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29th tear of Service to Our State and Nation
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VOL. 46, NO. 16
Detroit Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1944
United Nations Urged to Take Beth El s Institute
War Refugee Board Rescues
Action to Save Jews in Balkans For Clergymen to
Be Held April 24 40,000 Jews in Transnistria
Zionist Organization of America Seeks
10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yeal
To Save 2,000,000 Trapped by Nazis
Drs. Goldenson and
John W. Pehle, Executive Director, Hopes
NEW YORK (WNS). — The statement disavowing the White
To Send Them to Turkey and Palestine
Morgenstern to Speak
Zionist Organization of Amer ica, Paper, is a gratifying evpression
WASHINGTON (WNS).—More
The First Institute on Judaism,
at an all-day session of its ad- of sympathy. However, as the
Mr. Pehle said that the rescue
than 40,000 Jewish refugees in- was made through the coopera-
ministrative council held here at war proceeds to its victorious cli- which was inaugurated last year terned by thc• Rumanians in
by
Temple
Beth
El
for
the
clergy-
may, the enemy has become more
Transnistria have been removed tion of the War Refugee B oard
the Hotel New Yorker, adopted
ruthless in pursuit of his exter-
to places of comparative safety with the International Red Cross
a resolution urging immedi ate mination policy and more cruel
out of the way of retreating and with the Rumanian Red
action by the United Nations to in his persecution. Immediate ac-
Nazi armies because of pressure Cross. Although the safety and
,save the remaining 2,000, 000 tion is imperative if the lives
Jewish survivors trapped in H un- of the remaining 2,000,000 of
exerted by the War Refugee comfort of the refugees is not
Board, it was disclosed here last of the best, he said, it was ex-
gary, Rumania and other Balk an our brethren trapped in the satel-
countries. The meeting of the
week by John W. Pehle, execu- pected that many of them would
tive director of the War Refu- be sent to Turkey and to
See ACTION—Pag e 12
administrative council, the rul ing
Pal.
body of the Zionist Organizat ion
geeBoard, in an address before estine either on temporary per
the Women's National Press Club mits or under permits allowed by
of America between conventio ns,
was attended by 200 Zion ist
the British White Paper. Jewish
leaders from all sections of t he
immigration to Palestine has been
RP
country.
closed under the White Paper,
A resolution called upon eve ry
but about 25,000 permits are
Zionist to honor "the memo ry
still outstanding.
of the hundreds of thousands of
Mr. Pehle also disclosed that
valiant men, women and childr en
the Board was cooperating with
who fell in the battle of t he
countries to prevent the satellite
Warsaw ghetto" on April 1 9 ,
Event at • Shaarey
nations from deporting Jews tc
which has been designated by
Poland and that pressure was be-
Anniversary
Affairs
Zedek on April 27
the American Jewish Conferen Ce
ing exerted upon the satellites
as a day of commemoration of
to assist in the escape of perse•
To End on April 25
The annual evening of Jewish
that tragic event.
cuted peoples.
Dr. James G. Heller of Ci li- music, sponsored by the Zionist
The War Refugee Board an-
The concluding feature of the
rinnati, chairman of the admi n- Organization of Detroit, will be
week's activities of the 25th an- nounced last week that Ira
H
istrative council, presided ov er held on Thursday evening, April
niversary of the United Hebrewirschmann,
its representative
the sessions, which were attend ed
Schools is the banquet which will in Turkey, was on his way to
In 2nn representatives. Dr. I s
Washington for consultations on
DR. SAMUEL H. GOLDENSON
rael Goldstein, president of t1
plans looking to the rescue of
organization, denounced the Whi te
men and educators of the city,
Jews from the Nazi satellite
Paper policy of England, whic 11
evoked a warm and enthusiastic
countries. It also disclosed that
he called "Britain's blacke st
Iver C. Olsen had been assigned
stain on Palestine". Branding th e
to the U. S. Legation in Stock-
document as a "dishonorabl e
holm as special attache to the
breach of an internationally coN
Board on refugee rescue prob-
enanted promise to the Jewis h
lems. Mr. Olson, who until last
people made in the Balfour Dec
October was a financial attache
laration," he asked:
of the Treasury's Division on
"Unless this breach of honor i s
Monetary Research, is a native
mended by the revocation of th
of Norway. He had formerly been
White Paper, what reason is ther
a special assistant to the Di-
to have any faith in any of Brit
rector of Foreign Funds Control.
sin's promises to any small na
Dr. Dexter Appointed
tion for the future?"
The Board also disclosed that
Mendel N. Fisher, executiv
Dr. Robert C. Dexter, acting
director, announced that "2,144,
commissioner for Europe of the
000 was remitted to Palestine I'm
Unitarian Service Committee, had
new land purchases during the
been appointed as its special
first six months of the fiscal year
representative in Portugal, where
and reported that despite the
he will enlist private and public
White Paper policy restricting
agencies in developing plans to
land purchases, the Jewish Na-
implement existing measures for
SAUL
MEISELS
tional Fund had acquired 200,000
the maintenance, relief, rescue
new dunams of land since 1939.
CANTOR J. H. SCINENKLAR and transportation of refugees.
Also announced was establish- 27 at 8:30, at Congregation
Dr. Dexter, who was a teacher of
ment of a colony in Palestine in Shaarey Zedek, Chicago Blvd. at
be held Sunday evening, April
honor of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Lawton.
