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Detroit Jews to Join in Day of Mourning
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, December 1, 1942
- Historical Event
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Nazi Plan to Kill All Jews Confirmed
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- Detroit's Orthodox Jews will participate In the worldwide Jewish day of fast and mourning Wednesday, as requested by the Chief Rabbinate of Palestine, according to an announcement Monday by the Detroit Council of Orthodox Rabbis.
Proclamation of the day on which all Jews are asked to fast and pray and to refrain from unnecessary work was made by Rabbi Joseph Thumln, chairman of the local council, following a request from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress.
The day will be devoted to mourning for the Jewish victims of the "greatest crime against humanity being perpetrated by the Hitler regime," according to the proclamation, which added that State Department records authenticate the fact that the Nazi terror has already advanced so far as to have resulted in the massacre of more than a million and a half Jews.
Locally, the day will be marked by special prayers at 4 p. m. in all synagogs, during which the S'hofar, the sacred ram's horn used only on major feast days of the Orthodox Jews, will be sounded. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Margaret L.
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Bibliography
Feingold, Henry L., Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler’s “Final Solution.” New York: H. Holt, 1998.
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