Jews throughout England joined today in the National Day of Prayer called by King George, holding special services in all synagogues. Army chaplains held special services for Jewish soldiers on leave.
Preaching at the Hampstead Synagogue, Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz declared that Nazism was “the enemy of man and our whole spiritual heritage is being jettisoned by the pirate captains of the Nazi ship of state.”
Dr. Hertz warned that the terrible fate of the Jews in Poland showed what “Inhuman treatment” was in store for all victims of the Nazis. “The only hope,” he said, “lies in Britain’s resolve to dare and to endure all things to shatter the power of the tyrant.”
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