrs. May Gold-
stream of Muriland Ave. that he
has been awarded the Dist-
inguished Service Cross for ex-
traordinary heroism in action on
Aug. 28, 1944, in the vicinity of
Montlimar, France.

Forced Enemy to Flee

The citation accompanying the
award reads: "When the enemy
troops, supported by heavy con-
centrations of fire descended
from the crest' of a hill to at-
tack the third platoon, and to
dislodge them from their posi-
tions, S/Sgt. Warren, from a
position which was under contin-
uous enemy fire, fired his weapon
until he had expended all of
his ammunition. His well-
directed fire forced the enemy
foot troops to withdraw to their
fOrrner positions. Then discover-
ing that his squad leader had
been- severely wounded, and,
realizing that immediate evacua-
tion was imperative, he, with
utter disregard for personal
safety, left his covered position
and carried his squad leader
through intense enemy fire to an
aid station."
S/Sgt. Warren writes of his
division's freeing of thousands
of persecuted from the various
concentration camps and of their
capturing of high Nazi person-
ages like Goering and Wehr-
macht leaders like Von Rund-
stedt. He tells also of their
participation in the liberating of
such leaders as Daladier, and
Schussnigg during the moment-
ous dash south through Bavaria
and into Austria.

There's Nothing Wrong With
Detroit Tha it A HARD-
WORKING Mayor Can't Cure!

GIVE US A MAYOR
WHO ISN'T AFRAID
OF HARD W ORK!

