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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Lisa! Chronicle
Detroit Jewry Pays Tribute
To Heroes of Warsaw Ghetto
BAY CITY NOTES
June 9, 1944
THE NEED OF PRISON LIBRARIES
Among those graduating from
By RABBI JOSHUA S. SPERKA
Central High School next week
Chaplain of Michigan State Prisons
are the following students: Mar•
Several weeks ago, I wrote on quested. Send your checks t
tin Jaffe, Richard Michelson.
Margaret Mono, Donald Moses, the need of establishing a Jew- books to Rabbi Sperka, Jewish o,
Archbishop Mooney, Rabbi Eisendrath and Shirley Paul and Melvin Taylor. ish library shelf in every prison Chaplain, Michigan State Prisons,
Those near to Detroit may s end
Mayor Jeffries Call for Rescue of Jews
Born to A/S and Mrs. Eliot library in the State of Michigan.
in care of Congregation 13n
'merman (Eileen Hirschfield), a I have found that those who seek David, Elmhurst and 14th, De. ai
Detroit Jewry paid tribute on their plan to annihilate thes e son, on Sunday morning at Gen- to influence public opinion are
Wednesday night to the heroes Jews before they went down corn - eral Hospital.
ever ready to send, free of troit 6, Mich., or to any state
of the Warsaw Ghetto on the pletely in utter defeat. As prac-
charge, reading material to all C pr h isto p n laini. n care of the Jewish
anniversary of their revolt against tical measures of implementin g Charles Isaacson of New York libraries. Frequently, the prison
the Nazis who planned to send this program of rescue, he calle d is spending this week with his libraries receive "hate" litera-
them to their death in extermina- for the cancellation of the Whit mother, Mrs. Lillian Isaacson.
ture in an attempt to place their
Lion centers. A large audience Paper which bans further imm
vicious thinking within the reach Mogilover Society to Hold
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Golden of the prison population.
attended the Civic Mass Meeting gration into Palestine beyond a
Patriotic Rally June 19
at the Cass Technical High limited number. "The presen and son, Petty Officer 1/c of
It seems to me of utmost im-
School auditorium which was ad- policy of the White Paper," h e Detroit, visited relatives in this portance that we make it pos-
The Mogilover Progressive Sn-
dressed by his Excellency, Most said, "would imprison the Jel4 city the past week.
sible for the nearly 15,000 in-
will stage a patriotic rally
Reverend Edward Mooney, D.D., in a ghetto in Palestine from
mates who annually pass through at the A. R. Center, 11529 Lin.
An
enjoyable
week-end
was
rc is op of Detroit, and Rabbi which they could not expand. In
the gates of our state prison to p wood,
p o.(I , m. o ll Monday, ,m,( 1 ,t 1 1 1
Maurice N. Eisendrath, director this most desperate hour in the spent at the Killarney Beach read the books that we believe
All
for
June ts oli?,thaist
home
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
George
of the Union of American He- history of Israel, surely the heart
will bring to them the Jewish event will be made at the soci al
Kahn,
when
their
daughter,
Miss
brew Congregations. Mayor Ed- of Britain will be moved so that
point of view. The books needed gathering, at the same hall, Mon.
ward J. Jeffries, Jr., brought the gates of Palestine shall be Sybil, a student at the U. of are: The Bible—Jewish Publica- (lay evening, June 12.
greetings from the City of De- swung wide open". He pointed M., invited the following to be tion Society edition, books on
At this social gathering, iuvenile
troit. James I. Ellmann, presi- out further that Americans, how- her guests: Miss Selma Smith the Jewish religion, on Jewish Lutists w ililll hi l , m s r e tircvi e pii i . teTh l e tre
e fre: ihil
of
Utica,
N.
Y.,
Norman
Kahn
of
dent of the Jewish Community ever, could not in good conscience
history and literature, and on meats w
Kansas
City.
and
Sam
Medalski
Council, presided. ask Britain to do this or under-
good will. Also, non-fiction books tr,! no collection or appeals. All
At the beginning if his ad- take any rescue efforts as long of New York.
and Jewish magazines will be in- members, friends and landsleit are
Gress Archbishop Mooney said as this country was not pre-
cordially invited to attend, There
To celebrate their 25th wed- cluded.
that "this meeting affords us pared to do more itself. He ding anniversary and to honor
Among those who responded to is no admission
rg i
occasion publicly to express our urged the immediate establish- their children, Mr. and Mrs. the appeal were: Julius Wagman,
admiration of the heroic courage meat in this country of "Free Jack Korn of Cadillac, who were $200; Harry Schumer, $50; Sam in connection with the Fifth War
of those who, in the last days Ports" or refugee camps. "If recently married, Mr. and Mrs. Brody, $50; Max Osnos, $50; Loan and in line with the mos
of the Warsaw Ghetto, led a for- there is a place in this country Louis Robinson held open house Benjamin La Brett, $50; Moore historic invasion now taking place. t
loin hope in resistance to their for Nazi prisoners whose hands on Sunday evening. Relatives Family Club, $25; Myer J. Kell- It is also planned in honor of
the
murderous oppressors. This they are stained with the blood of our from out of the city were Mr. man, $5; Joffee's Men's Store, $5. heroes on the various battlefields
did not with any idea that they own soldiers, there should cer- and Mrs. Sidney Saltman and
Your contributions are still re- who have made supreme sacrifices.
could ultimately prevail but with tainly be room for these harried family and Mrs. S. Voight of
the determination
that they victims who must be saved from Flint, Mrs. Louis Golden, Mrs.
die, if die they must, like slaughter".
