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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
14
VOL. 41, I
280 Prisoners
Of War Killed
By the Nazis
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940
Heads 1940 Allied Drive
Jews Singled Out for
Executions; Ghetto
in Vienna
AMSTERDAM. (W NS) —Two
hundred and eighty Jewish sol-
diers, captured last September
with the Polish Army, were exe-
cuted by Nazi firing squads last
month, it was reliably reported
here.
Before their execution the
Jewish war prisoners were com-
pelled to dig their own graves.
With disregard for treaties
providing for humane treatment
of war prisoners, all Jewish sol-
diers who had fought with the
Polish army have been singled
out and sent to special concen-
tration camps.
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Fred M. Butzel Is Selected
To Head 1940 Allied Jewish
Campaign for $925,000 Goal
Henry Wineman Heads List of Honorary Vice-
Chairmen; Rabbi Wolf Gold to
Speak April 14
Announcement that Fred M. Butzel will serve as
general chairman of the 1940 Allied Jewish Campaign
is made by Abraham Srere, president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, which conducts the annual drive.
Henry Wineman will head the list of honorary vice-
chairmen for this year's campaign which also includes
the following: Mrs. Aaron De-
Roy, Henry M. Butzel, Leo M.
Butzel, Rabbi Moses Fischer, Dr.
Leo M. Franklin, Dr. A. M.
Hershman, Albert Kahn, Judge
Harry B. Keidan, Judge Charles
C. Simons and Andrew Wineman.
"With Fred M. Butzel at the
Dr. Grete Bernstein to helm,"
stated Mr. Srere, "the
Address Meeting
formation of the campaign or-
ganization for the drive will be
The Nazi Way
on Tuesday
completed in record time, for our
Because of the overcrowded
chairman is one of those rare
conditions in the concentration
Guest speaker at the second personalities who is a hero in his
camps the Nazi authorities re-
report meeting of the Women's home town as well as to the
cently decided to send Jews
Division of the 1940 Allied Jew- world at large.
taken prisoners during the war to
ish Campaign to be held on
Is Very Active Man
the Lublin Jewish "reservation."
Tuesday noon, April 9, at 2:15
Examination of their birth cer-
"Dr.
Butzel — for in 1935
o'clock at the Jewish Community
tificates disclosed, however, that
Center, will be Dr. Grete Bern- Wayne University conferred the
280 of the Jewish prisoners were
degree of Doctor of Letters upon
stein.
born in that part of Poland
Formerly political and eco- him—serves or has served on
which formerly belonged to
nomic staff writer for the Frank- the board of nearly every con-
furter Zeitung and for the Vos- structive social-work organization
Russia.
The Jews were packed into
sische Zeitung, Dr. Bernstein re- in the city of Detroit and, in ad-
open cattle trains and trans-
ceived her Ph.D. degree at Hei- dition, his name appears on the
ported, without food, to the Sov-
delberg University where she roster of directors of many na-
iet border. The soldiers were re-
studied sociology and economics ional and international agencies.
fused admittance by Soviet au-
"To mention just a few of
under the late Prof. Emil Led-
thorities who claimed that the
erer. In 1930 she was appointed them: He guides the destinies of
Jews were no longer Soviet sub-
to the staff of the Frankfurter the Detroit Community Fund and
jects.
Zeiung as a special writer on the Council of Social Agencies,
The Nazi commander in charge
FRED M. BUTZEL
political and economic subjects, the Legal Aid Bureau, the Serv-
of the prison train then ordered
and research assistant to the ice Men's Bureau, the Parkside
the men executed. They were
editor. For a year she was asso- Hospital for Negroes, the Boy
shot down by machine gun Dr. Wise Stirs Record Audience
ciated with the Ullstein Publish- Scouts and the Ford Republic.
"Chairman of the executive
squads close to the Soviet bor-
House, Berlin, as a member
With Appeal for Allied Campaign ing
der. The Jewish community was
of the editorial staff of the Vos- committee of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, he is also president
compelled to sign affidavits stat-
sische Zeitung.
of Resettlement Service and an
ing that the men had frozen to Main Auditorium and Social Hall of Shaarey
Unique as Speaker
active board member of the
death.
In the course of her travels Hebrew Free Loan Association,
Zedek Filled to Capacity at Great Rally
Ghetto in Vienna
Dr. Bernstein has visited France, the Jewish Child Placement Bu-
Refugees arriving here from
More than 3,000 Detroit Jews social hall, at the rally held in Belgium, England and Canada. reau, the Jewish Childrens'
Austria report that ghetos have
been established for Jews in Vi- were witnesses to a stirring dem- behalf of the Allied Jewish Cam- She is currently employed as a Home, the United H e b r e w
translator on technical and sci• Schools and the Jewish Commun-
enna, once the gayest capital of onstration last Monday evening, paign.
