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Peg. Twerhy
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Stovies Yfrom the
Friciay, July 26, 1944
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-THE SERVANT MAKES WS
WAY TO ABRAM.
11-5 GOOD THEY DON'T
WATCH ME AS CLOSELY
AS LOT-NOW TO FREE MY
FEET AND FETCH HELP!
714E FOUNDER- OF THE HEBREW NATION
FROM THE BOOK oc
CENGS IS eHAP THRu.
CHAP. - K146 JAMES,
DOUAY, AND J. P. S. A.
vests tONs •••
TAKE HALF THE
MEN AND ATTACK
FROM THE RIGHT.
WHILE I STRIKE
ON THE LEFT!
ABRAHAM WAS CALLED ABRAM CESTEEMED OR HIGH
FATHER") WI THE EARLY YEARS OF 1-115 LIFE -I-41S NAME
WAS CHANGED TO ABRAHAM, MEANING "FATHER. OF A
MULTITUDE" WHEN GOD PROMISED HIM AND HIS
DESCENDANTS THE LAND OF CANAAN
COPYR1GHT 1/43 BY M. C. GAINES
FINE! WE'LL
THROW THEM INTO
A PANIC!
THE NIGHT ATTACK CARRIE.5
ALL BEFORE 11
CONTINUITY
BY
MONT. MULFORD
ART WORK BY
DON CAMERON
60 ABRAM RECAPTURED THE
STOLEN GOODS AND SET THE
PRISONERS FREE —
3 KNEW YOU
WOULD COME
AND SAVE ME,
ABRAM'.
0
LOT AND HIS FAMILY ARE
CAPTURED -I ESCAPED AND
CAME HERE 70 LET
YOU KNOW!
I WILL
MAKE AN ARMY
OUT OF MY FAITHFUL.
SERVANTS, ANC.
WE'LL
RESCUE
LOT!
ABRAM, WITH HIS ARMED
SERVANTS, RIDES TO RESCUE
THE PRISONERS-----
WHY SHOULDN'T
YOU ARE
LIKE A SON TO
ME LOT!
1!
ME ALSO RESCUED THE GOODS
AND MEN OF SALEM AND SODOM
AND MELCHIZEDEK , ICING OF
•BUT ABFAM WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO
wITH THE WICKED KING OF SODOM-
SALEM, WHO WAS ALSO A
PQIEST, E3QOUGHT
BREAD AND WINE. TO SNOW
HIS C,R.ATITUDE TO ABRAM ---
BLESSED BE BY THE RULES
ABRAM OF OF BATTLE, I CAN
THE MOST TAKE ALL OF THE
HIGH GOD! SPOIL BUT 1 WILL
YOU HAVE RESCUED MY PEOPLE
AND GOODS ABRAM,KEEP THE
NO, LEST YOU
THINK THAT
YOU, NOT ,
GOD. MADE
ME RICH!
GOODS AS
A REWARD!
GIVE sibU ONE
TENTH OF EVERY-
THING'
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VHiS MAP SHOWS THE JOuRNEYING6 OF ABRAM, THE MAN OF FAITH, FROM CHALDEA TO
THE LAW" OF CANAAN, WHICH GOD PROMI5E0 TO HiM AND TO H15 CHILDREN FOREVER.---
:ND GOD WAS GREATLY PLEASED WITH ABRAM AND WHEN
ABRAM DESIRED A SON AND HEIR,THI5 WA5 GOO'S PROm)SE--
LOOk NOW TOWARD HEAVEN AH
COUNT, 1F YOU CAN, THE STARS-
50 IN NUMBER SHAta. FOUR
CHtl_Pr3 EN AND YOUR CHILDRN'c-,
(H1LOCZENI3E91
YOUR CHILDREN SHALL
STR.AT-2GERS AND
(, OPPRESSED IN Al_AND
THAT 15 NOT 'THEIRS
>BUT THEY Sl-3A1_L GO
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GIVE. TPEM. Ti - )IS)
LA1\10-1- 1-415 Is MY
COVENANT
NEXT WEEK: A 50/ /5 BORN 70 ABRAM
A Living Tradition
_
Challenging Burden
In Present Critical Hour
From N etherlcjnds
Pfc. Sheldon Lutz Relates
Tragic Plight of Survivors
By EDWARD M. M. WARBURG
Chairman, 1946 Campaign of American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee
No one who has not been in Europe can appreciate the magic
of the word ''Joint.." For thirty-one years the Joint Distribution
Committee; --"'through pogrom, famine, depression. two wars and
uneasy peace, has been the symbol of understanding between the
privileged and the non-privileged Jews of the world. In this period,
more than $175,000,000 has been made available to the J.D.C. by
the Jews of many countries, particularly and predominantly by
the Jewish community of the United States. This sum in turn has
made it possible for the "Joint" to meet one emergency after another
and to give real assistance to suffering Jews in overseas countries.
