Christian Volunteers Proffer Their Services Wholeheartedly
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JERUSALEM—Among the
foreign volunteers serving in
the Hadassah Hospital are
many Christians, many of
whom came at the outbreak
of the Yom Kippur War.
Volunteers include plumb-
ers and kitchen help, a con-
vert from San Francisco who
serves as a policewoman on
guard duty at the emergency
entrance of the hospital, two
Danish physicians who took
jobs as maintenance men,
computer programers and
pharmacists.
A New Yorker offered his
services as a driver and was
told he needed a car. When
were sent to other parts of
the country. Volunteer doc-
tors came from France, Eng-
land, Argentina, Denmark,
South Africa, Australia and
Canada to help out in the
emergency.
Several of the doctors who
Visppa-Say
iLives On
The Israelis, grateful to
Holland for its support dur-
ing the crisis, were reminded
of another crisis when the
Dutch spirit of brotherhood
was evidenced.
The famous penname of
Ka-Tzetnik was appended to
the memoir, printed in the
newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
Relating his experiences in
the Nazi death camp of
Auschwitz, Ka-Tzetnik wrote,
in part:
"In block 29, we called
him "Yuppa-Hay" because
of the song he brought with
him from Holland to the
death camp. We learnt to
sing the refrain with him as
we marched to work. I don't
know Dutch. Yet I under-
stood the last two words of
the song, .`Return to Amster-
dam.'
"That was in the winter of
1943; a bitter winter. For
three days the crematorium
furnaces had been smoking
non-stop, day and night. The
furnace was being kept busy
with the last women and in-
fants from Velbrum Ghetto.
"At night, from the wagon-
loads of people beside the
crematorium, you could hear
the cries of the mothers and
infants as if their voices
were rising from the fur-
nace. This noise has to be
stopped at once. Crying
wasn't acceptable at Ausch-
witz.
"Therefore, the kapos call-
ed the first row of marchers
from the work brigade and,
under orders from the SS,
gave them kerosene.
"Then, the unbelievable
happened. It had never hap-
pened before at Auschwitz.
Yuppa-Hay wouldn't pour the
kerosene! Yuppa-Hay would
not obey orders. This even
surnrised the Nazis."
Ka-Tzetnik wrote that he
will never forget the scene,
the Dutch Yuppa-Hay stand-
ing in the black winter of
Auschwitz opposite a row of
SS men, and refusing to pour
kerosene.
afterward, as he marched
in the work brigades, Ka-
Tzetnik would say to himself,
Live Yuppa Hay, Live
Yuppa-Hay.
In the winter of 1973 he
would again cry out "Live
Yuppa-Hay. Return to Am-
sterdam."
Self-Conquest
Our ceremonialism is a
training in self - conquest
while it links the generations
. . . and unifies our atoms
dispersed to the four corners
of the earth as nothing else
could.—Israel Zangwill.
The ideas and ideals of a
people may give it signifi-
cance but its group habits
give it life.—Milton Stein-
berg.
he returned to the volunteer
office the following day, lie
had already hired a car at
his own expense.
A plumber from Kentucky
brought his family to live in
Israel prior to the war be-
cause he said he believes
that Israel is "a more mean-
ingful place in which to raise
my family." He offered his
services to Hadassah.
Volunteers from the United
States have been filling in
for Israeli doctors called to
the fronts and are serving in
their specialized capacities
at the Hadassah Hospital.
Specialists include ortho-
pedic, plastic, heart and
chest surgeons; radiologists
and anesthetists.
Many of the doctors who
came to Hadassah Hospital
Friday, Dec. 21, 1973-17
came during the Six-Day
War and the War of Attrition
have stayed on at the hos-
pital at their own expense. A
team of doctors from France,
disregarding their country's
policy toward Israel, also
came.
The Israel-ArabWar
IV, V, VI...?
There Must Be
■ Another Way!
A stable cease fire, exchange of
prisoners and peace negotiations
which will begin soon will be a great
relief to all who have been shaken
by the dreadful fact that Israel lost
2,500 of its young men killed in the
war. Nor are we unmindful of the
much larger losses on the Arab side.
Israel obviously cannot afford such
blood sacrifices in wars every few
years; nor do the Arab peoples gain
from their losses. Yet if permanent
peace is not established through
negotiations as soon as possible,
recent history shows there will be
another war in a few years.
War threatens the very existence
of Israel. "Israel is here to stay!" and
"Israel must live!" We say it today
with all the strength at our command.
We support the initiative of the
United States and the Soviet Union
in securing the passage of the U.N.
Resolutions of October 22 and Octo-
ber 24, 1973, which called for a
cease fire in place and for negotia-
tions to establish a lasting peace.
Hopefully this cooperation between
these two great powers will continue
in behalf of peace in the Middle East
and throughout the world.
We Detroit Jews maintain that the
only road to peace in the Middle
East is a political solution, not war.
The future of Israel depends upon
peace, which in turn depends upon
Arab-Israel co-existence and cooper-
ation. To end the causes of the wars
between Israel and its Arab neigh-
bors, it is necessary for both sides
to take steps to carry out the U.N.
Security Council Resolution 242 of
November 22, 1967. This includes
agreement by Israel to withdraw
from occupied territories on the
basis of negotiations and a peace
settlement that will finally establish
secure and recognized boundaries
to Israel.
One barrier to peace was the ada-
mant refusal of the Arab countries
to enter such negotiations until now,
and their support to terrorist organi-
zations which operate from bases in
their territories and commit crimes
against Israel and humanity. Another
barrier was the application of strong
reprisal action against the Arabs. On
one side the terror and threats
against the existence of Israel must
be halted; on the other side, the
moves by Israel to establish settle-
ments in occupied territories with a
view to annex large areas of Arab
lands must be reversed.
Another barrier to peace is the
status of the Palestinian Arabs and
refugees. We believe the Israeli cab-
inet should declare its support of
self-determination for the Palestin-
ian Arabs. We are happy to note For-
eign Minister Abba Eban's address
in the U.N. on October 3rd in which
he declared that it would be agree-
able to Israel that a peace settle-
ment include two nations in the- area
of the former Palestine Mandate.
This approach is in line with the
original U.N. resolution of 1947 for
the establishment of two indepen-
dent states, a Jewish state and an
Arab state, on the territory of Pales-
tine.
A policy along the lines indicated
above can assure peace in the Mid-
dle East. To achieve this peace —
with boldness, willingness on both
sides to compromise, and with jus-
tice for both sides — will mean the
end of continued conflict and wars,
the end of tragic loss of life on both
sides, and the survival of Israel.
The negotiations are soon to be-
gin. The will to peace must over-
come all obstacles, suspicions and
misunderstandings. We call on the
American Jewish community and the
American people as a whole to con-
tribute to the atmosphere of detente
within which such negotiations can
best continue. Cold war considera-
tions can only hinder the forthcom-
ing peace negotiations.
The purpose of this statement is
not to dictate a "solution," but to
open up a dialogue in the Jewish
community, in order to explore all
elements of the crisis, as a guide to
a more informed position.
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