February 19, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and This Legal Chronicle

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ZUCKERMAN

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RADIO PROGRAM:
Rabbi Leon Fram, spiritual
leader of Temple Israel will be
the speaker on the Gewerkshaften
program on the Altman's Jewish
Hour, Station WJLB at 9:00 p.
m. Cantor Robert Tulman will
render the musical part of the
program assisted by Karl Haas,
organist of the Temple Israel.
Sunday afternoon, at 1:00 Her-
man A. Jacobs, Executive Direc-
tor of the Jewish Community
Center will speak to the radio
audience on the topic "Palestine
at War." •
Yiddish Folks Verein promised
active support of the Histadrut
Campaign at a well-attended meet-
ing, Monday night, Feb. 15, at the
Congregation Emanuel, 1550 Tay-
lor, presided by Morris Schwartz,
Pi esident.
A delegation of the Detroit
Palestine Histadrut Campaign
consisting of William Hordes,
President of the Jewish National
Fund Council, and Meyer Sesling,
Director of the Campaign, ad-
dressed the meeting. New dele-
gates to the Gewerkshaften were
appointed by the President, and
active support was promised by
all.

If a man holds virtue higher
than wisdom, his own wisdom
shall endure; but if he should
think wisdom greater than virtue,
his wisdom will vanish.

Migdal Activities

newly-formed
the
Migdal,
Young Adult Labor Zionist Group,
is carrying out a program of ac-
tivities. Meetings are held at the
Farband Folk Shule on 1912
Taylor, corner Twelfth St. Several
weeks ago the members enjoyed
a cooperative supper which was
followed by a concert of Pales-
tinian records, and readings by
Emil Wollack and Manny Plaf-
kin.
Meyer Sesling, Detroit direc-
tor of the Gewerkshaften cam-
paign, showed movies on "Pales-
tine At War" and 'Physical
Training of the Russian Youth"
last Sunday, Feb. 14. The group
pledged to bring in $500 to the
campaign and has also volun-
teered members who will help with
the office work. Chaver Sesling
will discuss various aspects of
Palestine with the group at a
later date.
Chime Agranoff was nominated
as Migdal's candidate for Queen
Esther who will be selected at the
Purim Carnival which is being
sponsored by the Zionist Youth
Council of Detroit. The Zionist
youth group which sells the most
trees for the "Forest of Free-
dom" which is being planted in
honor of relatives and friends in
the service, will have its candidate
crowned Queen Esther.
At the next meeting on Feb.
28 at 8:00, Shonnie Kulka and
Joe Epel will conduct a seminar
on "Economic Potentialities of
Palestine."

IDEAL
with a
MEAL

Yeshivah To Publish
Anniversary Journal

Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will
issue an Anniversary Journal
March 7 in the occasion of the

ON THE HOME FRONT

By BENJAMIN KAUFMAN

Congressional Medal of Honor
•

Notional Commander
Jewish War Veterans of the U. S.

MORRIS MOHR

Detroit Talmudical Academy Ban-
quet.
Dr. Manuel Laderman, of Den-
ver, Colorado, spiritual leader of
Hebrew Educational Alliance and
president of the Western Branch
of the Rabbinical Council of
America, will be guest speaker at
the dinner.
A special committee headed by
Morris Mohr and David I. Berris
has been appointed by the Yeshi-
vah Board to have charge of the
publication. Other members of the
journal committee are Abraham
Dubrinsky and Sol B. Cohen.
Mr. Mohr is vice-president of
Congregation Beth Abraham,
president of Michigan Synagogue
Conference, treasurer of the Fed-
eration of Polish Jews, and active
in other communal organizations.
Although an active businessman,
he gives much of his time to the
development of the school, where
his own son is a very promising
student.