Truly, the J.D.C. has written a brilliant chapter in the history
of humanitarianism, and through it, a great tradition has come into
being. It is a living tradition from which both those who give and
those who receive derive a unifying strength. This tradition cannot
be measured merely in terms of money spent or persons aided. The
sacrifice and devotion beyond the call of duty of hundreds of indi-
viduals must also be taken into account.
The wise and visionary concepts of the leaders in American
Jewish life who founded] this agency thirty-one years ago—Louis
Marshall. Jacob Schiff, Meyer London, Harry Fischel, Felix Warburg,
,Herbert Lehman and Paul Baerwald, to name only a few—have
withstood the test of time. The ever-generous support of the thou-
sands of givers forms the other half of this chapter of the J.D.C.
story.
The J.D.C. is also the story of the individual men and women
who carried its program to every corner of the world—the J.D.C.
workers who went to Poland and other countries following World
War I, the representatives who stuck to their posts in spite of the
Nazi menace, and the staff members who took up their places anew
under the most trying conditions at the end of the recent holocaust.
Finally, it is the story of the men and women who have actually
given their lives in the cause of their suffering fellow Jews, the men
and women who sacrificed themselves in J.D.C. service.
The long list of martyrs whose names and acts represent a
treasure house of inspiration includes: Dr. Israel Friedlander and
Rabbi Bernard Cantor, slain by bandits while on a J.D.C. mission
in the Ukraine in 1920; Isaac Giterman, Leon Neustadt and Isaac
Bornstein, J.D.C. directors and representatives in Poland who con-
tinued their work until they were caught and murdered by the
Nazis; Simie Spitzer, J.D.C.• representative in Yugoslavia who was
put to death by the Nazis; Mrs. Gizi Fleishmann of Slovakia, who
was deported and killed; Dr. Julius Seligsohn and Dr. Otto Hirsch,
leaders of the German Jewish community and close collaborators
of the J.D.C. who died as a result of Nazi oppression, and finally,
David Guzik, resident director for Poland, and Gertrude Pinsky,
director for the Netherlands, killed in an airplane crash in March.
Recently, on my trip through Europe I saw time and again how
each representative of the "Joint" had become a. symbol of hope.
The sense that someone cared was a thousand times more meaning-
ful than the actual value of the supplies or the services that the
J.D.C. was able to provide.
The great living tradition of the J.D.C. imposes a challenging
burden upon those of us who must carry this work forward in the
present hour. It is our responsibility to see to it that by our acts
today this tradition is continued bravely, enhanced and augmented
to the end that the needs of those we serve may be met.
Close-up of DP Problem.
Describes Visit to Displaced Persons Hospital and Tells
Concert in Munich at Which Emma Schaver
of Detroit Was the Guest Soloist
The first group of Jewish war
orphans to enter America from
the Netherlands shown as they
landed in Mobile, Ala. Cared for
since V-E Day by the j13C, the
youngsters were helped in reach-
ing the U. S. by the JDC emigra-
tion department in Europe, which
aided in securing visas and ar-
ranging their transportation.
Pfc. Sheldon Lutz, stationed
with the U. S. Army in Germany,
writing to his family at 18086
Pennington Drive, describes his
experiences with the displaced
persons, urges action in the bet-
terment of their tragic position
and tells of having attended a con-
cert at which Mrs. Morris (Emma
Lazaroff) Schaver, prominent De-
troit soprano, was the soloist.
