Page Sixteen THE JEWISH NEWS Now that we look back upon these ter-. rible years and these terrifying tasks, we may well consider it providential that the JDC had the necessary resiliency, backed by an experience of a quarter Of a cen- tury, to adjust itself to these ever-chang- ing conditions. Liberation, Charter Great Events Relief and Rehabilitation Perspectives —For 5796 By DR. JOSEPH HYMAN Executive Vice-Chairman of the J. D. C. N THE MIDST OF THE distress and the turmoil that beset the Jewish people during' the troubled years following the advent of Hitler, it was often difficult for Jewish organization like JDC to attempt a glimpse into the future with a view to plotting the course, ahead. The 10 years beginning with the prom- . ulgation of the Nuremberg Laws were years of increasing gloom. They may well be designated as the Decade of Growing Despair. Repression, economic strangula- tion, confiscation and ultimate expulsion were a mere prelude to the unspeakable second half of that decade, culminating in Majdanek, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and The innumerable other haunts of the devil where five million of our brothers were done to death. But by then the conflagra- tion was general.. The callous world final- ly discovered that he who began as mere- ly the tormentor of helpless Jews, had ultimately become the scourge of all mankind. - Ito was during that fateful decade that JDC had to abandon all long-range plan- ning and concentrate on the exigencies of the moment. Join With Underground Forces To feed the' evacuated, to clothe them and heal them wherever they happened to find a place of refuge—be it Switzer-. land or Portugal, be it Spain, Asiatic Rus- sia, or Shanghai—was another urgent task. And during the latter war days, when Hitler had conquered almost all of Europe, it; became imperative to join hands with the underground forces. It was necessary to "smuggle" Jewish chil- dren over dangerous mountain paths, to find for them refuge in neutral countries, or to shelter them in the homes of kind 'Christians out of the path of harrowing war, out of sight of the enemy. These were delicate "operations," re- quiring a great deal of ingenuity, but per- mitting little or no long-range planning. Often they entailed great risks and, some- times, they culminated in martyrdom, the badge of honor that has come during. these tragic years to millions of our peo- ple and to many of its trusted leaders. In the case of the JDC man, it should be remembered that many of them, refused all thought of safety and preferred to stay at their perilous posts. Nor did they flinch when the almost inevitable doom overtook them, as was so tragically dem- onstrated in the case of the two Isaacs, Gitterman and Bornstein, and of Leon Neustadt, who lost their lives while serv- ing the Jews of conquered Poland. Fortunately, the Decade of Growing Despair is now past and gone. The Jewish calendar year 5705 saw the occurrence of two events whose magnitude will essen- tially affect all of the thinking and all of the planning of mankind in the years to come. These two epochal events were the liberation of Europe and the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations at San Francisco. Clearly, the world has turned again to- wards the light. The prophecy of Isaiah and of Micah about the End of Days when "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more," is about to be given a practical test once more. And it is only in the im- plicit belief that, civilization will be doomed unless this prophecy comes true, that mankind, and the Jewish people as an integral part of it, can now set about to repair the terrible damage of war. • It is in this spirit that JDC turns its gaze upon the Jewish year, 5706. It is still an anxious look. There are a number of facts, too terrible in their significance to permit a complete change of mood or out- look. Five million of our brethren perish- ed. The economic foundation of Jewish life on the continent of Europe is wholly ruined. The fate of 50,000 Jewish children, many. of them orphans, is still fraught with a great deal of uncertainty. The com- munal and cultural institutions which have given • cohesion and significance and historic continuity to Jewish existence are in shambles. Still, the time to rebuild is at hand. The 1,250,000 surviving Jews of Europe will need not only supplemental emer- gency rations of food, clothing and - medi- cine. They will need also artisans' tools and machines and working capital to be- come self-reliant and self-supporting. Must Find New Opportunities The stateless Jews will have to find new homes and new opportunities, and these the JDC will strive to find for them. Many among them will want to throw in their lot with the brave pioneers who have converted the land of the Jewish past into the land of the Jewish future— the land of Israel—and these the JDC will, as it s'o often did in the past, try to help reach their destination. The 50,000 Jewish children—the nucleus of the coming generation of Jews in Eu- rope—will have to be provided for. • , In sketching this program for the year 5706 whose full fruition is to follow in the years to come, we have before our minds' eye the ideal that inspired JDC work during the 30 years of its existence; namely, so to conduct its work, whether rescue or rehabilitation, as to permit the interplay of the various forces making for a more wholesome and better.. Jewish existence everywhere. JDC aims to bring healing and restore well being, both physical and spiritual, to- all those of our brothers who were ad- versely affected by the world's greatest calamity. Also, it proposes to give its co- operation to all other Jewish forces en- gaged in similar tasks. Its association with the UPA and NRS in the UJA these many years and its cooperation with the Jewish Agency, with OSE, and many other bodies in various countries is ample demonstra- tion of JDC's capacity for team work.; The notable cooperation of the Latin American Jewish Communities, the long- standing and loyal support of JDC from the United Jewish Refugee and War Re- lief Agencies in Canada, are now capped by the invaluable participation of the South African Jewish War Appeal, which assumes a great and increasing part in our programs through.out the world. If there is one lesson that JDC has learned in the course of its 30 years' activ- ity, it is that Jews in all their diversity remain the members of the same com- munity—the Community of God. And on this solemn occasion JDC would like to express the wish that it stay so forever- more. One more thought: In announcing the continuity of its basic policy and the high- lights of its future program, JDC is fully aware that the cost, in terms of dollars and cents, may be -.staggering. But JDC knows American Jews, knows the sense of brotherhood of our Jewish associates thrdughout the world, and their capacity for self-sacrifice. (Co pyright. 