April 9, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicli
British Jews Submit I 2-Point Program For
Consideration To Bermuda Conference
U. S. Urged To Rescue
Jews From Nazi-Europe
At Washington Meeting
HITHER AND YON
w ith MYRA KAY
LONDON (WNS)—A 12-point of "death convoys," under which
The way some politicians spiel ey and the things that money
Lan buy, but it's good too, to
program, including the cration of French Jews are rounded up in
WASHINGTON
(WNS)
—
A
about
their plans to Utopianize check up once in a while and
havens in Allied and neutral their homes and on the streets,
countries for Jewish refugees herded in concentration camps program of action to rescue America one would have to be make sure you haven't lost the
able to escape from Nazi-dom- and then deported to Eastern the estimated 5,000,000 Jews an expert toreador to dodge the things that money can't buy.
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inated countries and negotiations Europe.
still alive in Nazi-occupied Eur- bull . . . Granted, that politicians
A soldier in a prison camp
with Nazi Germany through
The last "death convoy," in ope was submitted to the Ameri- are necessary to maintain the
neutral countries to permit the which there were 3,000 Jews of
status quo—which is the Latin knew his letter to his home
Jews, particularly children, to all ages and classes, left France can State Department this week definition for the mess we are would be censored. So he wrote
leave Nazi territories, was adopt- about February 20 and was not following its approval by the in—but who created the mess? as follows:
"My dear folks: I have been
. . as the politician makes up
ed at a mass protest meeting again heard from, it was report- large gathing of Jewish and non-
captured by the enemy and they
held here this week under the ed. In mid-February, the report Jewish notables at a "Voice of h . is bunk, so shall he lie. •
are treating me fine. I'm get-
auspices of leading British Jew- added, the Gestapo raided the Washington" meeting.
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The program was adopted after
ish organizations.
Mr. Ikesteni was present at ting plenty of food and enter-
Lyon headquarters of the Gen-
tainment. I want you to tell this
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, presi- eral Union of French Jews, ar- Senator Alben Barkley, the ma- he first accouchment and felt to all our friends—but especial-
dent of the Board of Deputies of rested and removed the entire jority leader, called upon the hat he couldn't save $100 quick- ly, I want you to tell it to
British Jews, expressed the hope staff to the Drancy concentra- United States to establish sanc- e• than by utilizing his knowl- Sweeney."
that Jews would be represented tion camp and then deported tuaries for refugees from Axis- edge when the second baby ar-
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at the forthcoming Anglo-Am- them to an "extermination cen- dominated lands. Other speakers rived. He was congratulating
An American has been defined
himself
upon
his
natural
effi-
included
Representative
Joseph
erican refugee conference in ter" in Eastern Europe.
as a person who yells for the
Bermuda. Pointing out that "on
The , Nazis have concentrated W. Martin, Jr., minority leader ciency when the nurse recalled government to balance the bud-
no other paple has a declaration their anti-Jewish drive in Mar- of the House; Brig. Gen. Wil- him to his ' wife's bedside. It get and himself borrows ten dol-
of death been pronounced," Prof. seille, Toulouse, Limoges and liam R. Arnold, Chief of Army Droved to be twins and he had lars 'til payday.
Brodetsky urged that Jewish other cities in what was formerly Chaplains, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to repeat his dexterity. He was
. . .
viewpoints on the refugee prob- known as unoccupied France. and leading religious and labor giving himself credit for $200
A
story
that
gained wide cir-
when
another
summons
came
lem be given adequate consider- Among those arrested and de- leaders.
culation among the German la-
from
the
sickroom.
Senator
Barkley
urged
"bring-
ation at the Bermuda parley.
ported have been men, women
He rushed to the phone, "Oi boring classes is the one of a
The program adopted 'by the and children of all ages. A spe- ing effective international pres- yoi,
doctor, come quick!" he Storm Troop leader marching
sure
on
Nazi
Germany
to
desist
cial Gestapo hunt was said to be
meeting follows:
cried,
"I can shtart 'em all right down the street at the head of
1. Announcement by the Allied on for the Jewish children who from her relentless policy of but I can't stop 'em!"
his uniformed squad and saw a
Governments that asylum will be have thus far, with the help mass murder or, failing that, to
man on the sidewalk give the Com-
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found for all refugees who are of sympathetic non-Jews, been use our influence and prestige
munist salute. The leader halted
in rescuing hundreds of thous- Did you know that:
able to flee Nazi-held territory. able to elude the Gestapo.
his men, went to the saluter, and
The
first
white
boy
born
in
ands
of
helpless
victims
from
the
It was reported that many of
2. Visas for Allied countries
said, "It is dangerous to do that.
