August 11, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Winners of Singing
Contest Announced

U.J.A. FUNDS BROUGHT THEM INTO THE HARBOR OF HOPE

Services Held in Rome
Synagogue for Roman
Victims of Gestapo

ROME (WNS)—An impressive
memorial service was held here
this week in the Great Syna•
gogue for the 300 Roman citi•
zens who were executed by the
Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine
catacombs in reprisal for a
bombing which killed som e 32
Germans.
The services were
conducted by Chief Rabbi An-
ton Zolli and were attended by
government officials.
More than 40 of the slain were
Jews. Many of the bodies that
have been exhumed show that
Germans buried the hostages
while they were still alive.

For the first time a municipal
department has sought to bring
to the public attention the sing-
ing talent in the Detroit area.

Nazis Slew 10,000 Jews in
Kaunas Before Leaving

JACK FERENTZ

The contest was sponsored by
the Detroit Federation of musi-
cians, and the Department of
Parks and Recreation.
On Wednesday night the
finalists were chosen. Seven girls
and three men were the win-
ners. The winners, selected from
450 entrants, will appear with
Detroit Federation of Musicians
Band in Belle Isle Concerts.
The winners were Patricia Kel-
ly, 16 years old, of River Rouge
(protege of famous opera singer,
Pia Igy); Betty Ann Crotinger,
17 years; Rose Derderian, 18
years; Frances Priziolla, 19 years
(of Grosse Pointe) ; June Gard-
ner, 20 years; Dorothy L. Steffes,
21 years (of Dearborn; Jean
Richards, 22 years; Richard T.
Gerathy, 32 years; Frederick
Burnett, 32 years; and Lawrence
Watson, 32 years.
Jack Ferentz, president of the
Music Federation, announced that
his organization will hold five
concerts a week at the Belle Isle
shell until Labor Day at which
times the winners will appear as
soloists with the orchestra. Spon
soring officials agreed that here-
after the singing contest should
be an annual affair in the Detroit
area.

MOSCOW (WNS) — Several
days prior to their evacuation of
Kaunas, capital of Lithuania,
the Nazis brutally murdered 10,.
000 Jews, according to front line
dispatches received here this
week.
The report states that when
the Nazi criminals advanced on
the Jewish ghetto, the internees
put up stern resistance with
With the help of the agencies of the United riving here receive aid from the National Refugee
arms that had been smuggled
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Service.
1944
nationwide
campaign
of
the
United
The
in by partisan bands. At Vilna,
Palestine, these refugees from war-torn Europe have
where only several Jews were
been brought to safety and freedom in Palestine. Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Pal.
Through the combined efforts of the Joint Distribu- estine represents the largest combined rescue opera.
found alive when the Red Army
tion Committee and the United Palestine Appeal, Lions ever undertaken by American Jews. To meet
entered it, the Nazis killed sev-
more than 8,500 reached the Jewish homeland in the the enlarged needs of its constituent agencies, the
eral thousand Jews almost on
first half of 1914. Hundreds of others have been United Jewish Appeal will require $32,000,000
the very day when they quit the
brought to Canada and the United States. Those or- this year. _
city. The Jewish population of
Vilna, outside of the Jews who
were brought to its ghetto by
the Germans from other areas
Fate
of
Remaining
Jews
in
Mexico to Open Free
was 50,000.
Anshey Beresnith To