The large outpouring of De- entific subjects by a large in- ity Council.
the Continent. The 2nd, 9th when a record audience filled to
Honored Nationally
and 20th districts have been set capacity not only the main syna- troit Jews, which necessitated dustrial company, and is engaged
"And his record of affiliation
aside exclusively for Vienna's gogue of Congregation Shaarey the exclusion of hundreds of in social service work on behalf
Zedek but also the synagogue's others who could not gain ad- of refugees in the United States. with communal enterprises goes
Jewish population.
mission, was a demonstration of
With a fund of first-hand in- back to the old Hannah Schloss
The areas assigned to Jews are
the affection in which Dr. Ste- formation on refugee problems, days of the United Jewish Chari-
so small that as many as eight
phen S. Wise, who was the guest the result of close study and per- ties, when he was an active mem-
persons have to share one room. Rabbi Goldman
speaker, is held by the people of sonal participation, Dr. Bernstein ber of the Tri-Square Club and a
Sanitary facilities are reported to
Here April 16 this community, and was at the is unique as a public speaker. directing force in the affairs of
be, in most cases, non-existent
same time an expression of loy- Those audiences in and near New the Boy Scouts.
and the danger of epidemics is
"Mr. Butzel was recently
prevalent throughout the Jewish President of Z. 0. A. alty to the causes included in the York City, which have heard her
1940 drive.
have been greatly impressed.
quarter.
elected to the national board of
Dr. Wise spoke to approxi-
directors of he Council of Jewish
Additional Leaders
Jews are permitted to shop in
to Address Pub-
mately 1900 people in the main
Mrs. Harry Wetsman has as- Federations and Welfare Funds
special stores and many days
lic Meeting
pass b. fore there is sufficient
synagogue—hundreds lining the sumed the chairmanship of Di- and also serves on the national
walls and filling the vestibule— vision W-C within the Women's board of the Joint Distribution
food for the entire Jewish com-
munity,
Dr: Solomon Goldman, presi- and to an additional audience of Division campaign organization Committee and is an honorary
dent of the Zionist Organization more than 1,000 in the social hall according to an announcement vice-chairman of the United Pal-
Pogrom Reported in Lodz
It is reported from Lodz that of America, rabbi of Congrega- who heard the address over a by Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, exec- estine Appeal. A member of the
18 Jcv were killed and 200 tion Anshe Emet of Chicago, broadcasting system that was es- utive vice-chairman of the Worn- executive committee of the Jew-
were V, unded in a gogrom on author of a number of Jewish pecially installed by Shaarey Ze- en's Division. Two new captains ish Welfare Board, he also is
March 8 in the Baluti ghetto. philosophic works and recognized dek for this gathering. Prior to not previously announced in Di- vice-president of the Graduate
any ,jcws, including Dr. Reit- as one of the most brilliant Jew- the main program, Dr. Wise went vision W-A, are Mrs. Harry E. School for Social Work.
"To list all of Mr. Butzel's
er-Kurianska and Henryk Li- ish orators in the world, will to the social hall to greet the August and Mrs. Sol R. Levin.
The initial business report communal and national activi-
brach, committed suicide after address a joint meeting of the auxiliary audience and to address
meeting following the formal ties," concluded Mr. S r e r e,
Zionist Organization of Detroit them for seven minutes.
the pogrom.
Campaign Appeals
Determined to stop Jews from and the Detroit chapter of Had-
See WOMEN—Page 16
See CAMPAIGN—Page 20
Abraham Srere, president of
See NAZIS—Page 3
See GOLDMAN—Page 17
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
which sponsors the campaign,
presided at the meeting and out-
lined the purposes of the drive
and the causes included in it.
Fred M. Butzel, whose selec-
tion for the chairmanship of the
1940 drive was announced at the Seek Expulsion of Those Who Entered Country
Smilamity, Head of Palestine Farmers' Federation, Here great meeting, made a touching
After April, 1931; Newspapers
appeal for the great causes now
in Interests of Jewish National Fund, Says
asking for help here, and asked
Are Preaching Hate
Jewry Will Not "Sacrifice nor Revolt"
that Jews should stop thinking in
terms of what others give but
STOCKHOLM (WNS) — Fol- German-Jewish refugees in Ma-
NEW YORK.—Palestine Jewry visit in the interests of the should be concerned with what lowing in the footsteps of Hit- drid and Barcelona and will
Jewish
National
Fund,
is
the
and the Zionist movement, hav-
ler and Mussolini, Generalissimo deport them to Germany with-
ing been confronted by the Pal- President of the Palestine Farm- they themselves must give.
An additional plea for service Francisco Franco has taken steps in six months unless they ob-
-estine land edict with a choice of ers' Federation, an eminent citi- and liberal giving in the cam- to suppress the Jewish minority, tain visas for other countries.
either "sacrificing" their hope zen of the Jewish National Home, paign was made by Isidore Sobe- it was reliably established here.
The government - controlled
for the full development of the one of its outstanding builders loff, executive director of the
While military parades and press has begun an editorial
and
historians,
and
a
widely-rec-
Jewish National Home or "re-
Jewish Welfare Federation, who spectacles were being held in campaign preaching hatred
volting", will do neither, Moshe ognized authority on the land described the set-up of the quota commemoration of the first an- against the Jews. Jewish chil-
which includes 55 beneficiary niversary of the end of the dren have been forbidden to at-
Smilansky, one of Palestine's old- problem.
Making his first public appear- causes.
est agricultural pioneers, told a
Civil War, the Franco Govern- tend public schools and Jewish
was
conferenc e of Zionist leaders in
i ance at the conference whichG old
ment announced that all Jews babies cannot be entered in the
Dr.
Wise's
Address
I
-
the metropolitan area held here presided over by Dr.Israel
Dr. Wise's address was devoted who entered the country, after official birth register unless they
stein, President of the Jewish Na-
April 4 in the Hotel Astor.
are baptized. Circumcision has
April, 1931, will be expelled.
Mr. Smilansky, who came to
Police have rounded up all been forbidden.
See DR. WISE—Page 11
PALESTINE—Page
17
See
the United States for his first
Women start
Allied Drive
■
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Palestine Can Absorb 1,500,000
Despite the Land Restrictions
Franco Regime in Spain Taking
Measures to Suppress the Jews