Mae Grosslight, Miss Esther
men fighting to defend their
Expresses Horror
Bronson, Mrs. Harry Robinson
rights rather than as abject Mayor
Mayor Jeffries in his brief and (laughter, Mrs. Doris Dwor-
slaves, and with the thought that greetings also underscored the kin, of Detroit.
their resisance might arouse the feelings of horror experienced by
conscience of the world"
Mrs. Alex Kahn has returned
all decent people at the reports
Expresses Concern
of what has been done to the home from a short visit in Chi-
He went on to deplore the Jews of Europe by the Nazis. He cago.
fact that the world has appar- called for a heightening of our
Bob Roman was home from
ently grown accustomed to "the sense of right and wrong so that
systematic suppression of inalien- we may be able to appreciate the Ann Arbor to spend the week-
able human rights of mass de- suffering of these people and the end with his parents, Mr. and
portations of millions of men, need to do something effectively Mrs. A. B. Roman.
women and children at the nod to aid the survivors.
of a dictator, of the deliberately
In addition to the addresses,
murderous extinction of whole another highlight of the evening Congress Women
sectors of populous nations on was the presentation of a dra-
account of racial, religious or matic narrative prepared by the Shower at Kern's on
political antagonism", He ex- staff of the Jewish Community
Has Faith that the power
pressed concern that the world, Council based on documents re- Wednesday, June 14
under the influence of such lating to the Battle of the War-
The Detroit Women's Division
of the United Nations will
events," is in danger of losing saw Ghetto. The story was pre-
its capacity of being shocked". sented by Harry Goldstein as of the American Jewish Congress
He warned against the danger narrator, assisted by Aaron Ros- will hold its annual defense show-
overcome all the powers
"that we may almost 'uncon- enberg and members of the staff er, on Wednesday, June 14, at
sciously admit into our souls a of the Jewish Community Coun- Kern's Auditorium. Mrs. Joseph
of darkness.
kind of fatal admiration for the cil, Miss Reva Reichman, Ger- Newman, chairman of the event,
efficiency of brute force instead ston B. Chertoff and Abraham announces that with the able as-
sistance of her co-chairman, Mrs.
of persistently retaining our nat- Cohen.
ural abhorrence of its callous- Before adjournment Rabbi Leon Samuel Shector, and their com-
The Congregation has
ness".
Fram presented a resolution mittee, a very enjoyable after-
noon
has
been
planned.
A
des-
Archbishop Mooney, in paying which hailed the establishment
Faith that the members
tribute to the heroism of the of the War Refugee Board and sert luncheon will be served, fol-
Jews of Warsaw, pointed also to which urged that "it be given lowed by entertainment and
will purchase all the
the help which has been re- every possible facility and that games. Door prizes are to oe
ceived from underground Polish it be implemented with organi- given. Due to the varied needs of
groups and expressed the hope zational machinery adequate to the projects being served through
Bonds they can during
that, as a result of their com- perform the prodigious task in- this affair, it is suggested that
mon struggle and suffering, "new volved." The resolution urged fur- contributions be made in cash in-
the 5th War Bond Drive.
bonds of human solidarity and ther that temporary shelters be stead of merchandise. All mem-
mutual good will are being forged provided for refugees in neutral bers and their friends are in-
between Christian and Jew". Ex- countries
n te d
at?e di a, n a the
t n h lands
h s perma-
of t he vited to attend.
tending the application of this
Nations, and
to the United States and Detroit, nent homes be provided. The
he said that "in all of this there special role of Palestine in this
is a deep lesson for us". Anti- connection was stressed from the
Semitism, whether open or hid- floor and was made a part of the
den, was "a noxious under- resolution. The resolution em-
growth" in the life of our coun- phasized the need for immediate
try. Speaking frankly, he said act on pointing
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out that "every El.
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falls chiefly on the Christian ma- counts". The resolution was E-"-
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that anti-Semitism is abhorrent
The meeting opened with the -=-'
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to Catholic teaching and Catholic singing of the national anthem •-:=--
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moral precepts. "Catholic teach- and closed with the Hatikvah led E_-
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Hospitality and Enter-
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eluding his address, Archbishop
Mooney endorsed the principle of
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Pres-
an international declaration of ident Roosevelt's statement last E.-_- -
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well as individuals must repu- the subject of "free ports," a EE
diate racial, religious or other name he said he did not like, was
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Rabbi Eisendrath, in the course ports as an indication that the
of a very moving address, em- United States is prepared to do
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the Jews in Warsaw was in the havens for refugees.
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Rabbi Eisendrath Warns
said that "the President has ex- .7
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Rabbi Eisendrath warned that pressed himself as being in full
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Lobby
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unless the United Nations acted accord with the purpose of the F =
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save the remaining Jews of Eu- was introduced in the H
rope, the Nazis would carry out week.
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