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`The Fighting Ghettos' Filled with Data
Showing Extent of Resistance to Nazism

During the Eichmann trial, on this earth." The 'reason is
many questions were posed on obvious. Most of the fighters
the role that was played by perished and only a few sur-
Jews during the Hitler era, and vived to remain alive today
many asked: "Why didn't Jews either in Israel or the United
fight back?" It was said that the States, or other free countries.
reason for the young Israelis' * * *
indifference to the historic Barkai's anthology, selected
events that occurred prior to from more than 2,000 docu-
the establishment of the Jew- ments that have been un-
ish State was the resentment earthed, "records the pano-
against the failure of the Jews ramie sweep of the entire Jew-
who suffered under the Nazis ish resistance movement in Po-
to fight back.
land, in the words of the people
But there were many in- who fought and died for the
stances of Jewish resistance, honor of their people."
and evidence of it was offered "It is remarkable," Barkai
during the presentation of the writes, "that a people, isolated
case against Eichmann .
in bestial squalor and marked
While the complete story of for extermination, should have
Jewish resistance is yet to be risen above humiliation and
written. one volume already death to capture its terrible
serves as proof that Jews fought present in diaries, social and
back, that they battled against historical treatises, and poetry
the Nazi s in concentration for the benefit of future gen-
camps, in the forests, within erations."
the walled ghettos.
With little knowledge of what
It was not in the Warsaw was in store for them, there
Ghetto alone that Jews fought were Jews in the ghettos who
heroically against the Nazi ter- supported a passive resistance
rorists. Their bravery was dis- policy until such time when
played in many areas. A volume there could be a general revolt
in defense of the heroes of the against the oppressors. But dis-
resistance movement has just senters urged a flight into the
been published by J. B. Lippin- forests, and when the Nazis out-
cott Co., Philadelphia. Under lawed the education of children
the title "The Fighting Ghet- the underground even organ-
tos," Meyer Barkai has com- ized its own schools, established
piled actual eyewitness accounts a secret system of communica-
of resistance. He has translated tions and created )inks with
into English more than 30 dis- non-Jewish resisters.
covered documents which,
Through a system of couriers
thanks to the Lippincott Co., ghetto dwellers learned of Hit-
are now available for facts that ler's plans, of the gas chambers
are not too well known about and the crematoria. Then began
battles that were conducted to an active resistance. The fight-
thwart the Nazis. ers learned to use arms, chil.
* * *
dren were taught to steal guns
Diaries, memoirs, letters to and provisions.
* * *
relatives were written by the
enslaved Jews and were hidden
The intimate stories of the
in cellars, in backyards, wher- resistance in "The Fighting
ever a place of concealment Ghettos" reveal the heroism of
could be found. Many of them which so little is known. It is
were discovered by accident, appropriate that the first docu-
but in some instances relatives ment in this book, "The Jewish
or friends were informed about Revolt," should be by Izhak
their whereabouts and were Zuckerman, who was the com-
later unearthed.
mander of the Warsaw Jewish
They were written, as the Fighting Organization. Z i v i a
editor of this important book Lubetkin, who testified against
states, so that "the world would Eichmann, authored the de-
have a reminder for all time of scription of the January 1943
the resistance of the Jews to Warsaw uprising. The Jewish
the extermination plans of the fighters' quest for arms is de-
Nazis." Berkai explains:
scribed by Malachi, pseudonym
"An intensive search for doc- for Mordecai Anilewitz.
uments was begun immediately
Others whose accounts of re-
after the Second World War sistance appear in the English
and is still going on. The thous- translations in this book in-
ands of documents retrieved in clude Vladka Peltel, Tuvia Bo-
the past 15 years have been zikovsky, Shalom Gryer, Leizer
gathered in the Ghetto Fighters Levine, Chava Fulman, Shmuel
House—the House of the His- Weyler, L. Brenner, Ziphora
tory of Jewish Resistance, near Birman, Chaika G r o s s m a n,
Haifa in Israel."
Moshe Kahanowitz, H. Orland,
The government of Israel as- Abba Kovner, Motel Sternov-
sisted in gathering this great litz, _ Michael Luderstein, Borya
repository. Some of the docu- Udkogsky, Tuvya Belsky, M.
ments now find their echo in Gildenm an, Irena Johanes,
the Lippincott-published "The Isaiah Trunk, Yankel Vyernik,
Fighting Ghettos."
A. Petzorsky, Rabbi Yehoshua
Barkai's foreword to the doc- Moshe Aaronson, Leon Velitz-
uments he edited offer many ker, Shlomo Gul.
explanations of the status of
An appendix to the volume
the resistance movement. Iso-
lated in every instance, each includes biographical sketches
group had to conduct its own of the authors of the eye-
fight, independently "and with- witness accounts of the fright.
out any kind of assurance that ful resistance efforts. Another
a trace of the . deeds or even appendix contains a list of the
the existence of any particular concentration camps, their lo-
resistance group would be left cations and the horrors that
were perpetrated there.
Included in the documents
Early Venezuelan Settlers
appearing in this book are sev-
Venezuela's Jewish Commu- eral of the proclamations that
nity, which today numbers some were issued by national com-
6,000 persons and includes about mittees.
3,700 Jews of East European
There are indications of the
origin and 1,400 Sephardim, struggle for existence, of the
dates back to 1850 when the first efforts that had to be exerted
Jewish settlers arrived from to prevent mass suicides, to up-
North Africa. Most of the Jews hold the courage of the fighters.
reside in Caracas with smaller
"The Fighting Ghettos" is a
numbers living in Maracaibo, necessary book, a vitally need-
Maracay and Valencia.
ed part of the history that is

being compiled to prove to the
world that the sufferers from
Nazism included many who re-
sisted the terrorists. J. B. Lip-
pincott Co. is to be highly com-
mended for issuing this book.

Hias Service Opens
Office in Algiers to
Aid Jewish Migrants

arising from the mass departure Fs
of Jews of that country to "
France.
This step was taken in response
to urgent requests from leaders
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of the Alegrian Jewish commun-
ity, Rice said. He stressed that
United Hias Service is working
in close cooperation with the
Joint Distribution Committee in
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — James
P. Rice, executive director of
United Hias Service, announced
that the migration agency had
opened an office in Algiers to
help meet the desperate needs Algeria.

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