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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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VOL. 45, NO. 10
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943
Bnai Brith Bond Drive
Here Totals $1,490,000
Frank Isbey To Present Citation at Grand
Rally To Be Held by Pisgah Lodge Mar, 15
Women's Congress
War Bond Drive To
Honor Rabbi Wise
Bomber Purchased
To Be Inscribed
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Mrs. Samuel A. Singer, war
efforts chairman of the Detroit
Women's Division of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, announces
that the local chapter is partici-
pating in a nation-wide campaign
to sell $8,000,000 worth of Bonds
in honor of Dr. Stephen S. Wise's
69th birthday, March 17.
The Detroit quota is $500,000,
upon completion of which a bomb-
er will be inscribed with the
name "American Jewish Congress,
Detroit, Mich."
A temporary office has been
secured at 527 Barium Tower,
telephone Ra. 7550, where bonds
may be purchased, as well as
from any member of the commit-
tee. Anyone desiring to honor Dr.
Wise is eligible to purchase bonds
through this drive, regardlelss of
whether they are members or
not. Members are urged to con-
tact their relatives, neighbors and
friends to pay tribute to Dr.
Wise in this patriotic fashion.
Dr. Wise's position of lelader-
ship in America is worthy of the
effort of honoring his birthday in
this manner, and an appeal is
being made for all Jews in De-
troit to participate in this timely
and patriotic manner of celebrat-
ing Dr. Wise's birthday by pur-
chasing bonds through the Wom-
en's Division of the American
Jewish Congress.
Members who are active on the
committee include Mesdames Irv-
ing Dworman, M. S. Perlis, Na-
than Spevakow, Morris Weingar-
den, Perry Burnstine, Samuel
Katkin, Lew Levitt, Joshua Sper-
ka, Samuel Green, Jacob Lattiti,
Arthur Gould, Morris Mendel-
son. Other members who care to
serve on this committee are urged
to call Mrs. Singer, chairman, or
Mrs. Irving Dworman, vice presi-
dent, immediatelly.
Dr. M. Laderman
To Be Speaker At
Yeshivah Dinner
Torah Month Ends
On Sunday, March 7
B. & P. Hadassah
10th Annual Meet
At Statler March')
The Sanctities Of Israel
Excerpts from an address delivered by Rabbi Moses Fischer at
Executive Director, American Federation for Polish Jews,
Detroit District
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Statement Made a3 Board of. Deputies of
Dr. S. S. Tr ise Urges
America To Admit
Jewish Refugees
By BENJAMIN GRAUBERT
,
Allies Will Aid Jews
Says Anthony Eden
Dr. Manual Laderman, spiritual
British Jews Approve 8-Point Rescue Program
leader of the Hebrew Educational
Alliance
of
Denver,
Colorado,
and
The Greater Detroit B'nai B'rith
LONDON, (WNS) — Interna-
Council's one month's drive to sell president of the Western Branch tional action has already been
of
the
Rabbinical
Council
of
$1,000,000 in United States War
started to rescue Europe's stricken
avings Bonds and sponsor two
Jews, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Submarine Chasers came to a
Eden told the House of Commons
close with sales totaling $1,490,-
this week, without revealing de-
000. This drive from Jan. 24 to
tails. His statement came as the
Feb. 21 was participated in by the
Board of Deputies of British Jews
following groups: Pisgah Lodge,
approved an eight-point program,
Louis Marshall Lodge, Theodor
prepared by its joint foreign com-
Herzl Lodge, East Side Lodge.
Addresses Protest Rally
mittee for consideration by the
Pisgah Auxiliary, Business and
British Government.
At
Cass Tech High School
Professional Auxiliary, Theodor
Mr. Eden said it would not be
Herzl Auxiliary, East Side Aux-
in the interest of the persons con-
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of New
iliary and Louis Marshall Auxil-
cerned to disclose details of the York, called upon the United
iary, B'nai B'rith youth groups,
rescue action undertaken by the States and Great Britain here
the A. Z. A. and junior girls also
Allies. He rejected suggestions for Sunday afternoon to save the
pa rticipated.
appointment of a special minister Jewish race from extermination
Harry Yudkoff, president of the
on the Jewish problem, aid to by relax'ng immigration rules and
Greater Detroit B'nai B'rith
neutral governments in maintain- paying the expenses of refugees
Council, washes to thank everyone
ing refugees and sending of a in neutral nations.
