A message sent to Premier Joseph Stalin, in which a phrase in Hebrew was included in the text, for the first time since the Soviet Revolution, to emphasize the plight of the Jews under the Nazis, was made public today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. It was adopted this week by the annual conference of the Committee held here, attended by soldiers from the front and Jewish delegates from all parts of the U.S.S.R.
The message, which pledges a maximum effort by Russian Jews to win the war, reads: “Millions of our brothers and sisters, like the sons and daughters of the other people who have fallen under the yoke of Hitler, are being bled white. There are no limits to the sufferings of the Jewish masses. Doom and extinction hover over them. The anguish of mothers and the cries of children who have been buried alive have shaken the entire world. ‘Eben Mikir Tizck’ (The Hebrew words for ‘The stones in the walls are crying out.’)
“But shoulder to shoulder with all the people of the Soviet Union, the Jewish people are defending their country, their honor and their rights. Permeated with unbounded love for their country and with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance, the sons and daughters of the Jewish people are fighting with unprecedented courage, calling for a relentless struggle against Fascism. On the battlefields all over the world Jewish fighters are manifesting selflessness and heroism. Their militant exploits shall remain immortal and go down in the great history of our people.”
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