Friday, April 23, 1948
THE JEWISH NEWS
Detroit Jews Mourn Dr. Haim Yassky,
Killed at Hands of Arabs in Jerusalem
Head of Hadassah Medical Organization in Palestine Last
Year Spoke in Detroit at Dinner in Honor of Mrs.
Ehrlich; Local Hadassah Shocked by News
Detroit Jews were shocked to
learn of the death on April 13, at
the hand of Arab snipers, of Dr.
Hahn Yassky, 52, head of the Ha-
daSsah Medical Organization in
Palestine since 1928, and one of
the world's outstanding eye spe-
cialists.
Dr. Yassky last year spoke in
Detroit at the dinner that was
given here at Congregation Shaa-
iey Zedek, on the occasion of the
launching of the drive for the
Hadassah - Hebrew University
Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The dinner was utilized to honor
Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich, chairman of
the local committee for the Medi-
cal Center.
when the Arabs began their
assault. One bullet nicked
his cheek while another hit
him in the leg. A third cart-
ridge pierced the vehicle and
struck him in the abdomen.
Dr. Yassky, realizing he was
mortally wounded, asked for
an injection of morphine. He
then said "Shalom" to his wife
and the other passengers in
the ambulance, and died in
the driver's seat. The other
passengers, including his wife,
were miraculously rescued.
A huge explosion rocked the
Jewish Montefiore quarter in
Jerusalem, causing a tremendous
column of smoke to shoot up that
could be seen for several miles
around. Heavy shooting by Arabs
in nearby areas directed at the
sector immediately broke out, but
no immediate casualties were re-
ported.
An official communique dis-
closed that 12 Arabs were killed
and 15 wounded when Jewish
troops captured the Arab village
of Lajjun. There were no Jewish
casualties. Meanwhile, the Tel
wild cheering and rejoicing. Ref
sponsible Jewish circles believe
that the Arab siege of the Holy
City is definitely broken and pre-
dict normal communications with
Tel Aviv will be established
shortly. The convoy was said to
have brought in 600 tons of food
provisions."
Mourned by Leaders
Mrs. Harry L. Jones, president
of Detroit Hadassah, in a state-
ment commenting on the tragic
news about Dr. Yassky's death,
called the Arab attack on Hadas-
sah doctors the most outrageous
flouting of all principles of
decency. She added that there
were so many incidents of shock-
ing Arab abuses of elementary
humanitarian objectives involving
hospitals, doctors and nurses that
it is high time that the civilized
world expressed its condemna-
tion.
Mrs. Ehrlich was deeply moved
by the sad news. She expressed
the hope that the UN would see
the justice of the Jewish cause
and would help, by its actions, to GREETINGS
put an end to murders. To her
the death of Dr. Yassky is the
most serious loss sustained by the
Jewish people since the outbreak
RESTAURANT
of Arab attacks.
The charge that British troops
and police were accessories in the
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Hadassah medical convoy mas-
sacre was made by top Hadassah
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officials here. The total number
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of Jews who perished in the Arab
attach on the 11-vehicle convoy
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was set at 64, of whom 37 were
killed by Arab machinegun fire
and 27 were burned alive when
the Jewish trucks were set afire
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in a "fire bomb" assault. Many
of the Jews were mowed down
by fierce Arab machinegun fire
as they stumbled out of the blaz-
ing vehicles.
The Hadassah officials said that
Briitsh troops and police prevent-
WOMEN'S APPAREL
ed Haganah reinforcements from
reaching the battle scene in time
to aid the immobilized Jews by
putting two armored cars across
a road leading to Sheik Jarrach.
Detroit
The same officials claimed that
Birmingham
British police who witnessed the p
massacre from less than 100 yards
away did nothing to defend the
trapped Jews, most of whom were
doctors, nurses and hospital pa-
tients.
Dr. YassiKy was sitting next
to the driver of an ambulance
HARRY BOESKY'S
DR. HAIM YASSKY
In his address here, on the eve
of the historic UN decision, Dr.
Yassky felt confident that the
Jewish State will be established
'in Palestine. Fully aware of the
grave responsibilities facing Jew-
ry with the challenge of a Jewish
State, Dr. Yassky said in his De-
troit address that he shuddered
at the thought of the seriousness
of the task even of taking the
20,000 Jews out of Cyprus.
Dr. Yassky laid down his life
together with 34 other members
of Haganah in one of the fiercest
Arab attacks Palestine had seen
since the outbreak of hostilities,
according to the JTA report.
Dr. Joseph Injured
"An 11-vehicle convoy en route
to the Hadassah Hospital on Mt.
Scopus was forced to halt out-
side the Arab Sheik Jarrach quar-
ter of Jerusalem when the lead-
ing trucks — carrying food and
medical supplies to the hospital
and to the Hebrew University—
were blown up by Arab-planted
mines. As soon as the convoy
was stopped, Arabs perched on
adjacent rooftops opened up with
a blazing barrage that resulted
in immediate casualties, most of
whom were medical personnel.,
Dr. Edward Joseph, chief sur-
• geon at the Hadassah hospital,
was slightly injured.
"Haganah members trying to
reach the attack area had to
battle their way for hours through
mined roads. Arab reinforce-
ments, however, succeeded in
reaching the sector with compara-
tive ease. Police offitials, who
said that in addition to the 36
Jews killed, 21 were seriously in-
jured and three slightly, reported
that British troops using heavy
machine guns and small mortars
beat off the Arabs after six hours
of fighting. The British were also
reported to have brought many of
the wounded to the Hadassah
Hospital before they succeeded in
establishing a truce.
Arab Siege Broken
"Several of the convoy vehicles
were ablaze„ while many charred
bodies lined the road. A high
British police official, said to have
been fighting alongside the Arabs,
was killed shortly before the end
of the battle in which the Arabs,
many of them behind sandbags
and stone walls, sent two armored
cars soaked with gasoline in a
"fire bomb attack against the sta-
tionary Jewish trucks.
"Earlier, the biggest Jewish
convoy ever to get through to
the 100,000 besieged Jews in
Jerusalem—consisting of 210 food
trucks—raced into the city amid
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Aviv border area was attacked
by an Arab band from Jaffa us-
ing mortars, but the Jews replied
with still heavier mortar fire and
drove the band off.
Complete List of Jews Killed
Following is the complete list
of names of 'hose killed in yes-
terday's attack on the Hadassah
medical convoy, as compiled by
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
bureau here:
BURNED TO DEATH: Esther Tarn,
Esther Birnbaum, Zev Mariasin, Sara
Cananni, David Shapiro, Samuel
Steinberg, Meir Weksler, Arieh Pallus,
Massal Eliav, Rachel Shamesh, Rivka
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