Americo "apish Periodical airier
June 30, 1944
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
FIRST FOR AMERICA
By BERNARD POSTAL
Director of Bnai Brith Department of
that Lt. Abe Condi-
The lieWs
oaf, Jewish naval officer from
Brooklyn, N. Y., commanded the
first American assault boat to
hit the shores of France on D-
makes it timely to record a
Day
n umber of other "firsts" cred-
ited to Jewish fighting men in
the American armed forces to
date in World War II. This list
is naturally but a preliminary
compilation basedon material
collected only by this writer.
First American assault boat to
shore of France on D-
hit the
Day commanded by Lt. Abe Con-
diotti of Brooklyn, N. Y.
First all-American air raid on
Europe, over occupied Holland on
July 4, 1942, was made by squa-
dron in which Sgt. Chester Davis
of New York served as a gunner.
First four-medal winner in
American Army in World War II
was Lt. Morris Berenson of Gar-
field, N. J.
First Nazi plane shot down for
Uncle Sam is credited to Lt. Wil-
liam S. Beck of Nashville, Tenn.
First American troops to enter
Algiers were led by Lt. Col. A.
H. Rosenberg.
First member of the WAVES
to be killed in line of duty was
Elizabeth Korensky of Philadel-
phia after whom the Elizabeth
Korensky Bnai Brith Women's
unit in Philadelphia has been
named.
First American to kill a Jap in
the Burma campaign was Corp.
Werner Katz of New York, a for-
mer refugee.
First American tank to enter
Oran during invasion of North
Africa was led by Corp. Bernard
J. Kessel of New York.
First squadron of American
planes to bomb Rome included
plane on which Lts. David Lipten
and Harold Tabacoff, from New
York, were navigators.
First American air raid on Ru-
manian oil fields at Ploesti was
made by squadron in which Sgt.
Robert Kessler, member of AZA,
Bnai Brith youth organization,
from McKeesport, Pa., served as
radio operator and gunner.
First American Red Cross
nurse killed in World War II was
Esther Richards of San Francisco,
who died of injuries received on
the Anzio beachhead.
First man killed in action from
Minneapolis was Ensign Ira Well
Jeffery, a member of Bnai Brith,
who died at Pearl Harbor.
First American flag planted in
the city of Algiers at the start
of the North African invasion
was carried by Corp. Hyman I.
Shakin of New York.
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First soldier from Delaware
killed i in war was Sgt. Harry
Fineman of Wilmington, Del.,
who died in the defense of Cor-
regidor.
First war casualty among mem-
bership of the American Bar As-
sociation was Ensign Robert L.
Leopold of Louisville, Ky., who
died at Pearl Harbor.
First Japanese battleship sunk
in the war was the Haruna, sent
to the bottom by plane piloted by
Capt. Colin Kelly whose bom-
bardier was Sgt. Meyer Levin.
First man front Connecticut to
be killed in the war was Ken-
neth H. Messenger of Bridgeport,
who died in the Philippines.
First Gold Star Mother of
World ‘Var II was Mrs. Gertrude
Kram of New York whose son,
Seaman Leonard Kram, was
killed in action at sea.
First American soldier brought
home for burial on American
soil was U. S. Marine Sergeant
Herbert Keilson of Long Island,
who was killed in the raid on the
Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
First two war deaths from
Philadelphia were Private Jack
Feldman, an alumnus of AZA,
Bnai Brith youth organization,
and Corp. Theodore J. Lewis,
both of whom gave up their lives
at Pearl Harbor.
First alumnus of City College
killed in the war was Lt. Monroe
Franklin of New York who died
in the Philippines.
First American soldier to land
on Australian soil with the Amer-
ican Expeditionary Force was
Private Ernest Yunnan of Brook-
lyn.
First American soldier to the
on the Australian front was Lt.
Milton Kaslow of Brooklyn.
First boy from Newark, N. J.,
to lose his life in the war was
Private Louis Schleifer who was
killed at Pearl Harbor.
First casualty from Hudson
County, N. J., was Private Jo-
seph Guttman, Union City, N. J.,
who was killed in the early fight-
ing in the Philippines.
First man from New Bruns-
wick, N. J., to die in the war
was Corp. Carl Schwartz, killed
in the Philippines.
First war casualty from Haz-
leton, Pa., was Sgt. Harry Cohn,
alumnus of AZA, Bnai Brith
youth organization, whowas
killed in the Southwest Pacific.
SEGAL
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Jake said he felt quite at home,
speaking to God, in Father Pat's
church. It was all a matter of
labels, he thought. People put
their religious labels on God and
say : "This is the Jewish God,"
or "This is the Christian God,"
or "This is the Mohammedan
God."
Jake nudged Father Pat famil-
iarly—"But, my dear Father Pat,
you take the labels off and what
do you find? You find He's the
same God! I thank you for the
use of your church. I'll be there
every morning for a year."
Father Pat replied: "I thank
you, Jake! Thanks for the sacra-
ment of brotherhood that you
bring to my church."
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THE
HE story of Jake and Father
Pat was brought to me by
reason of a similar recent inci-
dent in one of the public schools
Michigan Resorts
in our town. It was D Day and,
in dismissing her pupils, one of
"a little bit of heaven"
the teachers said she hoped they
would all go to church after
school to pray for the soldiers
and sailors.
Only Swimming
Next day the children report-
Pool in South Haven!
