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The second open meeting of
the Community Council will take
place on Sunday, Jan. 24, tit
4- 8:30 p. m. in the auditoriu m of
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook. This will
not be a business meeting. Like
the Nov. 15 institute, it will be
in the nature of a public discus-
sion of problems which are of
concern to Detroit's Jewish com-
munity.
The discussion will center
around the new proposal for
unity among the American Jew-
ish Committee, American Jewish
Congress, Bnai Brith Anti-De-
famation League, and the Jewish
11' Labor Committee, the national
civic - protective agencies. This
proposal has been prepared by a
committee of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds, and will be discussed at
a special session of the General
Assembly in Cleveland, on Jan-
uary 16 and 17.
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The Jewish community of De-
troit will have as its guest one
of the outstanding heroes of the
World War, when Benjamin Kauf-
man, national commander of the
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•Benjamin Kaufman Commander of Pioneer
Raise $10,000 At Russians Report Massacres of Jews
Donor Luncheon
Jewish War Veterans Visits Detroit
On Rostov and Stalingrad Fronts
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The details of the proposal will
be outlined at the Jan. 24 meet-
ing of the Community Council,
and reports of the Cleveland dis-
cussion will be MAI . by Detroit
leaders who will have attended
the Cleveland Assembly. This is
a development of vital import-
ance to American Jewry, and
Detroit's community is deeply
concerned. There have been a
number of attempts to bring
about the much desired state of
unity among the national agen-
cies. It is hoped that this new
effort will succeed. The voice of
local communities must be heard
on this subject, and Detroit can
perhaps be of help in expediting
such unity.
At the Jan. 24 meeting a re-
port will also be given on the
proposed expansion of the Com-
munity Council's program, and on
the request for an enlarged bud-
get and staff that the Council
is preparing for submission to
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
The Community Council dele-
gates are urged to attend. This
meeting will also be open to all
members of the Council's constit-
uent organizations.
BENJAMIN KAUFMAN
Jewish War Veterans of the Uni-
ted States, will arrive in De-
troit on Saturday, Jan. 16, on a
tour of inspection of all posts
in Eastern and Midwestern States.
Commander Kaufman was
awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor, the highest award
within the gift _ 41. the United
States, for "conspicuous gallantry
intrepidity above and beyond
the call of duty in action with
the enemy."
Kaufman served as top ser-
geant in Company "K" of the
308th Infantry. The story of
Kaufman's heroic feat is record-
ed in the history of that unit
as follows:
The Pioneer Women's Organ-
ization 12th annual donor lunch-
eton which took place on Jan. 6,
at the Masonic Temple, was at-
tended by over 1800 women. Con..
tributions were made by 2,000.
Special gifts and $10 donor build-
ers for the vocational school in
Tel-Aviv have brought the total
to $10,000, which is being for-
warded to the Moatzoth-Hapoal-
oth (the Working Women's Coun-
cil) in Palestine for its regular
and emergency war projects.
Mrs. Archibald Silverman of
Providence, R. I., spoke of her
experiences in the occupied coun-
tries of Europe. She said, "If
we Jews had been thinking of
Palestine in terms of personal
values instead of charity the fate
of those girls in Warsaw when
the Gestapo came could have
been averted. Ten thousand chil-
dren might also have been saved
as there were homes in Pales-
tine waiting for them had the
money for transportation been
available. We are in Palestine to
stay," was the assurance Mrs.
Silverman left with the 1,800
luncheon guests.
Saul Meisels, character singer
and radio artist, sang Yiddish
and Hebrew songs.
The organization is grateful to
all workers and friends who help-
ed toward the success of this
affair and special gratitude is
See WOMEN—Page 10
Benjamin Winter
Guest Speaker
to Ezra Women
Donor Event to Be
Held on Jan. 19
The annual donor luncheon of
"In the Argonne on Oct. 1, the Ezra Women's Division of
Kaufman had one arm already the Federation for Polish Jews,
put out of commission by a Ger- which will take place on Tues-
man machine gun. Nevertheless,
with Privates Iacoviello and Van-
derlip, he started toward thz
flank of the machine gun posi-
tion. Both privates were wound-
ed, turd Kaufman was alone.
when he drew his pistol—which
was empty—and rushed at the
position—calling upon the gun-
ners to surrender; made them
shoulder the machine gun, and
march back to headquarters.
