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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

April 21, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH

Jewish Commando Fighters

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CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

in The Syrian Campaign

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out that in the same grove en-
dory cavalry was encamped; the
ix ' i
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building we had taken was evi-
When the British military de- There were only 15 of us,
(lenity a sort of lookout post
tided to take action against the kilometers within
10
t est with a small detachment •
Vichy rule in Syria, they availed Cory,
ory, and the inva 1 si (licitly
"1 Mothers
i_ charge of the telephone. The
on .
M' Clubs Calendar
themselves of the help of a group to . CO le ff
• . d , men in the
o . Ten t • I had fad(
light the cabaret dance whict -
the (-, in 11
Ism- • a•lca
i were
t . I ,
of Jewish volunteers, some of on
on l y y a matter of kilometer s was !tressed, having
evidently slept
id e held at the Jewish Com-
Young Women's Study Club
whom were drawn from the Jew- mechanized arm
10 minutes for In their clothes. They consisted
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munity
Saturday
eve-
Our 0 fr,
ish settlements in the northern „,
to
covs•
slept
Tuesday,
April
25,
1:30
p,
m„
ning,
April Center,
22, beginning
at 8:30.
,
(4 h alf a sq
st uadron
I i lic I - decided
' • y
uadron of cavair
Jewish Community Center.
that we
part of Palestine. Our first tas,
,
".
Y day, A
'.
,, snou
( move southwird
h
(with
about 60 hoiSt'S and mules
Funds raised by the dance will
. • s t o %%aid,
was t ( i effect a preliminary r+•-`,. , __ ,,... _
s • - in
pr il Mothers'
Dexter
2r
1,
the 'Tow.)
. The men in ' the
c British forees. If the inva-
o, 1. , Club--Tues- be used to buy medical supplies
connaisance in the Vichy-held sum
army
.30
p.
in.,
Bnai
to
send to Russia.
11.
eman had heard the firing, picked .1
area across the border with the, we would would not come to us tip their arms, iind taken up po- 1.(1-ilsel(i.e Synagogue, Dexter at Law-
Peter Ivanik will direct a Bal•
go
to
them!
However,
' ob'eet of ascertaining the best s' . e,
sitions on high groun
decided • to leave a guard b
alaika orchestra. Other members
j
approaches
for the British mesh_
_
e
ene
Fenkell
Club--Tuesday.
April
of
his
group will perform native
mesh_ hind
to watch the bri
fire, leaving thd
I
eir horses
s c h oo
ni7ed vehicles when the invasion
dge. The ope n ed
and 25,
8:30
p. m.,
Parkside Hebrew Russian dances. An accordion
)(Tan
l , midl
an
eo.
They'
fired
steadily'
at
us,
rest
of
us
(three
officers,
three
' i t
d
and
parkside,
f •
from
the road in Upper ' Australhin
Woodward
band led by Lily Zanchenko, will
A Mothers' -
Galilee across the main south Jews/ carrvti soldiers and four There was still no sign of the nesday,
. ti .s . i 1, , . a tom
Club, Wed- known Detroit accordionist, will
211, cent
r and
.
invading army, and it was clear ,Jewish Community
Syrian highway. We reported on our rifles
tonne . gun
1:30 P. m., play several numbers.
e:,
we could not depend on them to
er,
the most
kad- "
began
to trek south- fescue us. We decided to make
„ suitable
• ,
about
e . roads
emv . t erni• al a s . It, was
The Center War Workers,
4:45 and a stand in the block-house
mg across into enemy
Center
Mothers'
Club—Wed-
sponsors of the dance, announce
1.,
:‘ . hi , 1 at
tory. Our second job was to cut dawn was already
breaking,
the
suggestion
of
Moshe,
who
ncsday,
April
26,
8:30
p.
pi.,
Jew-
that
special Russian delicacies
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swung aloft, behind Moshe, !
and, ish Community Center.
, b, , chatted
off Vichy communications
t ,
actuall , di
I hu
T lts i:i l l f ly
.atted
h
and exchang
will be served.
directed
the
who
t
1,
1
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p
