December 19, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 6 Benny Goodman is more inter- ested in getting musical raves a is Deity; and without it, man Of all virtues and dignities of than financial raises. Cutting out thing. the mind, goodness is the great- busy, mischievous wretched many lucrative dance-band dates, —Bacon. Nazis' Infiltration into the Land, the Encounter With The est, being the character of the Benny will be heard performing "THE DEVIL IN FRANCE" Them by Lion Feuchtwanger; A Great Human Experience in This War SINCERE CHANUKAH GREETINGS HIGHLAND GARAGE GENERAL AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SERVICE Body and Fender Bumping—Acetylene Welding Electrical Service — Alemiting — Greasing — Motor Oils TOwnsend 8.6157 12% HIGHLAND AVE. (Rear) JULES H. WOLFSON JOINS US IN EXTENDING CHANUKAH GREETINGS TO THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY • HACQUOIL BUICK SALES, INC. Sales — BUICK — Service Michigan's Largest Buick Dealers 8911 GRAND RIVER AVE. TYLER 4-7600 with the Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Washing- ton and other symphonies. Evil!' a German poet once wrote, and ever since I was a boy I had revolved an apoph- thegm from the Talmud in my Chanukah Greetings To All mind. Of evil it said: 'Gam zu letovo' ('That too is for the SAMUELS BROS. best')". An incident that will thrill the orthodox reader to a realization Restaurant of staunch adherence to principle is the following paragraph about 2493 Russell St. CL. 3686 a fellow-passenger on the Feucht- wanger train of internees being taken to the concentration camp for aliens in France upon the outbreak of the war: A Joyous Chanukah to All "There was an orthodox Jew in our car and he held fast to his practices. For all the hell- ish crowding and the unbear- Sales, Rentals, Appraisals able rattling of the train, he Property Management got out his prayer shawl and Insurance his philactery, took his bear- ings to find the east, and then, TY. 4.7700 2617 Joy Rd. facing Jerusalem and the Tem- ple, said his prayers." A sad incident is the attempt of the eminent German author, Walter Hasenclever, to commit suicide. Just before Feuchtwan- A Joyous Chanukah to All ger escaped, he actually took his own life. It is a sad book—Feuchtwan- ger's The Davil in France"—but it is highly informative of condi- tions in France. It is excellently LION FEUCHTWANGER written in the Feuchtwanger France: My Encounter With Him style, and ably translated from in the Summer of 1940," pub- the German by Elisabeth Abbott. JACK ROSENBERG lished by the Viking Press. It is, on the whole, one of the Mgr. Wyoming Yard All the brilliance of this novel- very good books of our tragic ist's writing is incorporated in time. HOgarth 2121 this personal story of a man who was tested by the horrors of ap- Palestinian Jew Elected President of Oxford Union proaching war, by the terrible c onditions of concentration LONDON. (JPS) — Gershon camps, by threats of death if Hirsch, a Palestinian Jew, has caught by the Nazis, by the been elected President of the Ox- friendly attitude of the French ford Union, the most famous of We Welcome who nevertheless had to keep all student institutions in Brit- You to constant watch on the interned ain. In addressing the Union, Mr. German and Austrian nationals. Hirsch said of the Jewish people: The Swedish It all leads up to his escape— "The world won't see peace until Smorgasbord but that part of the story is yet justice is done to this ancient to be told. Mr. Feuchtwanger in- people. David's shield, which is dicates that some of the people now used as a shameful sign in involved might be unfavorably Berlin, will one day be a sign of affected if the story is told now, dignity and respect." and the end of the tale will therefore have to await addi- Maurice P. Davidson Is Ap- tional publication. pointed Hospital Trustee In the meantime, what has in $400,000 Drive been told is an enchanting story, 1014 E. JEFFERSON and is revealing as a document Representing 16,000 members of human suffering. The herding of Bnai Brith in New York, New together of large numbers of England and Canada, the largest people under inhuman conditions, Jewish fraternal order in Amer- the lack of sanitation, the ica, Maurice P. Davidson has been crowded trains on which they appointed trustee for District No. were moved from one camp to 1 of the National Jewish Hospital Sincere Chanukah Greetings another—all these present a pic- at Denver, it was announced ture of human endurance which by Paul Felix Warburg, New it is impossible for free Ameri- York Chairman of the institu- cans to imagine. tion who declared this year's "Most of Us Were Jews" goal for the Hospital is $400,006, As Feuchtwanger relates his an increase of $40,000 over last story at the outset, about Les year in order to provide ex- Mille, a ton near Aix in Prov- paneled services to patients. ence, this . interment camp "was Sponsors of the Hospital in- Open Day and Night a huge brickyard that had long elude Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, been out of use. There were more Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, than a thousand of us, but the Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wen- number varied: sometimes we den L. Willkie, Owen D. Young, were as many as three thousand. Bishop William T. Manning, Wil- 3169 SECOND BLVD. Most of us were Jews." liam Cardinal O'Connell, Henry An interesting incident is the Alonsky, president of Bnai Brith, TEmple 2-7630 following: and many other leaders in pub- There were orthodox Jews in lie life. goodly number at Les Mille. They adhered strictly to their observ- Mark 20th Anniversary of ances, d e p o r t i n g themselves Ain Harod meanwhile in a modest, inconspic- JERUSALEM. (JPS-Palcor)— uous manner. They had the camp A Joyous Chanukah to All authorities assign places for their In spacious acres whose soil has worship where they would cause been enriched by two decades of no disturbance to others. For hard labor, thousands of settlers that matter the French were in the Valley of Jezreel, joined very co-operative on this point. by visitors from the rest of the During my first detention I had country, celebrated the 20th an- spent the most solemn of Jewish niversary of the group of settle- festivals in camp, Yom Kippur, ments in the Valley of which the Day of Atonement. With Ain Harod is the most important. permission of the camp authori- The Christian graces are like ties the orthodox Jews had built out of waste bricks a sort of perfumes, the more they are synagogue, an altar, the 'almen- pressed, the sweeter they smell; 1339 CLINTON ST. an,' a shrine for the Torah scrolls, like stars that shine brighest in CADILLAC 5941 and a sort of lectern for the the dark; like trees which, the cantor. As the long day drew to more they are shaken, the deeper an end and the bricks had to root they take and the more be taken down again, a number fruit they bear.—Beaumont. of internees insisted on having their fun. They went up to a group of men who were suspected A Happy and Joyous Chanukah to All of being Nazis and shouted: Jew-baiters wanted, to destroy the temple!' Mr. Feuchtwanger tells of the presence of Nazis amidst the internees, and how some of them became arrogant when the Nazi troops came closer to the camp, in the course of their invasion of ALEX G. MARION, Pres. France. Throughout his ex,periences as Phone VI. 1-8656 100 E. Cicotte an alien internee, Feuchtwanger Ecorse, Mich. retained faith, as evidenced by the following: " 'Welcome Good! Welcome Lion Feuchtwanger's story of his experiences in French con- centration camps and of his sub- sequent escape to this country forms one of the most interesting human dramas of the present war. It is told in "The Devil in H. J. 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