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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The
Legal Chronicle
October I. 1943
New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities
if ith but they left too hurriedly. Mirac-
and American troops. Local Jew- altar had been smashed as w
ulously, the Ten Commandments
ish pilots piloted the American sledge hammers. The windows had and the Shield of David above
had
fleet into Algiers harbor. In the.
the arc had escaped destruction.
French Corps d'Afrique, which been broken. The ornaments
By FERDINAND M. ISSERMAN
The Torahs had been hidden in
Editor's Note: This is the last article of a series about the North fought gallantly alongside British been stripped from the reading the chief rabbi's home out of
African war front by Dr. Isserman. After a six months tour and Americans in the hills of desks. The arc door was go ne.
the enemy's reach.
of duty as a special representative of the American Red Cross, Tunisia, there were many Jewish The cases and closets which f
As a rabbi I was naturally
has
resumed
his
work
as
rabbi
of
Temple
Israel,
St.
Louis,
volunteers
who
acquitted
them-
marlY
held
praying
shawls
had
duty
he
Mo. He had an h Africa and selves well. been told
demolished.
In the
me he had were beds
stolen galleries
from Jewish interested in the religious life of
homes used by the personnel of our soldiers. While my Red Cross
Capt. Warburg .
to observe the opportunity to travel all over North
mission was purely secular, I man-
in the closing phase of the Tunisian
Op touched
the faces
Tunis look
Jews scores
the clinic.
In the
cellar drums,
were aged to perform 30 Jewish serv-
H ls went on Red Cross missions to Tripoli, Cairo, been
by of
the the
starved
of
large
gasoline
campaign, e a o
indicating that the Nazis had in
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and spent two weeks in the British
See JUDAISM—Page 14
Isles en route home. Dr. Isserman reports being impressed during the victory celebration. He tended to set the synagogue afire,
by the commendable work performed by Jewish soldiers and wished to turn over to the poor
had abandoned,
and
Jewish chaplains who came under his observation, and this Jews
a quantity
of food which
GerMATIS
article contains the latest authentic news of their activities. the
ni I
Isserman's Red Cross mission was purely secular, located
appealed
to chief
me for
assistance.
the
rabbi
of Tunas
s-
W
he hile
was Dr.
called upon now and then by non-Jewish army chaplains at his home near the big
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
Rosh Hashonvh, Greetings!
to conduct Jewish services in areas where Jewish chaplains gogue. He was sitting in a small
room, a venerable white-haired
were not available.
figure dressed like an Arab with
d a brilliant red
It is good to be home again. but only through Berlin."
Many memories rush to mind as a wh ite turban
anneither English.
spoke
wn
The American Red Cross is creat-
fficersI go. He
French nor German; Arabic and
in g a really noble tradition in I resume my civilian duties.
North Africa and Sicily and I recall breakfasting at an o Sitting Hebrew were his languages. He
feel privileged to have been part mess
in Tunis
on May
R. M. Holmer, Manager
across
the table
was 24.
a young air was eager to eople.
have I the
food him,
for
warned
T. E. Leutzinger, Adjuster
of I it.
TED PULVER, Agent
am proud of our Jewish boys force captain who introduced him- his
starving tha
p t among the supply
however,
in that theater of war. I found self "It's
as Eric
the Warburg.
same name
of non-kosher
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am as Felix were several cans stroked
his beard
them in every branch of the army
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"These
are
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beef.
He
sadly, and observed,
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He smiled, sayin,
hard times. This is a matter of
g "Felix War- life
or death. To save life the
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diers. They performed their daily the first Americans to enter
Tu-
pended."
visit ed
used
t
had
no
It
I
had
the Nazi
d Cross for t
then been
and witho u t nis. A Reopened
h
clubhe battle -
jo b without eroics
e yet been
ar
Naturally
they
were
hay-
invade
uch
griping.
m
ne a bottles, typhus serum,
homesick and this could be re- weary soldiers and theya suitable me ici rs
lousing
home. But they are determined place to sleep and eat in that atabrine tablets and
Rosh Hashonah Greetings and Best Wishes
to see the war through to the end. ancient city. "Hurry up and open powder
scattered
all over
Italian
and
I n French,
oo were
As one of them expressed it to a Red Cross club here," he then
nr. si g ns read "No smok
Gera,
me, "Sure I want to go home, pleaded.
"This is why we've come here-- permitted". Everything connected
me,
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to open a Red Cross club," I re- westroyed
destr ucti on.
d
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The native Jewish population The marbl e steps
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