THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Sixteen
Friday, November 15, 1946
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A SIGN FROM
HEAVEN,
HE SLEEPS--
THIS 15 THE
TIME! I STRIKE
FOR
WERE APS WEAPONS!
DEBORAH SAID THAT
PERHAPS I, TOOmig.OULD STRIKE
A BLOW TO DELIVER ISRAEL!
Ole Slav a /
ISRAEL!
THE WOMM JUDGE WHO SAVED ISRAEL -
(FROM THE BOOK OF JUDGES
commas FOUR MO FIVE)
BY AiteEPORP' er CAMERON
CCORYR/afir "f3 BY MC 6.40)17.5)
MEANTIME
I HAVE DONE IT!
NO LONGER NOW WILL
SISERA PERSECUTE THE
ISRAELITES! -SO END TWENTY
YEARS OF OPPRESSION OF My
PEOPLE! MAY GOD
FORGIVE BOTH
1 - 11* AND ME!
LOOK•SISERKS
CHARIOT! THIS
0 WHERE WE
ESCAPED FROM
BARAK.
JUDGE ME MERCIFULLY
DEBORAH! - TELL ME
THE PUNISHMENT FOQ
Any 'TRANSGRESSION
THAT'S BAD-
SISERAS A
VERY
DANGEROUS
DIRECTING 'ME HUNT FOR SISERA,
BARAK.
AND DEBORAH CO/6E TO JAEL'S TENT...
MAN!
SISERA ALONE HAS ESCAPED.
WE MUST CAPTURE HIM, OR
HE WILL RAISE ANOTHER
ARMY. AND WIPE us
OuT IN VENGEANC
?HEN DEBORAH AND BARAK MADE A SONG
IN PRAISE Of GOD FOR FREEWIG ISRAEL- ,
No PUNISHMENT BUT REJOICING,
SOLDIER OF THE LORD- GOD,j4AS
REVEALED THAT SISERA loopuLD
FALL BY A WOMAN'S HAND! H:,u
BLESSED AMONG
MIQNIEn SHALL JAEL
BE! SO PERISH
THE WRVS ENEMIES!
SHALL BE BLEST ABOVE ALL OTHER
WOMEN!
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"V II
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Rescued from Poland's Darkness:
Refugees of Notorious Nazi
Camps Begin New Life Here
By RUTH M. LEVINE
The treasures of the American way of life are beginning to
lighten some of the black shadows of Nazi brutality, concentration
camps, and slave labor for Mrs. Esther Zyskind, 40, and her daugh-
ter Ida. 15. who arrived in Detroit recently from Poland, via
Sweden.
The two Polish refugees were welcomed to this country by Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Rosenberg. of.
1975 Pingree, with whom they land. but her experiences since
will make - their home.
Mrs. 1939 have given her the knowl-
Rosenberg and Mrs. Zyskind, sis- :edge and
maturity gleaned
ters, were reunited in New York through suffering. Today, she
after a separation of 27 years. A! looks forward to a renewal of
brother, Joshua Joyrich, of 2630 ',her formal education as she and
Hazelwood, who had not seen his her mother, joyfully reunited
sister in 25 years, greeted her in with their relatives, begin a new
Detroit.
life as members of the Detroit
Memories of their home in Jewish community.
Radom, Poland, are steeped in
tragedy. Mrs. Zyskind's mother,
sister, and brother-in-law were
victims of the Nazis brutelike .
extermination program at Ausch-
witz Concentration Camp. Her
husband died of cold and starva-
tion in Auschwitz.
Oscar Cohen, former executive
Three-Month Separation
director of the Central Division,
Yet she and her daughter are Canadian Jewish Congress, ar-
grateful to be alive, and togeth-
er. They were shunted about
Europe, like thousands of their•
co-religionists, from one concen-
tration camp to another, includ-
ing Auschwitz and Maidanick,
location of another of the no-
torious gas chambers. When
young Ida fell off a truck while
being transported to a new camp,
she was given up for lost by her
mother, but three months later
they were reunited through the
efforts of another woman in the
transport.
