93 Jewish Girls

To 93 young girls of the Beth Jacob School in Warsaw there was no consolation in Nietzche's cynicism: Men are made for war and women for warriors' pleasures. To a world whose capacity for indignation too rapidly becomes fatigued, a letter from one of these girls, published last week,* came as a blazing reminder of the sufferings of a people which barbarism has always attempted to destroy:

"Yesterday and the day before we were given hot baths and we were told that the German soldiers would come tonight to visit us. Yesterday we swore to ourselves that we shall die together. Yesterday they sent us to a big house with bright rooms and nice beds. The Germans did not know that our last bath is our purification before death. Today everything was taken away from us and we were each given one nightgown. All of us have poison. When the soldiers come, we shall drink it. Today we are together and all day we are saying our last confession. We have no fear."

* After release by Rabbi Leo Jung of The Jewish Center of New York City. It was smuggled out by way of Switzerland.

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