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We
are rising up for war!
We
are of those who have set themselves the aim of awakening the
people. Our wish is to take this watchword to our people:
Awake
and fight!
Do
not despair of the road to escape!
Know
that escape is not to be found by walking to your death
passively, like sheep to the slaughter. It is to be found in
something much greater: in war!
Whoever
defends himself has a chance of being saved! Whoever gives up
self-defense from the outset - he has lost already!
Nothing
awaits him except only a hideous death in the
suffocation-machine of Treblinka.
Let
the people awaken to war!
Find
the courage in your soul for desperate action!
Put
an end to our terrible acceptance of such phrases as:
We
are all under sentence of death!
It
is a lie!!!
We
were destined to live! We too have a right to life!
One
only needs to know how to fight for it!
It
is no great art to live when life is given to you willingly!
But
there is an art to life just when they are trying to rob you
of this life.
Let
the people awaken and fight for its life!
Let
every mother be a lioness defending her young!
Let
no father stand by and see the blood of his children in
silence!
Let
not the first act of our destruction be repeated!
An
end to despair and lack of faith!
An
end to the spirit of slavery amongst us!
Let
the tyrant pay with the blood of his body for every soul in
Israel!
Let
every house become a fortress for us!
Let
the people awaken to war!
In
war lies your salvation!
Whoever
defends himself has a hope of escape!
We
are rising in the name of the war for the lives of the
helpless masses whom we seek to save, whom we must arouse to
action! It is not for ourselves alone that we wish to fight.
We will be entitled to save ourselves only when we have
completed our duty! As
long as the life of a Jew is still in danger, even one,
single, life, we have to be ready to fight!!!!
Our
watchword is:
Not
even one more Jew is to find his end in Treblinka!
Out
with the traitors to the people!
War
for life or death on the conqueror to our last breath!
Be
prepared to act!
Be
ready!
Archiwum
Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Polsce (Archives
of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland), ARII/333.
*
The appeal is attributed to the Jewish Military Organization (Zydowski
Zwiazek Wojskowy ZZW). |
