THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 19, 1946
The Fifth
Page Seventeen
the sword, they have done so that are required for this work
with a will: And that will is of reconstruction that is being
driving the overwhelming ma- carried on by the 625,000- Jews in
jority of the Jewish survivors of Palestine will be available only
Europe in one direction—Pales- if American Jews give their ful-
tine.
lest support to the $100,000,000
The Needs Of The UPA
UJA drive.
By NATE S. SHAPERO
Because their future is bound
President Truman's directive
up with the Jewish National speeding the immigration of refu-
Chairman, 1946 Emergency Allied Jewish Campaign
Home, the United Palestine Ap- gees has opened the way for
Passover is a holiday of celebration—celebration of the deliverance of the Children peal must have the necessary thousands to be reunited with
of Israel from the Hitler of ancient Egypt. It is in the main a holiday of rejoicing over funds to help them realize their their kindred and friends in Am-
sorrows that have passed, over oppression that has been overcome, over slavery that has hopes. During the current year erica and to rebuild their lives
been ended. It is only because the history of the Jewish people since the Exodus has been the agencies of the United Pal- here. Not only can America
so repeatedly filled with tragedy that Passover has been overshadowded by a sense of estine Appeal—the Jewish Agen- provide new homes for thousands;
cy for Palestine, the' Palestine its example can exercise enorm-
doom and despair.
Foundation Fund and the Jew- ous influence toward opening
This year the Jews of the world will celebrate the first Passover in 13 years that will ish National Fund—will need a wider the gates of other lands—
be free of the threat of Hitlerism and mass persecution." It will be the first Passover of total of $43,872,000 from the . including Palestine. To take the
peace since the world was plung-:>
Jews of America. This sum is fullest advantage of this golden
ed into the bloodiest war in
needed to care for refugees who opportunity requires the most de-
history, more than six years ago.
are arriving in a destitute con- voted and thoroughly organized
But it will not be an occasion
dition, to house them, to nurse effort on the part of the NRS.
for unrestrained rejoicing or
the adults and children back to
Our government has reposed
celebration.
health, to retrain and settle them with NRS major responsibility
Grateful, Yes, But . . .
on the land, to establish new for resettlement and economic
agricultural settlements, to re- social adjustment of the refugees
We shall certainly be grateful
integrate the Jewish men and who may come to our shores at
that the remnants of Europe's
women who served in the Jewish the rate of 39,000 a year under
Jews have been rescued from
Brigade and other branches of the President's directive. Ameri-
total annihilation by Hitler. And
the British Army. Land areas can Jews must justify this ccii-
yet, on this very Passover when
must be acquired as the founda- fidence by giving full financial
we here enjoy a full measure
tion for the absorption of masses support, through the $100,000,000
of security, of peace and of plen-
Left to right: M/Sgt. Leo Molow, who addressed a number of of homeless Jews. And the funds United Jewish Appeal s
ty, of freedom and of hope for
the future, we cannot keep from campaign meetings in Detroit; Morris L. Fruman, Samuel B. Solo-
our minds or hearts the picture mon, Sol Einsenberg, Joe Gendelman, Louis Modell, Louis Ham-
of the broken remnants of burger and Ben Maas.
European Jewry still in the
depths of despair.
On the lips of 1,400,000 Jewish
survivors of Hitlerism, there will
be a fifth question this Passover:
"Out of Bondage, Into What?"
Yes, they have been freed from
the bonds of oppression. But
they have not yet been freed from
the bonds of want. Deliverance
from the threat of mass ex-
termination has not brought de-
liverance from the threat of mass
death as a result of hunger, dis-
ease and accumulated sorrows of
Left to right: Gus D. Newman, Emil Rose, William Sandler,
years of bitter suffering and Fred F. Simmons, Hurry Clark, George Willens, Harry Willens,
torture.
Jules R. Schubot, Fred Finsterwald, Marvin Kaufmann.
Ours is the responsibility to
answer the fifth question through
the historic $100,000,000 campaign
of the United Jewish Appeal and
our own share in that unprece-
dented effort, the 1946 Emergen-
cy Allied Jewish Campaign to
raise $2,000,000 in Detroit.
They are the remnants—these
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