4 eriart ,Jewish Periodical Center 0 28th Year of Service to Our State and Nation Detroit Jewish Chronicle tx in he n- ut is of Pe VOL. 45, NO. 3 do n . it, v- yr Community Council To Discuss National Jewish Unity Program se he ill a o- 1: 1 . 110 0- s- .s' n- tk tit s , 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. - is lc is ce er c- rr s, r- s, 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 Meeting at Center Jan. 24 to Hear Reports ly lg 'TAM 91 41:1 I WAR ONDS •111:1 STAMFS 10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yea DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1943 Winner of Congressional Medal of Honor to Make Tour of Inspection Here Jan. 16-18 at ld I BUY I 1 0 Women •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 he g- and The Legal Chronicle e 9 1 S . 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 See LIBRARY—Page 12