Pfc. Lutz, writing under date of
July 8, tells of having gone to
Jewish Agency headquarters in
Munich where he met Mrs. Schav-
er. He writes: "We went with her
and two Agency representatives
from Palestine to a DP sanator-
ium located 22 km. away in Cant-
ing. There are about 1,400 DP
patients there, mostly TB cases.
Almost 600 are Jews. Mrs. Schaver
JDC Provides Special Help
For Kielce Pogrom Survivors
Special aid and emergency as-
sistance in behalf of the 150 Jew-
ish survivors of the pogrom in
Kielce. Poland, is being provided
by the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, major American agency aid-
ing distressed Jews abroad, it was
announced at JDC's New York off-
ices upon the receipt of cabled
messages from William Bein, J.
D. C. director in Poland.
J. D. C. disclosed that the Com-
mittee's representatives in Kielce
are providing extra food, trained
nurses and convalescence facilities
for the survivors in Kielce as well
as for 26 Jews wounded in the out-
breaks who were evacuated safely
to Lodz. Earlier, Mr. Bein had
cabled that the J. D. C., in coop-
eration with the Polish govern-
ment and the Central Committee
of Polish Jews, was completing
plans for the evacuation from
Kielce of the entire Jewish popu-
lation of the city, amounting to
150 men, women and children.
A special allocation of $10,000
was made by the J. D. C. office in
Warsaw for this group.
D. C. officials also disclosed
the receipt of a letter from Dr. S.
Kahane, president of the Jewish
District Committee of Kielce, who
was killed in the pogrom of July
4. • In a letter written three weeks
before the outbreaks. Dr. Kahane
gratefully acknowledged the trans-
mission of funds contributed by
the J. D. C. and by Canadian
Landsmanshaften groups through
the United Jewish Refugee and
War Relief agencies of Canada
for special assistance to Jews in
the Kielce area.
"Herewith we express our cord-
ial thanks for the gift in the
amount of 45,000 zlotys which we
received through the good offices
of the American Joint Distribu-
tion Committee in Warsaw," Dr:
Kahane's letter stated.
"Due to . the steady influx of
repatriates from the Soviet Union,
and the critical material situation
of the Jewish survivors of our
city, we request you to take inter-
est in the lot of our remnant and
render us further substantial help
to alleviate the situation of our
brethren."
gave a wonderful Yiddish-Hebrew
concert for a few hundred ambul-
atory patients. After the concert
we visited parts of the hospital
where facilities are good but the
general situation is terrible."
Urges Firmer Stand
Describing the food served to
the DPs, Pfc. Lutz maintains that
it is insufficient, that they do not
receive vegetables or meat, while
the Germans have an abundance
of fresh eggs. milk, meat, vege-
tables, etc. "Is this justice?" he
asks, maintaining that U. S. pol-
icy in general is too lenient with
the Cerrrjans. He urges that Amer-
icans should press for a firmer
stand.
Relating the Jewish situation
and the position of the DPs, he
writes : "The Jwish DPs must get
out of Germany as quickly as pos-
sible. American Jews should write
to their Congressmen and put
pressure on the British to allow
Jewish immigration to Palestine.,
Flight of Survivors
The situation, with which Ather-
ican Jews are unfamiliar, is this:
"The jewisl_ survivors went
through torture, degradation and
misery. They thought that the
World would support their plea. to
go to Palestine —frr humanitarian
if for no other reasons. But after 14
long and weary months they are
still waiting for the fulfillment of
the promise that there will be is-
sued 100,000 certificates—which,
of course, is inadequate. They are
idle, are living under deplorable
conditions, are not properly
clothed and are not well fed. They
are down-hearted and diSgusted.
"We must do all we can for
them, and I repeat that the best
you can do as individuals is to let
the facts be known, to spread the
word about the world's responsi-
bility to the suffering people. The
Jewish DP problem will not be
solved over-Inight. The certificates
to Palestine, when issued, will not
he adequate to care for the number
of Jews who insist on going to
Palestine. More than a million
Jews remain in Europe. What's go-
ing to happen to the vast major-
ity who are left, even after the
100,000 go to Palestine?"