It I. under
mibpices of Stnte Health Dept. ed: They had gone to the Metho-
dist, the Presbyterian, the Catho-
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lic, the Baptist church. A small
Ile take this means of thanking you f
o r Jewish girl said she had gone to
Your past patronage—and assure you that
Your
pray, too. The teacher asked how
With us this yearwill he as pleas-
ant as stay
In the
past with he same courtesies she managed to get to a syna-
and service necessary for an enjoyable va
eation. Sincerely
- gogue. The nearest synagogue
was far from the community in
atraEN LEvrri.
which the school stands.
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The girl said she had gone to
Dietary law .
observed
a Christian church to pray : "My
mother always has told me that
Trains ut lkingor
any church is good to pray in."
Dos nt
South Haven
The teacher bowed her head
Ire w
humbly. From the child she had
di meet all
trains or
learned semeting about the es-
I Losses
Upon
ion.
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By PVT. WILLIAM HERZ
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Aza Summer Institute to Train Jewish
High School Youth For Leadership
William Herz, a refugee from
BLOOMINGTON, IND. — To
Germany, was killed in action in train high school youngsters for
Italy at the age of 19. Attached Jewish communal responsibilities
to his last letter to his parents and to provide them with the
leadership fundamentals essential
to enable them to replace some
of the older members of Aleph
Zadik Aleph, Bnai Brith youth
organization, more than 5,000 of
whom have gone into the armed
forces of the United States and
e.
Canada, the Aleph Zadik Aleph
is sponsoring its first annual na-
tional summer institute on the
campus of Indiana University
front July 12 to 26.
Limited to 150 participants,
! the institute will provide an in-
tensive educational program de-
signed to meet the following ba-
sic needs of Jewish young people
in training for leadership: 1—
An appreciation of the history
and traditions of Judaism and an
understanding of present-day
Jewish realities through a series
of lectures and discussions con-
ducted by leading authorities; 2—
Physical and esthetic self-expres-
sion through special workshops
came the following poem describ- in the drama, music, arts and
ing the invasion of Italy. If the crafts and athletic and recreation
English in the poem strikes you programs; 3—Wholesome fellow-
as slightly foreign, remember ship through inter-faith seminars,
that William Herz did not live
group programs, religious serv-
in the country he died for long ices, community war service ac-
enough to learn the language tivities and cultural programs.
thoroughly.
The institute will be climaxed
Like so many thousands of by the 21st annual national AZA
other refugees in America, the convention which will be featured
Herz family was assisted by the by the nationwide finals in the
National Refugee Service, a con- AZA oratory and debating tour-
stituent agency of the United
naments and the adoption of a
Jewish Appeal.
program of activities for the en-
suring year. The convention ses-
Dark is the night, rolling the sea, sions will be presided over by Ed-
No sign of light from Italy.
ward Grause, national Grand
We come near—no whisper be
Aleph Godol, of Queens Village,
heard,
New York.
But many an ear waits for the
Besides the workshops, semi-
word .. .
nars, classes and other organized
activities, the institute will have
Grim-faced Yanks checking their a reference library and specially
watches,
prepared exhibits bearing upon
While silently letting down
the educational and recreational
hatches.
interests and needs of Jewish
young people.
Zero Hour!
Dr. Samuel M. Blumenfield,
dean
of the College of Jewish
Rifle belts tightening . . .
Studies, Chicago, and national
machine guns and mortar. educational consultant of AZA,
Feet sliding swiftly into the
heads the institute's faculty,
water—
which will include the following:
Soldiers : One Nation : step into Allan Bloom, secretary of the
the sea.
Jewish Community Center Asso-
This is the invasion of Italy !
ciation of Indianapolis; Prof.
William T. Hale, English De-
Night dies away . . .
partment, Indiana University;
The sun sends new light.
Rabbi Harry Kaplan, director of
the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
Now with a flash bullets are fly- at Ohio State University; Ray-
ing
mond Katz, noted artist and il-
Bombs start to crash, soldiers are lustrator; Prof. Edwin H. Suth-
dying.
erland, chairman Sociology De-
Soldiers lie wounded drencher!
4-11 Membership Rises
with rain,
Many are praying . . . and cry-
An army of 62,404 rural boys and
ing with pain.
girls in New York state Is enrolled
in the 1943 4-H club program, a 75
Machine guns spit, grenades sail, per cent increase over the 1942 num-
Ack-acks boom, bridges are
ber of 35,853 members.
blown.
The Yanks keep fighting, we
don't know retreat.
Onward and forward through
thick and thin
Till the war is won . . . till we
take Berlin.
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Temple Beth El's war bond
drive in the Fifth War Loan has
now passed the million mark in
sales, it was reported by Hy
Schlafer, co-chairman with Art
Edelson of the Men's Club divi-
sion in the drive.
"To surpass the record of over
$1,600,000 made in the Fourth
War Loan is the goal of this
drive, and 'Gallants' should be
encouraged to strive with every
ounce of energy to achieve it
now that the goal is in sight,"
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"The Fifth War Loan ends
July 8 and it is these last few
days of the drive that will spell
victory or defeat," Schlafer went
on. "Even now there hl still time
for anyone desiring to help put
the drive over to enlist as a
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bond purchased will help Temple
Beth El meet its responsibility.
"The success of Beth El's war
bond drive, which is dedicated to
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rightfully said, will speed the
return of those boys to the
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El, and all who wish to serve by
selling, may do so by phoning
Mr. Katz at the Temple office,
Madison 8530.
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Indiana
University;
Rabbi Herman Pollack, director
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation, In-
diana University; Kenneth B.
Thurston, chairman of social
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bi Avraham Soltes, director of
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Director of the institute will
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