the past, and spoke about them- selves and their comrades." There is nothing in the article to waifs speak with great warmth indicate that Chagall now is an about Ivan Reper, the doctor of the children's home; he not only exile from Communist Russia. treated the children, but also guided them paternally on the road THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 15, 1968-15 to life. During its existence the children's home in Malakhovka graduated more than 400 persons, many of whom became teachers and doctors, engineers and work- ers, artists and musicians, scien- tists and inventors. During their meeting with the Jewish writers 'ROOF IAMB 191501 • AILTRO ■ T. 0 S A . in the editorial offices they recalled ; Soviet Embassy Novosti Release Relates Tragedies of Jews Under Nazism Several releases from the infor- mation department of the Soviet Embassy in Washington call at- tention to the sufferings of Jews during the Nazi invasion of Russia. The articles are issued on behalf of Novosti Press Agency (APN) and are translations from original Russian. One of the articles, by Maria Rolnikaite, in a translation by Morgunov, is on the subject "Their Weapon Is Humanity — On Those Who Hid People Persecuted by Nazis" and is an excerpt from the book "Soldiers Without Weapons" isued by the Lithuanian publishing house Miitis. The introduction to the book is by Maria Rolnikaite who is referred to as "the Soviet Anne Frank." Dealing with the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, the article describes roundups and searches and lists among the inci- dents the following: "Lydia Fugalevicute-Golubovene hid many people in her Kulautuve home, near Kaunas: Soviet offi- cer's wife Klavdia Shatunova with two children and elderly parents; several adults and children from the ghetto; a Soviet paratroop of- ficer, who later joined the parti- sans. At one time, she had 15 people in her house, 10 children in- cluded. And all of them had to be not only sheltered, but fed, too. Lydia had to sell almost everything she had. "Those of the persecuted who were fortunate enough to meet Lydia Golubovene's sister — Na- talia Fugalevicute—and her friend. Natalia Yegorova, are alive, too They were saved by two Natashas, as these fearless women were known then. They hid some fugi- tives in their own or their friends' flats, got false documents for others and acted as messengers or guides for still others . . . ". . . The flat of Kotrina Jonei- kite, an ordinary Lithuanian wo- man, was transit, so to say. Ko- trinele, as everybody l o v i n g l y called her, was usually informed that someone would spend a night or two at her place. And Kotrinele prepared to meet the dear guests —she cooked supper and changed the bed clothes. Once a woman who had been with her for 10 days, said that all these prepara- tions were unnecessary — after all, the "guest" would spend only one night at the flat and maybe wouldn't even go to bed but just sit out the curfew. "'Well if my sister or someone else living in normal conditions came to spend a night here,' Ko- trinele objected, 'I wouldn't do that. But I am expecting a man kept away from the Nazis. Be- sides, Zubovene and her husband hid several adults, POWs included. "D a n a Pomerantsaite w a s brought to the house of the well- known Lithuanian singer Kirpas Petrauskas, now a People's Artist of the USSR, as a babe in arms. She was returned to her mother, who survived in a fascist concen- tration camp by some miracle, at the age of 6. Is there any wonder, therefore, that Dana called Pet- rauskene her 'first mother' and her own, a 'second mother' for a long time?" whom the so-called 'conquerors' and their lackeys don't consider a man at all. That is why I want to stress how dear he is to me, how much I respect him." "The courageous act of K. Bin- kis, a gravely ill writer, was dis- cussed in a whisper in Kaunus lit- erary circles. A colleague of his called on him. Binkis was confined to bed, he was in bad need of medicines and good food. The col- league offered the writer all this Another Soviet Embassy re- provided he contributed an article, lease, illustrated extensively with lauding Hitler's "new order," to photographs of groups who met a Nazi paper. The fascist mediator with Jewish writers in the office ran out of the writer's room flush-d of the Yiddish periodical Sovietish and very angry. He was followed Heimland, is entitled "The Recol- by his walking stick, hurled out lections of Former Waifs." It was of the door. The writer was saved written for Novosti by Solomon from execution by natural death— Rabinovich and released by 'APN. he never left his bed since then. This article records the experi- "Is there any wonder, therefore, ences of those who survived the that Jews who had fled from the counter - revolutionary period of ghetto found shelter in that man's ' October 1917. It tells about the house? One girl lived there all the road traversed by the anti-Sem- time, and others, temporarily. But itic armies of Denikin, Petlura and even this "temporality" could Kolchak, the gangs under Makhno, prove fatal. An SS-man lived up- and many others were stained with stairs, but in spite of that there blood: breaking into a town or were up to 11 fugitives in Binkis" townlet, they set fire to the houses, flat at one time. Once a ghetto boy committed outrages against the suffering from a severe whooping- people, murdered children, women cough shared a room with the and old folks. It continues: writer's newly - born granddaugh- "Two astounding figures evi- ter and her mother. dence the terror tactics practiced "The home of oculist Yelena by the White-guard: 180,000 Jews Kutorgene and her son Victoras were killed and 300,000 were or- , was a 'salvaging center,' so to phaned. As a result of the war, speak. Both were connected with destruction and food shortage,i the underground and shadowed, the there was a whole army of home- house was often searched and nev- less, hungry, orphaned children— ertheless they never stopped even not only of Jewish nationality, but for a day their noble work for of other nationalities as well. Waifs saving human lives. became one of the most difficult "Many people — little children problems of that period. at the time, saved from the hang- "The young Soviet Republic man's hands — still call Yelena scrimped on neither effort nor Kutorgene, Sofia Binkene. both Na- money in the attempt to wipe out tashas and Lydia Golubovene their child homelessness. mothers. "The children's home in Malak- "The late authoress Sofia Ciurli- hovka, some 30 km from Moscow, onene, the widow of the well-known was opened in 1919. Homeless Jew- Lithuanian artist and composer M. ish children were sent there. This rhirlionis, was as dear as a mother establishment was headed by Bor.- to Esther Elinaite — she saved ukh Shvartsman, an experienced Esther when the latter was taking teacher. He invited talented people her first faltering steps and did to work there as teachers. Among not part with her till the liberation these were painter Mark Chagall day. And M. 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