Torahs Saved from Nazis
From Hebrew Teacher to Executioner
THE JEWISH NEWS
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9
Friday, September 28, 1951
Hate Sheet Smears
Ike as `Swedish Jew'
Although His Daughter Ruled a Land
There Was No Wachas' for Rabbi Zvi
NEW YORK (AJP)—A class-
mate's jest contained in the
West Point Yearbook of 1915
which humorously referred to
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as
a "Swedish Jew" set one of the
nation's leading hate sheets on
a campaign for a probe of Eisen-
hower's lineage.
Cross and the Flag, hate
mouth-piece of Gerald L. K.
Smith, included an admission by
the paper that attempts to
learn the source of the reference
to Eisenhower asking for ad-
ditional data failed to produce
a single reply.
The demand for a probe was
accompanied by a large repro-
duction of • page 80 of the Year-
book Howitzer, the military
academy's graduation book
which contained an account of
Eisenhower. The story is entitled
"Dwight Eisenhower — Swedish
Jew."
The editors of the Cross and
the Flag claimed that a leading
Jewish paper in London admit-
ted that Eisenhower was a Jew.
(An American Jewish Press
Bucharest paper told of her be- Ana Pauker," Antonescu snorted,
Feature)
adding as an -afterthought,
"Nachas" — the pride which ing wounded twice in a skirmish "she's only a woman."
with
police;
another
of
Ana's
stems from dutiful children ad-
vancing in the world—holds a sudden "disappearance" from the The "woman" ordered his death
reserved place in the hearts of local street corners where her before a firing squad several
parents everywhere. It means booming voice and overpower- years later.
ing personality provided a ready
During her years in the Party
that and more in Jewish life.
But for Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn showcase for Communist propa- she had met and married an
avid liberal who tragically chose
lying on his bed in his final ganda.
to embrace Communism as a
What
Rabbi
Rabinsohn
and
fleeting hours of life there was
his wife didn't know was that form of advancing the concept
"nachas"
Ana had "disappeared" to engage of a "better world." There were
only the ironic
in Communist underground ac- three children.
impact of a sad,
tivity. For almost 15 years, ex-
Orders Husband's Execution
almost unbe-
Twelve Torahs rescued from
cept for occasional appearances,
But when her husband could
lieveable past.
Ana Pauker remained in the no longer stomach Moscow's German synagogues destroyed
Were but one
hidden cellar meeting rooms of narrow line, Ana turned him by the Nazis have been made
fact altered, the
the Communist hideaways care- over to the dreaded secret Corn- availalale by the Joint Distribu-
tired, aged rabbi
fully charting the Party's Mach- munist police for the sin of tion Committee to JWB's Di-
ilio died at 73 Ana Pauker
vision of Religious Activities for
Trotskyism. As a "diviationist" use in Jewish services at mili-
in Tel Aviv recently might well iavellian-like rise to power.
By
1941,
on
the
eve
of
Amer-
the
man
was
executed.
have brea:,hed his last with the
tary installations in this coun-
ica's entry into World War - II,
Meanwhile as Rabbi Rabin- try. Chaplain HARRY SCHREIN-
fullest measure of happiness.
What more could any parent Ana had gained fame as a minor sohn, his wife and their son, ER, of Fort Benning, Ga., is
ask? His daughter the leader - of heroine of the CoMmunists. Solomon, miraculously escaped shown receiving the first Torah
a land; powerful, a virtual mon- That reputation joined with in :, the Nazi gas chambers, they felt from Rabbi ARYEH LEV, direc-
arch. risen from the poverty- creasing activity on the part of again the whip of persecution tor of JWB's Division of Re-
stricken streets of a European the Romanian comrades had and oppression, thiS time wield- ligious Activities.
earned her two prison sentences. ed in the hands of the Com-
ghetto!
munists.
The one fact which tipped the
:Pate' Helps Her Rise'
No longer persecuted as Jews,
She was in the midst of com-
scales overwhelmingly in the
nr9 1)=.3% ,1-1
opposite direction and cruelly pleting a six-year prison term the Rabinsohn's and the rest of
lingered to torment the little when fate stepped in. "Fate" was Romania's. Jews were being la-
`Forsake Us Not in Our Old Age'
rabbi in his last • moments was to come in the person of hated beled "petty bourgeoisie." They
the realization that his daugh- dictator Jon Antonescu, the Ro.- felt much the same treatment
ter was no longer the 'good girl' manian darling of the . Nazi as in the early days of the Nazis.
