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Dramatic Achievement t:icl.mann :Jr;afj memorable moment~ ,'. ~stAEL JOINS SPACE CLUB By REUBEN SLONIM §>" JERUSALEM (Special)-The U.S.A., U.S.S.R, U.K., France, Italy and Japan Associate Editor of The TcJegl'am, were joined Wednesc!.ay by Israel as this relatively tiny and newly established state Toronto broke into the exclusive group of nations whose scientific achievements have kept them in the forefront of space probing and research. Israel became the seventh mem A series written"" for ten newspapers ber of the exclusive "World Space Club" when R.he launched a multi-space rocket in The Telegram News Service from a secret seaside launching base to study· weather conditions and bring back (Published by permission) data from some 50 to 60 miles into space. Details have heen sparse as Israel studies • I_the_results of her dramatic .space achieve~ent.
The Little Shoes of Treblinka . I ~'- .' The doctor held up a child's pair of shoes, and in an instant the real meaning of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of the 19405 was clem.. Adolph Eichmann looked at the shoes; his face was impassive. ~ .. " Dr. Abraham Berman, director of a psychological institute in Poland before the war, seemed in his testimony to be submitting an exh.bit not to the court but to the tight-lipped. man in thc glass cage. The doctor had salvaged the little shoes fr~ an estimated million of them scattered over the field of death at Tr'!'blinka. \ ':. "These are precious things," he said as the usher took them to the judges to be examined. His reluctance to part with them was understood by every heart in the courtroom. WINNIPEG, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961 No. 27 Was it understood by Adolf Eichmann? Vol. XXXVII ~ The little shoes were precious because they represented 100,000 Warsaw Ghetto children who perished. They perished but they were ",. not abandoned. And this is what pointed up the meaning of the historic Jews Intermarry Ghetto resistance. "V JVorld News In Briel One way of fighting tyranny is to take up arms, and when those are In West Germany gone, to use bare fists until the end. Another way is to sustain the quality of mercy even when cruelty is Bonn Mainz, Germany (JTA)-A demo supreme and all hope is gone. A loan of a billion deutschemarks ($250,000,000) will be granted by the graphic study dealing with West Working with children, organizing activities to keep up their morale Government of West Germany to the Un.ted Arab Republic. After two German Jewry, issued at Mainz in the face of death, this is the kind of resistance that needs hel'oism, days of negotiations .by Vice Premier 1B0ughadi of the UAR, and Ludwig University, showed that 59.1 per too, and the Warsaw community was rich in it. !Erhardt, West German Minister of Economic Affairs, it was decided cent of all Jewish marriages in this In Canada there are thousands who claim Warsaw and its environs that West Germany would finance the construction of the Euphretes c 0 u n try since 1945 have been as their old home. Let them glory in the little shoes. If there are those dam in Syria, .as well as other industrial projetcs in the UAR. . "mixed marriages.'.' The study also who lost someone dear in the ,bestial flood that swept away the Jewish' showed that, of 1;166 newly born community of Poland, let them take comfort in the knowledge that the children in the Jewish communities work of charity did not cease even at the door of the gas chambers. Dublin in this coun'try between 1951 and Nazis could maim, torture and kill, hut they were powerless against Robert Br,isco, who became Dublin's first Jewish Lord iMayor in 1956, 1958, only 71 were of "all-Jewish" a little pair of shoes. Their policy was to pauperize the little children, was agam elected to that office last week hy a 22-21 vote of the City extraction. to make them little beggars roaming the streets. Council. A former president of the Irish Board of Schechita and a There are 23,000 Jews registet·ed They failed because of Dr. Berman and thousands of other wclfare former member of the New Zionist Executive under Vladimir Jahotin officially in West German Jewish workers who remembered the words of a testament not theirs: "Suffer sky, Mr. Brisco was named Lord Mayor in 1956 when his name was communities. Most of them are the little children to come unto me." drawn from a hat after a tie vote in the Council. concentrated in the- large centres These workers mobilized extensive action in. the Ghetlo, mustering like West Berlin, Hamburg, Col all factions from extreme left to extreme right to reSCllc the children ogne, Munich and Frankfurt. There from the life of. the streets. About 1,000 institutions parlicipated. Jerusalem are 72 official Jewish -communities A spokesman for the Israel Foreign l\linistry this week denied Soviet They had no medicine to stem typhoid fever and TB. Thvy could not in West Gel'm'any, but Jews also always pr{;!vent a stray lilLie girl from Ibeing l'aped by one of the beasts charges against Yaacow Sharett (son of iMoshe Sharett) the First Sec reside in smaller number in more retary of the Israel Embassy in Moscow, that he "was caught red at the gates of the Ghctto. But they sct up orphanages am! boarding than 500 other