THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Status of Jewish Landmarks in Poland, Communities Throughout World Reported BY WARREN FREEDMAN The eminent British Jewish historian, Martin Gilbert, having visited Po- land in December, reports the following facts: There were more than 16,000 villages, towns and hamlets in which Jews had lived for centuries. East of Warsaw is the riverside town of Wyszkow where thr. - are still memories of ti. ewish partisans who fougnt and perished. At Treblinka, a memorial field is covered in stones, on each of which is inscribed the name of a community which was brought to that evil place and destroyed. In Bialystok, many of the large Jewish houses are still standing, and one memorial records on a wall in Yiddish and Polish the heroism of a young Jew, Icchok Malmed, who poured acid from his top floor window onto the heads of the Gestapo below. 7 In Siedice, east of War- saw, there is an inscription in the former Jewish mar- ket, recording in stone the deportation and destruction of more than 17,000 Jews (now called "Ghetto Fight- - ers Square"). In Lukow, tombstones have been col- lected from the Jewish cemetery and piled up in the shape of a high pyramid as a massive memorial, the last note of piety when Lukow Jews left their town forever in 1946. At Lubartow, there is a regal lion buried in a soccer field. At Wlodawa, the former Jewish cemetery on the present Soviet border is submerged under the municipal garbage dump; yet here in Wlodawa there stands a magnificent, brick synagogue, its facade crumbling but its roof intact (the inside is being restored including the replastering of the fine baroque ark with its screen of musical in- struments). At Tyszowce, every build- ing of the old shtetl is intact, from the rabbi's house to the once much-praised Jewish inn. In Zamosc, two "renais- sance" synagogues survive and are used as a youth club and for municipal offices. At Kielce, several synagogues are being restored. In Kolo, west of Warsaw; the site of the synagogue is marked only by a stone but with no inscription. South of Warsaw at Gora Kalwarja, the home of the Gerer Re- bbe the synagogue, is now a 5( of storerooms for fur- and agricultural im- plement. In Szydlowiec, much of the vast cemetery survives with its magnificently carved headstones. In Przysucha, the 300- year-old synagogue roof is being repaired. In Checiny, the synagogue building is part public library and part theater. In Pinczow, the early 16th Century synagogue with massive walls and windows is care- fully protected. •. At Dzialoszyce, the famous 19th Century synagogue's roof is collaps- ing and the remnants of its rare Italian paintings are peeling away. The steps up to the women's gallery are in danger of collapse. At Zawiercie, the cemetery is intact because of the high wall. At Radomsko, the tiny Jewish community buries its dead in the local cemet- ery. In Tarnow, all that sur- vives of the great synagogue is the bima which is in the center of a public park. In Lublin, the once vast cemetery has lost most of its tombstones. * * * In Belgium, the new De- puty Prime Minister is Jean Gol, the Jewish president of the Liberal Party in the province of Wallonia. * * * The International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM) is a New York-based group, organized to seek out and collect photographic evidence relating to Jewish monuments, art and archi- tecture. Recently ISJM published a 71-page guide," Jewish Buildings and Cemeteries: A Guide to Visual Re- sources." The importance of the work of ISJM is seen by the fact that every day throughout the world synagogues and cemeteries are being ravaged by neg- lect as well as by urban growth and urban decay. Even valuable private col- lections of photographs, documents, folk art and memorabilia are tragically discarded by heirs. The ISJM welcomes your help: contact Dr. Sybil Mil- ton of the Leo Baeck Insti- tute, 129 E. 73rd St., New York. * * * Recently organized in New York is the American Division of the World Fel- lowship of the Israel Medi- cal Association, the only of- ficial branch of the Israel Medical Association in the U.S. The president is Dr. Erwin Witkin of Baltimore. Communications to "IMA-USA" may be ad- dressed to Dr. Isaac Horowitz, 230 Inwood Rd., Fairfield, Conn. 06432. Membership is open to' licensed physicians and doc- tors of osteopathic medicine. Doctors from all over the world will convene in Israel for a four-day session com- mencing May 23 at the 12th International Congress of the Israel Medical Associa- tion. lished are the Cardiology Department and the Neurology Department (the only one in Israel for re- habilitation of brain- damaged children). Bikur Cholim Hospital handles more than 60 percent of Jerusalem's ear, nose and throat treatments. 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