22 — Friday, June 6, 1969

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Warsaw Ghetto Victims Defended
From Historians' Unfair Judgments

On the 25th anniversary of the girl of 16 who attached to her belt
Warsaw Ghetto uprising of Jews, a few grenades called bottles,
crushed under the iron heel of I went on to the balcony, set her
Nazi terror, a Yeshiva University hair on fire and threw herself onto
educator has published a book a tank. Happily, with success,
which she contends disputes "the because she destroyed it perishing
unfair judgment of some histor- with the gunners."
ians" that the victims submitted
A poem included these lines:
to the degradation without signifi- "Something has happened.
cant struggle to - maintain their I "At Niska, at Mila, Muranow the
sense of humanity and dignity.
peoples spread.
e book on Jewish behavior "Around our guns, bloody and
during
tragic years of priva- !
red,
tion, tortu
and murder behind I "Flowers our spring. Counter at-
ghetto walls,
om 1940 to 1943,
tack!"
contains previously unpublished I Dr. Krakowski said that even
writings of Jews who perished under the blackest of circum-
there, in the form of diaries, stances, Jews in the ghetto were
poems, letters and clandestine able to find solace in humor. One
newspapers. It was compiled and bitter joke had Winston Churchill
edited by Dr. Anna F. Krakowski, ! asking a rabbi how he should
associate professor of French lit- manage with the Germans. The
erature at Yeshiva University's ! rabbi replied: "There are two
Stern College for Women.
methods, the natural and the
The writings show, according miraculous. The natural method
to Dr. Krakowski, who spent five I would be the annihilation of Ger-
years gathering original docu- many by a thousand angels carry-
ments saved from burial before ing flaming swords; the miracu-
the final battle, that the Jews
Ions method would be the same
struggled valiantly despite over-
thing realized by the same num-
whelming 'odds and the despair-
ber of English."
ing belief that the rest of the
Dr. Krakowski said "the enthu-
world either didn't know or care siasm inside the ghetto for combat
about what was being done to against the enemy was exasper-
them.
ated by the indifference of the
The writing appear in the vol- other side of the wall."
ume published in French, Spanish
and Catalan (a Barcelonian dia- Reconstructionist College
lect) under the titles, respectively,
"Commes des Chiens Abandon- Approved by State Body
PHILADELPHIA—In an official
nes," "Como Perros Acosados"
and "Corn Gosses Abandonats." letter addressed to Rabbi Ira Eis-
(English translation: "Like Aban- enstein, president of the Recon-
, structionist Rabbinical College,
doned Dogs.")
Cultural life thrived in the Pennsylvania's superintendent of
ghetto, Dr. Krakowski insisted in public instruction, David H. Kurtz-
an interview. "The Jews conducted , man, approved the college's in-
research, wrote poetry and his- ; structional program leading to the
tories and taught their young doctor of Hebrew letters degree.
people in schools and colleges to
Earlier this spring, a visiting
keep themselves from dying like team of consultants visited the col-
animals, without culture or heri- lege, examined every facet of its
tage," she said.
program and found the college "to
She called "incredible" the fact be a strong institution in this early
that "creative activity of any kind stage of development."
could have gone on in such cir-
The rabbinical college was con-
cumstances of bare subsistence
gratulated particularly for "the
and bestiality."
cooperative relationships that

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Dr. Krakowski, who used Po-
lish and German as well as
Warsaw Archives in her re-
search, noted that three former
professors on the medical faculty
of Warsaw University taught
medicine in underground schools,
with one of them, Prof. Ludwig
Hirszfeld, even carrying on re-
search in bacteriology.

the college has established with
the graduate department of reli-
gion at Temple (University) and
with the Dropsie College of He-
brew and Cognate studies."

Care Is Termed Necessity

NEW YORK—Noting that only 4
JERUSALEM—As Israel Bond per cent of aged persons in the

investments provide the frame-
work for the establishment of new
industries and the expansion of ex-
isting ones, more American com-
panies are entering the field. The
Zenith Corp. has recently opened
a plant for the manufacture of tele-
vision sets and components. When
in full operation, the plant will pro-,
duce 6,000 sets a year; Zenith tele
vision sets are already selling
Israel for about one-third less than
the price of imported sets.

