00O [A Yiddish Call to Action for Massive Madison Square Park Anti-Nazi Rally] United Hebrew TradesBiblio.com
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194443416No Place New York Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn United Hebrew Trades 1944. 1st edition broadside single-sided flyer 4to. In Yiddish. <br> <br> Translation: "ALL OUT TO THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF GRIEF AND RAGE!<br> Monday July 31st 4:45 PM<br> in Madison Square Park<br> <br> Sisters and brothers!<br> We invite you to participate in the great public demonstration that will take place<br> Monday July 31 4:45 p.m.<br> in Madison Square Park Madison Avenue and 24th Street<br> <br> Millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis in all parts of Europe. Young and old women and men were driven into gas and death chambers and destroyed. In the current hour the greatest danger for those still alive in the Nazi countries.<br> The Hitlerian beast which conquered and humiliated countries and murdered millions of people is ready to strangle and murder the surviving remnants of the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary are now in danger of death the tens of thousands of Jews left alive in Poland in France in Belgium in the Czech Republic where they are under Hitler's rule.<br> <br> In order to express our grief and anger to cry out our grief and appeal for help to the United Nations at the last moment a public demonstration is called by the Rescue Committee of the General Jewish Conference.<br> <br> We cannot and must not remain silent. People must help save the survivors. Come express your feelings desires and demands! It is demanding that the United Nations do everything possible to stop the death march! It is demanded that all those who are guilty of the murders will be brought to justice!<br> The Nazi victims who are now struggling between death and life must know that we are with them.<br> At a conference of representatives of the trade union organizations called by the Jewish Labor Committee it was decided to actively participate in the great national demonstration. We must do everything we can so that the demonstration will be imposing and effective.<br> <br> Leave the store no later than 4 o'clock. Marched to the site of the demonstration in Madison Square Park. Overtime is not allowed on this day.<br> With Trade Union Regards<br> United Hebrew Trades<br> Reuven Guskin President<br> Maurice Tigel Vice-President<br> William Wolpert Executive Secretary"<br> <br> <br> The rally was covered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency JTA the next day:<br> <br> "Tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews crowded Madison Square Park today at an open-air mass-demonstration in behalf of the Jews of Hungary and other parts of Nazi Europe sponsored by the 64 affiliated agencies of the American Jewish Conference with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations.<br> Speakers at the demonstration included Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell who is secretary of the National Committee Against Persecution of Jews; Dr. Stephen S.Wise president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer president of the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky president of B'nai B'rith and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Adolph Held president of the Jewish Labor Committee and many other noted Jewish and Christian leaders.<br> The huge mass-meeting in which Jews from all walks of life participated adopted a declaration stating that it is not yet too late 'to save thousands upon thousands' of Jews for the day of liberation. The meeting appealed in the first instance to President Roosevelt and the Government of the United States and through them to the United Nations and to the neutral states." <br> <br> The original JTA covers including a full list of the demands from the rally and other details can be viewed at www.jta.org/archive/huge-open-air-demonstration-in-new-york-demands-rescue-of-jews-from-europe<br> <br> Leading national Jewish organizations organized this July 31 1944 Madison Square Park mass rally to demand Allied action against the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. <br> New York had at the time the world's biggest Jewish population with a Jewish community of around 2 million. The city had hosted numerous similar rallies over the previous decade all focused on building opposition to Hitler and support for the struggling Jews of Europe. <br> <br> Beginning on March 4 1934 "One year after Hitler's ascension to power in Germany tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear the words of Rabbi Stephen Wise. 'Despite the oceanic tragedy which has befallen us' Wise pronounced 'we Jews tonight joining in the chorus of civilization indict Hitlerism as humans as members of civilized society before the high court of human judgment.' <br> Wise's words resonated for audience members attending the rally that March night. Over the course of the evening they heard from a chorus of voices representing the American public self-identifying across different racial religious and ideological lines. Framed as a 'court' the speakers at the rally gathered to indict Hitler for his crimes against civilization an intentionally pointed term that would offend Nazi ideologues claiming to protect civilization through Aryan supremacy. This mock trial was part of a larger trend of American Jewish protest performances staged during the Third Reich that intended to garner support for the rescue of European Jews.