Georgia
was
a
Jew.
should be placed at the disposal the Jews are fleeing to Savoy Nazi yoke through the good
James P. Warburg not only is One of the men in my squadron
of the consullates of neutral and the Riviera, the parts of offices of neutral intermediaries."
here is a Nazi."
The rescue proposals were sub- a banker, but a song writer un-
countries. The United States France occupied by the Italians,
• . .
der
the
name
of
Paul
James.
mitted
to
the
State
Department
should consider filling its still where the treatment of Jews was
The
shortage
of men has af-
Thousands
of
Jews
were
living
unexhausted quotas for refugees. described as "comparatively hu- by the recently organized Joint in America before the Mayflower fected our Hollywood emotresses
Emergency
Committee
for
Euro-
mane."
Between
10,000
and
20,-
Establishment
of
refugee
3.
—the lowering of the divorce
landed.
camps in the territory controlled 000 Jews were believed to have pean Jewish Affairs, which rep-
The dirigible was invented by rate in Glamour Town suggests
resents
the
American
Jewish
reached the Italian zone.
by the Allies.
David Schwartz, an Austrian that they're going to make their
Meanwhile, the Nazis have Committee, American Jewish Con-
4. Full use of the especially
husbands last for the duration.
Jew.
favorable facilities for imt..;gra- notified the French consulates of gress, B'nai B'rith, Jewish Labor
. .
.
1
I
foreign countries, including neu- Committee, Synagogue Council of
tion offered by Palestine.
It's a good thing to have mon- Sholom Aleichem.
America,
Agudas
Israel,
Union
trals
such
as
Turkey
and
Switz-
Transport
and
transit
ar-
5.
rangements should be made as erland, that unless all Jews of of Orthodox Rabbis, and the Am-
quickly as possible in order to foreign citizenship leave France erican Emergency Committee for Rabbi A. Zentman Joins Detroit AZA Sponsors
utilize the 34,000 Palestine im- immediately they will be given Zionist Affairs.
The proposals, as outlined by Yeshivath Faculty
migration certificates still avail- the same treatment accorded
District Tournament
Dr.. Wise, call for the establish-
French Jews.
able for Jews.
Rabbi A. Zentman, who re-
ment of sanctuaries in Allied and cently joined the faculty of
On Friday, Saturday and Sun-
6. The emigration of Jews in
neutral countries and Palestine
the Balkan countries to Palestine
day, April 9, 10 and 11, Shaarey
Yeshivath
Beth
Yehudah,
has
for a substantial number of Jews
should be facilitated by extending Hebrew School Extra
been placed in charge of new Zedek Chapter 504 will be host
and the revision of administra- junior
to the District 6 Tournament
the transportation facilities from
and intermediate groups. Finals.
Curricular Activities
tive procedure in the United
Turkey and Bulgaria.
States to permit entrance of Rabbi Zentman brings with him
District 6 is composed of Mich-
7. Provision should be made
The United Hebrew schools thousands of refugees under the a background of wide experience
for Allied and neutral shipping
igan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
in
youth
leadership.