Meeting Private Iacoviello, 11, - !
turned over the prisoners to him
See KAUFMAN—Page 12
Bnai Brith Bond Drive Starts Jan. 24
Plans are now being completed
to open the Greater Detroit Bnai
Brith Council's million dollar
United States War Savings Bond
drive with a big rally at Temple
Beth El on Sunday, Jan. 24, ac-
cording to Harry Yudkoff, presi-
dent of the council.
The following constituent or-
ganizations of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council are or-
ganizing teams and planning spe-
cial affairs in connection with
,v this drive to sell $1,000,000 in
war bonds from Jan. 24 to Feb.
21: Pisgah Lodge, Louis Marshall
Lodge, Theodor Herzl Lodge, East
Side Lodge, Pisgah Auxiliary,
Business and Professional Aux-
iliary, East Side Attixiliary, Theo-
dor Herz! Auxiliary and Louis
Marshall Auxiliary.
Following the public rally on
Sunday, Jan. 24, Bnai Brith men
and women will start their in-
tensive sales drive to sell one
million dollars in war savings
bonds. Plans to date announced
by Mrs. Lillian Aaron and Max
Goldhoff, co-chairmen of the
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun-
cil drive, included the manning
of bond sales booths in the lob-
ties of prominent office buildings
by Bnai Brith women. Teams are
being organized to solicit sales
of bonds from business firms
and individuals. It is the hope
of the committee that every
reader will purchase their bonds
during this month's drive from
Bind Brith. A call to Cherry
3372 will bring a Bnai Brith
representative to office or home.
At a meeting of workers last
Wednesday night, Harry Yud-
koff, president of the Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Council, told
the workers that the success of
the drive rests in their own ef-
forts. Bonds are being sold daily,
it is only necessary that a com-
plete canvass of the community
be made; if this is done we will
go over the top. He further
stated, "Put your patriotism in
action! If you can't serve in tho
armed forces, you can serve on
the home front—billions of dol-
lars are needed—help Bnai Brith
continue its marvelous war serv-
ice record by Bnai Brith groups
in the city adding one million
dollars more to the ever-increas-
ing national total collected by
Bnai Brith lodges and auxili-
pries throughout the country."
See MILLION—Page 12
Major Krasetkin Charges Nazis Conducted
Mass Executions Before Hasty Retreat
KUIBYSHEV (WNS) — With
three Russian armies driving rap-
idly towards Rostov. Nazi mili-
tary authorities in that key So-
viet city have begun a mass exe-
cution of all Jews in the city, it
was reported here this week by
Maior Krasetkin on the basis of
informat'on given him by cap-
tured Nazi troops.
Nazi prisoners informed the
Russian commander that Jews in
Rostov were being rounded up and
taken to a huge building on
Engels Street where they were
electrocuted. The victims of the
massacre included women, children
and the aged among the Jewish
population.
Maior Krasetkin charged that
the Nazis had conducted mass ex-
ecutions aml, other atrocities
against the Jews before retreat-
ing from Stalingrad. Mass execu-
tions of Jews were reported to
have taken place in all Russian
villages recently retaken by So-
viet troops. Before leaving a vil-
lage, the Nazi troops would seize
the Jewish leaders in the com-
munity and execute them, it was
reported.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Anti-
Fascist Committee made public
this week details of the massacre
of Jews in the Nazi-occupied Lith-
uanian town of Rupishak. Hero of
the story was a 40-year-old Jew-
ish lawyer, Meyer Davidson. who,
in the presence of Nazi officials,
urged the Jewish people to con-
tinue their resistance to the Nazi
troops. The stork_ was brought
fiere -BY four Jewish youths
who survived the massacre. The
three others died of bullet wounds
whi'e attempting to cross over in-
to the Russian lines.
This is the story of the lone
survivor of the Kupishak massa-
cre: "Shortly after the Germans
entered Kupishak they rounded up
15 of the prominent citizens of
the town, including a •0-year-old
Jewish lawyer, Meyer Davidson.
One morning a few weeks later
the Nazi soldiers came to sum-
mon the entire population—Jews
and non-Jews to gather in an
old Jewish synagogue. Most of
the hundreds of people who as-
sembled there were Jews, as Kupi-
shak had a very large Jewish
population.
"When they entered the syna-
gogue they saw the 15 hostages
surrounded by Nazi guards. The
Nazi commander told the assemb-
lage that several hundred meters
of telegraph wire had been de-
stroyed the previous evening and
The well known Jewish judge,
Charles Solomon, of New York,
will address at mass meeting in
Detroit on Sunday evening, Jan.
17, in the auditorium of the
Workmen's Circle Educational
Center, under the auspices of the
Detroit branch of the Jewish
Labor Committee.
