An aged rabbi from a small Ukrainian town invaded by the Nazis recently joined a partisan band in order “to avenge the atrocities which have been committed upon Jews,” it was reported here today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
When the rabbi came to the headquarters of a Red Army detachment and requeste that he be assigned to a partisan band operating in the Ukraine, the commander asked him: “What makes you, an old man, want to join the partisans?”
“I want to avenge the atrocities committed upon the Jews and upon the Jewish holy scrolls,” the old man replied, “The Nazis kill our people. They are wild beast I shall never forgive them that, or the desecration of our Torahs. I shall not res until I wash their filth from our Torahs with their blood.”
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