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Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle

Lt.-Col. Itzik Feffer Stirs
Huge Audience at Meeting

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1943

Jews Receive One-Third of All Awards for
Individual Acts of Bravery, He Declared

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Chach ► ney Lublin
Cafeteria to Be
Opened Aug. 8

Yaker Family To
Present Sofer Torah

10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yam

Italian Newspapers Demand
Repeal of Anti-Jewish Laws

"Corriere de la Sera" of Milan Apologizes
For 20 Years of Anti-Semitic Orientation

Painting a glowing picture o f
the epic heroism of Jews in the (701. Feller, was unfortunately de-
LONDON. (WNS)—Many lead-
tained in Chicago because of in-
Final preparations for the ofli - ing Italian newspapers publish had been turned over to "Aryans
Soviet Union,—civilians. guerilla juries
sustained
there,
and
was
fighters, soldiers of the Red Army
cial opening of the new students ' editorials urging the Badoglio re- by the Mussolini regime. Simul-
—Lt. Colonel Itzik Feffer, co- not present at the Detroit meet- kitchen and dining room of Yeshi _ gime to rescind all anti-Jewish taneously, it was reported that
ing.
Following
the
close
of
the
member with Professor Solomon
laws and decrees enacted by the the new Italian Minister of Fi-
Michoels of the ,Jewish delegation meeting in Chicago, before an vath Chachmey Lublin are bein now defunct Fascist Council, it nance has Issued a directive freez-
from the U. S. S. A. made a stir- audience of 7,000, the platform completed.
was reported here this week.
ing all "aryanized" bank ac-
ring appeal for unity among all on which the speakers stood col-
Detroit Jewry and the many
A recent issue of the Milan counts and business undertakings.
lapsed
beneath
the
weight
of
the
Jews in an impassioned address well-wishers who rushed to ac- friends of the Yeshivah will b e newspaper "Stampt Sera," the
Another Italian newspaper, the
at a public reception at the Ma-
welcomed Sunday, Aug. 15, a t report said, carried a petition by Milan "Corriere de la Sera," hat:
claim
the
delegation.
In
the
crash
sonic Temple, last Sunday eve-
that followed Professor Michoels 1 p. m., to participate in thi the leading political parties in openly apologized to the Jews of
ning, August 1.
beneath the platform, cutting affair. A colorful program has '3 Italy such as the National Party, Italy for having followed an
Colonel Feffer gave eye witness fell
a
tendon
in his heel. He will be been prepared including a musical the Christian Democratic Party, anti-Semitic orientation for the
testimony to the reports that huge
incapacitated
for at least 10 days. portion. Outstanding out-state the Communist Party, the Liberal past 20 years. Declarin that
masses of Soviet, Polish, German
guest speakers will also be pres- Reconstruction Party and the So- anti-Semitism is contrary to the
Butzel
Presides
and Rumanian Jews have been
ent. A free lunch will be served cialist Party urging the Badoglio spirit and traditions of the Ital-
Presiding over the meeting at to all guests. A delegation from government to immediately abol- ian people," the newspaper said
saved from Nazi extermination by
the Soviet government and enum- the Masonic Temple was Fred M. the Chicago Ladies' Auxiliary of ish all anti-Jewish laws, to re- that it was "forced to malign
erated individual acts of heroism Butzel, who was introduced to the Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin will store all confiscated Jewish-owned Jews by the fascist regime" and
On the part of Jews against the audience by Aaron Rosenberg, be present and extend their property to its rightful owners that it was glad "to again be
Nazi terror.
greetings in behalf of their mem- and to indemnify Jewish store- able to pursue the liberal tradi-
See FEFFER—Page 9
"Although the Jews are eighth
bers. At this occasion a Sofer and-shop keepers whose business tions of the democratic people
in size of population, by their
of Italy."
Torah will be presented by Mr.
heroism and courage they are
and Mrs. M. Yaker with the par-
Congressman
Rogers
in
third in the number of official
ITALIAN PEOPLE
ticipation of the Yaker family Jews in Germany and
awards for individual acts of England Seeking Aid
FRIENDLY TOWARDS JEWS
and members of the Beth Isaac
Czech
Protectorate
bravery on the field of battle,"
Congregation of which Mr. Yaker
The true attitude of the Italian
declared Col. Feffer.
For Jews in Europe
is vice president.
Placed Outside Law
people towards their Jewish fel-
"The enemy has already de-
Make Collection
low citizens was revealed the mo-
stroyed about four million of our
NEW YORK. (WNS) — Rep.
STOCKHOLM. (WNS) — Such ment it was announced that Mus-
On Sunday, July 25, a success-
people, almost a fourth. In Lvov Will Rogers, Jr. (D.-Calif.), is
the Fascists rounded up men and in England to enlist public sup- ful collection drive was made in Jews as remain in Germany and solini had been ousted, it was
Mt. Clemens with the cooperation the Czechoslovak "Protectorate," reported here this week by au-
women, bound their legs and arms
and commanded them to crawl to port for the 14-point plan of the of the hotel managements, espe- it was reported, have been placed thoritative sources.
These informants told that in
a grave two kilometers away, Emergency Conference to Save cially M. Kramer, proprietor of