who helird make this one month
special British envoy to various
Dr. Wise, rabbi of the Free
$1,000,000 bond sales campaign a
countries to expedite emigration Synagogue and president of the
success. He is gratified at the
of Jews from occupied territory. American Jewish Congress and
way the community responded to
There was no immediate re- Charles P. Taft, son of the for-
B'nai B'rith bond representatives.
action from official British quar- mer president and a member of
Sales of bonds were made to out-
ters to the Board of Deputies' President Roosevelt's War Relief
standing organizations and indi-
program, which the board said Control Board, and Federal Judge
viduals as well as the rank and
would be instrumental in saving Ernest A. O'Brien addressed 3.000.
file. Many of these sales were
the lives of thousands of Jews. persons at a mass meeting in Cass
made upon the request of the indi-
The board suggested that an ap- Technical High School.
vidual group or person to assist
proach be made to the Nazi gov- ' American-born mingled with
B'nai B'rith in their patriotic
ernment through appropriate imm'grants from Poland, Greece,
venture. Since it became known
channels to arrange for the emi- Russia and a score of other na-
that the bond sales drive had ex-
gration of Jews from German- tionalities at the rally, which
ceeded its goal many congratula-
controlled territory, with the aid Mayor Jeffries had proclaimed as
tory messages have been received
of neutral governments and pos- a time for mourning and protest
DR. MANUEL LADERMAN
by the Greater Detroit B'nai
sibly of the Vatican.
B'rith Council.
against the Axis massacres of in-
America, will address the anni-
The board proposed creation by nocent civilian, Dr. Wise told the
A public Victory Bond Drive versary banquet of the Detroit
Rally is being planned by Pisgah Hebrew Talmudical Academy Ye- the British government of a spe- rally in ringing tones that moved
Lodge to be held in the main shivath Beth Yehudah, Sunday cial agency with which the United all present:•
auditorium of the Jewish Com- evening, March 7, at the Jewish States and others of the United
"All I say today is not by way
Nations could later associate with of protest, but by way of hope.
munish Center on Monday eve- Community Center, Woodward themselves.
Our own country ought to re-
ning, March 15. On this occasion and Holbrook.
The board's program of action member that it has been a ref-
Pisgah Lodge will be host to the
Rabbi
Laderman, prominent
follows:
Greater Detroit B'nai B'rith
uge for the oppressed all through
See LADERMAN—Page 12
(1) Announce that, to the best history. I do not believe my coun-
Council. Frank N. Isbey, chairman
United States Treasury War Bond
of the country's possibilities, sub- t•y is so door in spirit as to deny
ject to all the necessary safe- refuge to such handfuls as may
Program for Michigan, will pre-
guards in connection with national escape the Hitler horde and come
sent the council with the official
security, asylum will be afforded Jo our shores."
Treasury Department citation.
Dr. Wise asked the United
to Jewish refugees, a similar an-
Rudolph Meyersohn, president of
nouncement to be made concerning States to admit all the Jewish
Pisgah Lodge, announces that an
colonies and other territories un- refugees that seek admittance, de-
outstanding national personality
de• control of the British gov- spite immigration regulations, and
will be the principal speaker at
Philip
Adler
To
Be
resolutions asked for repeal of
ernment;
this rally. Also a special program
of headline entertainment is be-
The Guest Speaker
(2) Endeavor to secure a simi- Britain's recently adopted immi-
ing planned.
lar otter from the United States gration 'an on Jews in Palestine.
The Business and Professional and the other Allies regarding
"We should make arrangements
At a meeting of delegates of
with neutral countries to pay for
the Greater Detroit B'nai B'rith Division of Hadassah will cele- territory under their control;
(3) Appoach the Dominions to the keep of refugees that are for-
Council it was unanimously voted brate the tenth anniversary of
their founding at a large open offer refuge, such offers to in- tunate enough to escape Hitler,"
Dr. %Vise declared. "For a modest
meeting on Tuesday evening,
See COUNCIL—Page 16
March 9, at the Hotel Statler.
See EDEN—Page 12
See WISE—Page 9
The guest speaker will be Philip
Jewish Prisoners Call for Help
It so happens that the ques-
tion of the fate of Jewish pHs-
oners in German prison camps
has not been discussed in the
columns of the press. It is pos-
sible that in the face of the great
tragedy of Polish Jewry which
is on the brink of destruction.
the question of help for a few
hundred, or a few thousand pris-
oners, is a matter of relative
unimportance. It is also possible
that many have thought that it
is sufficient to leave the question
of help for these people to in-
ternational agencies, such as the
International Red Cross. It could
Also be that the voices of these
prisoners has not reached the
proper ears, that their cry has
not been strong enough to have
been heard, understood and acted
upon. I refer to this question
openly in the belief that particu-
larly now, when Polish Jewry is
being destroyed, the question of
help for the rest of our Jewish
brethren assumed greater signi-
ficance.
