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Friday, 5epteMber
THE E W . I
1947
Page
I-1 NEWS
ovaries
death in order to avoid the hor- such as cutting out the
or a portion of the uterus or in-
rible end by gas.
"A Belgian Jewess. a girl of fifteen. jecting -a s diSease:plahting
suffered a sudden attack of ague. She
lay on the wet ground. soaked through. cinefrdM which the women soon
her lips livid. her body racked by
chills. She had dysentery too. for died' under the doctors• observa-
she wore no underwear. only a dress tion. Then the "SS men readied
i-aid shoes . . . Perhaps she could have for another contingent of experi-
been saved. But she had no will to
By MARC H. TANENBAUM
A Review by Louis Panush
live. With blue lips she repeated . . . mental guinea pigs."
half
light
of
dawn
husky,
bespectacled
Samuel
In the
..-SMOKK OVER BIRKENA1J by Sows' 'Mother. Death is coming.' Death was
Over the intense suffering to
coming
indeed and was quite near.
-from
eryna
Szmaglewska,
-
Translated
looks little different from the average 23-year-old Ain&i6ati the Polish by Jadwiga Rynas. Henry but it had
to be preceeded by suf- which the Jews were subjected
farmer youth as he nestles into the broad side of the drowsy Holt and. Co.. Inc.." 257 Fourth Ave., fering- . .
"fire from the chimneys of the
Or this "treatment" to which
cow and jubilantly watches the creamy streams splatter 'INIew. York.
crematories burst out in sheaves
The
world
easily
forgets
what
Jewish girls were subjected:
against the walls of the milk paid. But as he looks up, calls
a
"Soon after their arrival they un- of scarlet flame and endured,
Germans are and what the
across the barn to his buddy, the difference grows obvious. the
a treatment to which all the wavering mass in the darkness, a
Germans did. Books are now be- derwent
women in the age group of 16-22 . . .
"Mechal, we'd better hurry cu
ing published to gloss over their were subjected. Each woman, really light fed with human bodies",
with our meshak," calls Shmuel: cherry and peach 'frees in theOr- ,crimes and atrocities or to create girl. was placed between two celluloid Jewish bodies. Nothing is left of
one in front over the the people Who died in Oswiecirri
"It's going to be a beautiful day chard. On the potato plot, Nech- sympathy for them. Projects, plates, the
- and the other in the back
and the chaverim should get emiah sits astride the cultivator such as the adoption of German abdomen,
over her loins. The instrument looked but what was done to them by
started with their meshakim seat, and reins on the two frisky- cities by American cities, are like an x-ray machine. When it start- the Germans must never be : for-
ed to work. there was a sensation of
early . . ."
fat black mares. Back in the veg-
promulgated in the press. warmth in that part of the body. gotten.
followed by intense heat. then by a
The Hebrew words like meshak etable gardens, the Farmall trac- being
The book does not make pleas-
The Allies are not only desirous
similar to a menstrual pain but
(chore) and chaverim• (buddies) tor kicks up thick dust clouds as of putting the Germans back on pain.
much stronger. This was followed by ant reading matter but it should
Moshe (only 18), who hails from their feet, but they are even out- a sudden wrench. as if some inner De read in order to realize again
dropped. and then the ex-
Cuba, grinds it. through the soy doing themselves in who is to do organ
periment ended with a sense of gen- the inferno that Germany 'was
bean furrows.
weakness."
for the Jews . . . and still is for
the most for the "poor and suf- eral
All the girls who were treated
After a hearty, well-balanced fering" German people, forget-
those in the DP camps.
dinner. and communal grace, ting and,_ trying hard to make in this experiment ceased to
Frances sits back in her chair the whole world forget that these menstruate, and all fell ill and
Community Information Ser-
and remarks that she received a very Germans set the world on died except two twin sisters from
vice, a Red Feather service,
letter . from Eliahu who six fire and cold-bloodedly and de- Slovakia . . .
The Nazis performed other answered 82 inquiries per day on
months before left the Hachshar- liberately destroyed or helped to
ah with 14 chaverim for Eretz. destroy millions upon millions of "medical experiments" on the social service in Metropolitan
bodies of young Jewish. girls, Detroit during July.
There is mention that eight more human beings!
chalutzim (two with their wives)
It is, therefore, very important
will becoming to the hachsharah
next month. Shimon wipes - his to mark the appearance of a book
glasses as he acidly comments - that will make the American peo-
make us part of the difference. . . . if only American Jews ple see and experience—through
The real difference is that these knew how badly and quickly we the eyes and experiences of a
boys are chalutzim, Jewish pio- need money to expand every- death-camp inmate—and remem-
ber the brutality, ruthlessness and
thing we're doing here . . ."
neers of the soil.
