DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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KEIDAN

YUGOSLAVIA

August 20, I%)

unburied in the fields."

Dr. Schalom Freiberger, Dr. H ugo Agency is asking His Majesty'
Kohn, the 75-year-old presi dent Government to inquire into the
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The report notes that the Jew- of the Zagreb Jewish corn mu- entire matter and to take th,
organizations of nity, and Villin Vuk Engelsr oth, necessary measures for
mun
old when Hugh Shepherd ap- about 1,500. They receive a daily ish community
puttha
former president of
pointed him an assistant prose- subvention of 8 lira per
Zagreb
and Osojek
were
permit- 85-year-old
adult,
4 the
Orthodox
Jewish commun it'. an end to these political in
cutor in 1912.
ted to carry on a small-scale pro- It is believed that there are trigues."
Eight years later he was ap- lira for each child and a monthly gram of relief. They visited the practically no Jews left in this
Protests to General
cam, sent m edicines, foodstuffs area.
pointed to the bench of the re- allocation for their rent."
On the evening of April 10, and clothing, but it was discov- Concerning those Jews who
Mr. Ben-Gurion wrote to Maj.
organized Recorder's Court by
sue-
Gov. Albert E. Sleeper.
1941, immediately after the entry ered later that the packages were ceeded in fleeing to the Croa t ti h a I s Gen. D. F. McConnell, commad.
On March 17, 1927, Gov. Fred of German troops into Zagreb, never delivered to the internees. and Dalmatian areas from
er of the British forces in Pa!
follows:
W. Green selected Judge Keidan largest Jewish center in the Cases full of medicine were Ustachi murderers, the rep e estine,
as the man to succeed George B. Nazi-occupied region, all Jewish thrown on dump heaps to pre- states that they were inter ort
"At the trial of two British
Cos!, who died in office, on the institutions were closed and vent aid being given to the dying in camps which are run by n,ed soldiers, Pvts. C. A. Stoner and
Circuit bench.
sealed by the Gestapo, the re- Jews. It is believed that of the Italian occupation army, e the c . R. Harris, yesterday beforo
Judge Keidan was a native of port reveals. 10,000 internees, only about 500 though this territory belongs ven a military tribunal in Jerusalem.
Detroit. He was the son of Abra-
"Religious services in the syna- are left today. They are doing "independent" Croatia. In
to Maj. R. B. Verdin, abusing his
ham and Ida Keidan, and was gogues were discontinued, and forced labor for the Croatian of these camps, at Kraijev on privilege as defending counsel.
born Nov. 1, 1882, in the old the Great Synagogue on Prasca army.
ice, made a scurrilous and slanderom
about 1,400 Jews, many Ger man
Keidan home at Gratiot Ave. and Ulica was never opened again.
attack against the Jewish people,
A
camp
30
miles
from
Zagreb
and
Austrian
emigrants,
are
By order of the mayor, Ivan Wer- was
Dequindre St.
against the Jewish soldiers sere
reserved for Jewish women. ing in barracks. They have th
ner,
the
synagogue
was
He had three brothers, Joseph
demol- About 1,400 Jewish women lived own administration and are p err ing with His Majesty's forces in
N., Hyman A., and Max J., and ished in October of the same here under equally horrible con- mitted to communicate with of er- the Middle East and against the
four sisters, Mrs. Golde Blumen- year. ditions. Hundreds of deaths, countries. Other forced residen her
ces Jewish Agency.
thal, Mrs. Ida Caplan, Mrs. Lil-
"I am advised that there is na
"Many Jews were arrested by among them many babies and were assigned to the Jews on
lian Levin and Mrs. Sadie K. the Gestapo and deported to Graz small children, resulted from an island of Haar and in the reg the certain legal remedy against this
ion Slanderous attack as from a
Brown. Max lives in Madison, in Austria. Some of them were epidemic of spotted typhus. The of Dubrovnic.
Wis. The others all live in De- released from the Graz prisons internees, poorly clad, were
purely formal point of view thi,
The writer
of the
report
troit.
two and a half months later and forced to work on road construe- lieves
that these
Jews
are be-. officer may be able to claim privi-
in
returned to their homes. The fate tion and at similarly difficult danger from encroachment in lees by reason of the function
Married in 1920
of those who remained in the tasks in the severe cold of the the Croats and Germans, afid by h was exercising. The only
In 1920 Judge Keidan marries' prisons
is unknown."
be- c
winter of 1941-42.
Miss Katherine Levenson, daugh-
lieves that they can be sa veil t ourse open to me is therefore
In the same month, Zagreb
"A
ter of Mr. and Mrs. I. Levenson.
number of the internees only by transfer into the inter io: 0 o address you as his superior
were driven from their were deported to Poland on Aug. of Italy.
fficer in this country.
