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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
May 26, 1944
THEY STILL LOVE HITLER
for cushy assignments, Dave.
hope you have ready the story Isidore Sobeloff Elected President of National
of the four chaplains, including a Conference of Jewish Social Welfare
(PAGE FROM THE DIARY OF A JEWISH SOLDIER)
former rabbi, who went down
By DAVID ZAGIER
with their torpedoed transport in
NEW YORK.—Isidore. Sobeloff,George W. Rabinoff, Chicago; Leo
the Atlantic after giving up their Associate New
I found Hitlerburg, Arkansas, Nazis;
York Director of Gallin, Los Angeles; Jacob m,
lifebelts to GI's. We are getting
4. During the floods, the Ger- on like one great happy family the National War Fund, on leave Kravitz, Dallas, and Ben NI. Edi-
strangely dead, both as an as-
signment and as a town, the mans helped to sandbag the at the school. The keynote was from the Jewish Welfare Fedora- din, New York, were elected to
banks of the flooded rivers, but
first time I went there. The unlike the Armored Engineers sounded by a Colonel of South-
the executive committee of the
west Pacific fame, in his open-
second time it was plenty lively. they got paid for it.
Conference for a three year term.
ing
address.
Concerning
inter-
Roland Einstein, four months racial relations, he said, remem-
Serving with Mr. Levin• as
Ilitlerburg lies eleven miles east
of the Fourteenth Armored Di- short of his M.D. because of ber that the first American soldier
officers of the National A ssocia-
vision area. It was built a few Hitler and male nurse to the to lose his life in the
tion of Jewish Center Workers
Pacific was
are: Vice presidents, Lavey Beck.
weeks ago by Armored Engi- German prisoners at the station a Jewish boy named Kozlov.
My
er, Montreal, Canada; Greenum
neers out of hill-billy homes hospital, says that the Army is best friend here is a Mormon
Berger, New York; Alter F. Lan-
which the War Department had simply falling over backwards to chaplain, I'm looking forward
desman, Brooklyn; Louise Meyer-
acquired along with the camp treat the PW's well and to give to the real work ahead . . "
evitz, New York; Jack Merviss,
lands, strictly for the business the German Wehrmacht no ex-
At the weekly gathering in the
cuse for reprisals against our heated debate about the sugges-
Milwaukee, treasurer; Matthew
of training street fighters.
Elson, New York, secretary; Ruth
The "town" is already much own buddies. So much so, that chapel tonight, we have had a
Kravitz, New York, assistant
the worse for the Arkansas there is some reticence in assign- tion made by a German-Jewish
secretary.
weather and the thousands of ing Jewish soldiers as interpret- soldier that all Jews of the world
Officers elected by the National
rounds of small arms pumped ers or guards because it might should give up half of their
Council of Jewish Education to
into its "streets" by the trainees. hurst the PW's sensitive feel- earthly possessions to a United
serve with Dr. Eisenberg are
Cardboard and wood figures ings! "Did they not hurt the Nations .wa• fund, "just to show
vice presidents Samuel J. Bo•ow-
jump at you from behind doors sensitive feelings of the Jews where we, as a people, stand."
sky, Ben M. Edidin, New York;
and windows and dummy ma- in the gas chambers of Poland?" Weinberg, the Galician MP, re-
Bernard Isaacs, Detroit; David
chine guns stick out their snouts asked the normally mild-man- minded him that as a people we
from chimneys and attic windows nered Roland bitterly. I told have already lost half of our
Rudowsky, New York; secretaries
so unexpectedly that you don't him that that was neither here number maybe to Nazis, that
Judah Lapson, New York, Louis
know whom and where to shoot nor there. I could see the point. there was no mistake about where
Roffman, New York; treasurer,
Mental cruelty of any kind is, we stood, and that anti-Semitism
Judah Pilch; Rochester.
first. Fortunately, they don't
shoot back, not even out of the of course, forbidden. Knowing would either be buried with Hit-
local "Gestapo Headquarters" how mentally cruel it is to a the next world war as the case
building. The German refugees Nazi to hear an opinion other ler or form the first symptom of
in the Fourteenth say that, but than his own, GI attendants are may be, whether or not the Jews
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
the lack of a beer smell, the forbidden from discussing poli- did anything as dramatic as the
tion in Detroit, was elected presi-
tics with their wards. Roland suggested self-taxation.
place "feels" quite German.
