Friday, April 4, 1980 23 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Partisan' Spans Holocaust to Present By DR. MILTON STEINHARDT "The Partisan — From The Valley of Death to Mount Zion," by Yitzhak Arad (Holocaust Library) is the epitome of the saga of the Jewish struggle for sur- vival and security. The title is accurate, the contents forthright, and the narra- tive emotionally painful at the immensity of events that gripped Eastern Euro- pean Jewry in 1939. This book spans the his- tory of a boy age 13 at the time the Nazis invaded Warsaw, the initial shock and impact of the ghetto, the degradation and humiliation, the obscene ANSWER BACK You're at a ,party and someone makA a dispar- aging remark about Israel — "Israel is intransigent." "Is- rael_gets too much from the United States," "Begin was a terrorist. - You know what he's say- ing is wrong, but you don't have the facts to back you up. 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En- closed is my check for plunder, and the dilemma of the Judenrat. Fortuitously, this adoles- cent boy of 15, as a forced laborer in a military ware- house, secretly accumu- lated weapons under the nose of the Nazi masters and escaped to the forests of Lithuania. He became a part of a Jewish partisan unit (la- ter named "Wilnus") that fought the Nazis, the local fascists, sabotaged the railway supply trans- ports to the front and was decorated by the Soviets for heroic contributions. At the end of the war he aided in gathering sur- vivors ready for aliya, later joined the "illegals" to Is- rael via the Alps and Italy. In Israel he became g member of the Palmach, an air force pilot, expert on ADL Expecting KKK Violence NEW YORK — The Ku Klux Klan is likely to pro- voke fresh violence this spring and summer, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith has warned fed- eral officials. In a report to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington last month, Irwin Suall, director of ADL's fact finding depart- ment, said "increased vigi- lance" from law enforce- ment officials and greater public awareness of KKK activities was necessary to meet the "challenge." The reasons for the esca- lation of the Klan threat are threefold, Suall told the commissioners: the advent of warmer weather, facilitating outdoor demon- strations; increased compe- tition among Klan groups for headlines and notoriety, and announcements by lef- tist groups of their inten- tions to stage "direct, vio- lent confrontations" of their own with Klansmen. Women in Israel Topic of Parley NEW YORK — The first national Conference on Women in Israel will take plate April 11-13 at the - Brooklyn College Hillel Foundation, Brooklyn, N.Y. The conference, coordi- nated by several cooperat- ing organizations and indi- viduals, will bring together women who are considering Aliyah, who are working within the Zionist move- ment, and who are seriously concerned about the role of women in Israel. NAME W.B. Solution? ADDRESS CAIRO (ZINS) — An Is- rael Radio correspondent has reported that President Anwar Sadat of Egypt is proposing a joint Israel- Egypt-U.S. administration of the West Bank and Gaza Strip for five years, leading to a choide by the area resi- dents between indepen- dence, confederation with Jordan or Israel. CITY STATE ZIP Make checks payable to: Near East Report 444 North Capitol St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 demolition and experienced many narrow escapes in battles of the liberation in 1948. He continued his services in the Six-Day War, in the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem that 15 years previously his unit lost after a valiant struggle. This remarkable man was active in the Yom Kippur War as brigadier general, and recently he guided President Sadat and President Carter upon their visits to Israel. Could anyone pack more into one lifetime? There are two events in this narrative that caused this reviewer a sleepless night. One was the picture (in silhouette) of Nazis shooting young Jewish women before prepared mass graves; the second is the heartrending episode when the Nazi retreat was imminent and the order was given to burn the thousands of corpses previously thrown into mass graves in order to hide the enormity of the genocide. It was during this reverse process that some of the Jewish laborers identified the bodies of their own relatives. One wishes for another Bialik who reacted to the horrors and revulsion of the Kishinev pogrom to speak out against this bestiality of the Nazis and the bank- ruptcy of our moral leaders. 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