They had two children, a daugh- Jews
homes, most of them
• g 9, 1942," the report states, and
"As a representative of the
ter and a son.
permitted to take any clothing heartbreaking scenes took place
Jewish people which was mali-
He went to Eastern High
or
furniture
with
them.
Jews
at
the
railroad
stations
where
ciously attacked and as the per-
School and the Detroit College
JEWS
son who was deliberately in.
of Law, being graduated in 1904. were forbidden to live in the the women were finally told where
northern part of the city, and the transport was heated for.
suited I desire to declare that
As soon '-as he was admitted to their
apartments were confiscated. They held their children out of
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Major Verdin acted in this mat
the bar he entered the law office
ter without any regard to truth
of James H. Pound, Henry C. But even after moving to other the windows and gave them away people and bring peace to th
sections, they were again driven to save them from certain death oppressed race, is now behind t err or decency and in a manner
Walters and Louis C. Wurzer.
characteristic
haracteristic of the lowest typo
As assistant prosecutor, Judge out and robbed of their belong- in Poland. It seems that a home scenes working against intere
Keidan handled many important ings. The government created a sheltering such children is still of the United Nations and agai sts of anti-Semitism and I challenge
cases. Allen H. Frazer, who fol- special department for the "Eco- functioning in Ludbreg." the future of the Middle Eas nst him to substantiate his allega-
nomic Renewal of the Independ-
tions
After the mass arrests a new Statement by Ben-Gurion
tions before any independent
lowed Shepherd as prosecuting at-
ent
Croation
State,"
which
sys-
women's
camp
had
to
be
set
up.
board
of inquiry where I may
torney, kept him on his staff and tematically robbed the Jews and
David Ben-Gurion, chairman
able to face him on equal terms."
"The women were brought tc. the executive committee of t h rif
Charles H. Jasnowski picked
a,
Judge as his chief assistant on drove them from their offices, a large mill whose owner was the Jewish Agency, issued the folio w-
and homes. These mea- Bishop of Djakovo. In the begin- ing statement:
the resignation of Paul ,W. Voor- factories
sures, the report states, were but fling, the Jewish community of
hies.
"The executive of the Jewi all Nazis Massacred Four
prelude to the terrible persecm Osajek was in contact with the Agency is submitting to His M
Juolge Keidan stayed vi>it.b. -Jas- a tions
a-
of
the
40,000
Jews
residing
internees and knew of the fate jesty's Government n vigoroug Million Jews in Europe
nowski until Feb. 1, 1918, when i n the territory of the
of som e of the women and their protest against the slanderous a
he quit to go into private prac-
ndependent state of Croatia. e children. Later on, however, an anti-Semitic attack made yeste nd GENEVA. (WNS)—Neutral ob-
tice.
r- servers who have made a study
Report Deportations
epidemic of spotted typhus broke day by Major Verdin in the tri
Talents Revealed
al of the Jewish situation in Nazi-
out
in
the
camp,
and
word
spread
of
t
The report reveals that the
British soldiers. The Je
Once he was appointed to the
that the Ustachis had given ty- ish gency regards this incide w- occupied Europe revealed here
Recorder's Court, there was no first mass deportation of Zagreb plus injections to the internees as a, crude frameup designed nt this week that approximately
questioning his talents as a jurist. b began
Jews into
concentration camps in order to bring about the epi- defa se th e Jewish people, di to 4,000,000 Jews lost their live,
on the
His broad understanding of hu- o
same day the Nazis demic and consequently the worn- credit the Jewish war effort an s- through massacres and executions
man nature and his tolerance, v pened
their
war
against the So- en's deaths. Thousands died in bring Jewish soldiers into disr d in the various countries occujpied
set Union.
a
combined with his fine legal
this camp; the survivors were de- pute in the eyes of their Briti e- by the Nazis. This, next perhap..
sense, made him a remarkable t "The Ustachi agents arrested ported to Poland in the beginning comrades and higher military a sh to the losses sustained by Russia,
judge.
he
Jews in their homes and of August, 1942." thorities.
u- is the largest figure of dead suf-
ragged
the families--men, wom•
fered by any one people in Eu-
He had a deep curiosity about e
By August, 1942, the only
"It regards this as part of a rope.
