30 Friday, August 29, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

4,000 Jews Remain in Poland

CARBONDALE, Ill.
(JTA) — Rabbi Earl Vine-
cour, Hillel director at
Southern Illinois Univer-
sity, reports that the Jewish
population in Poland has
been reduced by the anti-
Zionist purges during the
past few years to a mere 4,-
000, mostly elderly Jews.
Rabbi Vinecour recently
returned from Poland after
doing research for a book on
-contemporary Polish Jewry.
"There is not one rabbi,

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.Jewish sch 001, co-op, or
•really functioning Jewish
club in the entire country."
he said.
"The Jewish State
Theatre, whose star per-
former, Ida Kaminska, left
the country at the peak of
the anti-Semitic outbreak
in 1968 (and is now in Is-
rael), continues to func-
tion three times a week.
The audience consists
mostly of Poles who listen
to translation through ear-
phones. Even many of the
actors are now non-Jews as
there is no longer a reservoir
of young- Jews to fill the rap-
idly declining acting staff."
The only Yiddish newspa-
per left in Poland, the Folk-
stimme, comes out once a
week and is half in Polish,
and it is subject to strict
government censorship, he
said.
"The Jewish Historical
Institute. located in a wing
of the former Great Syn-

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ag- m2,- tie of Warsaw at Tlo-
macki Place, continues to
function as part of the Pol-
ish Academy of Science,"
the rabbi went on.
The Judaica collection
includes 60.000 books, 1,200
rare manuscripts and
100,000 art objects, as \yell
as the archives of Emanuel
Ringelblum, the archivist of
the Warsaw Ghetto.
"Since the anti-Zionist
purges, the institute has
been forbidden to send out
for exhibit or loan any of
the books, manuscripts or
art, and thus the majority
of the collection sits un-
used and collecting dust."
"In Warsaw," Rabbi Vine-
cow- said, "the Jews are very
much concerned about
threats by the govefnment
against its historic ceme-
tery.
"The funerary art alone
on the tombs make this a re-
markable cemetery worthy
of preservation," he said.
"The same threat against
Jewish burial grounds has
been made by city officials
in Wroclaw (formerly Bres-
lau) where they want to put
a factory complex in its
place, and in Lodz, where
there are some of the most
interesting mausoleums to
be found anywhere in the
world.
He said he found that lit-
erally hundreds of syn-
agogues, communal build-
ings, schools, clubs and
hospitals used by the
3,500,000 Polish Jews be-
fore the war had survived
intact, but had been
turned into warehouses
and non-Jewish libraries
and public clubs, or just
abandoned.
"Two exceptions to this
wanton vandalization of his-
toric synagogues," he said,
"are in Krakow, where the
oldest existing synagogue in
Poland, dating to the 14th
Century; has been repaired
and turned into a Jewish
museum. as well as the
Remo Synagogue of Moses
Isserles.
"In Wlodowa on the So-
viet border, the magnificent
'Fortress Synagogue,' aban-
doned since the ‘var, is
being restored."
"To the credit of the Pol-
ish Government," the rabbi
said, "all the death camp
sites which are well pre-
served. make prominent
mention of the fact that it
was mostly Jews who were
killed there.
"At Treblinka, where
800,000 Jews perished,
signs in six languages, in-
cluding Yiddish, tell ex-
actly what happened
there. Similar is the case
in Chelmno, Sobibor, Bel-
zec, Auschwitz and Tra-
winiki.
"At the Majdanek death
camp near Lublin, a huge
museum has been estab-
lished giving prominent
place to the suffering of the
Jews, and the history of
Nazi anti-Semitism.
"Because of the anti-Zion-
ist purges, young Jews have
all left their country." Most
of th e .1,000 Jews remaining
in Poland are elderly. poor
and sick. 00(1 exist on dona-
tions from the Joint Distri-
bution Committee. of Amer-
ica.

Survivor Recalls Ravensbruck

,irr i ve d at Ravens-
bruck around the end of
October 1943. Within a few
hours we became brutally
aware of reality: the forced
labor, the experimental op-
erations on young girls, the
transports, individual and
mass executions, the ill
being 'put out of their mis-
ery.' the dogs, the beatings,
the gas chambers .. .
"Before the end of the
first day we had been
stripped of everything:
those minor little articles
\\.e had brought, our rights,
and 01H* hope. All we had
now were a few filthy rags
which didn't belong to us —
and a number."
That is how Germaine
Tillion first saw Ravens-
hrock, the Nazi concentra-
tion camp for women. Ms.
Tillion, an internationally-
known anthropologist. re-
calls Ravensbruck in an al-
most detached. historic
light.
She arrived at Ravens-
bruck with her mother (who
did not survive) after being
betrayed to the Gestapo by
a Nazi collaborator, a
French priest, for her or-
ganization of a resistance
network in Paris.

Reading "Ravensbruck"
(Anchor Press) one is struck
by the nightmare that such
an utterly barbaric institu-
tion could have existed.
Upon realizing that mad-
houses such as Ravensbruck
did exist, one must think of
those who lived and died
there and the few who sur-
vived. Ms. Tillion — a survi-
vor — spent her two years
at Ravensbruck in study; in
study of the human condi-
tion and the cruel motiva-
tions of man.

The Ravensbruck in-
mates did try to live, to ex-
ist, despite the mad metho-
dology of the death camp.
The author relates death
by beating, poison, gas,
shooting.

She tells of the death
camp and the malicious
pleasure of those who ran it:
memorandums to camp per-
sonnel telling them that the
death rate was "too low:" so-
called nurses "assisting" the
insomniacs in the sick ward
with "sleeping medicine;"
humanitarian requests by
camp officials that the "ill,
aged, and fatigued" prison-
ers make themselves known
-so that they could be sent to
the "convalescent camp" of
the gas chamber.

Strangely, there was fight
left in many of Hitler's in-
mates. They were quick to
recognize the death details
and to hide those who could

Anna Freud Takes
Philadelphia Post

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Freud, daughter of Sig-
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not xvork and thus were
prime candidates.
They rebelled and risked
what "life" they had to pro-

tect the "rabbits - — the
young- people that the Nazis
were using for crippling
"medical experiments."

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