The problem of help for pris-
oners became real soon after the
defeat of Poland in September,
1939. Many thousands of the de-
feated Poles became prisoners of
the Germans. The condition of
the prisoners from the very be-
ginning was far from satisfac-
tory. In a sense the treatment
10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yea,
was somewhat better in the
Whigs (Offizier Lager) where the
officers were imprisoned, than in
the Stalags (Stamm Lager)
where the soldiers were interned.
According to reliable informa-
tion we had from prisoners them-
selves, as well as other sources,
each prisoner received 100 gramm
( 1 4 pound) of black bread daily,
and two servings of soup made
from hot water and a vegetable
peeling. This "food" became even
worse with the decline of living
standards in Germany and the de-
crease of • food allotments. How
long prisoners, or other human
beings, could exist on such ra-
tions is not difficult to imagine.
The life of each prisoner was
sweetened by the right to receive
food packages from the outside.
It is therefore no wonder that
early in the first months of im-
prisonment there began to flow
to the writer of these lines, as
well as to hundreds of others,
thousands of cries for help and
frantic pleas for food and cloth-
ing, for bread, butter, fats and
sugar. Together with these ap-
peals Caine labels, special labels,
enabling packages to be sent to
the writers whose names ap-
peared thereon.
In the territory of Lithuania,
See PRISONERS—Page 16
Friday Eve Services at Selfridge Field.
Some years ago, when the
present Lord Melchet—a well
known English statesman and
Zionist leader—whose mother was
a Gentile, accepted the tenets of
our Faith in order to become a
full Jew, he made the following
declaration in the study of the
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain,
Dr. Hertz in London, who offi-
ciated at the holy ceremony:
"I accept herewith the Sanc-
tities, Sorrows and Sacrifices of
Israel." If there is a declaration
which sums up more precisely,
more forcefully and lucidly the
spiritual elements, which make
in our day and time amidst the
trials and fiery ordeal of the
present—a full Jew, it is un-
known to me.
PHILIP...ADLER
Adler of the Detroit News, an
outstanding authority on Na-
tional affairs.
Miss Renah LaMed will provide
the musical portion of the eve-
ning's program. Miss LaMed, a
pupil of Miss Florence Kutzen
of the Netzorg School of Music
is a brilliant pianist and now at
the age of twelve has already
written several of her own com-
positions. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis LaMed. Miss
Sophie Blanche Schwartz, chair-
man of the Detroit Division has
See .HADASSAH—Page 8
In the brevity and classicism
of its phraseology, this utterance
deserves to be placed next to the
deathless declaration of Church-
ill in one of the most decisive
epochal moments of this world-
war, "I have nothing to bring you
but tears, toil, sweat and blood."
Indeed, there is no greater test
of what constitute a full-Jew
in our days than the acceptance
of "Israel's Sanctities, Sufferings
and Sorrows."
First: the Sanctities of Israel!
No full, loyal and wholehearted
Jew but he accepts the Eternal
Verities of Jewry, "the Kingdom
and Yoke of God," and the Way
of Life, of "Holiness, Righteous-
ness and Morality" that proceeds
from it and is the logical de-
duction of this great declaration
of Faith! The two command-
ments, "Love Thy Lord with all
thy heart, soul and might," and
"Love thy fellowman as thou
Icvest thyself" are at once the
fundaments and the spirit of our
holy Faith and all other duties
are the natural concomitments
and resultants thereof.
Second: The Sorrows of Is-
rael! No Jew in our days is a
full Jew unless he feels, shares
the sorrows and is willing to
bear the burden of Israel. Each
and every Jew must consider his
fellow-Jew in other countries and
continents as his "Other I," who
is hunted, maltreated and out-
lawed for an inquity and sin
which is common to all of us:
for having been born a Jew and
because he believes in "Echod,"
in the Oneness and Unity of
God: the Father of all mankind
and its concomitant; the Broth-
erhood of Man! Each of us must
deeply ponder and take to heart
the words of Samuel Johnson,
"that if not for the Grace of the
Lord, we would be today in the
place of our degraded fellow-
men," we would be today home-
less, stateless, sightless Jews,
See SANCTITIES—Pag e 12