Hadassah Palestine
Supplies Shower Mar. 9

Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
will give a Palestine supplies
shower at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek Tuesday afternoon, March
9. Social arrangements for the
dessert luncheon which will pre-
cede the shower are being planned
by Mrs. M. S. Perlis and Mrs.
Tobias Garon. The Palestine sup-
plies committee, headed by Mrs.
Saul Benyas and Mrs. Morris
Wayne, who are in charge of the
sewing groups, are planning the
program of the day. A list of
articles acceptable will be an-
nounced in the Hadassah Bulletin
and will be published next week.
Hadassah supplies receive priority
shipping privileges on all United
Nations craft sailing to Palestine.

O. W. I.

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STATISTICS OF HORROR—
The stories of the incredible
tortures and sufferings of the
Jews in Nazi Europe keep piling
up, but the world at large seems
to become (lulled to the horror
of it. We, who feel this news in
terms of our own brothers and
sisters, our parents and grand-
parents. vibrate with pity and
fury. But we look about us and
are astonished at the calmness
w;th which others listen. Then
we realize that there is a point
at which human sympathy be-
comes saturated. People can feel
the sufferings of others just so
much and no more.
And perhaps we too, have lost
the sharp edge of sympathy. When
horrors become too many for our
minds to take in, we too, may
tend to see the whole thing in
terms of statistics; so many Jews
murdered there, so many starving
to death there, so many families
deported from their homes to die.
I want you to read this story—
the story of an eight year old
Jewish child—who escaped the
Nazi terror and landed safely in
Palestine. You will feel and see
and know, for a moment, just
what it means to be a Jew in
a town which the Nazis have
entered.
"The Nazis ordered all the Jews
of Peterkov to report in the mar-
ket-place for deportation . . . My
little sister—she was six years
old—and I were taken to the
market-place . . . We were taken
to a large building already filled
with several hundred Jews . . .
The whole place resounded with
weeping and cries. Some tried to
escape and were shot down by the
soldiers. Others were unmerci-
fully beaten, kicked or clubbed
with rifle butts. In the turmoil, I
grabbed my little sister by the
hand and we ran down unob-
served into the cellar. There were

some (lark stalls there and I put
her into one of them while I hid
in another right next to it. I
warned her not to answer if any-
one knocked at the door. But in a
little while someone knocked and
I heard her answer. Then I heard
her crying as she was led away.
"I stood in a corner of my
stall. shivering. There was a
knock on my door, but I did not
answer and no one came in. I
stood there for hours. Outside,
there was shouting and crying and
every once in a while shots were
fired. I climbed on a box and lift-
ed a transom window to see if it
was getting dark yet. It was still
light and Nazi troopers were still
pushing men, women and children
into trucks . . . Long after silence
had settled around the building, I
crept out of the cellar. It was
pitch black in the streets, and I
ran home.
Multiply this tragic—and yet
not most tragic—story by five
million; you will begin to sense
the horror that is riding Nazi-
held Europe today. What are we
to do about it?
Feelings of bitterness, feelings
of fury, thoughts of what the civ-
ilized world will do to the Nazis
when we shall have won the war
—these don't help. We must each
one of us give all our energies to
winning the war,—winning it one
month sooner, one week sooner,
one day sooner, winning it at the
earliest possible moment.
In the meantime, we must not
let the world forget what is hap-
pening to our people. There al-
ready exists a plan under which
Jewish children are being evac-
uated through Bulgaria to Pales-
tine. The United States must take
positive action to continue this
work on a much larger scale. It
must not stop until the last Jew-
ish child has been evacuated from
the Nazi hell into the land of
hope.