Judge Solomon presides in the
Municipal Court of New York,
the so-called Court of the Com-
mon Folks, and is beloved by all
who know him—and their num-
ber is legion—but particularly
by those who come before him
to adjust their grievances.
Judge Solomon is an active
participant in Jewish affairs, par-
ticularly in the numerous activi-
ties of the Jewish Labor Commit-
tee, in whose behalf he is coin-
ing. to Detroit next Sunday.
The purpose of the mass meet-
ing that will be held in Detroit
on Jan. 17 is to acquaint De-
troit Jewry with the facts con-
cerning the manifold activities
of the Jewish Labor Committee,
both in America and abroad, in
the Nazi-occupied countries as
well as in the—neutral countries,
and particularly in the under-
ground movement, which has be-
come the dreaded nightmare of
Hitler and his henchmen, yet so
highly appreciated by the United
Nations and their peoples.
The Jewish Labor Committee
was the first agency to recog-
nize the great importance of giv-
ing aid to the Jewish refugees
in the Soviet Union, and when
the Russian War Relief was or-
ganized the Jewish Labor Com-
mittee entered into an agreement
with that organization to send
badly-needed medical supplies
and surgical equipment, as well
as condensed milk and other ur-
gently needed foods through the
Russian War Relief and the Red
Cross, in addition to over 1,000,-
000 pounds of clothing, etc.
The committee has rescued, at
great cost and under seemingly
insurmountable difficulties, more
than 1,200 intellectuals, writers,
labor leaders and anti-Fascists
See RUSSIANS—Page 12
See SOLOMON—Page 12
Judge Solomon
To Address Mass
Meeting January 17
To Discuss Jewish
Labor Committee Work
The Library Of Shaarey Zedek
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
BENJAMIN WINTER
(lay, Jan. 19, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, will be addressed
by the national president, Ben-
jlimin Winter.
Mr. Winter, who has headed
the Federation for the past 17
years, is widely known in Jewish
philanthropic and Zionist circles.
He is chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal for Greater
Nev York, executive member of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, mentber of the board of di-
rectors of Beth Israel Hospital,
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and
the Brith Abraham Home for In-
curables.
Mrs. Jennie Weinberg, presi-
dent of the Ezra. announces that
the well-known Bob Hall will be
master of ceremonies and that an
outstanding star of the Yiddish
theater will participate in t h e
program.
Mr. Winter is scheduled to ad-
dress the executive committee of
the Federation and represen-
tatives of societies on Tuesday
evening, Jan. 19, at the home of
the local president, Isidore Mel-
lin of Leslie Ave.
The present structure in which
the present Shaarey Zedek Syna-
gogue is housed was dedicated in
January, 1932. Three years later
during the Chanukah festival, Dec.
16, 1935, the Library of the Con-
gregation was formally opened and
the Jewish reading public of De-
troit invited to avail itself of its
facilities. The opening of the Li-
brary was made possible through
an endowment of $10,000 by The
Chevra Kadisha. The late Isaac
Saulson rendered notable service
in the establishment of the Li-
brary. The plans for developing
the Library were formulated even
earlier. Mr. Philip L. Rosenthal
was authorized to visit New York
and Philadelphia to purchase vol-
umes of English Judaica for the
Library. The first librarian was
Miss Lillian Schwartz. In Decem-
ber, 1936. Miss Janet Olender,
the present librarian, began her
service. In the brief six inter-
vening years the Library has
grown from a haphazard collec-
tion of a few hundred volumes of
English Judaica to a well-organ-
ized and well-classified library of
English, Hebrew and Yiddish
books, of which it now possesses
close to five thousand,
The sponsorship of the library
from the beginning came from
the Chevra Kahisha of the Con-
gregation. The Chevra Kadisha
and the directors of the Clover
Hill Park Cemetery, under the
leadership of David S. Zemon
and the late Joseph H. Ehrlich,
resolved to set aside a substantial
sum of money for the purpose of
maintaning the Library. To this
sum of money is added an annual
grant from the Congregation. The
Library is thus enabled to acquire
books of Jewish interest in the
various languages, as they ap-
pear.
From the very outset the hope
has been to build up it .Jewish li-
brary, in the truest sense of the
word, rather than a mere gather-
ing of books which no longer could
find sanctuary in private homes.
A selection committee, composed
of the Rabbis of the Congrega-
tion and a number of lay repre-
sentatives, constantly study the
catalogues of publishers and book-
dealers and recommends for pur-
chase books of lasting value in
English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The
purpose is neither to purchase
everything that is published nor
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