localities in this houses with thc little means they had. handed in spying. The move was attributed as "retaliation" for the country_ -Famous educators, like Janos Kolkov and Goldsmith. conducted trials of Prof. Kurt Sitte, and Dr. Israel :Baer, on charges of spying for The statistics also showed that clandestine classes because public education was bnnnl'd. Creches nnd unnamed Communist countries and to propaganda to win UAR following. only four per cen t of the Jews here clubs were organized. With the arms that were smuggled in came plants lived in Germany before the Nazis for the children, many of whom had never seen a flower. Grim and wiped out the Jewish communities. dreary little lives were uplifted by planned Ghetto "holidays." New York Since 1945, about 12,000 Jews have A major Conservative congregation, the Park Avenue Synagogue of New Dr. Berman remembered the day ,before thousands were taken to immigrated to Germany; 4.500 of the Treblinka death camp. The slogan of the Wl'lfarc workers was "Give York, has decided to grant to women congregants the privilege of being them from Israel, the others, from ,-.' ' given an aliyah. The decision to allow women to be called up to witness the children a little joy." The joy ended in " pile of littlc shoes. 32 other countries. the reading of the Torah scroll on Sabbath mornings and to recite the Thc people of Israel have a passion for organized activity among traditional blessings is the first by a leading Conservative congregation. children. There are children's villages in every section of the country. The Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a Reconstructionist con Youth dmps, Scout jamborees and theatres for tots abound. Some gregation, however, has done so for years. In Orthodox Judaism, aliyot Refugee Question educators feel that the Israeli pampers his children. He doesn·t. He Is have never been accorded to women. Reform Jews rarely practice this rememlbering the little shoes. cu-stom for either men or women. 'Hot' in Israel Berman, a one-time Jewish underground leader in Poland, said 'he The America-Israel Cultural Foundation reported this week that 43 Jerusalem (JTA) - The Arab picked up the shoes when he visited Treblinka extermination camp soon violoncellists irom 12 countries have thus far qualified for pa:rticipation refugee problem and the dominant after his liberati\ln by the Russians in 1945. in the third Pablo Casals International Violoncello Competition to be Mapai Party's stand on that issue "The sight that met my eyes was something to behold," he· testflied. held under the Foundation's auspices in Israel. Eleven of the entrants following Prime Minister David "There was a,;tremendous area of many, many kilometers and all over it are from the United States. The competition will open at Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion's recent discussion of were scattered tens of thousands of skulls and bones and tens of thou September 23. the subject with American Presi sands of shoes of little children. One of them I brought back with me." dent John F. Kennedy, was hotly Then from his briefcase he removed a bundle in a red handerchief, discussed in the Cabinet here, and unwrapped it gently and held up the pair of worn sandals. There was a rei Aviv exploded in partisan attacks· out moment of complete silence, broken only by the sobs of women spectators. Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, summoned General Carl Von side the Cabinet. "Thank you, Dr. Berman, that ;,{111 be all," said state prosecutor !Horn, Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, this With Michael S. Comay. Israel's Gideon Hausner in I' quiet voice. . week and warned him of the seriousness of the situation prevailing along permanent representative at the ;' "No questions," \ ado.ed Eichmann's West German defense counsel, . , the Israeli-Syrian border. The meeting followed the presentation of a United Nations, due here hy Sun note by Israel to the UN Security Council, complaining of the repeated day, the Cabinet will resume dis Dr. Robert Servatius. anned violations by Syria of the armistfee 4emarcation lines. cussion next week. The Govet'n Television experts from the UN and Australia have agreed that Israel has ment is maintaining strict secrecy Eichmann Testimony Annoying the necessary cultural and artistic resources to produc'} interesting and regarding whatever plans it might significant television programs. That view was expressed hy Dr. Henry have on the refugee issue, and it is As Words Flow Like Spout eassirer, chief Qf the UNESCO television department, and Alhert expected that Israel's policy on the IDucknanton, assistant general manager of the Australian Broadcasting question, to be implemented at the Jerusalem (JTA) - Adolf Eich his attorney were climaxed over Commission. They came to Israel at the invitation of A!bba Eban, Minis next session of the UN General mann, completing three weeks of attempts hy~~r. Servatius, at the ter Of Education, to study the possibilities of introducing educational Assembly nex·t September, may be direct questioning by defense at direction of he three judges, to decided in a week. television in Israel. torney Rabert Servatius, has at eliminate U· ll€
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