"Ida is lucky to be a sturdy
child, and tall for her age," her
American relatives note. in re-1
lating the pair's experiences. Able
to pass for 16 three years ago,
she was "permitted" to live, and
to work side by side with her
mother in factories manned by
OSCAR COHEN
slave labor.
rived in Detroit this week to as-
Rescued by Red Cross
Shortly before V-E Day, the sume his new duties as executive
Red Cross rescued the Zvskinds, director of the Detroit Jewish
and sent them to Sweden, where Community Council. He succeeds
they lived until they embarked Isaac Franck.
A former editor of the Jewish
f or the United States. Mrs.
Zyskind reports that many Standard of Toronto, Cohen has
woman survivors are now located been a leader in Jewish com-
Sweden. They are fi- munal activity for many years.
in
nancially independent, she says, He had been connected with the
and need only, the affidavits of Canadian Jewish Congress since
American Jews to gain permis- 1936, although his association
sion to emigrate to this coun- with that agency was interrupted
by five years of service in the
try.
Ida Zyskind's childhood, and Canadian Army.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of the
her schooling, came to an abrupt
end at the age of eight, when University of Toronto and of Col-
the German Armies invaded Po- umbia University.
Cohen Assumes
JCC Directorship
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Panush Hits Partition,
Quotes Palestine Hero
Editor, The Jewish News:
The occupation and criminal
mistreatment of Palestine by the
British invaders brought forth
words and acts of unselfish hero-
ism and self-sacrifice on one
hand and defeatism and betrayal
of the Zionist ideal on the other.
Here are excerpts from the dec-
laration of a Hebrew patriot in
Palestine, Joseph Simkhon, be-
fore. the British court, in June
of 1946 (Compare it with the ut-
tering( of woe, statements stem-
ming from bewilderment and in-
capability and the agitation for
partition—remember Dr. Wise's
speech'—of our so-called lead-
ers):
BUT LET THEM
THAT LOVE Km SE
AS THE SUN WHEN
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Palestine Experts to Assist
Byrnes in Talks .With Bevin
Acheson Dodges Question on Whether State Dept. Intends
to Become More Active on Zion Issue; Projected
Parley May See Shift in British Policy
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A staff of experts on Palestine
and the Near East has been assigned by the State Depart-
ment to assist Secretary of State Byrnes in his forthcoming
discussions on the Palestine issue with Foreign Secretary
Bevin, who is now in this country attending the Council of
Foreign Ministers in New York, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency learned this week.
The staff includes Harry Vil- from the French port of La
lard, deputy director of the Near Ciotat, near Marceilles, in the
Eastern Division of the State De- steamer San Dimitrios—renamed
partment; Evan Wilson, also of the Latrun—had valid Abyssin-
Division, who was ian visas according to the Paris
newspaper France Soir, which
American secretary of the An-
"You have just celebrated the that
defends the action of the French
anniversary of your triumph over glo-American Committee of In- authorities in not
halting the
Nazi Germany. Have you indeed tri- quiry on Palestine; and George
embarkation against which the
umphed? Truly. with the help of two
mighty powers you subjugated the Wadsworth, U. S. Minister to British government has pro-
body of the foe, but woe is to such Syria and Lebanon.
tested.
a triumph. for the spirit of the foe
Acting Secretary of State
has conquered you. And it did conquer
The paper says two other ships
you. And you know it. For were it Acheson was asked whether the
otherwise. how could you have be-
—the Asia, bearing 728 passen-
haved as you are doing toward the fact that Secretary Byrnes will t gers presumably traveling to Co-
first victims of the Nazis? How could enter into direct negotiations
lombia, and the Sagol with 757
you coordinate action—yes. coordinate
action—with the annihilators of the with Bevin on the Palestine issue Jews who held Bolivian entry
Jewish people in their mass murders , meant that the State Depart-
' visas—left before the San Dimi-
How could you shut to its sons the
gates of their land, the sole remaining ment has decided to become more trios. Nothing has been heard of
gates to redemption and rescue? How active in finding a solution of
could you keep them in concentration the Palestine problem. replied these vessels although there were
camps and torture them? How could
reports several days ago that
you deprive them of their last hope? he preferred "to skip it" since it
two or three immigrant ships
How could you sentence an entire is "a mine field."
