Alacrity;zit ,Jewish PerioNcal Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 28th Year of Service to Oar State and Nation VOL. 45, NO. 29 Detroit and Jewish Chronicle The Legal Chronicle DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1943 Jews of Roumania Living On Fringe of Starvation Report of Joint Distribution Committee Reveals Details of Their Tragic Lives Patriotic Rally 10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Year At Jewish Center Thursday, July 22 Names of Those Enrolled for Collection Drive Announced Gemiluth Chassodim Servicemen Honored Maurice E. Enggass Co-Chairman of Collection Committee of the Detroit Service Group Living on the fringe of starva- the official himself." tion and in eternal fear of de- The same personal policy ap- A patriotic rally will be held -Maurice A. Enggass, co-chair- nold Gross, Philip Rothbart; linen portation, Jews in Roumania are plies likewise in the matter of Thursday, July 22, at 8 p. m., man of the collection committee supply and laundries, Harry Schu- forced to serve from one to three deportations: at the auditorium of the Jewish months each year in compulsory "Jews, especially from Bess- Community Center, Woodward at of the Detroit Service Group, mer, David W. Bussey, Isaac Lit- labor camps, although in many arabia, Bukovina and Maldova, thanks those who are participat- wak, Leo Polk. cases the period may be extended have been deported in masses to Holbrook, to honor members of ing in the collection of the Allied indefinitely. Leading personalities Transnistria. From Bucharest it- Jewish Campaign accounts. Mr. Division D—Building Trades Real estate and builders, Julius in Jewish and Roumanian com- self, at one time, about 1,200 Enggass announces that the fol- munal activity, many of them Jews were summoned to police lowing have already enrolled as Berman, Ben B. Fenton, Milton world-famous leaders, have been headquarters and, with the ex- members of the trade and pro- M. Maddin, Barney Smith. San- fessional groups: deported from Bessarabia, Buko- planation that their earlier wish ford D. Adler, George Seyburn, Division B—Services: vina and Maldova to Transnistria to go to Bessarabia would be ful- on various pretexts. In one in- filled, were shipped to Transnis- Insurance: Louis C. Blumberg, Louis Berry, Allen Kramer, Max stance, all Jews bearing the same tria. No one is sure that he will Alfred I. Dreifus, Fred A. Gins- C. Handler, Samuel Sarasohn, Jassey; architects, Charles family name were moved to not share the same fate. Actual burg, William Field, George M. Henry N. Agree; plumbers, H. C. Da- Transnistria because a Socialist reasons for the deportations are Stutz, Sidney Weisman, Theodore coal and ice, Nathan Isaacs; public employees, Emanuel vidson; leader and member of Parliament Borin. had borne that name. See ROUMANIA—Page 9 A. Perrin, Samuel A. Brezner; tailors, Jack Stark; cleaners, Ar- Division E—Food Products: This and other detailed in- formation concerning the present Groceries, meats and bever- tragic situation of Roumanian ages: Ben Grosberg, Max Schayo- witz, Harry Cohen, Irving W. Jewry is contained in a report just received by the Joint Dis- Blumberg; produce, Herman tribution Committee from one of Franzblau; bakers, Arthur Gold- stein; fish, Isaac Kaplan. its representatives in Jerusalem. The communication is a collation Division G—Arts and Crafts: of first-hand reports given by Theaters, Alex Schreiber, Ar- Roumanian Jews who emigrated thur Robinson, Frank Wetsman; Prime Minister King to Palestine through the assist- advertising, printing, newspapers, Huge Reception is ance of the J. D. C. Declares in Commons florists and musicians, Leonard Conditions in Roumania, the Held at Polo Grounds N. Simons, Morris Lipshy. HAROLD SILVER report states, have been made OTTAWA (WNS)—The Cana- Division H.—Organizations: more burdensome by regulations NEW YORK. (WNS)—Respon- James I. Ellmann, A. J. Lach- which require Jews to obtain spe- dian Government is prepared to the Congregation Gemiluth Chas- sibility for the fate of the Jew- over, E. Louis Neimand. cial permissian to practice their admit additional refugees for the sodim who serve in the U. S. armed forces. This congregation ish people throughout the world Other groups in the process of professions. Large fees are ex- duration of the war, Prime Min- acted for the necessary licenses. iste• Mackenzie King declared this was founded two years ago by rests on the Jews of the United organization are Division A, mer- immigrants from Central Europe States and of Soviet Russia, Lt.