Jewish Contribution to
Muic Is Not Jewish,
Declares Karl W. Haas

CONGRESS

According to Karl W. Haas,
Detroit musician and teacher, who
spoke to the Halevy Singing So-
ciety on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in
Roosevelt School auditorium, the
most important Jewish contribu-
tion to world music is not Jewish
in character. He enlarged upon
this topic by showing that prac-
Ccally all of the great music of
Jewish composers is of interna-
tional appeal and not at all Jew-
ish in style or theme.
To demonstrate typical char-
acteristics of music from differ-
ent parts of the world, Mr. Haas
played the Stephen Foster melody
'Oh Susannah" as it would sound
in the style of the Spanish, Rus-
sian, Hungarian. Scotch, Chinese,
and Jewish musician. He also il-
lustrated other points in his talk
by playing several other selections
on the piano.
On Feb. 10, Edith Reznick of
the soprano section of the Halevy
chorus, sang a group of songs for
the Russian War Relief at a
e:athering in the Beth Tefiloh
Emanuel. Bella Goldberg accom-
panied at the piano.
Singers interested in becom-
ing members of the Halevy Sing-
ing Society are asked to phone
Mrs. Matnie Freeman, Townsend
5-3374.

cif, operating within the ghetto,
did its best to feed thousands of
persons each day. Former ware-
houses and loft buildings. without
adequate sanitary facilities, were
turned into dwelling places, 30 to
40 persons living in one office
'room.' There was only one hospi-
tal in the ghetto, without linen
and with few drugs. Carts went
through the ghetto streets at
night to pick up the dead left
lying there.
"'Seeking food outside the ghet-
to, bands of boys crept through
holes in bombed buildings and
emerged from cellars and excava-
tions. They roamed the streets of
Warsaw, begging. Jewish police
within the ghetto and Polish po-
lice outside its walls turned their
backs on this activity. Germans
maintained a bicycle guard around
the ghetto wall, constantly circling Orthodox Rabbis Want
in search of persons who had left
without permission. Some months A Kosher Restaurant
ago Nazi soldiers caught a small
The need of a Kosher Restau-
boy who was returning to the
ghetto with a bag of food. Lift- rant has long been felt in De-
ing a manhole cover, they dropped troit. The present conditions
bringing to Detroit many observ-
the boy into a sewer.
ant Jews who, in most cases. have
Nazis Proud of Ghetto
"The Nazis were proud of the greater difficulty to find homes
conditions they had created in the and, therefore, must have zi res-
ghetto; regular tours passed taurant to secure Kosher food.
through its twisted, somber The Council of Orthodox Rabbis
streets, the sightseers being Ger- of Detroit, at the last regular
mans who had settled in Poland or meeting, passed a resolution to
been brought there from bombed take the initiative for the estab-
areas in the Reich. Poles were lishment of a Kosher Restaurant.
often forced to take these tours, This restaurant will he under the
too. but they utilized them to strict supervision and control of
make mental note of persons suf- the Rabbis.
fering worse than others. Later
The Vaad Harabonim in order
they threw small packages of food to carry out this enterprise is
over the ghetto wall near these calling a meeting of a representa-
spots. Mutual suffering bred bonds tive group of Orthodox Jews in
of brotherhood."
the very near future.

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since it has become clear that the
principles of human rights and
democracy have been suspended,
if not waived. in North Africa.
It is impossible for us by our
silence to appear to acquiesce in
this policy, which by implication
denies the principles upon which
these United States were founded,
and in defense of which we have
accepted the Nazi challenge."

Pisgah Auxiliary To
Give Musical Comedy

A gay evening is in store for
those attending the paid up mem-
bership affair planned by the
B'nai B'rith Pisgah Auxiliary No.
122, for ;. Monday, Feb. 22. A
musial comedy entitled "You Are
Only Young Twice" will be pre-
sented to the paid up members of
the auxiliary. Packed with fun
and comedy and a great many of
the latest hit tunes, the play
should delight the audience also
with its novel arrangement of
dance numbers performed by the
dramatic group of the auxiliary.
Its assured success is due to the
efforts exerted in behalf of the
play by Mrs. Irwin Aran who di-
rected it, Mrs. Irving Buchalter,
in charge of the musical arrange-
ments, and Mrs. Irving Blank for
the expert direction of the (lance
routine.
The affair is scheduled for 8:30
n. m. at the Temple Beth El,
Woodward and Gladstone.

War Films Furnished
To Organizations Free
Of Charge by M. C. Fink

Any organization wishing to
show films of the latest war pic-
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"Roosevelt In Africa"; "Russia
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