<br> On March 27 the AJCongress American Jewish Congress successfully staged a rally titled Stop Hitler Now to an audience of twenty thousand Jews in Madison Square Garden. Outside of the Garden thirty-five thousand people stood protesting and ten thousand more marched through Brooklyn in solidarity. Simultaneous protests also occurred in major cities across the country. The United Press estimated that one million protesters participated in the nationwide demonstration that day. <br> In retaliation to the American uproar Hitler threatened a one-day boycott against German Jewish businesses to be resumed three days later if 'international protests' did not cease. Wise after speaking with Undersecretary William Phillips at the State Department agreed to a brief silence on the matter" Gonzalez Maya. Imagining the "Day of Reckoning": AmericanJewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust. Masters Thesis UMass-Amherst 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33069 <br> We could locate no recorded examples of this flyer anywhere using OCLC ArchiveGrid or a google search. <br> <br> Staple hole in upper right corner margin slight corner loss to lower left margin no text affected in either case light toning about Very Good Condition. Rare and displayable Holo2-163-30. No Place [New York], Fereynigte Yidishe Geverkshaftn [United Hebrew Trades] unknown
194443413No Place New York No Publisher United Hebrew Trades 1944. 1st edition broadside single-sided flyer 4to.<br> <br> "JOIN THE MASS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF EUROPE<br> <br> Sisters and Brothers:<br> <br> We call upon you to participate in a giant peoples' demonstration against the slaughter of European Jewry.<br> Date: Monday July 31 1944<br> Time: 4:45 P.M.<br> Place: Madison Square Park 24th Street and Madison Avenue<br> <br> Millions of Jews have been slaughtered by the Nazis in all parts of Europe. Millions of men and women young and old have been rounded up and transported to death camps where they were ruthlessly put to death. At this very moment millions of European Jews are threatened with complete extinction.<br> The Hitler beast which has raped and annihilated numerous countries and has massacred millions of innocent human beings is now in its last hours trying to slay and gas the surviving Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Hungary and tens of thousands of Jews in Poland France Belgium and Czechoslovakia face a horrible fate at the hands of the Hitler barbarians.<br> <br> TO GIVE EXPRESSION TO OUR HORROR AND GRIEF TO APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS FOR MOST URGENT MEASURES AND TO HALT THE DEATH MARCH THE RESCUE COMMISSION OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONFERENCE IS CALLING UPON THE MASSES OF NEW YORK CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN A PEOPLES' DEMONSTRATION.<br> <br> We cannot remain silent! We must not fail the surviving Jews who are eagerly and anxiously awaiting our assistance. You should not fail to come and express your indignation at the Hitler atrocities. You must not forget your duty to the European survivors. Be present to demand that the United Nations halt the butchery of the Jewish people and that those responsible for these inhuman crimes are speedily brought to justice.<br> Let the victims of the Nazis know that you are with them in the darkest hour of their existence.<br> <br> At a conference of the representatives of the trade unions called by the Jewish Labor Committee it was unanimously decided to actively participate in this tremendous national demonstration. We MUST do everything in our power to make this protest as big and as effective as possible.<br> We call upon you brothers and sisters in the shops and factories as well as your friends and acquaintances to participate.<br> <br> Leave your shops not later than 4:00 P.M. Do not work overtime.<br> <br> MARCH TO THE DEMONSTRATION.<br> <br> Fraternally<br> <br> UNITED HEBREW TRADES<br> <br> RUBIN GUSKIN President<br> MORRIS TIGEL Vice-President<br> WILLIAM WOLPERT Exec. Sec'y."<br> <br> <br> The rally was covered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency JTA the next day:<br> <br> "Tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews crowded Madison Square Park today at an open-air mass-demonstration in behalf of the Jews of Hungary and other parts of Nazi Europe sponsored by the 64 affiliated agencies of the American Jewish Conference with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations.<br> Speakers at the demonstration included Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell who is secretary of the National Committee Against Persecution of Jews; Dr. Stephen S.Wise president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer president of the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky president of B'nai B'rith and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Adolph Held president of the Jewish Labor Committee and many other noted Jewish and Christian leaders.<br> The huge mass-meeting in which Jews from all walks of life participated adopted a declaration stating that it is not yet too late 'to save thousands upon thousands' of Jews for the day of liberation. The meeting appealed in the first instance to President Roosevelt and the Government of the United States and through them to the United Nations and to the neutral states." <br> <br> The original JTA covers including a full list of the demands from the rally and other details can be viewed at www.jta.org/archive/huge-open-air-demonstration-in-new-york-demands-rescue-of-jews-from-europe<br> <br> Leading national Jewish organizations organized this July 31 1944 Madison Square Park mass rally to demand Allied action against the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. <br> New York had at the time the world's biggest Jewish population with a Jewish community of around 2 million. The city had hosted numerous similar rallies over the previous decade all focused on building opposition to Hitler and support for the struggling Jews of Europe. <br> <br> Beginning on March 4 1934 "One year after Hitler's ascension to power in Germany tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear the words of Rabbi Stephen Wise. 