Rabbi Rabinsohn asked that
he • had idolized decades ago Party, whose legions were -en-
"Thy years have no limit; thy life has no end; in-
his life-long dream be fulfilled.
when, as a slim and beautiful gaged in warfare with Russia.
conceivable is thy celestial glory; none can explain thy
child, her unquenchable thirst
Antonescu was dickering with Ana consented and gave him
for poetry gave little hint' of a Russia over the release of cap- personal escort along with • his
mysterious essence."
future fanatic quest for power. tured Romanian non-Commun- son, Solomon, to the Romanian
border,
the
first
leg
on
their
mi-
Taught in Hebrew School
ists. An aide brought.- a lengthy
—From the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy
To the village folk in Romania list of Roman Communists who gration to Israel. •
Only once, intimates say, did
Reb Zvi's little girl Ana was a might be used in the trade.
sweet child. Many of the Rabbi's
As he shuffled through the Reb Zvi hear from his daughter. EE
"Talmidim" remembered her as list, the dictator's eye focussed The cable read simply—"Mother
a sometimes shy oft-times clev- on one name. "Let them have died."
er girl of 17 who taught Hebrew
in a neighborhood synagogue.
with the aid of the Israel bond
Her ability to master languages Sabra: Men and Brandy issue. -
\ -,7-she spoke more than a half
- Recent tests have shown that
By ELIAHU BEN-HORIN
On the New Year 57 1 2, we extend sincerest
the sabra's sugar content is
-c dozen in her teens—amazed the
The Jews of Palestine call about 15 per cent.
village.
Perhaps, then, in his final their children "sabras", as an
3 greetings to the entire community. May the
moments Reb Zvi, too, chose to almost official designation for Israelis Teach Mutes
remember his now - renounced Jewish boys and girls born in How to Play Soccer
New Year be marked by increased efforts
daughter in a somewhat similar Palestine.
JERUSALEM (AJP) — Twenty
"Sabra" is the Arabic name for deaf and dumb Israeli men are
and kindly light and not as the
for Israel's security and may we witness
hardened woman dictator of Ro- the fruit of the cactus, the green learning the thrill of sports
thorny
bushes
growing
alongside
mania—not as Ana Pauker, high
competition in a unique pro-
triumph in the battle' for justice for all
lord and chief executioner of the roads and fields of Israel. gram set up by the Jaffa Mac-
The fruit, oval-shaped and re- cabi club.
Bucharest.
peoples. May we see the realization of
The new members have al-
The events which transformed sembling a large apricot, is
a shy, brilliant Hebrew teacher, covered with prickly thorns all ready set up a soccer team and,
humanity's aspirations for a better world
daughter of a pious` rabbi, into over its tough skin. But inside despite their disabilities, have
the
unattractive
exterior
there
played
a
number
of
games
and
cunning,
-brazen
woman
cap-
a
able of heartlessly betraying her is a surprising delicious and plan to expand their schedule. E. and for lasting peace.
The referee uses two flags in
husband and the father of her juicy fruit. The parallel is ob-
three children to a . Communist vious. The Jews of Palestine place of his normal whistle to
firing squad, are best known to must have found their children give decisions.
equally sweet and delicious, des-
the swaggering Ana, herself.
pite their rough and tough ex-
But sometime before 1921 and terior, and they named them
her formal baptism to Commun- "sabras."
ism, Rabbi Rabinsohn's girl
Cactus bushes grow wild in
ou r 3
changed—first her name, then Israel. No one planted them, and
You a
her manner.
until recently no one thought of
The gap between Ana and her using their fruit. Sometimes,
family had widened somewhat they serve as a natural fence
when in 1921 she broke with all around a field or an orchard,
ear
she had learned in her father's and this has been the extent of
--naPPV
home and formally joined the their usefulness.
Communist Party. In less than a
Nov, for the first time, a real
year a hardened Ana Pauker use has been found for the
made her impact felt and was "sabra." A group of new immi-
elevated to m;rnbership in the grants is erecting a factory for
Central Committee of the Ro- t h e manufacture of "Sabra
Manian Communist - Party. Her Brandy" near Gedera, in the
south of Israel. Machinery and
rise to power was underway.
equipment worth about $100,000
Wounded Fighting Police
In ensuing years, Reb Rabin- is being purchased abroad; the
Bohn was to read little mentions new brandy is intended mainly
here and there of his daughter's for export, and will earn some
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