See RESCUE—Page 3
'3, in the Social Hall Of the
who recently celebrated his 70tn
Saul Meisels, cantor of the
Shaarey Zedek
birthday. The manifesto read in Temple of the Heights, in Cleve-
The guest speaker is Dr. Eman-
DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN
part:
land, will be the guest soloist.
uel Gamoran of Cincinnati, edu- Dr. Leo M. Franklin
"The creation of the War Ref. He will be accompanied by Ida response.
This
positive
and cator, lecturer and author. Dr. Is Signally Honored
uge Board by the President of Ruth Meisels. Assisting artists friendly reaction has stimulated
Gamoran's topic is "The Chal-
our country followed by his will be an instrumental trio com-
lenge of Our Day".
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Rabbi
See INSTITUTE—Pag e 3
posed of Bernard Argiewicz,
Judge William Friedman is Emeritus of Temple Beth El
'cello, and Morris Hochberg, vio-
the toastmaster; Aaron A. Silber- has been notified of his elec•
Dr.
Glazer on
lin, valued members of the De-
blatt, general chairman, and tion to Honorary Membership
troit Symphony Orchestra, and
Louis Robinson, co-chairman.
CKLW Sun., Apr. 23
for Literature" in the Inter-
Sylvia Hochberg at the piano.
A fine musical program will
national Mark Twain Society.
Mrs. Abraham Cooper, well
be
one
of
the
features
of
the
Dr. Glazer's fourth broad- known Detroit soprano, will also
The entire roster of 50 hon-
evening. The program consists of
cast on the "Message of Is- take part in the program.
orary members of the society
vocal
selections
by
Cantor
Jacob
rael" radio hour will be heard
include
among others George
Saul Meisels is a singer of
H. Sonenklar, accompanied by a
this Sunday, April 23, from wide concert and radio experience
Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann,
trio consisting of Harry Siegel,
9 to 9:30 p. m., over Station who is recognized as one of the
Charles Evans Hughes, Eugene
On Sunday, April 23, at 2 'cellist; Lillian Robbins, pianist, O'Neill, Albert Einstein, Cari
CKLW. His subject will be outstanding interpreters of Jew-
and
Sadie
Cooper
Braver,
viol-
p.
m.,
in
the
Congregation
Bnai
"The Family in Wartime" •
Sandburg and others of equal
inist.
See MEISELS—Page 3
prominence in the field of
literature.
See GAMORAN-1P age
Saul Meisels to
Be Guest Soloist
At Zionist Concert
1)r. Gamoran to
Hebrew Schools
Banquet Speaker
.
B. B.
L
1
Chachmey Lublin
Drive Opens with
Mass Meet Apr. 23
3
600,000 Jews Still Alive in Poland
) LONDON (WNS), — Approxi- Council. He disclosed that the
InatdY 600,000 Jews, most of Jewish leader, whom he contacted
them employed as slave laborers only last January, told him that
. Nazi war production fac- most of the approximately 600,-
to nes,
are still alive in Poland, 000 surviving Jews were kept by
it was reported here this week the Nazis in 17 slave-labor camps.
by an escaped Polish officer whom Many of the still survivin g Jews,
the Polish Government-in-Exile he said, escaped the Nazi . axe by
In London sent last year on a posing as Christians with the
secret mission to Nazi-occupied aid of spurious documents th at
Poland.
had been furnished them by lib-
The officer whose name can- eral Polish patriots.
not he revealed at this time, re-
The Polish officer said that
lated at a press conference that
his conversations with Polish
his .estimate of the number of J in ews
, the opinion was often ex-
su rviving
ion Jews in Poland was
. on a report he received, pressed that the rescue efforts
uhile in . Poland, from one of the of world Jewry and the . Allied
outstanding Jewish leaders there. powers were meagre and insuffi-
The name of the Jewish leader dent. Many of them expressed
the belief that more energetic
was not
divulged.
The
anony- action by the United Nations,
mous
officer
indicated,
however,
that he had revealed the name particularly in the form . of
DANIEL TEMCHIN
of be Jewish leader in the re- threats of retribution against
port he submitted to Dr. Ignacy Germany, might at least partially Moshe, Dexter and Lawrence, the
Sch wartzbardt, one of the Jewish deter the Nazis from their cam-
Yeshivath Chachrney Lublin, to-
members of the Polish National
See ALIVE—Page 12
See CHACHMEY—Page 3
Community Council's Fight
Against Discrimination
By AARON DROOCK, Chairman, Discrimination Committee
function and responsibility individuals or even as separate
of . The
the
Jewish Community Coun-
.
«distinct organizations in any
ell is to coordinate and imple-
ment all the resources of the given instance of local or na-
Detroit Jewish community. In De- tional importance is ineffective,
troit it is the Jewish Community and in many instances destruc-
Council which concerns itself tive of the best interests of the
with problems of discrimination. community. The Council as the
The marshalling of community unifying agency in Detroit Jew-
resources should be all-embrac- ish life can and does bring to
ing and comprehensive, incorpo- bear the full moral force of the
rating therein all of the moral community's voice and resources
and financial support, manpower on any problem or activity which
and organizational strength of does or may effect the welfare
the community. The Council, be- of the Detroit Jewish community.
The problem of discrimination
cause it is the centralizing and
coordinating agency for approxi- in employment is an old one.
mately
constituent organiza- Under war-time conditions it has
.
. 200
.
Wm is in the most advantageous acquired even more significance,
position to focus and to make as any practice which serves to
the best use of the community's undermine public morale and to
resources and strength. To act as
See COUNCIL--Page 1
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