Dedicate New Home
on Linwood Aug. 13

Ports for Refugees

Poland in Balance as
German Army Retreats

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MEXICO CITY (WNS) — The LONDON (WNS) — A report
Mexican Government will provide received here from Poland un-
Congregation Anshey Beresnith facilities for the establishment
together with the Beresnitzer of a "colony of refugees of Is- derground courier, who has
Aid Society will dedicate their raelite origin" providing the ref- 'parachuted into Poland twice
new home on Linwood and Davi- ugees can maintain themselves and left Warsaw only eight days
without government support, it ago, discloses that the retreating
Stop Spending, and Save for the
son on Sunday, Aug. 13.
was disclosed here this week in Germans in Poland are hastening future. That has been good ad
an official government communi-
their slaughter of all the remain- vice since biblical days. You can
cation.
but you can
The communication said that ing Jews. He said when he left not buy tires today, that new set of
i start saving to buy
the group to be formed will be Poland, Hungarian Jews were
the market
made up in a large part of wo- still being sent to Oswiechim, Aires when they go on
.again.
men and children who will have
to return to their native coun- 12 trainloads every 24 hours.
he sianig
said, the
tthe
we
Inth eirhraeste,subeet
"once the war circumstances
of persecution by totalitarian re- Germans
Jews to only 15 minutes in the
gimes ceases."
The full text of the announce- gas chambers instead of 30 and
were killing small children with
ment reads:
he be-
in
in
"The hospitality of our coun- blug
open fires,
said,
burned
try toward persons of other na-
tionalities who, suffering from because the crematories were
Palestine Government
political persecution in their ove•-taxed. As authority for
Denies Visas to U. S.
homeland, take refuge among us, these statements, of which he
is traditional. Therefore, follow- said "nobody will believe them,"
Jewish 'Commission
ing this tradition, the Mexican he cited information obtained by
government will provide facilities i the underground from inside the
JERUSALEM (WNS) — The
for the establishment of a colony 'camp itself.
proposed survey by an American
He said the only remaining
Your regular investment or ten
of political refugees of Israelite
Jewish economic commission of
origin. The colony will be estab- Jews in Warsaw are the ones percent or more of your earnings it
postwar immigration and settle-
lished in a zone to be determined, that are being harbored at great War Bonds through your Papa
ment possibilities in Palestine
and will last only while a state risk in Polish homes. The War- Savings Plan will provide the neces
was blocked this week when the
of war continues which prevents saw ghetto, he added, has been sary funds to buy those tires later
Palestine Government announced
the refugees from living in their completely leveled, except for and help win the war now Lett
that it had denied visas to the
place of residence, to which they one synagogue which stands as
members of the commission.
will have to return once the war a monument of shame to German "Top t'• that Ten u. Percent."
S. Treasury Department
The disclosure was made by
CANTOR H. SCHULSINGER
. . . .
circumstances or persecution by barbarity.
Chief Secretary G. V. Shaw at
All the members of the con- totalitarian regimes has ceased.
a press conference. He said the
"It is understood that the
Palestine Government's decision gregation and the Aid Society
not to issue the visas was based will assemble at the Stoline• group to be formed will be made
on the ground that the commis- Shui at Linwood and Elmhurst up in a large part by persecuted
sion's work is not related direct- at noon and will leave in a body women and children. They, them-
selves, or relief organizations,
ly to the war effort. He said his for the new home.
A special program has been will provide their maintenance,
office would gladly supply the
commission with necessary re- arranged for the occasion. Can- not the government of Mexico,
ports, data and other informa- tor Hyman Schulsinger will offi- which will only grant them for a
ciate at a special service and will certain period the possibility of
tion.
living under protection guaran-
The commission, an independ- render musical selections.
The friends of the congrega- teed by our laws."
ent and non-Zionist body, has
been trying to secure visas for tion and the society are request-
the past five months. It is com- ed to attend the dedication ser-
posed of Robert Nathan, former vices.
Histadruth Elections
chief of the Planning Division
The sinner is never beautiful.
of the War Production Board,
Held in Palestine
—Lilita Vistara.
Louis Bean and Oscar Gass.
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — 120,-
000 persons were eligible to par-
ticipate in the balloting for dele-
gates to the sixth annual confer-
ence of the Histadruth, Jewish
Palestine's Federation of Labor,
which took place here Aug. 6-7.
The "Merkel L'chizuk Hatorah Vyahadus" and the "Vaad Horabonim,"
This compares with 105,000 elig-
request the Jewish people of Detroit to come to the Beth Abraham
Synagogue, Linwood near Sturtevant, on Thursday, Aug. 17 at 6:00 P. M.
ible voters in 1941, of whom
92,000 cast their ballots. In the
Prayers will be offered for Yam Kippur Katon for the safety of the
1941 elections, Mapai, Jewish
remainder of the Jews in the European gehenna, for the peace and
Palestine's Labor Party, elected
for the health and safe return of our children in the armed forces,
278 out of a total of 401 dele-
fighting for victory and for the world's freedom.
gates.
The Rabbis will report on municipal Jewish matters in general and
The leading lists of candidates
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about “Kashruth“ in particular. A well known Torah speaker will address
in opposition to the present ad-
the assembly. The cantors of Detroit synagogues will lead in prayer.
ministration are: The Left Front,
comprising the Hashomer Hart-
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zair and Left Poale Zion; Group
B of Mapai dissidents; Haoeved
Hazioni; Religious W or k e r s
533-547 E. FOREST AVE.
Group; Aliyah Hadasha Ovedeth,
Downtown Branch: The J. L. Hudson Co.
New Immigration's Labor Group;
ant Floor—Farmer Street Bldg.
Yemenites; and dissident Revis-
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ionists, recently expelled by their
Party for joining the Histadruth.

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