He
is
a
to transfer the refugees from have recently initiated a series present immigration quota. The graduate of the Yeshivah Ner Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and
Spain and Portugal to refugee of extra-curricular educational British Empire and Latin Am- Israel in Baltimore, Maryland, South Dakota and the three Ca-
camps in Palestine.
activities for former students of erican countries were similarly and also holds the degree of nadian Prairie Provinces, and it
8. Assurances must be given to the schools. A group of thirty urged to modify their immigra- Bachelor of Science. Rabbi Zent- is the largest AZA district in
tion procedures.
the country.
neutral countries concerning the
The United Nations were asked man has devoted himself to edu-
maintenance of any refugees to forty young men and women
Due to war conditions and the
cation
and
intends
to
continue
in
between the ages of 16 and 20, also to organize a system "for this work.
great difficulty in obtaining trav-
they admit.
machinery some of whom are now affiliat- the feeding of the victims of
eling facilities, the tournament
9. International
will be composed only of AZA
should be set up to speed the res- ed with Zionist Youth Groups, Nazi oppression who are unable Two Post Bar-Mitzvah
regional winners in debate, ora-
such as the Hoshomer Hotzoir, to leave the jurisdiction and Groups To Be Organized
cue of the Jews.
The Junior-Intermediate Com- tory and basketball.
10. Nationals of the United Hobonim and others, and who are control of the Axis." Another
Nations should be exchanged for primarily interested in the study point urged the Allies to estab- mittee is now planning the or-
AZA has, like many other or-
of the Hebrew language, attend lish a special intergovernmental ganization of two new clubs for ganizations, changed its entire
nationals of the Axis powers.
11. Approach the British Do- classes every Thursday evening agency with power to implement boys aged 13-16, under the spon- program to fit in with this coun-
sorship of Rabbi Zentman, to try's policy of total war. Thus,
minions and Latin America for between the hours of 8 and 10 the rescue program.
The meeting went on record meet at the Yeshivah and the the day of real conventions for
assistance in sheltering the refu- at the Rose Sittig Cohen School.
Two such courses have been or- as asking the United Nations to Emanuel Syngagogue, respec- AZA are over until victory is
gees.
gained. In its place, tournaments
12. Approach Germany and her ganized: (1) advanced Hebrew; appoint a commission to collect tively.
are held at which there will be
satellite states with the proposal (2) elementary. Special emphasis the evidence upon which those
no district meetings and at which
that they allow the Jews, par- is placed on the conversational responsible for the atrocities
several affairs are cut to a min-
Hebrew with the Sphardic pro- against the Jews will be tried. 63 Members of Gamma
ticularly children, to leave.
imum. .
He reported that the more nunciation as it is used in Pales- In his address Dr. Wise said:
"The yoke from which we Kappa Chi Now In Service
The physical fitness program of
than 30,000 immigration certifi- tin. Messrs. M. Mathis and I.
cates still available for Jewish Soref are in charge of these would free those for whom we
With the calling of the En- AZA will be emphasized in all
plead tonight is not only the listed Reserve Corps to active athletic events. Oratory and (lo-
immigration under the terms of classes.
Another group of 45 boys and yoke of tyranny and enslavement service, the Gamma Kappa Chi bate have always been stressed
the British White Paper of 1939
have been earmarked for Jews girls between the ages of 14 and but the yoke of death. These fraternity of Wayne University by AZA for their great training.
Included as one of the pro-
in Nazi-dominated countries, in- 17 meet every Monday evening might have - been saved if the lost nine members to swell the
cluding 10,000 to Poland, Lith- between 7:45 and 9:30 to study now United Nations had dared total to 63 members now serving grams of the tournament is the
uania and Latvia; 5,000 to Bul- Jewish institutions and current to act ten years ago in such a with the U. S. armed forces. youth brotherhood rally in which
garia; 5,000 to Hungary; 9,000 Jewish problems, by means of way as to make the world slaugh- Those who left are: Marvin Lo- AZA is one of the participating
to Bohemia-Moravia; 1,000 to lectures and round table dis- ter of today unnecessary. We did patin, Chester Shaw, Leo Glantz, organizations. This brotherhood
not act.
Jack Corinblat, Ralph Gross, rally will be held on Sunday,
Slovakia; 1,000 to Holland, and cussions.
"To help the Jews to go out Aaron Sinkoff, Charles Katz, Max- April 11, at 3:00 p. m. at the
The first lecture on the De-
500 to Belgium.
auditorium of the Detroit
Stressing that "the most urg- troit Jewish Welfare Federation of the enslaving lands of bitter well Nadis, Irving Berg and Sid- large
Institute of Arts.
ent task is to save as soon as and its constituent agencies was Europe would be nothing more ney Zirulnik.