people to annihilation. just because
were nearing Palestinian waters.
you need their land which you-
wrongly—consider workable only if this
people's desire for life and freedom
were to be eliminated? No, sirs. All
this would not have come about. had
you not quaffed from the cup of eter-
nal hate presented to you by Hitler
or by his teachers or his disciples. You
have drunk the cup to the dregs. That
is why you have stationed yourselves
across the path of a people which.
after all that has happened to it among
the nations. is returning to its own
home. You have stationed yourselves
across it and decreed: You shall not
pass. Into the abyss—but not to Zion!'
the same
See Shift in British Stand
Before Palestine Talks
Plan SOO Habeas Corpus Writs
For Jews Near Palestine
LONDON (JTA)—The project-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Attor-
ed talks on Palestine between
Foreign Minister Bevin and Sec-
retary of State Byrnes may lead
to a modification of British plans
before resumption of the London
talks on Dec. 16, informed cir-
cles said.
They base their assumption on
the possibility the U. S. may
make some offer of cooperation
in solving the Palestine problem.
Were the British to modify their
stand, it would probably facili-
tate the efforts of the Jewish
Agency to convince the forth-
coming Zionist Congress that
Jewish participation.in the Lon-
don discussions would be advis-
able.
"Now, sirs. now that you have be-
come contaminated with the spirit of
the Nazis. and assumed the role of
Pharoah and Amalek. of Nebuchad-
nezzar and of Antiochus and of Ha-
man and of Hitler—then give attention
to the writing on the wall, inscribed
in indelible letters of fir& In such a
spirit and with such a purpose you
will not be able to maintain yourselves
either as an empire or as a country.
No bases will save you; they will be
suspended in thin air. No physical
force will avail you; a force mightier
than yours will arise against you. Un-
til then you may succeed in causing
our desperate people additional suffer-
ing; you will yet shed our blood; you
will murder—with your own hands or
by the hands of others—our brethren; Jews Aboard_ "Latrun"
you will yet render our children or- Had Abyssinian Vivas
phans and our mothers bereaved. But
you will not destroy us. We shall arise
PARIS (JTA)—The approxi-
again and again and defend the ex-
istence of our people, for it is eternal. mately 1,300 Jews who sailed
and we shall fight for our land, for it
is ours. You will not annihilate us.
We appeared on the scene of history them instead of "voting" for the
before you. and we shall disappear liquidation of Zionism and Eretz
after you. Beware the judgment of
Israel?
God."
These words of courage and
hope speak for themselves. Can
we
match them and support
Yours truly,
LOUIS PANUSH,
3437 Oakman Blvd.
neys here have prepared habeas
corpus petitions for 800 Jews re-
ported aboard a blockade runner
off the Palestine coast. The writs,
which will be filed as soon as
the refugees are taken into cus-
tody by the British, will ask
that their deportation to Cyprus
be prevented until court hear-
ings are held.
Britain Will Not Surrender
Palestine, Smuts Intimates
NEW YORK (JTA)—dritain
has no intention of surrendering
her mandate for Palestine to
United Nations trusteeship, it
was intimated by Prime Minis-
ter Jan Christian Smuts of South'
Africa. Discussing the trusteeship
system at the meeting of the
Trusteeship Committee, Smuts
pointed out that the U. N. Char-
ter makes it a voluntary, rather
than an obligatory, matter, for
nations to submit their mandates
to trusteeship. "This, no doubt,
accounts for the fact," he said,
"that Palestine has "so far been
excluded from the trusteeship
system."