promising anyone who reached the Jewish People of Europe, his the Olympia Hotel. With the help outside the orotection of the law, Rome, Milan, Turin and in other
of Rabbi Dacowitz of New York, and upon death their estates be- large Italian cities Jews joined
the grave would be spared. These wife revealed this week.
guests of the hotels responded come state property.
the general population
assassins want us to disappear
cele-
"He will talk to everyone in generously. The following amounts
The Reichsanzeiger, an official brating the fall of fascism. Ital-
ignominously. But we will not
gazette,
carries
a
decree
to
this
were
collected
in
the
hotels:
Al-
ians who hadn't spoken to Jews
crawl to our graves like worms. England who is concerned about
the Jewish problem," Mrs. Rogers bany Cohen's Hotel, $73; Alt- effect signed by Minister of Jus- for years out of fear of reprisals
We will fight like lions."
tice
Thierack,
Interior
Minister
by fascist gangs sought out their
"Unity is the surest guarantee said. "Over there, people who man's Hotel, 31; Arethusa Feld-
of ,victory. He. who speaks against are interested in the problem are man Hotel, $46; Benin's Hotel, Frick, Finance Minister Von Jewish neighbors and apologized
the unity of our people aids the far' more outspoken than. over $7; Kahn's Hotel, $92; New Krossig and Martin Bormann, to them for their conduct, which,
Glenwood Hotel, ..$37.40; New chairman of the Nazi Party.
they said, had been forced on
enemy. He who speaks against here."
This development was accom- them by the fascist rulers.
Rogers was the keynoter of York Hotel, $62; Olympia Hotel,
the Soviet Union acts contrary to
panied
by
other
suggestions
from
$168;
Plaza
Hotel,
$60;
River-
Simultaneously, travellers ar-
the interests of our people. He the session of the conference held
Germany that Nazi authorities riving here from Italy report
who stands on the sidelines and is here July 20-25. Mrs. Rogers side Hotel, $102.
were
planning
to
eliminate
from
The
board
of
governors
and
that in many instances Italians
indifferent to the terrifying events gave out a statement left by her
the board of directors of the the Reich all persons classified who had come into possession of
of our time postpones the (lay of husband:
as
"part
Jews".
The
German
confiscated Jewish property an-
"We must beat IIitler's own Yeshivah wish to express their
victory and helps increase the
timetable on his continued mur- thanks to the hotel proprietors army newspaper, Die Wehrmacht, nounced that they would gladly
number of our sacrifices."
dering of the Jewish people of and guests for their cooperation. expressed displeasure of rumored restore the property to the lawful
Michoels Absent
measures to remove such persons owners. One traveller said that
Europe," the statement said, as- Students Examined
Professor Solomon Michoels, serting
from participation in German he had witnessed the scene of an
that the Jews in border
On
Sunday,
Aug.
1,
at
10
a.
ni.,
co-member of the delegation with countries of Nazi-dominated Eu- the first examination of the pre- life.
talian store keeper turning over
The Berlin correspondent of t he key to his store to the orig-
rope—Bulgaria, Rumania, Hun- paratory class of the Yeshivah
the
Stockholm
newspaper
Sven-
i
gary and Yugoslavia—could be was held, in the presence of the
nal Jewish owner. Another tray-
aved if the United Nations ar- pupils, parents, friends and the ska Dagbladet said that new re- e Iler observed that "the sudden
strictions planned within the Nazi c hange of heart by many known
ranged transit for them across
councils evidently were prepara- f ascists" was due less "to a
NOTICE
Turkey.
See LUBLIN—Page 12
tory to deportation of all Jews s udden pity for the Jews than by
" . . . The civilian people of
left in thecountry.
fear of reprisals and punishment
All copy must be in not these countries cannot bear the
Under the new German decree, for having committed the crime
terrible guilt of standing by
Jews
are
removed
from
the
juris-
later than Wednesday, 3 while Hitler slaughters the entire
of stealing Jewish property."
diction of civil and criminal
Jewish population of their towns,"
Leading newspapers here this
courts
and
are
punishable
by
the
p.m. It must be written Rogers said. "Therefore the peo-
week
carried reports from their
police. Such judicial process as correspondents
ple of these countries will help
in Rome to the
on one side of paper only their
was provided for Jews and Poles effect that the new Italian gov-
Jewish neighbors to escape.
under a discriminatory penal law ernment will soon abolish Jewish
When
Hitler
orders
a
cattlecar
and where possible should filled with Jewish people to be
The quarterly meeting of the of September, 1941, is now elim- forced labor. The correspondents
shipped to Poland, the people 3f Michigan Synagogue Conference nated for Jews, leaving them also pointed out that immediately
be typewritten.
that country will re-route the Board will be held Sunday, Aug. z subject entirely to the arbitrary after the ouster of Mussolini the
cattlecar to Turkey instead—if 15, at 10:30 a. m., at Congrega- c iction of police officials. The (le- Rome radio not only halted all
vee applies to Jews in Bohemia
they have the choice.
a nd Moravia, and may be applied anti-Jewish broadcasts but also
suppressed all anti-Jewish propa-
o foreign Jews in Germany.
ganda from Nazi Germany.