On Sunday night, as a grand
The following were accepted
possible 5,000 Jewish children in delivered by Herman Pekarsky; than a too long delayed repara-
the Balkan countries," Mr. Dob- "Jewish Post-War Problems" was set out to destroy. We know he as pledges at the recent meeting finale to these contests, a tour-
kin announce that the Jewish discussed by Philip Slomovitz; will not ,destroy the Jews. The held at Webster Hall : Ben Hoff- nament dance will be held at
Agency has created a committee "Sabbath and the Customs Con- destruction of the Jews has been man, Gabriel Allen, Gerald Gor- the Book-Cadillac Hotel, featur-
of five, including Miss Henrietta nected With It," Mrs. Morris sought before and often. Hitler zeck, Floyd Bornstein, Morris Ru- ing Ray Gorrell and his orches-
Szold, to prepare for the immi- Adler; "Palestine As a Jewish will pass with the help of our bin, Milton Buuyk, Morrie Rock-
gration and education of the chil- Tomeland," Max Chomsky; "His- country and the United Nations. lin, Alvin Nusbaum, Arthur Smith tra. The public is cordially in-
vited to attend this affair.
dren. He estimated that it would torical Development of Purim," Jews will remain and freedom and Irwin Rosenberg.
cost $400 a year to care for Mrs. Morris Adler; "The Jews will remain and the nation will
each of the 5,000 refugee chil- In Russia Before and After the remain united to bless the world
Bnai Moshe Officers To
Revolution," a Meyerowitz; "Jew- with freedom."
dren. .
ish Vocational Guidance," Albert
Be Installed April 14
NAZIS LAUNCH NEW REIGN Cohen; "The History of Zion- Hebrew Schools Are
ism," Miss Annette Isaacs.
The newly elected officers and
FOOT OF SECOND
OF TERROR AGAINST
directors of the B'Nai Moshe
Several talented children of Studying Passover
JEWS IN FRANCE
Af The River
Men's Club will be installed Wed-
this group are now rehearsing a
The
study
of
Passover
is
now
nesday,
April
14,
in
the
banquet
Passover
play
which
will
be
stag-
(WNS)—Nazi
auth-
LONDON
The Only Natural
orities in occupied France have ed at the various branches of the occupying a very important place hall of the Congregation, Dexter
SULPHUR
MINERAL
in
the
curriculum
of
the
United
and
Lawrence.
launched a new reign of terror United Hebrew Schools. Children
BATHS
Rabbi Moses Fischer and Rabbi
against the Jews, including a and their parents will be invited Hebrew Schols. All pupils, small
house-to-house search by special to see this play, which is direct- and big, are now studying the Jacob J. Nathan will participate
In The City of Detroit
history of Passover, and every- in the welcome to the new officers
Gestapo squads in Paris for sev- ed by Miss Annette Isaacs.
•
thing
pertaining
to
this
very
and
vocal
selections
will
be
ren-
An additional Hebrew speaking
eral thousand Jewish children
Turkish and
who have been taken in and group of men and women be- important and most joyous holi- dered by Cantor David Katzman.
The installation ceremony will
protected from the Nazi by non- tween the ages of 21 ano 28 meet day.
Reducing Baths
In the tower classes the chil- be brief and will be followed by
Jews, according to information every first and third Wednes-
•
received this week by the British day to study modern Hebrew dren read the Haggadah; in the a social hour and refreshments.
higher
classes
the
entire
period
Open
Day
and Night
The new officers are: Robert
section of the World Jewish Con- literature and to discuss various
is being carefully studied, and, Schwarz, president; Ernest Labe,
Jewish problems as they arise.
gress.
Soparate Departments
Plans are now being formulat- in addition, the whys and where- vice-president; Morton Katz,
According to these reports, ob-
For Men and Women
tained from a noted French Jew ed by a committee to extend the fores of all symbols and cere- treasurer, and Louis Kepes, sec-
who has managed to escape to a same educational services to for- monies identified with this holi- retary. The directors are: • Ed-
neutral country, the Nazis in mer students of the schools in day are being studied in all their mund Labe, Sam Freedman, Carl
details.
Rozner and Eugene Weiss.
France have instituted a system the other branches.
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