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Tells of Camp Horrors
Sarah Wien Rejoices in Freedom
After Years of Slavery in Poland
United Hebrew Schools
Plan Pesach Programs
Junior Campaign Workers to Hear
Young German Journalist at Rally
Passover programs are being
Ernest W. Michel, 23-year-old
planned by the members of the
staff in all branches of the United German newspaperman a n d
Hebrew Schools, April 7-10. Pro- author who staged a spectacular
grams will feature playlets, the escape from Buchenwald, will be
After five and a half years of misery and suffering in story of the departure from
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the Czenstochowa concentration camp in Poland and a year Egypt, 'the life of Moses, Pesach
and a half of hopeful waiting for liberation in the U. S. zone of songs, and recitations dealing with
occupation in Germany, Sarah Wien is a free human being, the story of Pesach.
Parents of the pupils and their
enjoying the liberties afforded her in this country.
One of only two survivors in her immediate family and friends are invited to attend.
.
one of only three survivors of 4,
now are being rehabilitated by
a. family circle of 36, Miss! fellow prisoners manufactured the JDC and many already have
Wien was in Detroit last week; munitions for the Nazis. During been reunited with families or
acted as interpreter for the
American Military Government.
He helped found the new Jew-
ish Congregation of Mannheim
and became its secretary. He
also made recordings for the
United Jewish Appeal, visited
most of the DP camps in Ger-
many where he worked very
closely with representatives of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, one of the three constituent
-
on a visit with her cousin, Harry! the final weeks of imprisonment,
Schumer of Pennington Drive. , because she knew German and
During her stay in Detroit, she ! five other languages, Miss Wien
took occasion to describe her was placed at work in the Czen-
experiences under the Nazis, the stocho• camp office.
horrors of anti-Semitism in pre-1 "We were not permitted to
war and postwar Poland, and ad- ' read anything," she revealed.
dressed a large rally of the De- "But we had a secret radio and
troit Palestine Histadrut (Ge- we were kept informed on what
werkshaften) March 13. At this was happening in the outside
rally she recited a poem she had world. We knew that the Nazi
written, "The City Burns," and downfall was approaching. It was
a horrible experience. Of the
sang a DP song.
original 55,000 Czenstochowa
Brother to Join Here
From Detroit, Miss Wien left Jews, only 2,000 survived. When
for Chicago, where she will make we recited the mass' Yizkor for
her home with an aunt. She soon the dead, in the displaced persons
will be joined there by her broth- camp in Germany, it was a mass
er, Samuel, who from the age Yizkor for 50,000."
Miss Wien spoke with particu-
of 18 was in some of the worst
Nazi concentration camps, suffer- lar horror of the tragedies that
ing untold hardships until he, were imposed upon Jews in Po-
like his sister, fled after the war land.
"Not only before the war, but
to the U. S. zone.
The third' survivor of the fam- afterwards, upon our liberation
ily is a cousin whom Miss Wien by the Russians, the Poles perse_
did not know but who, upon cuted us," she said. "As soon as
hearing her name in the Czen- we could, we fled by the thou-
stocho•a camp, introduced her- sands, and those of us who were
fortunate to reach the American
self.
zone were the lucky and happy
Miss Wien's story is one of hor-
people. Many were slain on the
ror, but it reveals that heroic
road to Germany. It was ironic
determination which helped the
that we should have suffered
survivors from the crematoria to
carry on and to live to tell the from Nazism and that we should
have had to escape into Germany
tale of Jews whose spirit proved
to seek the aid of Americans."
stronger than the Nazi knout.
Praises U. S. Army
A native of Czenstochowa. Po-
Miss Wien speaks with deep
land, Miss Wien was a university gratitude of the work of the U. S.
student who had planned to spe_ army in the DP camps and of
cialize in bacteriology. A poet the aid that was given her by
and a singer as well as a student the Joint Distribution Commit-
of science, she nevertheless was tee.
compelled by the anti-Semitism
"My relatives brought me
in Poland to abandon her plans here," she said, "but the Joint
and entered an ORT training made it possible. JDC's work is
school in Lodz. Then came the historic and humanitarian and I
war, her interment in the con- want to record the superhuman
centration camp and her eventual tasks JDC performs."
liberation.
Miss Wien said that there were
no children in the concentration
Manufactured Munitions
She was 20 when she was camps, that the youngsters were
forced behind electrified barbed murdered, and those who were
wires of the Nazi-made camp in rescued were placed in non-Jew-
the city of her birth. For five ish homes for the duration of the
relatives.