'Despite the oceanic tragedy which has befallen us' Wise pronounced 'we Jews tonight joining in the chorus of civilization indict Hitlerism as humans as members of civilized society before the high court of human judgment.' <br> Wise's words resonated for audience members attending the rally that March night. Over the course of the evening they heard from a chorus of voices representing the American public self-identifying across different racial religious and ideological lines. Framed as a 'court' the speakers at the rally gathered to indict Hitler for his crimes against civilization an intentionally pointed term that would offend Nazi ideologues claiming to protect civilization through Aryan supremacy. This mock trial was part of a larger trend of American Jewish protest performances staged during the Third Reich that intended to garner support for the rescue of European Jews.<br> On March 27 the AJCongress American Jewish Congress successfully staged a rally titled Stop Hitler Now to an audience of twenty thousand Jews in Madison Square Garden. Outside of the Garden thirty-five thousand people stood protesting and ten thousand more marched through Brooklyn in solidarity. Simultaneous protests also occurred in major cities across the country. The United Press estimated that one million protesters participated in the nationwide demonstration that day. <br> In retaliation to the American uproar Hitler threatened a one-day boycott against German Jewish businesses to be resumed three days later if 'international protests' did not cease. Wise after speaking with Undersecretary William Phillips at the State Department agreed to a brief silence on the matter" Gonzalez Maya. Imagining the "Day of Reckoning": AmericanJewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust. Masters Thesis UMass-Amherst 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33069 <br> We could locate no recorded examples of this flyer anywhere using OCLC ArchiveGrid or a google search. <br> <br> Toning some marks and light edgewear about Very Good- Condition. Rare and displayable B/BK5 Holo2-163-29B. No Place [New York], No Publisher [United Hebrew Trades] unknown
194443414No Place New York No Publisher American Representation of the Bund 1944. 1st edition 2-sided bilingual flyer in English and Yiddish 4to 2 pages. The title on the Yiddish side translates as "Come en Masse to the Protest-Demonstration in Madison Square Park!" <br> <br> The text on each side one side in English and one side in Yiddish is essentially the same:<br> <br> Jewish workers and people of New York!<br> <br> For over two years there has been coming to us from the Hitler slaughter house a call for urgent help and assistance. Two and one half years ago we published the first rescue call - the report from the underground Jewish labor organization Bund in Poland about the first massacred and gassed 700000 Jews in the infamous death camps. Since then we have constantly been receiving reports about new slayings. Reports are streaming in from the death valley calling for assistance and rescue.<br> <br> Czerniakov Chairman of the Jewish Community of Warsaw and Zigelbaum 'Bund' representative in the Polish National Council committed suicide. Both have given their lives in order to arouse the conscience of the world. The civilized world however remained unmoved by the desperate calls for help and assistance. The non-Jewish community remained indifferent. Even the Jews failed to give expression to their horror and indignation at the atrocities. Even those who on some occasions protested against the Hitler gory deeds sic satisfied themselves with mere words.<br> <br> To date no comparable crime against civilized humanity has gone by without vengeance having been taken. There was no attempt from the air to destroy the death factories: no military actions were undertaken to hold the slaughter. The gallant Jews revolted in the ghettos but no help came from the outside world.<br> <br> To date practically nothing has been done to supply food and medical supplies to the ghettos and labor camps. To date the neutral countries and the international Red Cross have not been pressed in order to care for and accord war-prisoner status to the victims of Hitlerism. No special rescue council of the United Nations has until now been brought into existence. The doors of the entire world are still closed to the Jewish victims.<br> <br> The largest centers of Jewish cultural and social life have been ruthlessly demolished. We are horrified and grieved at the fate that has befallen the millions of our brothers and sisters overseas. There is no more urgent task than the need to dedicate all our strength and effort to the rescue of the surviving Jewish people.<br> <br> Let the neutral countries proclaim that they will take under their protection the Jewish victims of Hitlerism!<br> <br> Let a warning be issued to the effect that all those who are guilty of aiding Hitler in the persecution of the Jews will be punished mercilessly.