"We're not going to . solve any- bestiality of the Germans aad of
With 36 others, Shmuel and
Mechal are undergoing an in- thing by just shrnoosing," Shmuel the "world beyond description"
CLOTHES b TOYS FOR BABY
tensive one-year agricultural admonishes: "Let's get back to in a concentration camp.
training program on the Hecha- work." The hornet's nest again
Birkenau, known as Oswiecim
lutz Hamizrachi hachsharah, 15 comes to life and the chalutzim II, was feared as one of the most
miles south of New Brunswick,
dreaded of the horror-camps set
N. J. They are training, living in
up by the Nazis. The author, a
(At IV. McNichols)
Polish girl, was one of its wo-
a cooperative farm set-up, pre-
paring for settlement in Palestine
men prisoners from 1942 until
where they will pitch in with
the liberation in 1945. Although
sweat and skill to help the re-
the author tells primarily the
ligious-Zionist movement recreate
story of the Polish inmates of the
Best Wishes
the Holy Land.
camp. there are many paragraphs
On this particular cool June
dealing with the life and death
morning, Shmuel and Mechal are
of Jewish women, which show
For The New Year
the first to awaken. After milking,
the indignities and degradations
Shmuel steps into the newly-
they suffered and the indescrib-
painted, two-storied main house
able horrors perpetrated on them.
to waken the 12 girl inhabitants buzz earnestly efficiently throtigh The Polish woman knew that
while tall, rugged Mechal enters their routine.
she may die in the camp but she
the converted chicken house (an
Supper and the assembly-line also had hope that she may es-
emergency dwelling) to rouse the
washing of dishes is'followed by cape death;—she conserved her
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A few classes still have open- mincha, late afternoon until
bed- learned every trick to innure her-
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chaverim wash their hands rit- From now, 7:45 p. m..
ually, recite the blessing over time a dogmatic, seldom-violated self to hardship. The attitude
■
bread, then sail into a heaping, 10:00 p. in_ the Mazkirut — five- of the Jewish women was that
gov- of resignation. They knew that
eat-as-much-as-you-want break- man democratically-elected
erning board) arranged education they must die and therefore, in
fast.
"It's after 7:30 ... let's bentsch and culture work begins. Edu- many cases, accelerated their
and get started on your meshak- sated since early childhood in .,
yeshivoth and teachers' institu-
Slipcovers - Upholstery
tions, they have little difficulty
GREETINGS
studying on their own.
All over the big, quiet house,
ON THE NEW YEAR'
New Year's Greetings to Our Many
now mantled with evening shad-
ows, lights are flicked on meta-
Friends and Customers
phorically, the lights of learning.
Orthodox Chalutzim Prepare
•
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For PLoneering in Palestine
Polish Woman
Tells of German
Camp Atrocities
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
CRADLE SHOPPE
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The tired, tightened muscles rest, ,
and the minds eagerly take over.
The chalutzim, in the rich loam of
hachsharah, plant, cultivate the :
suddenly interrupts big-
framed, stirf-browned Ben Yehu-
dah, who wears olive-drab fa-
tigues. The buzzing stills and he
leads in grace. Nechemiah, rosh
pluga (administrative h e a d)
looks around, sees that everyone
has ended the after-meal prayer,
and assigns the daily chores.
An orange sun breathes warm-
ly on the 120 acres of rich hach-
sharah land. Awaiting the morn-
ing labor of the chalutzim are
70 acres of soil intensively cul-
tivated with potatoes, corn, soy
beans, tomatoes, carrots, onions,
cabbage, lettuce and peas. When
fully-ripened and picked at near-
summer's end, the fresh vege-
tables will largely go to the co-
operative larder where they will
be stored for winter consump-
tion.
Behind the main homestead,
Yaakov is • busy spraying . and
Pruning the thirty-two apple,
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British Take Rokach
From Camp for Quizzing
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mayor
Israel Rokach was transferred
last night from the Latrun de-
tention camp to Criminal Investi-
gation Division Headquarters in
Jerusalem. Together -with Hillel
Teur, a Nafhanya councillor who
is accused of being a member of
the jury which sentenced two
British sergeants to hang, Rokach
was questioned by C. I. D. offi-
cials until late into the night.
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