President Shazar at Hassidic Exhibit Hausner Reaffirms Massive Jewish Nazi Resistance

"Numbing horror and incredu- Hausner said: "Yet with the ex- automatically carried with it the
lous disbelief" was the general re- ception of one sad and pathetic re- immediate wiping out of a whole
action of the great masses of East- port of resistance by 48 disabled community. So they postponed
ern and Central Europeans, both' soldiers, not one of them used the their open revolt until the last -.
Jewish and non-Jewish, to the
shovel with which he was told to moment. The Warsaw Ghetto re-
mass murders of the Nazi annihila dig his own grave to assail the S.S. volt was the crowning symbol of
this movement, but historically, it
tion program during World War II, guards."
according to Gideon Hausner,• for-
But it occurred to nobody to at- was certainly only one of many
mer attorney general of Israel tribute cowardice to them, or the inspired rebellions."
who was the chief prosecutor at will for self-destruction, until the
A GOOD MAN TO KNOW I
the Eichrnann trial in Israel.
publication recently of books on
Speaking at the Herzl Institute the subject of the lack of anti-Nazi
Sunday, Hausner was bitter in his resistance and alleged collabora-
For Some
attack on f`some vicious originality tion of Ghetto Councils.
seeking authors" who attributed
of the -
Speaking about Jewish resist-
cowardice or the urge for self- ance. Hausner reported that the
best
buys
destruction to those Nazi victims evidence shows that there were
-who did not organize resistance hundreds of spontaneous nests of
on new
against the Nazis. (Though he did Jewish underground activity which
Pontiacs
not mention Hannah Ahrendt by flared up in communities all over
President Zalman Shazar is shown touring the Lubavitcher ex-
name, it was obvious that he was occupied Europe. Without benefit
hibit at Nir . Hall in Tel Aviv. The exhibit under the theme "Jewish
and
referring to the author of "Eich- of advice from Governments-in-
Consciousness" is geared to attract Jewish youth to traditional Jewish
Tempest
mann
in
Jerusalem.
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)
observance. It depicts various phases of Jewish life, the method of
Exile to give them a central com-
A careful study of contemporary mand. the only group so leaderless,
observance of numerous Jewish precepts and customs and the high-
diaries
of
Polish
underground
holi
lights of the observance of the complete yearly cycle of Jewish
these Jewish resistance pockets
days and festivals. Shazar is seen here at one of the Kashrut dioramas leaders and Soviet prisoners of were the only ones who "went into
war,
Hausner
said,
reveals
that
the
talking with Yitzchak Gansburg, exhibit director. On Gansburg's left
open and over-all action when
AT
reaction of the great majority of there were no relieving armies in
is Shlomo Madanchik, Mayor of Lubaviteher village, Kfar Chabacl,
the
Nazi
victims
was
of
disbelief
near Tel Aviv.
sight. Their only possible gain was
and a numbing horror that almost the saving of Jewish honor. They
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paralyzed them in the face of Nazi all , faced a tragic and fateful deci-
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extermination.
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sion, since their going into action
Stating that over a million and a
quarter Russian prisoners of yar.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel's
thony Nutting covers a lot of extensive and more illuminating
ground and touches upon the con - review of that era and the Mo- consul general in. New York, Am-
troversial issues related to the hammed-Jewish struggle in the bassador Katriel Katz, presented to
Undersecretary of Commerce
most recent- flareup—the= Sinai recent Glubb Pasha book.
campaign which involved Israel.
Nutting again shows bias when Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., the first
Great Britain and France
he deals with the Sinai Campaign copy of an Israeli postage stamp '
While his historical analysis is of 1956, when he suggests the honoring the late Eleanor Roose-
of vital interest as a fact-offering puzzling "blatant invitation to velt. The stamp, on sale Monday.
review of the Arabs, their religion, Israel 'by her allies) to help her- is the first one ever issued by
their life, their many conflicts self to 20,000 square miles of Israel bearing the portrait of a
among themselves and with those Egypt." That's a new wrinkle in non-Jew.
of other faiths, the Sinai Cam- the campaign which could have
paign references indicate a defin- led to an end to Nasserism but
ite pro-Arab bias and contain many which was aborted by those who
accusations against those who in stepped in to prevent the checking
stigated the war of 1056. of Nasser's aggressive tactics.
Even when he refers to the
Nutting's book may well be
- considered an anti-Jewish doeu- fedayeen invasions of Israel Nut-
ment. While he approved of the ting is definitely pro-Arab, failing
plan for a bi-national state, he to acknowledge that the fedayeen
Is unsympathetic to the efforts who were sent into Israel to con-
only
that were exerted to rescue Jews duct a murder and pillage cam-
from Nazism and he writes ap- paign were the major cause of
provingly of the 1939 White an international series of incidents
Paper as having "recoznized the that forced Israel to take action
rights of the Arabs to Independ- against Egypt.
out government and to protection
Whenever Nutting speaks about
against being crowded out of conflicts he always magnifies the
Palestine by Jewish Immigration Israeli role and minimizes the
' and land purchase." Arabs' aggressions. That's the
There is no -compassion in the trend in a book- that could have
Nutting book. Zionists were to been history but which unfortun-

SAUL BERCH

Packer Pontiac

Reviewer Finds Much Anti Israel

Prejudice in Nutting's 'The Arabs'

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speaks of the large sums spent' in anti-Israel bias. —P.S.

the purchase of land for Jewish
settlements he does not indicate Baltimore Aged Program
that the sellers were Arabs who
were enriched by the exorbitant Wins Memorial Award
prices they charged those who were
A comprehens i v e , centralized
frantically searching for homes in prog:am of hospital-based medical
their escape from brutalities in care and allied human services to
aged people in their own homes in
Eastern Europe.
In relation to the hearings con- Baltimore has been selected to re-
ducted in 1947 by the United Na- ceive the 1964 William J. Sluoder

tions Special Committee on Pales- Memorial Award for large cities. It
tine, Nutting again shows his bias is organized and operated by the
when he states that "once again Sinai Hospital Aging Center.
the Arabs helped to bring disaster A second award—for projects in
upon themselves by boycotting the cities with Jewish population of
VNSCOP Inquiry. For, in default less than 40,000—was won by the
of any Arab opinions or objections, Louisville, Ky., section of the Na
the Committee reverted by a ma- tional Council of Jewish Women
jority of seven to four to the idea for its "Equal Opportunity for All"
of partition." As far as Nutting is program.
concerned, the, sympathetic pro-
•
Zionist worldwide attitude — ex- Report Increased Giving
cept for the position taken by the
British government—played an at Institute i n Virginia
insignificant role! One would WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (JTA)-
imagine that partition was adopted Jewish communities in Virginia,
like most other American Jewish
at the point of a gun!
Regardless of the many fact-
communities, raised more money
ual portions of the storY, the for Jewish global needs in 1964
angled pro-Arab view is so ap- than in the preceding year, a cam-
parent as to minimize the im- ,paign leadership institute was told
portance of this volume here.
Nutting does, indeed, trace the
Thirty leaders representing Jew-
ish Community Councils in four
Virginia cities met for the insti-
tute, which was sponsored by the
Southern States Region of the
Council of Jewish Federations and
WelfaF Funds.

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