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March 28, 1958 - Image 9

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1958-03-28

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To Salute Warsaw Ghetto
Histadrut Slates
Heroism at Public Meeting Annual 3rd Seder
With Rabbi Morris Adler
Sunday Evening at Beth El scheduled
to be the principal

Vladke, • heroine and leader
of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,
is being brought to Detroit by
the Jewish Community Council
as keynote speaker at the com-
memoration of the 15th anni-
versary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising, Sunday, 8 p.m., in
the Brown Memorial Chapel of
Temple Beth El.
Samuel Sigal is chairman
of the Ghetto Commemora-
tion committee.

Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, of Adas
Shalom Synagogue, will deliver
the English addres. Cantor
Hyman Adler will chant liturgi-
cal selections. "Eternally Our
People," a dramatic program,
including dance interpreta-
tions and songs, will be pres-
ehted by the Workmen's Cir-
cle Folklore Group under the
direction of Miriam Gornbein.
FEIGELE PELTEL
Vladke became the name
"Vladke"
of Faigele Peltel when the
to
die
with
honor"—the motto
Bundist underground move-
ment sent her on her first of the Ghetto fighters. After
mission to the Aryan side of a few days the Germans
the Ghetto, a "crime" punish- abandoned the face-to-face as-
able by death on sight. Only sault and began systematically
17 years old when Hitler oc- burning and blowing up - the
cupied Poland and marched Ghetto.
into Warsaw, she was already
Not until May 24, 1943, could
a member of the "illegal"
German Maj. Gen. Stroop re-
committee of the youth or- port the action completed.
ganization "Zukunft," which About 7,000 Jews, he told his
carried on considerable un- superiors, were killed in the
derground activity, and dis- fighting. Between 5,000 and
tributed the publications of 6,000 were blown up or burned
the 'illegal" Solicalist press. to death. The gas chambers
Her Aryan appearance, fluent claimed some 7,000. The sur-
Polish, courage, and deep sense vivors were sent to slave labor
of responsibility made her the camps.
natural choice for missions
"The entire community is
given her by the Jewish under- invited to join with commu-
ground. She helped smuggle nities throughout the world in
food and arms into the starv- marking this gallant struggle
ing Ghetto and spirited out against hopeless odds, at the
Jewish children to Polish fami- meeting Sunday evening," Sigal
lies who took them for a price. stated.
As a courier for the Jewish
Co-ordinating Committee, she Egyptian Partisans
brought help to and kept in
amstant touch with Jewish Issue Peace Manifesto
survivors hiding in bunkers,
UNITED NATIONS ( AJP )—
cellars, and forests.
A manifeto, signed by "a group
Vladke carried with her a of Egyptian Peace Partisans,"
C -,rman card of identity under and entitled "Egyptian Pacific
the Polish name of Stanislava Statements regarding the Arab-
Charsha. Reports about her Israeli Conflict," declares that
heroic and dangerous work President Nasser is ready to ne-
reached America when the first gotiate a peace settlement with
underground reports were sent Israel within the-confines of the
from occupied Poland to this United Nations.
country. Until the end of the
The manifesto, originating in
war, however, little else was
Cairo and reaching the UN via
known about the almost Paris, criticizes both Arab and
legendary Vladke.
Israeli leaders who, it declares,
Her book "Fun Beyde Zay- keep widening the Arab-Israel
ten Geto-Moyer" .("On Both
wedge by propaganda.
Sides of the Ghetto Wall"),
"As Egyptian Democrats," the
contains a graphic descrip- manifesto stresses, "fighting for'
tion of Jewish life in Warsaw lasting peace in the Middle East,
and of the underground Jew- we reprove provocative state-
ish activities from July 22, ments made by some Arab lead-
1942, when the first Jewish ers, if only because such state-
mass deportations from War- ments are the best weapons in
saw took place and when the Israeli official propaganda
preparations were made for arsenal. However, we think it
the Ghetto Uprising in 1943, is imperative that world public
until the liberation in 1945. opinion be better informed
During this two and a half about the numerous pacific
year period, Vladke, working statements made by Egyptian
with the Jewish Co-ordinating leaders."
The manifesto then goes on to
Committee, helped Jewish sur-
vivors to escape through the list numerous statements which
sewers and to carry on resist- Nasser has made calling for a
ance in partisan groups until peace settlement with Israel.
the Nazi invaders were finally
driven from Poland. It • was Revisionists Postpone
after their defeat that the
tremendous Jewish cemetery Fund-Raising Parley
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
which the Nazis had left in
Eastern Europe was revealed United Zionists-Revisionists of
America announced that it has
to the world.
Sunday's commemoration will postponed indefinitely a nation-
mark the historic resistance al' conference called for this
to the German's armed with week to proclaim a fund-rais-
tanks, planes, and cannon that ing campaign for Herut-Revi-
invaded the Warsaw Ghetto on sionist institutions in Israel.
April . 19, 1943, before the start The announcement was made
of Passover, to wipe out the by Dr. M. Giloni, executive di-
remaining Jews. The astonished rector of the organization, who
Germans were forced to fight said that the decision to post-
house by house, block by block, pone the conference followed
as the Jews, with inadequate instructions to this effect from
and home-made weapons, strug- the Herut organization in Is-
gled "to live with dignity and rael.

speaker, plans are moving for-
ward for the traditional Third
Seder, sponsored annually by
the Histadrut Campaign.
Planned for April 7, at Adas
Shalom Synagogue, the pro-
gram also will feature the ap-
pearance of Sidor Belarsky,
noted singer who is called the
ambassador of Jewish music.
Also slated to headline the
event, which is the official
wind-up to the local Histadrut
drive, will be the HaMachol
Dance Group.
According to an announce-
ment by the Histadrut office
this week, the campaign now
stands at the 70 percent mark,
with almost $40,000 still to be
collected by canvassers.
A rally is planned at 10:30
a.m.; Sunday, in the Hayirn
Greenberg Center, at which re-
ports on outstanding cards will
be given and last minute as-
signments made.

Expect Tourism in Israel
to Net $15 Million in '58

TEL AVIV, (AJP)—Y. Be-
ham, director of the Israel
Government Tourist Corpora-
tion, declared at a press con-
ference here that he expected
tourist spending in Israel dur-
ing 1958 to reach $15 million—
three times the amount spent
by tourists in 1957. He stated
that all the country's luxury
class hotels were already book-
ed to captcity until the end
of May.

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