Poles Have Freedom -
While Poles also worked for
the Nazis in the Czenstochowa
camp, she said that for them it
meant jobs, that they came and
left at will. Only the Jews were
kept-prisoners and tortured. She
added that the Polish intelligens-
sia was murdered and the masses,
in their ignorance, remained anti-
Semitic. The handful of humani-
tarians among them who fought
against pogroms were the Social-
ists and the labor leaders. The
anti-Semitic Polish mass-es at-
tacked Jew‘ everywhere and
even destroyed children's homes.
"Nearly 100 per cent of the
survivors desire to go to Pales-
tine," she declared. "But children
and pregnant women are given
preference and Aliyah Beth, out-
side the quota, is dangerous and
compels delays in hopes of sett-
ling in Zion. Therefore, those who
must leave go to the United
States or wherever else they can
find , haven, and the rest must
wait and wait."
Work for Selves
Referring to the latest JDC
program to create work for the
DPs, Miss Wien said that the sur-
vivors refuse to work for Ger-
many's reconstruction but gladly
create articles, under JDC guid-
ance, for their own needs. She
displayed a DP-made cigaret-
case she was carrying, and
showed how the DPs proudly in-
scribe the Mogen David and the
Zionist flag upon their wares.
"They are talented people, the
DPs," she added, "and will be a
credit to Palestine and wherever
they may settle."
Miss Wien came to the U. S.
on the Marine Perch with the
aid of JDC and the United Serv-
ice for New Americans. Her
brother is on the way to the
U. S., with JDC aid, and her
fiance, also a survivor from Naz-
ism, who is working with
UNRRA, soon will come to Chip
and a half years she and her war. These youngsters, she said, country. --
18, 1945, killing several SS men
to make good his escape. He re-
corded his experiences in his
bode "I Was 104,995" which is
being published in Germany
and which he plans to publish in
the U. S.
After the war he returned to
his native city, Mannheim, and
ERNEST W. MICHEL
agencies of the United Jewish
Appeal.
Michel reached the United
States last summer. He has been
working as a reporter for the
Port Huron Times Herald. His
articles also have appeared in
guest speaker at the Junior Ser-
vice Group's workers' rally ia
support of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, at 8 p. m. Thursday,
March 27, at the Jewish Com-
The Jewish News.
rriunity Center.
Another feature of the meet-
Dancing will follow the busi-
ing, which will launch the Jun- ness portion of the meeting.
ior Division's participation in. the
campaign, will be a presentation
of the play "To the American Parents Purchase Land
People," which was written by To Memorialize Son,
Morton Wishengrad and which
will be staged by the Wayne Pfc. Robert P. Weisman
University Broadcasting Guild.
In memory of their son, Pfc.
Acting as chairman and master
of ceremonies for the rally Will Robert F. Weisman, who was
killed in action
be Norman Naimark, Junior Di-
in Germany
vision campaign chairman.
Revived German Press
One of the first young journal-
ists to come out of post-war Ger-
many, Michel helped revive the
German press as an editor and
correspondent for German news-
papers published under the sup-
ervision of the occupation au-
thorities. In October, 1945, he
joined DANA, sole and official
German news agency set up by
occupation forces to reestablish
news gathering activities. He
covered the War Crimes trials
at Nuremberg for DANA, the
first German reporter to receive
such an assignment.
Michel spent most of his youth
as a Nazi prisoner. Sent to a la-
bor camp when he was 16, one
week after the outbreak of war,
he was detained in almost every
German concentration camp in-
cluding notorious Auschwitz.
March 20, 1945,
Mr. and Mrs.
Israel Weisman
of 9650 N. Mar-
tindale have
purchased two
dunams of land
in Palestine
through the
Jewish National
Pfc. Weisman Fund.
Pfc. Weisman, who entered ser-
vice in August, 1944, was killed
shortly before his 19th birthday.
He was a graduate of Central
High School and a member of the
Jewish Center and AZA.
His parents, who are active in
Arlazaroff branch of the Jewish
National Worker's Alliance, in-
scribed his name in the Golden
Book of the Jewish National
Fund at the time of his death,
and last year commemorated his_
After six years • as a prisoner, yarzheit by -planting a garden in
he !finally broke out of Buchen- a Jewish National Fund forest
#,Wild With two friends on April in Palestine.-