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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, April 26, 1946

Thank God We Have Hands With Which to i

May • 7: A Red Letter Day

The great Detroit relief and reconstruction drive will
commence officially on Tuesday evening, May 7.
At the opening campaign dinner in Hotel Statler when
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver will be the guest speaker, our Jewish
community will be called upon to raise, with the greatest
possible speed, the emergency sum of $2,000,000 for the Allied
Jewish Campaign.
The objectives of the campaign should be well known
by then. They call for the mobilization of all our man-
power and resources for the relief of the million and a quar-
ter Jewish survivors in Europe. They carry the responsibility
of settling tens of thousands of Jews in Palestine and of
preparing the ground for the mass immigration into the
Jewish Homeland of hundreds of thousands who have no
other place to turn to. They include provisions to care for
the immigrants who will come to this country.
Detroit's $2,000,000 campaign provides our minimal share
in the national $100,000,000 United Jewish Appeal for the
Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and
National Refugee Service.
It is our message to our kinsmen that we shall not let
them down, that we shall not, by our indifference, be accused
of condoning the great crime which resulted in the death of
6,000,000 Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
The coming few . weeks should be devoted by our com-
munity to writing a new chapter in the story of our liber-
ality. This chapter should reflect the glory of a heritage and
a tradition for generosity. It . should be completely devoid
of niggardliness. If it is written in any other spirit, we shall
be condemned by generations to come as having criminally
turned our hearts to stone. That must not be.
Detroit Jews must not fail in the present great responsi-
bility. When the challenge comes to our people on the red
letter ,day of May 7, our response should be prompt and
gener6us, and our aim should be to raise MORE than the
minimal goal of $2,000,000.

$2,000,000 is fhe
Minimum Detroit
Jewry Must. Give
To The Allied
Jewish Campaign

The Passport to Freedom

Just received from Palestine, a photostatic copy of a
document reproduced from the March 27 issue of the Pal-
estine Labor Daily Davar, tells a stirring story. It outlines
the case for a Jewish Palestine more forcefully • than it has
ever been stated before.
It is a permit entitling the bearer who "has been
found qualified by the representatives of the Yishuv (the
Palestine Jewish community) for repatriation to Palestine."
It is the permit for entrance to Eretz Israel which was
We appeal to our readers to study this sign
carried by the Jewish immigrants who came to Palestine on
the "Enzo Sereni" and the "Tel Hai," the two boats that which was erected by the survivors in the
were intercepted by the British. It is the permit that was Belsen concentration camp to indicate that
carried by the Jews on the "Fede," Who were stopped at La
10,000 unburied dead were found there when
Spezia, Italy.
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the British troops marched into that terri-
These permits were issued not only in the name of the tory on April 15, 1945.
Palestine Yishuv. We, too, are responsible for them.
They are permits that are issued in OUR name, in be-
.half of the entire Jewish people whose solemn view is that
there are no illegal immigrants striving to go to Palestine;
that, on the contrary, it is illegal for anyone to keep Jews
OUT of Palestine.
We owe a great responsibility to Palestine Jewry to make
certain that the hands of its leaders are upheld.
The way to strengthen their hands is to strengthen the
Zionist cause and to provide all the financial means necessary
for the upbuilding of Palestine and the resettlement of the
survivors, through the United Palestine Appeal, one of the
beneficiaries of the Detroit $2,000,000 Emergency Allied
Jewish Campaign.

Lest We Forget

The Warsaw Butcher's Confession

Hans Frank, the butcher of the Warsaw ghetto, has con-
fessed his guilt in the murder of millions of European Jews.
It is a startling admission—which he emphasized with a
statement that it will take Germany a thousand years to rid
itself of responsibility for its horrible crimes.
Not so long ago the Nazis had boasted they would rule
the world for a thousand years.
Now, one of its worst criminals invokes a bloody con-
science to assert that it will take that long to expiate a
terrible sin.
And the questions are being asked in some quarters:
Will the world forgive?
Will liberals be 'moved to pity by such an admission?
This confession is more tragic for our people than for
the rest of the world.
For years, during the entire Nazi Regime, we had pleaded
with the democratic nations to step in and prevent wholesale
massacre. -
Many now admit that they did not believe the charges
against the Nazis, that they considered it "propaganda," that
, they permitted the appals for justice and for mercy to fall
on deaf ears.
Even the small measure of relief the survivors had, in a
sense, came too late.
Will the confession of Hans Frank be followed by another
movement of "pity for the Germans"?
It is not a matter of vengence. It is a question of justice,
of a warning to the destructive forces that Nazi tactics never
again will be tolerated.
The challenge is directed at all liberal forces in the world
not to fall prey to cries for pity.
The guilty MUST be punished—and no apologies or con-
fessions should be permitted to interfere with the meting
out of punishment to the Nazis for their sadistic cruelties.

It would be cruel And inhuman, in the
light of what happened to our people, ;to
permit this sign to become a forgotten
symbol.

It serves as a warning to all peoples of
the inherent cruelty which has dragged so-
called German "kultur" down to the lowest
strata of inhumanity.

This sign represents the cry of anguish
uttered by those survivors, who, having seen
their families murdered, acted to remind
civilization that it is necessary to awaken
the world's conscience and to cause mankind
to act against cruelty and indecency.

Our own responsibility can be fulfilled
through the unprecedented fund-raising ob-
jectives of the United Jewish Appeal.

If we are sincere in our assertions that we
will not let the survivors down, that the
children shall be restored to a status of dig-
nity and honor, then we must exert all our
efforts to 'make a complete success of the
$2,000,000 Detroit Emergency Allied Jewish
Campaign which is OUR share in the na-
tional $100,000,000 drive.

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The Great JWB Record

When the National Jewish Welfare Board
convenes for its 29th annual meeting=-
the first since 1942—in Washington, May 4
-to 6, its great record of achievements during
.World War.II will be reviewed.
Jewish contributions to all wars of the
Republic have been marked by sacrifices-and
by achievements which have surpassed those
of our non-Jewish fellow citizens.
But the last war brought into action so
much of our resources, such a tremendous
percentage of our manpower, that the over-
all record of Jewish services exceeded all
expectations and all previous precedents.
JWB has served more than 500,000 Jewish
servicemen at home and on all war fronts,
provided religious services, literature, all
the necessary means for observing holidays.
Through JWB, 311 rabbis were commissioned
as chaplains, 200 of them still being in uni-
form and 120 of them are expected to re-
main in service for another year or two.
The Washington convention will be an
appropriate occasion for American Jewry to
demonstrate its gratitude to JWB for. a good
job well done.

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APRIL 26, 1946

VOL. 9—No. 6

This Week's Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the twenty-sixth day of Nisan,
5706, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16:1-18:36.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 22:1-19 (or 16) or
Amos 9:7-17,
On Wednesday and Thursday, Rosh Hodesh Iyar,
Ex. 28:1-15 will, be read during morning services.
Candle-lighting time this Friday is at 7:10 p.

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