- cantile; Division C, mechanical Jews must contribute, too, to the Roumanian welfare work pre- week in the House of Commons for the purpose of mutual aid Col. Itzik Feffer, noted Soviet trades; Division F, professional. sided over by the wife of Rou- during a discussion of the refugee and reconstruction. It has now a poet who with Prof. Solomon The personnel of these groups membership of well over 160 Michoels, founder of the Moscow will be announced as soon as the mania's dictator Antonescu. A problem. state loan to which Jews must Admitting that "we have not, families. An honor roll designed Jewish State Theater, is making organization is completed. subscribe has - had a catastrophic' -of...euurso,-done all that we could by Dr. Hugo Mandelbaum will a_ goodwill visit to .this country, David A. Goldman, president be - dedicated "Ws - eVeifilir- Prorhi- effect. Their quota, four times have done and perhaps we have told more than 47,000 persons of the Junior Service Group, --iii:— nent personalities of the Detroit as large as their taxes in 1940, not done ali that we should have who jammed the Polo Grounds nounces that the collection com- cannot be met since the state done," the Prime Minister com- Jewish community will greet the to greet the Russian-Jewish dele- mittee is making rapid progress. The committee consists of the has deprived them of their source mented that Canada's record with assembly: Fred Butzel, president gation. of income • regard to assistance to European of the Jewish Welfare Federa- "We, the Jews of the Soviet following: Ann Brooks, Esta Gel- refugees ''will stand comparison tion; James I. Ellmann, president Union and the United States, ler, Meyer Golding, Al Sparage, At Any Hour with the records of other parts of of the Jewish Community Coun- constitute the majority of the co-chairmen; workers: Marion Concerning forced labor, the the British Commonwealth and cil; Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter, Jewish people of the world," Col. Bassey, Rodelle Broder, Frieda report states: Congregation Beth Tefilo Eman- Feffer said. "Together there are Brooks, Carolyn Cohen; Sara of the United States." uel. "Every Jew must go to a camp "I cannot state how many ad- 10,000,000 of us. Upon us lies Greenberg, Pearl Kaner, Dave for compulsory work for a cer- Rabbi Dr. Samson R. Weiss tain period. This is officially re- ditional refugees Canada will be will address the assembly in the the responsibility for the fate of Kaufman, Frieda Knee, Norma Leader, Bluma Nagler, Betty stricted to one to three months prepared to receive," Mr. King name of the sponsoring congre- the Jewish people. "About 4,000,000 Jews already Rothenberg, Sherman Shapiro, but actually there are people who said. "This depends on many fac- gation. Harold Silver, executive not within the Canadian have already been in camp a tors director of the Jewish Social have been destroyed by the en- See DRIVE—Page 12 year or more. With regard to Government." Service, will be chairman of the emy. There is not one family in He pointed out that an offer our land which has not sacrificed compulsory labor, as in every- evening. The Jewish War Vet- a son, a father, or a sister in thing else, there are no regula- made last year by the Canadian Government to admit 1,000 Jew- this war. With each passing day See RALLY—Pag e 12 tions. Without any reason what- the number of our people di- soever, and with no system at all, ish children from France was minishes by hundreds." He em- every Jew can at any hour of still valid. "If arrangements can phasized that "unity is the surest the day or night be dragged from be made through neutral coun- guarantee of victory." All copy must be in not his house and sent to camp to tries or the inter-governmental Prof. Michoels, president of the work. Above all, the fate of committee for the departure of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in later than Wednesday, 3 every Jew lies in the hands of these children, we shall gladly ac- them admission to Canada," Moscow, asserted that "the Red the nearest police official. The cord p.m. It must be written Army avenges the bestial atroci- latter, not infrequently—partic- he added. Although Canada was not invit- ties of the Nazi enemy. Shoulder on one side of paper only ularly in the provinces—abuses his power. It is not rare to find ed to participate in the Anglo- NEW YORK. (WNS) — While to shoulder with all the peoples cases where the police commis- American refugee conference in French circles in this country ex- of the Soviet Union, the Jews of and where possible should our country wage battle against sioner makes purely personal de- Bermuda, the Prime Minister said, mands which are settled by a it "would be glad to play its full pressed confidence that General the enemy. We are witnessing be typewritten. Giraud would announce the res• now the most righteous, yea, the monetary exchange beneficial to See CANADA—Page 3 toration of the Cremieux Decree, See RUSSIAN Page 3 which he abrogated five months ago, during his visit to the United States, the Jewish Labor Com- mittee issued a statement this week calling upon the United Na- Bellefaire Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary The executive committee of the program to he analyzed by an tions to force a reversal of Gen. American Jewish Conference has its editorial committee, which will in- Giraud's position. By KATHERINE BANG appointed a committee on pre- French sources said that Gen. where there is agreement liminary studies consisting of 21 dicate Giraud, who deprived an estimated where there are differences members for the. purpose of ana- and 120,000 Jews in Algeria of their Editor's Note—The origin, growth, development and service of the and what they are. Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home, or Bellefaire, as it is now lyzing and summarizing existing French citizenship when he abro- b. Following this procedure known, is told in this article on the occasion of the 75th viewpoints on Jewish postwar gated the Cremieux Decree, would anniversary of this first philanthropic agency established by problems and their solution. The the editorial committee will sub- soon issue a public statement re- Bnai Brith. The diamond jubilee will be observed July 24-25 committee will have the close co- mit, along with statements of storing citizenship to the Jews. at the annual meeting of the board of trustees. operation of the three existing re- agreements and disagreements, General de Gaulle is opposed to search bodies, the Institute of documentation which will be a the abrogation of the Cremieux This year is a significant one July of 1867, at the convention Jewish Affairs of the American summary of the material made Decree. for Brith, for not only is in Milwaukee, that it was resolved Jewish Congress; the Committee available by the different Jewish The Jewish Labor Committee the Bnai entire organization celebrat- to use the fund which had ac- on Jewish Studies of Peace and research institutes. statement said: "The Jewish La- ing its centennial, but Bellefaire, c. Pamphlets already prepared Postwar Problems of the Ameri- bor Committee, representing 500,- its earliest philanthropic project, cumulated by that time to $10,000 by the different research insti- can Jewish Committee, and the 000 organized Jewish workers in is marking its diamond jubilee. for establishing an orphan asylum. research department of the Jew- tutes will be sent to the delegates the United States, appeals to the We must look back into the past Abraham Aub of Cincinnati, Isa- in advance of the Conference ish Labor Committee. government of the United States At a meeting of the committee provided the material contained to use its good offices with the further than 75 years if we are dor Bush of St. Louis, William to revive memories of the begin- Kriegshaber of Louisville, A. E. therein is of the type that should on July 2, methods of procedure present French administration in nings of Bellefaire, the Jewish Frankland of Memphis and E. were worked out whereby sum- be distributed under the auspices Algeria so that the latter will Orphan Home in Cleveland, Budnig of Cleveland were elected 0., trustees maries, information and docu- of the committee. once and for all wipe out the "with full power to col- The work of the committee is shameful Fascist anti-Jewish laws for it was at the annual meeting lect the mentation would be made avail- funds from the lodges, of Bnai Brith District Grand able to the Conference delegates to be directed along the following of the Nazi-Vichy regime." Lodge 2 in July, 1865, that the to solicit donations, to select a lines: before the Conference convenes. broad "American labor which is de- decision was first made to tax suitable place for the location and a. The position of the Jews This material is to be thoroughly voted soul and body to the cause the members of the District in to bring it into working order." after the war. objective, without committing the At a meeting of these trustees b. 1/4 "likights and status of Jews of democracy and to winning our addition to the regular dues, one Conference to any definite stand- war against the Axis powers, is dollar per year, "in order to in St. Louis in February, 1868. in the Whtern World and in the point. The committee adopted the vitally concerned in this matter. create a fund which some time after careful consideration of a East European countries. following plan of procedure: Now is the time to act; 120,000 in the future might c. Problen;• of Palestine. used for number of proposals, it was de- a. Each of the Jewish political Jewish citizens of France must the organization of a be charitable cided unanimously to buy the groups will be asked to submit place in Cleveland known as the See CONFERENCE—Page 12 or educational institute." See LABOR—Page 12 It was four years later, in See Canada Prepared To Admit More Jewish Refugees Thousands Cheer Russian-Jewish Delegates at Meet Labor Demands Restoration of Cremieux Decree American Jewish Conference Organizes Committee on Preliminary Studies NOTICE Bnai Brith's Oldest Philanthropy BNAI BRITH—Page 12.