t
i
ii
2
111
7
h
o
,
t18
lc-
jokes. We lion
1e:iilso' Cl
brea VII
1 g the telephone' runner- •
about two .•
, we raised the heavy ma- ,
—
tiOaS across the frontier. Thirdly. t had covered about
kilonll- , chine ,L
gun to the roof .
.
ers
when
we
saw,
about
300
or
Assembly
Hall,
12th
St.
at Clair-
we were t o hel p i in seizing cer- ' 10.
aim
University Area Women's
0 meters ahead of us,
Our fire was effective, and mount.
twin strategic positions so as to , olive
, 1 grove
an soon a number of frightened and
The young Women's Study Club to Meet May 1
The
, enemy so!they
Prevent enemy interference with i oat . On the t a the left of the wounded
diers began
will have a spring festival,
ight, opposite th e to appear
the Allied advance,especiall y is
here and
The University Area Women's
re. then
Some
pre vent bridges and roads from grove, close to the road, there fired a pot shot or two and
Sunday evening, April 30, honor- Club will hold its next meeting at
to was a fortified building, a French surrendered. Our prisoners' room ing their husbands. Mrs. Frances the Bagley School, Greenlawn
being blown up. We were the first
to cross the frontier and our ad- blockhouse. A stone fence ran began to fill up, and we made Body will be the guest artist.
and Curtis, on Monday evening,
venturous encounter
along
road, high.
about I one
and use of the second room. One of
with
a a
May 1, at 8 :30 p. ill. A fine
. half the
meters
thought
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Palestinian
Song
Class
Vichy unit probably opened the
those who surrendered, who was
cultural program has been pre-
campaign.
this was a very convenient spot clearly not a great admirer either To Be Held April 25
pared by the program c ommittee.
One morning our unit assent- for an ambush, and very likely of the Axis or of Vichy, told us
All young married women n - in that
there
were
enemy
soldiers
about.
that
there
was
a
mortar
in
th-
Chajes
will
be
bled at the Jewish frontier settle- I jumped ov er th e f
The class on Palestinian songs district are invited to attend.
ment Of Hanita. We were divided lowed b y two of ou r ence, fol. grove. We lost no time in run e under the leadhel
ership n of Julius
bo
ys
,
w
hil
e
up into squads and each as- Mos
continu e d o ur
d o Tuesday,
ruing down to the site he had in- Aril -
signed our special task for the with the others. long. the road (Needed where we found the mor- is free. 2; at 8 p. m s Admission
tar and
following night. We were to co-
Marshall Lodge Women
Then I saw some men emer g - nition. a large store of ammu-
operate with a detachment of ing from the blockhous
W e almost danced with
.
e (a two-
Present - Tableaux at
- delight. A deep trench had been Cabaret Dance
Australians. Their two young of- "mined building with a tar
firers produced a printed plan,,
to Be
e ter- dug in the ground and filled with
Initiation
n rar e )
on April 25
• Presently
they rolled out ammunition. The mortar itself Held Saturday, April 22
in which we were gratified to a machin
e
gun and set it up on was aimed at the road, so as to
the te
recognize a copy of one of the the
The
initiation
of new
rrace.
of
the in ma-
advance.
We took
Russian folk dancing and mu- of the Louis Marshall Women of
maps which we had delivered to chine gun began to bark
our hold
it up up
to any
the roof
with cons.]
sic,
the military authorities after one direction. We
and Russian food will high- Bnai
We hi I 1 • t
.
Brith will take place T ..-
of our previous
reconnaisances.
the a le quantity of ammunition. Un-
____ day evening, April 21i, at 8:30,
The final instructions were given. stone wall to the left of the fortunate!
at the Educational Center, Lin-
gate,
took and
aim
and fired front no idea how to use the we
m had
t• s
SEGAL
Then--"the invasion of the Al- our
rifles
tummy
wood and Collingwood. Mrs.
, is uns. I
Tied forces into Syria began". ' °°11
Then one of the Australians said
e Adler, president of the