The general impression
the circumstances which made n and children, including babies Jews who were left in German- systematic
whispering campaig
men break laws. He went to J —to the Zagreb fair grounds. The occupied Yugoslavia were old conducted for some time past b n, hitherto has been that the Nazis
great lengths to digt out these b Jews were told that they were people and some women and chil- an anti-Semitic group in th y and their satellites, exterminated
underlying facts which many a eing sent to do forced labor for dren. In that month the remain- country against the Jewish Agen is approximately 2,000,000 Jews.
judges ignore. He had pity for w period of six months, that they ing Jews were deported to Po. cy and the Jewish communit - Simultaneously, it was reported
some law brbakers, but no toler- f ould not be separated from their land. Those who had found shel- and as an attempt to incite Anel y here that representatives of the
ance for the confirmed and vi- m amilies, and that after six ter in homes for the aged were American public opinion agains o- Jewish Agency in Palestine, the
cious offender.
onths they would be allowed to deported as late as May, 1943, Jews and prejudice the Jewish fu t World Jewish Congress and the
- World Orthodox Agudath Israel
It was his attempt to get to d eturn to their homes. However, to an unknown destination. In- titre in Palestine.
uring the trip the men were eluded in this group were Rabbi
are holding conferences here on
those factors which cause crime s eparated
"The executive of the Jewis h post-war
from their wives and
Jewish problems.
that resulted in the psychopathic c hildren and brought to the
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IN.
clinic of the Recorder's Court, I stand of Pag off the northern
an important unit of the court c oast of Yugoslavia. The women
whereby judges are enabled to r emained on the mainland in the
O H
sentence each defendant accord- v icinity of Karlobag."
ing to the needs of his special
Earlier all Jewish lawyers of
case.
Zagreb were arrested by the po-
This clinic was set up with the Ii
sent to concentration
late Dr. Arnold L. Jacoby as the c amps and
in Jasenovac, where they
director.
ere then shot. Among them were
Bail Bond Law
he president of the Zagreb bu-
During Judge Keidan's first ri
, al society, the 70-year-old at-
years on the bench the first bail 1.° rney, Dr. Geza Frank, and
bond law was passed, largely n, any other prominent personali-
through his pioneer efforts. The ,, " es. The writer of the report
rrobation department was also ,", escribes the Jasenovac camp a.;
part of his interest in practical , the most gruesome thing the
jurisprudence and was enlarged uman mind could conceive."
while he was judge.
All internees in the camp
sCIGARETT5S
A master of book law, Judge were cut off from any contact
Keidan also could see far into whatsoever with the outside
the hearts of people. While he world. Any attempt at outsi!--
could be harsh with the individ- communication was punishable hv
ual lawbreaker, he viewed crime death. In November and Decem-
in general as a responsibility of ber of 1941 a new flow of inter-
society. Society was to blame for nees was sent to the camp,
crime and only society could bringing the number of interned
4,
cure crime, he held.
Jews to about 10,000. They were
crowded together in small wood-
Bank Investigation
en barracks, which lacked even
The investigation into the clos- the most elementary hygienic fa-
ing of the First National Bank- cilities. The internees had no
Detroit and the Guardian Bank warm clothes or shoes, and in
of Commerce was one of the big- cases where people possessed bet-
gest events during Judge Kei- ter clothing or shoes, these were
dan's years on the Circuit bench. taken away from them by a
This hearing, which lasted Ustachis. Sometimes the Ustach:s
through the summer and into the used the easier way: they shot
fall of 1933, ran into millions of the Jews, took their clothsa4
words of testimony and brought away and left the decaying
4 ....
many of the mighty of the na- corpses unburied. Since the in-
tion here to testify.
s,
ternees were undernourished and . ,. 1...
s.•• N
a,
At the conclusion, in spite of badly clothed, wholesale death
almost insuperable pressure from came with the first cold days. In
P. torillard Compon/
What Apple "Honey" is . . .
all sides. Judge Keidan ruled the beginning there were about
What it does for you ...
—Established 1760
that the testimony did not show 15 casualties a day, but the situ-
Apple "Iloney,"our name for this
Apple
"honey"
that the officers and directors ation grew worse with the in-
your ciga-
new conditioning agent, is a rettes moisture gives
protection—
of the two banks were guilty of creasing cold weather. The win-
tasteless
liquid
made
from
the
any acts involving criminality or ter of 1941-42 was especially se-
pure juice of apples. It is sprayed guards the freshness that's so
moral turpitude.
important to smoking enjoy-
vere, and as time went on the
on Old Gold's choice blend to
ment.
Thousands have switched
death rate mounted. Finally, the
help keep all the fine tobaccos,
Old Golds since we've started
deaths were not even counted
including delightful Latakia, to
using Apple "Iloney."Buy a pack
any more, but it was estimated
moist and FRESH on the way
that at that time about 8,000
day4:
of Old Golds today. You'll be
to you.
persons lost their lives. In the
very glad you did!
Payroll savings is
beginning of January, the new
*This new moistening agent was developed by the Eastern Regional
BUY
our greatest single
internees were simply shot en
MORE
Research Laboratory of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is
factor in protecting
masse. The peasants of Jaseno-
cm-
WAR
pletely tasteless—does not change the flavor of Old Gold'sfine tobaccos.
vac and the neighboring villages
ourselves against in.
We named it Apple "Honey."
BONDS
complained to the authorities in
(talon. ti
NOWI
Zagreb about the thousands of
Jewish corpses which were lyingLISTEN TO: Sammy Kaye's Band and Guests Weds, S p.m.
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