1245, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Friday, September 7, I94 Gen. Maurice Hose HIS NAME WILL LIVE FOREVER By ROBERT S. GAMZEY The editor of the Intermountain Jewish News, pubished, in General nose' home town, Den, where a memorial hospital in the General's name is to be erected, tells the story of the general and of the non-sect- arian movement to immortalize his name through a fitting memorial. T methods of mechanized warfare. Rising rapidly in the company of future military leaders like Eis- enhower, Patton, Bradley, Hod- ges 'and Simpson, he found him- self at the outbreak of World War II at Ft. Benning, Ga., Bri- gade Executive Officer of the newly organized first armored. Led 2)1'd Armored He led the Second Armored Division in the invasion of North Africa, and had the personal satisfaction of handing uncondi- tional surrender terms, at Bi- zerte, to Nazi General Boroweitz. Gaining stature with every vic- tory, he led his armored forces through the Sicilian campaign and into the-invasion of Norman- dy. He was promoted to major general and given command of the Third Armored, during the drive through France for his brilliant feats in Normandy. • The Third Armored, with Gen. Rose personally leading the way, became the spearhead of the First Army, and was first to cross the German border, first to take a German town, and first to pierce the Siegfried Line. Driving in a jeep in the van- guard of his Spearhead Division, Genera Rose was trapped by Nazi tankmen near Padetborn on HE NAME OF Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose will live forever. Denver townspeople, who grew up with Maurice Rose and pride- fully watched his meteoric rise to worldwide fame — and sudden death on the road to Berlin—are perpetuating his name through the $1,000,000 General Rose Me- morial Hospital to be erected in his home town. As this was written, the Gen- eral Rose Memorial Hospital As- sociation, 700 Broadway, Denver, has raised $640,000 toward the goal, and has appealed all over America to help make the me- morial become a reality. The life and death of General Rose is a saga that every, Ameri- can, and especially every Jew, will recall as symbolic of the American ideal of "equality." Son of a Rabbi The son of the late Rabbi Sam- uel Rose, who in turn was the March 31, and "shot to death as son of a rabbi, Maurice Rose was born in Middletown, Conn., on he surrendered , his sidearnis.. This Cold-blooded murder, - Nov. 26, 1899, and moved with violation of the rules of . war, en- his parents and brother, Arnold, raged the nation and our allies. to Denver at the age of three. Yet, while headlines screamed of As befits the son and grandson this inhuman slaying, Rabbi of a. rabbi, he attended Talmud Rose, almost 90, calmly told a Torah at the Beth Ha-Medrosh Rocky Mountain News reporter: Hagodol Synagogue near his "It is well that since this had home, and was confirmed by to be, it happened in. the week Rabbi C. H. Kauvar, whose sad of Passover . . . May Jehovah duty it was to hold memorial accept this sacrifice and see the services for the general 32 years blood and pass over all peoples later. for their sins, at this Passover: He grew up with the ambition time, for my son's sake." to be a soldier, and at 15, with High Military Awards World War I clouds gathering, . The highest military awards Maurice enlisted in the Colorado had been conferred on Gen. Rose. National Guard. Learning that he Gen. George C. Marshall said, "I had stretched his age, the mili- salute Gen. Maurice Rose as a tary authorities released him. great American soldier." Secre- Maurice then took a job in the tary of War Stimson called Gen. plant where his brother worked. Rose "without a peer in com- Commissioned at 17 manding an armored division." With the entrance, of America Denver, saddened by his death, into war, Maurice again enlisted was yet so proud of his achieve- in the army of the U. S. He was ments that the General Rose Me- sent to officers training, school at morial Hospital idea was born. Camp Funston, Kan., where he Through the efforts of Max was commissioned a second lieu- Goldberg, publisher of the Inter- tenant at 17. Promoted to first mountain Jewish News, who set lieutenant soon because he help- up temporary headquarters in ed capture a fugitive from the New York, the story of General guardhouse, he was sent overseas Rose was told and retold to mil- with the 89th Division. We was lions of Americans through the in the thick of fighting for 13 media of broadcasts by Eddie months, was wounded, and re- Cantor, Walter Winchell, Paul ported killed, in an official tele- Whiteman and the Treasury Sal- gram which sent his parents into utes program. Damon Runyon mourning. After they had finish- wrote a column about the general ed sitting "shiva," they received and the memorial, and PM, the a • correction from the War De- New York Mirror and Look Mag- . partment. His valor on the battle- azine carried outright appeals for fields of France was rewarded funds for the memorial. with a promotion to captain. Contributions came from Am- On his return home after the ericans, Jewish and Christian, war, he wasted no time, re-en- from all walks of life from every listing in the army and he made corner of the land. Eddie Cantor the military his career. came to Denver to address the While most Americans lulled $1,000 dinner of the campaign themselves to , sleep, Maurice and made a coast to coast speech. Rose spent the years y between the Copyright 1945 by Independent Jewish wars studying and devising new Press Service, Inc. Always a Soldier: Even as a youngster, the late Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose loved to "play war. " These photographs show him in various stages of his life. Left to r ight: at 18 months, at 3 years old, ' and as an officer in World War I . In 1941 he was a Lt. Colonel.