fini''hyd off /lea - ly all the he
(Continu ed from
was a gunner and thought he
That is to say, the gates of the ear1 ridg,es I had.
Page 4)
Louis Marshall Women, will open
settlement facing the border Lucky Strike
could handle it. We actually suc-
the program with the Bnai Brith
were opened for us, and we
It is dignity,
the voice of Jewish duty ritual, after which Mrs. Harry
The enemy withdrew into the Ban
ceeded in setting it up and be- and
d
emerged into the moonlight and building
Kauffma n will sing the Star
feed it with shells. There
and opened fire from the was to
a tremendous
marched across the boundary.
doors and
crash as he • With what power this voice Spangled Banner. This will be
windows.
Then
gren-
fired.
He
kep
on
spea Zilch—upon
ks depends much
t
The plan was for four groups odes began to fly. One of ou r
you u pon you, followed by the initiation cere-
firing cease- Mr.
lessly, without taking
andn the mony, in which will be presented
to make off in different directions Austra
other
Jewish
busi
particular
nee
ss m
from Hon
f th tableaux, personifying three
Honda to perform their
ese lians took out a grenade, aim. Ile became excited by the Your
oree
community,
(I call name
you Mr.
Mother
Rebecca
as Vir-
blsd it with a kss, and sent noise and began to caper and Zilch because
it is nobody's
sue, virtues.
Ruth and
Naomi
as Fidelity,
reach
the tasks.
southern
cut to meantime
various
One highway,
group was
it ovn, but it wenc. wide. In the dance around the gun, whooping in particular and so doesn't point and Queen Esther as Devotion,
the enemy continued to wildly.
the telephone lines, and return pepper
Moshe
the ac-
ma- out any individual in particular; which are the purpose, aspira-
us from doors and win- chine gun,
and manned
cahnly and
immediately. A second group was
hut wherever you ar
are
te.j
dotes. Then Moshe took hold of curately peppered the peak where knoW
1 010111 I mean.)
you must pion and resolve of the Bnai
sever the telephone cables at a grenade and pitched it over to- the enemy was stationed. Our
Your
Brith Sisterhood. Mrs. Gertrude
another polies,' enter'• a • village wards the terrace. The machine men on the roof were almost
nd overpower the guard, t h en gun
support and the support Pearl will be chairman for the
° f other
was instantly silenced. That fully exposed becaus e
Jewish business men evening, taking charge of the
para. adequate
must be had
if we
are to We
have
an be
program,
The Lautfman
guest speaker
will
groups.
was the
to other
take a was
lawn to My
join group
one of
a toss which
some pet was only about 30 the
centi-
Jewish
press.
who
Mrs. Jean
national
25 meters.
Moshe covered
had mad
e a. meters high. In the meantime al.'
certain bridge on the Haifa- good job of it
the readers of the
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i ecomades who had remained pre ,
Beiruthighway, where it was
Jewish
chairman of vocational guidance
As soon as the machine gun behind in the no-man's land be-
s do our part by subscribing and past president of District
known that a Vichy guard was went
to it,
gh, subscriber
of course, there Grand Lodge No. 6. Mrs. Shirley
stationed, probably with instruc- ma»ned
dead the crow who had hind the fence sought out the could
be thou
more
lions to blow it up. No doubt am- I
it Ian into the building French hiding in the grove, and Yes, the Jewish press s. is
Plotnick, who is chairman of the
joined their comrades whc, from time to time they brow
113 initiation program, and Mrs. So-
they had already made all their were firin
g
.
front
the
apertures.
in
more
prisoners.
ght good as we make it by our phie Yaker, co-chairman, have
preparations and they had only ;, , Concentrated fire was directed
to press a button for the ex lo- steadily
Suddenly our officer remem- loyalty and by our understanding done a splendid job in cutting,
toward the gate. Moshe tiered the squad with the Bren of it as one of the institutions designing and sewing the gowns
