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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
I
April 16, 1943
The War and the American Jewish Physician
with 3,500 fatalities. The fa- efforts or in repairing the havoc portion is relatively high. This
mous and heroic Lost Battal ion, wrought by the aggressor. To- proportion must be kept high and
By LEO BERMAN. M. D.
whose entrapment and victori ous day we, as Americans, Jews, and even increased, if
i at all possible.
escape under heavy odds is one physicians, together with the rest Many Jewish young men have
Editor's Note: An important article on the role of the American of the epics of the World W
Jewish doctor in the struggle against Fascism. The article ap- was part of the 77th Divisi ar, of the country and the peoples of already given their lives fighting
peared originally in the recently-published 1943 volume of comprising more than 50 per c on, the United Nations are about to under the American flag against
take the offensive againstthe fascism, and there have been
Medical Leaves," a stimulating journal of the Jewish med- Jews. It was a Jewish priva ent
te, aggressor.
ical world.
We shall achieve, many who have distinguished
Abraham Krotoshinsky, who fin- through our combined
efforts, a themselves in action.
the
ally
succeeded
in
getting
throw
g,h
smashing
victory
over Hitler and fi rs t day of the war at On
The blast of Japanese bombs figure during the Civil War, Ju-
Pearl
the
German
lines
to
bring
rel
ief
his
satellites
and
fifth
column
and torpedoes at Pearl Harbor dah P. Benjamin, served in the
Harbor, Captain Robert Kushner
which treacherously cut off the Confederate Cabinet, stated that and rescue to the Lost Battali on, friends in this country.
was cited for distinguished serv.
Today, we live in the era of Jewish physicians, particularly ice by his commanding officer.
lives of thousands of our boys more than 6,000 Jews enlisted in
and hurtled America into the war the Northern armies. Nine gen- total war and we all know h ow those in the younger age groups, Without regard for personal saf-
still sounds in our ears. As it eals, 18 colonels and 600 officers important the home front is. P er- should lead the way in serving, (ety, he administered surgical and
echoes and re-echoes throughout of lesser rank are listed. In the haps because of this realizati on, with the armed forces. We must 'medical aid to scores of his corn-
the land, the face of America Spanish-American War, according we can now see, in a fresher a nd do this to help win the war and codes wounded at Hickam Field.
changes. Millions stir and sens , 2. to Peters, the first man to vol- more penetrating light, the v ast give the lie again to those native Captain Kushner is in the Dental
the danger. Our land is threat- unteer was a Jew and the first contributions made by Haym S al- American fascists spreading ru- Corps of the Army. Lieutenant
ened. Giant, sprawling America American to be killed in battle onion to the founding of o ur mors that the Jew avoids military Charles Reiter, surgeon aboard
goes to war again. And America was a Jew. Fifteen Jews went country. Salomon's large part in duty. The vast army which we the destroyer Truxton, went down
knows this is no ordinary war. down with the Maine in the bay financing the Revolution at t he have already assembled and are with his vessel when it sank off
sacrifice of his private fortu ne expanding further, is urgenely in the coast of Newfoundland in a
The fascist enemy, led by Hitler, of Manila.
is ruthless and aims at our utter
In World War I, U. S. War and the ultimate impoverishme nt need of medical officers. We gale while on convoy duty. Lieu-
extinction as it nation.
Hitler Department figures show that the of his own family is well esti
must step forward not only for tenant Mack Gottlieb, naval doc-
has made it clear what degrada- number of Jews in the service fished in the government rem% Is. ourselves, but for all Americans, tor, was taken prisoner by the
tion and slavery await the van-
In 1850, a Congressional co in- Jews and non-Jew, who conic Japanese when Guam fell. Lyn-
was more than 33 per cent above mittee said of him, "The cm
quished. Our privilege and duty their quota on the b
n- after us. No authoritative figures tenant Ben Richard Bronstein
f h
is also (tear: All for Victory!
mittee, from the evidence before
proportion of the population. Out- them, are induced to consider could be obtained from the War died in action when the destroyer
American Jews In Past Wars
standing leaders were Rear Ad- Haym Salomon as one of the Department as to the number of Jacob Jones was sunk by the
Jews have fought and died for miral Joseph Strauss, who was in truest and most efficient friends Jewish medical officers already enemy off Cape May, New Jersey.
On active duty. However, it is
America since the days of the command of the mine-laying o f th e coun t ry
at the very crit- generally known that the pro-
Revolution. Colonel Isaac Franks squadron in the North Sea, and
See PHYSICIAN Page 13
ical
period
in
its
history."
served on the staff of General Brigadier General Charles IL
Washington. Two of the most Lauchheimer, who commanded the The American Jewish
outstanding heroes in the War of United States Marine Corps. Ray Physicia n in the Pre-
1812 were Brigadier - General Murphy, Past Commander of the War Period
Bloomfield and Uriah Phillips American Legion, paid high trib-
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