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hemorrhoids. In case after case
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United States live under institu-
tional care, a geriatric medical
specialist called for the creation
of community geriatric centers to
serve the vast number of elderly
persons living outside of homes
for the aged, and nursing homes
and hospitals.
Dr. Seymour Jacobson, a psy-
chiatrist serving as,. director of
clinical services for the aged at
the New York Jewish Home and
Hospital for the Aged, stated that
with an anticipated population of
20,000,000 persons over 65 in this
country, and the high incidence of
mental impairment among them,
there is an increasing demand for
community geriatric centers where
the noninstitutionalized aged, par-
ticularly the psychiatrically im-
paired, could come for diagnosis,
treatment and rehabilitation.
Dr. Jacobson's remarks were de-
livered at the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds'
conference on mental impairment
among the Aged, at the Hotel War-
wick.

Only choose in marriage a wom-
an whom you would choose as a
friend if she were a man.—Joseph

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the Jewish Agency for Israel. The
author is Reuven Bar-Sever, Is-
rael's foremost authority on teach-
ing Hebrew to adults, and head of
ulpanim (language classes) for
the Agency's department of edu-

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study groups, AJCongress is offer-
ing its LP record album, "Hebrew

Through Conversation." The al-
contains two long-playing
records and a 5-page study

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cation and culture.

Egypt Recalls
Its UN Emissary

Thousands of American Jewish
Congress members visit Israel
each year and the pocket guide
was prepared with them and other I UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Mo-
hammed H. El Kony, the chief
travelers in mind.
1 Egyptian ambassador to the United
Paul H. Vishny of Chicago,
Nations,
has been recalled to
c hairman of the Co
Egypt. He will give up his post on
mission on Jewish affairs, notes in
Aug. 1, his 63rd birthday.
on like a native.
the introduction that "Ivrit Kalah"
El Kony, here since 1964 fig-
A 16-page pocket-sized guide to
is not intended as a substitute for
ured prominently in debates in the
a tourist's most needed words and
a thorough study of Hebrew and
phrases, the booklet has been pre- its literature, but rather as a Security Council on Arab-Israel
issues. He is generally regarded as
pared by AJCongress jointly with

New Yearbook

Marks Record in
ORT Enrollment

"taste of Hebrew" to help the the foremost Arab spokesman here.
American visitor in Israel and pel- Since
Egypt broke diplomatic rela-
haps inspire him to study the lan-
tions with the United States during
guage more seriously.
the Six-Day War, be has been the
I For such students, including highest diplomatic representative
members of Hebrew language of Egypt on these shores.

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An all-time high in enrollment
in the vocational schools and eco-
nomic aid programs of ORT is re-
ported in the new edition of the
ORT Yearbook, which notes the

remember

FATHER'S DAY

50,000 record that was reached
in 1968.
These services were provided in
663 trade schools, technical insti-
tutes, teacher training projects,
adult courses, apprenticeship plans
and similar programs. ORT activi-
ties were conducted in 78 cities

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through Training the largest non-
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book states.
"The growth of the sixties is
overwhelmingly an accent on
youth," the yearbook declares.
"There are now 10,000 more high
school aged boys and girls matri-
culated in ORT three and four
year vocational and technical sec-
ondary schools than there were in
1960."
"Nevertheless, 35,000 youth of
the same age bracket in Israel and
thousands of others among the re-
fugee Jewish population in France
and among the depressed com-
munities of North Africa, Iran and
India are not being reached," the
report says.

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Zenith Plant in Israel

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"Instant Hebrew"—the first ef-
fective short-cut to speaking the
language of Israel—has been pub-1
lished by the American Jewish
Congress, to simplify tourism in
Israel during the coming season.
With "Ivrit Kala"—Hebrew for
"Instant Hebrew" — in hand, the
American visitor can now painless-
ly order refreshments at a Tel
Aviv sidewalk cafe, ask the way
to the King David Hotel in Jeru-
salem, greet a sabra with "Boker
Toy" (which means good morn-
ing in Israel) and generally carry

Rabbi Eisenstein reported that
the college has been promised the

tionist movement—a collection con-
Excerpts from writings in the taining 15,000-20,000 volumes. In
ghetto offer the best evidence of addition, the college has received
the resolve and resistance of the the personal library of Rabbi Max
victims, Dr. Krakowski believes.
Schenk, comprising 7,000 volumes.
Examples of a determination to
resist include this harrowing re-
port in a diary: "There is a young Community Geriatric

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AJCongress Issac 'Instant Hebrew' Study Pamphlet

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