sion to take place. It was our
tut nett to the officer again and gun who he had left on the of Jewish life.
for the tableaux.
duty to prevent the bridges from suggested: "I
-- --
l. you keep on re- bridge. But how were we to get
being blown up. The fourth group turning
their
fire.
we
could
run
there?
We
had
•
was to reach a point on .the high- around,
no vehicle, but
cross the road, and there were the horses and mules.
way, about five kilometers north throw' a grenade inside the Who was to run the gauntlet of
of Ras el Nakura and some dis- building.'
lance south of our bridge, with
the enemy fire? The officer hap-
the
The little group began to fife pened to turn to me. "Can you
the object of preventing the
all
together,
while
Moshe
and
I
ride?" he asked. "Go over to
Vichy troops stationed at Ras el st
sprang towards the terrace viol our Bren gun and tell the people
from hastening to the
gained cover underneath it. Then in charge of it to bring it over
aid of the guard on the bridge. Moshe
threw a grenade expertly here." One of the French pris-
We reached the bridge and hid and it landed
right inside one of oners with whom I
behind it until dawn, tense with
had got rather
the rooms, There was an instant friendly found a saddle for me.
anticipation.
Plan
to the explosion, and we hurried into I selected a fast horse and rode
f.
•
.
knew,
•
, „it• as wenew,
the h in-
wading army was to cross into the building with our revolvers off. The bullets flew over and
cocked and took a number of under and about Ole. It would
Syria at 4:30
2 a. In. And here it was Prismlers'
already
have made a grand film, I
invasion. WI • with no sign of any
Then began the most exciting t hought.
2:00
,
What were we to do? part of our adventures. It turned kid
At s. last
I was approaching the
,
—
bridge, and saw to my amaze-
at Congregation
ment that instead of the squad of
"VASSAR CLASS OF 196
B'nai Moshe, Dexter and Lawrence
five,
there
were
about
15
men.
I
6—THANKS TO GRANDMOTHER'S WAR BOND •
had no idea who the others were.
As I came nearer I saw them
/
' take aim at me! I made frantic
Open • g
.. i , \
signs, and at last they recognized
,
1
me, and I delivered my message.
..IS
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I learned from the squad that
9
a
/
/ /s / , -••
while they had been looking af-
Si '
4 \. 0A j
ter the bridge a passenger Car
I' .
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had driven up. Acting on in-
k_r4.;___LLLZ_!,_
structions not to allow anyone
(, 14./
to pass, they had made the pas-
--, lf.
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at the sides of the road. Then
they took a number of Vichy
v•1`
e,
prisoners as they came riding
YESHIVATH CHACHMEY LUBLIN AND THE
V along in / motor cycles. They
would have taken General Dentz
DETROIT HEBREW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
himself if he had happened along.

BY A VOLUNTEER

...CENTER ACT1 v IES.-

To

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ASS
MEETING

APRIL 23, 1944, Al"

P. M.

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THETHR E BARES
P.

oF $40,000
Campaign

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and One Thousand Members

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Jr. Hadassah Sponsors
Theater Party April 24

ED REED

FOR

'TREASURY

DEPT.

Junior Hadassah rn e in hers
heard an excellent review of
Pierre van Paasscn's book, "The
Forgotten Ally". Mrs. Max Dush-
kin of Senior Hadassah presented
the review at the general month-
ly' business fleeting of Hadassah
Juniors held at the Shaarey Ze-
dek on April 16.
A theater party will be given
on April 24, at the Shubert Laf-
ayette. Juniors may obtain tick-
ets for themselves or for their
friends by calling Miss Alyse
ueer, Tyler 6-4020.

Chairman—Daniel Temchin

GUEST SPEAKER:

abbi Wolf Gold

President of World Mizrachi Organization

Representative—A.

Reichman, Journalist of Jewish
Morning Journal.

ALL ARE WELCOME