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of the National Conference
admits having told several of his
This business of postwar anti- dent
On the opposite side of the patients that Roosevelt was a Semitism is giving me sleepless of Jewish Social Welfare to suc-
ceed Louis Kraft, New York, at
camp, unseen and unheard by better man than Htle• and that nights. But maybe we are
at the 1944 Conference in Cleve-
anyone except the Military Po- 'they were gradually inclining the threshold of a better world,
lice Escort Guard men, are sta- toward a similar view them- I console myself and fall asleep. land, 0.
Samuel Levine, head worker
tioned the boys from Hitler's selves, as the war news was
of the Irene Kaufman Settlement
getting unfairly anti-Axis.
Reichswehr.
of Pittsburgh, was elected presi-
"In the beginning," he says,
For months the prisoners of
dent of the National Association
war were 'unmentionable, under "they were almost all four-square Local Jewry Responds
of Jewish Center Workers, suc-
threat of court martial, but for Hitler and arrogantly confi-
ceeding Meyer E. Fichman, Los
finally the lid was taken off and dent of victory. Later on they To S. S. Wise Palestine
Angeles, and Dr. Ariel Eisen-
the newspapermen were taken in. shifted their collective allegiance
berg, executive director of the
Maybe it dawned upon the pow- from Mein Kampf to Mehlspeise. Colony Undertaking
Bureau of Jewish Education,
ick
r ALL-BRAN Muffins
ers that be the way the PW's They get the same chow as we,
Detroit Jewry is responding Cleveland, was elected president
are treated in the American but they have their own cooks
% cup milk
2 tablespoons
to the project of observ-
the National Council for Jew-
1 cup sifted flour
camps assured us that any write andthey go heavy on cakes and warmly
shortening
ing Dr. Stephen S. Wise's 70th of
ish Education to succeed Rabbi
1 4 teaspoon salt
1 4 cup sugar
up would be a credit to us. May- puddings and other kinds of flour
2f3
teaspoons
egg
1
be they had to remove the lid and sugar tidbits. Some still birthday by presenting him with Samuel M. Blumenfield of Chi-
baking powder
1 cup Kellogg's
after those two Heinies escaped thinks of escape, but it takes no a colony in Palestine, to be cago. The three groups met
All-Bran
Blend shortening and sugar thor-
and were brought back from psychologist to see that they are known as the S. S. Wise Colony. jointly at the 1944 conference.
Many Detroit Jews have writ-
Mr. Sobeloff leaves the New
oughly. Add egg and beat well. Stir
Oklahoma and the papers told damn glad that the war is over
in All-Bran and milk. Let soak until
the story. Anyway, The Ar- for them, much as they resent ten to Rabbi Leon Fram, who York National War Fund on June
most of moisture is taken up. Sift
is
chairman
of
the
local
com-
1
to
resume
his
duties
as
execu-
flour with salt and baking powder;
modier got to tell its readers being told so. They are having
mittee
on
the
S.
S.
Wise
Colony
tive
director
of
the
Jewish
Wel-
add to first mixture. Stir only un-
that:
the time of their lives, better
til flour disappears. Fill greased
project,
expressing
their
pleas-
fare
Federation
of
Detroit.
He
muffin pans % full. Bake in hot
1. They had a stockade full food than at home in peace time,
ure
at
the
idea
and
enclosing
has
been
active
in
social
work
oven (400°F.) about 30 minutes.
of Nazi war prisoners;
plenty of outdoors life and some
Yield: 8 large muffins.
2. The prisoners were all sort of German football. They $100 checks for pages of the for the past 22 years and is a
• For prune muffins, add % cup
sworn to the Reichswehr to try like to show off their bodies, wear- Golden Book of the Jewish Na- member of the Boards of the
well-soaked, pitted and chopped
tional
Fund.
The
S.
S.