<br> <br> Havens in all allied neutral countries must be provided to all victims of Nazism!<br> <br> The hour of decision is approaching. Sons of America and England are storming Hitler's fortress. The forces of the Soviet Union are in a whirlwind campaign to enter Berlin. Any day now all cities formerly inhabited by Jews will once again be free. We are soon to face the problem of reconstructing hundreds and thousands of demolished homes and rehabilitating similar numbers of Jews who have until now been hiding in forests and mountains.<br> <br> The giant peoples' demonstration Monday July 31st in New York must vow not to leave anything undone until the formerly big Jewish centers are once more on their feet.<br> <br> To rescue every Jewish survivor; to heal the wounds of those still alive; to rebuild Jewish life; to destroy Anti-Semitism and all types of bigotry; to construct a new and better world of justice social and national equality and freedom - a socialist world order - these are the aims towards which we must strive and fight until their ultimate achievement. To dedicate ourselves to these noble purposes is the minimum we owe the dead and the best way to remember the living.<br> <br> AMERICAN REPRESENTATION OF THE GENERAL JEWISH WORKERS' UNION OF POLAND 'BUND'<br> <br> New York July 31 1944"<br> <br> <br> The rally was covered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency JTA the next day:<br> <br> "Tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews crowded Madison Square Park today at an open-air mass-demonstration in behalf of the Jews of Hungary and other parts of Nazi Europe sponsored by the 64 affiliated agencies of the American Jewish Conference with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations.<br> Speakers at the demonstration included Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell who is secretary of the National Committee Against Persecution of Jews; Dr. Stephen S.Wise president of the American Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer president of the American Jewish Committee; Henry Monsky president of B'nai B'rith and co-chairman of the American Jewish Conference; Adolph Held president of the Jewish Labor Committee and many other noted Jewish and Christian leaders.<br> The huge mass-meeting in which Jews from all walks of life participated adopted a declaration stating that it is not yet too late 'to save thousands upon thousands' of Jews for the day of liberation. The meeting appealed in the first instance to President Roosevelt and the Government of the United States and through them to the United Nations and to the neutral states." <br> <br> The original JTA covers including a full list of the demands from the rally and other details can be viewed at www.jta.org/archive/huge-open-air-demonstration-in-new-york-demands-rescue-of-jews-from-europe<br> <br> Leading national Jewish organizations organized this July 31 1944 Madison Square Park mass rally to demand Allied action against the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. <br> New York had at the time the world's biggest Jewish population with a Jewish community of around 2 million. The city had hosted numerous similar rallies over the previous decade all focused on building opposition to Hitler and support for the struggling Jews of Europe. <br> <br> Beginning on March 4 1934 "One year after Hitler's ascension to power in Germany tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Madison Square Garden to hear the words of Rabbi Stephen Wise. 'Despite the oceanic tragedy which has befallen us' Wise pronounced 'we Jews tonight joining in the chorus of civilization indict Hitlerism as humans as members of civilized society before the high court of human judgment.' <br> Wise's words resonated for audience members attending the rally that March night. Over the course of the evening they heard from a chorus of voices representing the American public self-identifying across different racial religious and ideological lines. Framed as a 'court' the speakers at the rally gathered to indict Hitler for his crimes against civilization an intentionally pointed term that would offend Nazi ideologues claiming to protect civilization through Aryan supremacy. This mock trial was part of a larger trend of American Jewish protest performances staged during the Third Reich that intended to garner support for the rescue of European Jews.<br> On March 27 the AJCongress American Jewish Congress successfully staged a rally titled Stop Hitler Now to an audience of twenty thousand Jews in Madison Square Garden. Outside of the Garden thirty-five thousand people stood protesting and ten thousand more marched through Brooklyn in solidarity. Simultaneous protests also occurred in major cities across the country. The United Press estimated that one million protesters participated in the nationwide demonstration that day. <br> In retaliation to the American uproar Hitler threatened a one-day boycott against German Jewish businesses to be resumed three days later if 'international protests' did not cease. Wise after speaking with Undersecretary William Phillips at the State Department agreed to a brief silence on the matter" Gonzalez Maya. Imagining the "Day of Reckoning": AmericanJewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust. Masters Thesis UMass-Amherst 2023. .https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33069 <br> We could locate no recorded examples of this flyer anywhere using OCLC ArchiveGrid or a google search. <br> <br> Light wear Very Good Condition. Rare and displayable B/BK5 Holo2-163-29A-XX. No Place [New York], No Publisher [American Representation of the Bund] unknown
