Two Toronto Youths Admit Vandalism in a Jewish Cemetery Boris Smolar's TORONTO (JTA) — Two 18- pended sentence. month suspended sentence. The year-old youths, arrested in a Maurice Thibeault, 25, was sen- magistrate dismissed charges desecration of the Mount Sinai tence to nine months plus a three- against three other youths. Cemetery in which 103 tombstones were toppled, were held for sen- tence after admitting the vandal- ism. The names of the youths were withheld. Hundreds of Jews visiting the THE DANISH STORY: The story of how the Danes saved almost cemetery on the annual pre-High 'Between You BEE KALT TRAVEL SERVICE PRESENTS . . and Me' all the 6.500 Jews of Denmark from deportation to death camps during the Nazi occupation of the country is well known . . . It has become a part of Jewish history and a shining example of how people, truly democratic, risked their own lives to save the lives of their Jewish neighbors . . . Some of the Danes who smuggled the Jews out en masse from Denmark into neighboring neutral Sweden on fishing boats — during the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in 1943 — were sent by the Nazis to concentration camps and died there . . . When you visit Denmark now, you see the memorial stone erected at the point from where the Danish fishing boats left with their human cargo in the darkness of the night for the Swedish waters, only two miles away from a Danish village . . . The memorial is dedicated to the leader of the village who perished in a Nazi camp where- he was interned for directing the rescue of the Jews .. . The official German orders against the Jews were usually linked with a promise to release Danish soldiers in captivity . . . However, this did not lure the Danes . The mass-rescue of the Jews was so well organized by the under- ground movement, and supported by the nation at large, that only about 300 Jews were captured en-route and sent to an internment camp, while more than 6,000 got over to Sweden in safety . . . When Holy Day visit found the mass desecration which apparently took place the night before Rosh Hashanah. Police noted that there were no anti-Semitic scrawlings or slogans in the vandalism. The youths, who were residents of the neighborhood, were arrested within a few hours on a charge of wilful damage. Police said that on the same night they broke into a gasoline station and stole a car. They were arrested when the car collided with another. They pleaded guilty to the desecration charge and were remanded a week for. sentencing. Earlier, three youths were sentenced here to prison terms ranging from one to three years they returned later to liberated Denmark, they were not only welcomed for an unprovoked assault against back home by the Danes but they also found their belongings all intact, a synagogue youth group during a kept in storage by their non-Jewish neighbors during the war years. ball game and picnic on Toro- nto's Center Island. In passing sentence, Magistrate AMERICAN ECHOES: The dramatic details of the unique rescue operation carried out by the people in Denmark under the very nose of the Nazis have not yet been written fully . . . This is because the Danes are very shy in talking about them . . . They have always con- sidered the Jews as part of the nation and when you talk to them in Copenhagen, they tell you they see nothing exceptional in aiding their own people .. . They are inclined to give more credit to Sweden for admitting the Jews and supplying them with suitable employment than to talk about their own role in the operation . . . The full story of how the entire Jewish community of Denmark was saved by the Danish people — and of the generous hospitality given to the Jewish refugees by Sweden — will probably come to light only now, in the campaign for $1,000,000 proclaimed in the United States by the "Thanks to Scandinavia" organization . . . This group — of which Richard Netter, prominent New York attorney, is president and Victor Sorge, the comedian, is national chairman — intends to raise among Jews, and also among non-Jews, in this country $1,000,000 as a perpetual endow- ment fund for the purpose of financing scholarships for students from Scandinavia in appreciation for saving the Jews . . . In Scandinavia, the scholarship program has been extensively publicized, and although the people in Denmark believe that no one should be thanked for doing what is only right, some of the Jewish leaders in the United States feel that Jews owe the government and the people of Scandinavia a heavy debt of gratitude which has not yet been sufficiently recognized . .. So does obviously the U.S. Government which has made the con- tributions to the "Thanks to Scandinavia" tax-deductible . . . Without any fanfare, the group in New York has already received $150,000 in contributions, in addition to substantial pledges . . . Phi Sigma Delta Fraternity, which has 20,000 members in 50 colleges and universities, Donald Graham called the incident a case of "gang violence" against innocent persons minding their own business. Judge Graham said the victims were "deliberately set upon and beaten unmercifully by armed hoodlums." The victims were mem- bers of the Beth Sholom Youth Organization of Toronto. Paul D. Little, 17, identified by two witnesses as the person who broke a baseball bat over the head of one of the Jewish teen-agers, received a term of 18 months phis a six-month suspended sentence. James W. Brunswick, 18, who admitted swinging a plastic hose in the attack, received a term of 15 months plus a six-months sus- 8 n IJ ACRES OF FUN! At Mid-America's fabulous resort ... a playtime paradise where you'll enjoy: • Terrific food • Beautiful heated pool and patio • All sports • Gala floor shows has offered to provide, at its own expense, free room and board to students who receive tuition scholarships from the "Thanks to Scan- dinavia" project . .. The scholarship program has been fully endorsed by the American ambassadors to all Scandinavian countries, and Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, has especially expressed his gratification that scholarships will be given not only to students of Denmark but to students of all Scandinavian lands. NATION OF HUMANITARIANS: In Copenhagen they tell you of the different tricks the underground movement in Denmark used in saving the Jews when its leaders learned of the secret decision of the Nazi occupation authorities to have all Jews rounded up for deporta- tion . . . It was easy for the Nazi authorities to discover who is a Jew because they had in their possession all the files of the Copenhagen Jewish community with the names and addresses of each Jewish family in the city . . . The rounding up of the Jews was planned by the Nazis as a "blitz operation" for which a certain date was set secretly . . . When the underground movement, which had its agents in high Nazi quarters, learned of the decision, they lost no time and mobilized all ambulances in the city hospitals to take the Jews out at night in these ambulances, first to hospitals where they were provided with "Aryan" documents and then to fishing villages . . . Crews of fishermen became active during night hours in taking the Jews on their boats out to the sea and in bringing them to safety to Swedish harbors . . . This con- tinued for about 10 nights until no Jew was left in Copenhagen . . . The Nazis, unaware of the conspiratorial mass-rescue operation, had in the meantime quietly prepared the trains which were to carry the Jews to the annihilation camps . . . They were surprised and indignant when they discovered that they were outsmarted and that there were practi- cally no Jews left in the country ... Only then did they realize to what extent the people of Denmark were determined to defend the Jews. 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