Mich. Synagogue
Conference Board
lo Meet Aug, 15

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BRITAIN AND THE REFUGEE

JEWS IN UNIFORM

By JOEL CANG
Editor of The Polish "Jewish Observer"

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EDITOR'S NOTE—Britain's relationship with the thousands of
refugees to whom it has offered haven in the ten years since
the Nazis came to power has not been entirely a one-sided
affair. The following article gives some indication of the
great contributions which these refugees have made to the
Allied war effort and to progress on the home front.
LONDON—There is no yard-
I know of one refugee, a Polish
stick by which you can measure Jew, who was the first in this
the kindness the British have country to manufacture an indis-
shown to the thousands of refu- pensable aeronautical instrument.
gees in their midst. Neither is And practically all the workers
there any yardstick by which you in his factory are refugees, a
can measure the return which it number of whose families are
has brought. But one thing is still—or were—in the ghettos of
certain and that is that these Poland.
refugees are not simply rice-eat-
MORRIS MOHR
In the chemical and dye indus-
ers. They are playing a consid- tries, refugees are playing an im-
erable part in Britain's war ef- portant part. Many of these are tion Beth Abraham, Linwood and
fort today.
Sturtevant, Detroit. All members
Germans who fled from the Nazi
There are refugees in prac- terror. They brought with them, are Urged to be present since im-
tically every war industry. In however, valuable knowledge of portant measures proposed by the
engineering, in the clothing in- technical processes and formulae. standing committee must be ap-
dustry. the distribution of food, often secret, which have been of proved. If for any reason anyone
the restaurant trade, in all types inestimable aid to this country in cannot attend this meeting, please
drop a line so that the board
of war factories, in the arts and war production.
know of your continued in-
on the stage and cinema.
It is, of course, known that the will
Taking the war industries, re- patent for the Bren gun was terest in the work.
Among the subjects to be dis-
fugees engineers and skilled work- brought to Britain by refugee
men are employed in aeroplane Czechs on the last aeroplane leav- cussed will be the work of Dr.
Selig S. Auerbach who has been
factories, in tank, gun and shell
factories.
See REFUGEE—Page 12

See CONFERENCE—P age 12

By BEN SAMUEL

Copyright, 1943, Jewish Yelegraph Agency, Inc.

This column is based on
information supplied by the
National Jewish Welfare Board.

SUNDAY IN PROSPECT PARK:

must have been hundreds of as-
The invasion of Sicily, accord-
sault boats and other ships."
ing to Lt. Murray Meyrowitz who
All this was in the neighbor-
saw the landing scene from the
sky over the beachheads, "looked hood of Gela, where Lt. Charles
like Sunday in Brooklyn's Pros- Gorsky of Central Islip, L. I.,
was flying an A-36. Gorsky's job
pect Park".
Lt. Meyrowitz, a Brooklynite was to shoot up anything re-
himself, has had a box seat dur- sembling enemy reinforcements.
ing the bombings of Pantelleria, He made out rather well. At
Sardinia and several Italian one point he closed and opened
cities. Ile is a Flying Fortress fire on a Fix-truck enemy convoy
at a road junction. When he
bombardier, 23 years old.
last saw those trucks they were
From his post in a Flying in
flames.
Fortress when the American and
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British forces invaded Sicily,
"the landing boats looked like BOMBS AWAY-
corks," he says, "all floating in ALSO A RAFT:
one direction."
(At an airfield somewhere in
"The flak looked like popcorn." New Guinea.) A twin-engined
And, he points out, the popcorn Mitchell bomber staggered down
"didn't bother us at all."
the runway and came to a stop.
Another eye-witness of the in- Jammed into the tail of her fuse-
vasion, Lt. Jules B. Goldenberg, lage at a crazy angle was a
also of Brooklyn, reports that bullet-riddled rubber life raft.
"the landing barges covered the Three aerial wires had tangled
beaches like driftwood. There
See UNIFORMS—Pag e
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