1, Peg. Twerhy THE JEWISH NEWS • Stovies Yfrom the Friciay, July 26, 1944 s tuts -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' <4k 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 ( FORTH AGAIN-Fog 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?"