THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Prevent Another Holocaust: Remember the Six Million By CHARLES JOSHUA LEVIN they must be read. And if they upset us, so much Have we forgotten the S ix the better. We will then Million? began to understand Soon we will be observi ng what happened in the the 38th anniversary of t he world in the '40s and Warsaw Ghetto Revo lt, what those events tell us which has become the sy m- today. bol of our remembrance of Just as during every all Jewish resistan ce Passover we are ordered to against the Germans, as remember the Exodus as if well as of a Europe litter ed it happened to us, so must with Jewish corpses. we view the last years of the The Warsaw Revolt was a Six Million — in Warsaw milepost of unbelievab le and elsewhere. gallantry along the Ion g Those who escaped with and lonely road th at their lives , those who did stretched into a seeming ly not go up in smoke, those unending night. We remember that on . whose bones are not fertiliz- April 9, 1943, more than ing the fields of East and 13 months before the Al- Central Europe — they lies invaded Europe, the have been named ,"sur- JeWs in Warsaw began vivors." Yet in some ways, the first insurrection in we are the survivors. Upon all of German-occupied us lies the weight of destiny, territory. Half starved, the crushing responsibility lacking minimal arms of perpetuating Jewish life and ammunition, Jewish and Jewish identity of fil- men, women and chil- ling the vacuum that once dren held off the German held the Six Million. The accident of birth is military for 27 days. The Herren yolk had to not enough because it is just bring up artillery and tanks that — an accident. It car- to crush them. Softie 13,000 ries no positive commit- Jews died fighting or were ment or effort. It does, how- burned to death in their ever, give us the opportu- buildings and bunkers. In nity,' the challenge, to live a September 1939, the entire positive Jewish life; to Polish army collapsed in fiercely resist assimilation, Jewish ignorance and less than 27 days. We must remember that apathy. The Six Million the Warsaw Jews fought died as Jews; they died be- alone and that the Six Mil- cause they were Jews, so, in lion died alone. The nations essence, they died for what of the world did nothing, all of us are — Jews. Can we either before or after April live and be less? Have we 19, 1943. The Six Million that right? Dare we? might have been the Five Whenever we read Million or even the Four about the Six Million, talk Million, but then one or two about them and think million human beings about them we plant a didn't matter much if they firm headstone. What- were Jews. ever we do in our daily The Warsaw Ghetto Re- lives to assure the eter- volt and 100 other resis- nity of Judaism and the tance actions of lesser scope eternal quality of the lit a torch for the Jewish Jewish People is a people that will never be ex- memorial to their genera- tinguished. It flames high tion. in Israel. The world hasn't So long as we thus re- changed fundamentally member them, the Six Mil- since April 19, 1943. lion are not nameless or Its sensitivity to the faceless. They are not alone. loss of Jewish lives is still They are with us, within us. covered with callouses They live again. The "non- Constant calls still go ou t people" have become im- to Israel to "com mortals. promise" with its Remember! Remember! enemies. The possibility of a Middle East Munich Kristallnacht cannot be written off. A people that has been Memorial on Site sold out once with a loss o f six million lives (some say of Synagogue seven million) would have INNSBRUCK (JTA) — only itself to blame if it col- Mayor Alois Lugger of In- laborated in a second basi- nsbruck has announced cally similar transaction. that the city will erect a It is, therefore, more than memorial at the site of the just a coincidental accident former main synagogue de- of history to have the an- stroyed during the Kris- nual observance of the re- tallnacht in November volt so close to the date of 1938. Lugger said the state the anniversary of the state of Tyrol agreed to subsidize of Israel. If we remember the project and the In- the first we shall know what nsbruck City Council will to do to keep the second. decide shortly on the financ- ing. So, we must ask again: The announcement fol- have we forgotten the Six lowed a request by the Is- Million? raeli Ambassador to Au- To be sure, books about stria, Yissachar Ben- the last days of the War- Yaacov, that the city gov- saw Ghetto specifically, ernment build a memorial. or the Holocaust in gen- Before the Nazi take-over, eral, do not make for more than 2,000 Jews lives hilarious reading. Yet in Innsbruck. Friday, April 3 ; 1981 Samuel Haber Tells of Increasing Need for Hebrew U. Scholarships Addressing the Detroit Friends of the Hebrew Uni- versity, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Klein on Monday evening, Samuel N. Haber, national chair- man of Hebrew U. Associ- ates, emphasized the urgent need for scholarships. Klein, president of the Detroit Friends of Hebrew U., presided. Haber, who volunteers his services to Hebrew Uni- versity on a full-time basis since his retirement as executive vice president of American Friends of the Hebrew University, said that reduced allocations to the university from the Is- rael government due to the current economic difficul- ties, and the services pro- vided for the increasing number of students from underdeveloped countries, necessitates increased pro- visions for scholarships. He pointed out that the university policies of encouraging student enrollments of youths from Muslim countries and cooperation with the Israel armed forces to as- Sprin unlocks the flowers to paint the soil. sure educational facilities for army vete- rans have created a great need for the scholarship program, with the He- brew U. Associates serv- ing as the medium to as- sure financial aid for this vital program. 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