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There
is no justification for the despicable creatures who have
become servants of violence for filthy lucre.
There
is no justification for the defilement that is spreading among
the Jews, that is imposing the whole burden of the camps on
the shoulders of the tired and starved poor of the ghetto.
The
labor camps were and continue to be an act of violence on the
part of the Fascist rulers; they shall meet with passive but
determined resistance on the part of conscious Jews.
We
will not go to the labor camps! We will put obstacles in the
way of the Community Council [Judenrat] at every step they
take to carry out their jobs.
Let
the [youth] leaders of the Nest [youth club] not cease their
duties even for a moment. We shall prove that indeed nothing
can break us and nothing can force us to stop our work. Let us
give expression to the fact that the future is with us and not
with them.
Yad
Vashem Archives, JM/211/1-2.
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From the Ha-Shomer Ha-Zair publication Iton Ha-Tenua
("Newspaper of the Movement"), 1942. |