Wise
Col-
National
Refugee
Service,
the
prunes
to dry ingredients.
and escape, so we should keep ing shorts and nothing else on
* For orange muffins, add 2 table-
our eyes open;
all possible and impossible occa- ony is to be purchased and de- National Jewish Welfare Board
spoons grated orange rind to dry
3. The PW's were a fine lot sions. But their minds aren't veloped by the proceeds of such and the Council for Jewish Fed-
ingredients.
of men physically, but mentally half as healthy. And when they purchases of Golden Book pages erations and Welfare Funds.
And remember, too, KELLOGG'S
in
honor
of
the
great
rabbi.
Elected
to
serve
with
Mr.
So-
they were for the most part still are sick they whine "worse than
Among the Detroiters who beloff were: Leo L. Honor, Chi- ALL-BRAN by itself is a rich, natural
women." Altogether, they be-
source of the whole grain "protective"
have
already contributed to the cago, first vice president; Rae food
SALE—APARTMENTS
have so damn exemplary and
elements — protein, the B vita-
Carp,
Cleveland,
second
vice
S.
S.
Wise
Colony
project
are
mins,
phosphorus, calcium and Iron!
cunningly that they leave little
Louis
Berry,
Irving
W.
Blum-
president;
Michael
M.
Nisselson,
doubt in my mind as to their berg, Leon Kay, Samuel G. Key-
New
York,
treasurer,
and
Marcel
having been drilled among other
VA ALL-BRAN
things how to capture the souls well, Morris Mendelsohn, Max Kovarsky, New York, secretary.
Osnos,
Morris
L.
Schaver,
Isaac
of their captors."
In the early days there was a Shetzer and Mrs. Max Switken.
In every city in the United
real possibility of the German
PW's making converts among States, Rabbi Frain reports,
from Russia and Italy sinks in, there is an equally warm re-
Your savings are laying In the bank
their own guards. As the news sponse to the project of giving
—earning nothing while the dollar
goes down. Act now or your negli-
however, they tend to lose their the great leader of American
gence will always he held against
arrogance,
poise, and conviction. Jewry this beautiful birthday
The problem of providing a com-
you. All the Facts & Figures from
By
the
time
we get to Berlin gift. "I know that the admirers
Mr. Itedford.
of
Dr.
Stephen
S.
Wise
in
De-
fortable living for your family in
they'll behave like lambs, so why
$10,000 dwn. 26 apt. stores, 12th St.
troit are legion," states Rabbi
worry?
near Kresge's. Nets $51,000 after all
wartime
is difficult to solve. But
Fram,
"and
I
know
that
there
are
expense. Bldg. cost $90,000. Snap
My Irish sergeant, D mnel, I
$40,000.
think how your family would fare
discover belatedly, is a .dg shot many who would be glad to par-
3rd Hamilton-114th class location,
in the establishment of
in the PW stockade. "if these ticipate
if you were not there to care for
15 porches, new tabletop stoves, new
blankety-blank sons of blankety- the S. S. Wise Colony. I ask all
cab. sinks. Rent $9700. out of town
the
genuine
admirers
of
Dr.
them.
owner, will consider $18,000. Terms.
blanks don't give over swagger-
Sold once for $90,000.
ing and showing off, they'll drive Wise to communicate with me."
72 apts. Downtown, was $350,000.
Pages of the Golden Book for
me to drink," he said over a glass
Forced sale real sacrifice, only $110,-
the building of the S. S. Wise
You can assure your family finan-
000. Present cheap rents earn 34%.
of 3.2 in the PX last night.
I of
Colony may be purchased by
*
*
Nets after taxes all exp. on $40,000
cial security through adequate life
be
down payment. Check this is you
writing to Rabbi Fram and send-
Chaplain
Seligson
writes
from
seek high earnings.
frii
insurance. I will be pleased to dis-
Harvard Chaplains School that ing him a check covering the
Booton Blvd. 40 apts. 3-4 rms. new
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cost of one or more pages. The
refrig. new stoves, stoker, carpets.
cuss with you, without obligation, a
he has been promoted to captain pages are $100 each. Checks
of
Rent $35,000. Only $130,000. Terms.
$45,000 First time offered
dat
and is expecting his orders to may be made out to the Jewish
plan that will suit your own per-
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