DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, August 18, 1944

Je wish Soldier on Furlough Learns His
Parents are in Shelter at Fort Ontario

NEW YORK (WNS) — When.
Joseph Flink, a Polish refu-
Sgt,
gee from Berlin who joined the
United States Army to fight for
the liberation of Europe, Mine
to New York on furlough last
week he had no idea that he
was on his way to a reunion with
his parents when he had not seen
for many years. But Sgt. Flink,
who c onsidered his escape to the
United ate
Sts in 1938 as one of
the greatest "miracles in my
life," is now convinced more
than ever that "miracles are still
happening in my life." This is
what 1w told his aged parents,
at the Refugee Shelter in Fort
Ontario, as he spoke to them
o ver the telephone.
Sergeant Flink, assigned to
Medical Supply at the Rhoades
General Army Hospital in Utica,
learned his parents' whereabouts
when a relative informed him
their names had appeared in a
list of refugee ship passengers
published in a Yiddish newspap-
er. After checking this informa-
tion with the National Refugee
Service, Inc., 139 Center St.,
Sergeant Flink made what the
telephone call to the new Oswego

service believes was the first such
Refugee Shelter. It took him
four hours to get the call
through. Speaking from his
home, 920 Riverside Dr., the ser-
geant said in German:
"Papa, because I hear your
voice, now I believe this is true!"
The Flinks told their son that
after nearly four years in Fas-
cist concentration camps they
now were well and happy.
He expects to visit them as
soon as possible, taking gifts of
clothing, toilet articles and a
radio.
After 40 years in Berlin, Mr.
and Mrs. Flink, who were born in
Poland, fled to Genoa in 1940.
A Nazi pogrom had wrecked their
home and wholesale shoe busi-
ness. When Mr. Flink proudly
exhibited a Swiss newspaper
photograph of their son Morris,
30, with a Polish regiment fight-
ing against the Nazis in France
early in the war the couple was
interned in a series of Fascist
concentration camps. Food and
clothing were scarce, they told
the sergeant, but they suffered
no ill-treatment from the Ital-
ians.
Morris is now interned in
Switzerland. Another son, Solo-
mon, 32, was killed by the Nazis
in Berlin in 1942. Their (laugh-
ter, Mrs. Fanny Frank, her hus-
band and two children are be-
lieved to be "somewhere in Bel-
gium."

Home on Furlough

AMERICA IS PROUD OF ITS JEWISH VETERANS

By HORACE T. CAHILL
Lt. Governor of Massachusetts

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EDITOR'S NOTE:—An outstanding American, Lt. Governor Cahill
of Massachusetts, examines the "rising tide of hatreds" but
expresses an optimistic view of the future in an article written
as a tribute to the 500,000 Jewish men and women now in the
armed services of the United States.

These are days when the loy- hate. Organizations like your's
alty, patriotism and sacrifice, are necessary so that the funda-
mental truths upon which our
which have ever been the dis- government rests shall be kept
which
tinguishing marks of the Jewish alive in the minds of all the citi-
War Veterans of the U.S., will zens, so that they will neither be
prove of inestimable value in pre- a party to, nor condone, privab
serving and promoting the prin. acts Of intolerance against an
ciples and ideals which have race or any religion.
As 1 see it, you can perform
made our country unique among
it ;relit public service by carry-
all nations.
Are these principles and ideals ing on an intensive program to
in danger today We hope not. educate the public in the funda-
We have faith that the unity and mental and all-important princi-
valor of our fighting men, the pies upon which our nation was
unity and patriotism of all our founded—the principles of per-
people, will carry us on to new sonul liberty, of religious free-
heights in war and in peace. But dom, of individual rights, of the
we realize that us a nation we fact that our government was
stand face to face with world- instituted to safeguard all of
CAPT. LEWIS R. BARAK
wide danger, indeed, that all these rights for all of the people
Capt. Lewis R. Barak has re- mankind is at grips with the and to see that the protection
turned to the United States after gravest crisis in history. W e granted by the law is in fact
serving a year and a half in the know that this war in which we enforced by those charged with
Southwest Pacific with the 6th are engaged may be long an d the administration of the law.
Service Command. While enjoy- costly, and that even after we
ing a furlough with his wife, have won the battle of arms, we
Ruth, and children, Brenda and shall still face a long and dan-
BAY CITY NOTES
Peter, he is awaiting orders for gerous trail.
it future assignment.
One of the most tragic and OBITUARY
Special Tisha-b'Av
Capt. Barak is the son of Mr. fearsome problems posed by this
Mrs. Ella Levine, who came to
and Mrs. Louis Barak of Clem- long drawn-out world-wide war,
Of Hungarian Jewry
ents Ave. and is a graduate of lies in the rising tides of hatreds Bay City from Lima, 0., 22 years
the old Detroit College of Medi- throughout the earth. These hat- ago, died on Wednesday morning
By EMANUEL ROSMAN
eine and Surgery. Prior to his reds are the inevitable outcome at the home of her daughter,
enlistment in the armed forces, of the intolerance and cruel dis- Mrs. Phillip Zacher after an ill-
This is a commentary on an
Dr. Barak was engaged in the regard of human rights which ness of one year. The deceased
article by Rabbi Moses Fischer
general
practice of medicine in formed the basis of the philoso- was 74 years old, born in Russia
about the special Tish'a-b'Av of
USO ACTIVITIES
Detroit, having maintained his phy of the Axis nations. Under and married there in 1890. She
Hungarian Jewry (which ap-
was a member of the Temple of
peared in the Detroit Jewish
On Aug. 7 Hebrew Ladies' Aid own clinic on West Seven Mile the emotional stress of war, they
Chronicle July 28, 1944), in Society served at Downtown USO Road. Mrs. Barak is the former have spread like a fog of poison Abraham and the synagogue's
women's auxiliary. Surviving be-
Ruth Rosenthal.
which Rabbi Moses Fischer with Canteen.
gas over whole continents.
We must be on guard, ever sides her daughter are three sons,
graphic vividness compared that
A generous contribution to the
and always to make sure that Louis of this city, Samuel of
magnificent Tabak Street Syna- USO Food Program was received
this noxious influence of hatred San Bernadino, Cal., and Jerome
gogue of Budapest, Hungary, from the Women's Auxiliary of
and intolerance shall be kept of Dayton, 0.; seven grandchil-
with the humble building oppo- United Hebrew Schools.
Downtown Theaters—
dren; and a brother, L. Latzoff
from spreading to our shores.
site it in which Dr. Theodore
All the ice cream and ices for
of Lima, 0. Funeral services
I
am
not
one
who
fears
that,
MICHIGAN
—
Bette
Davis
in
Herzl was born.
the social evenings at the Great
Once we visualized with the Lakes Party and the Jewish Com- "Mr. Skeffington" with Claude because minorities are persecuted were held Thursday afternoon at
power of our imagination these munity Center USO-JWB Lounge Rains and Walter Abel opened by governmental action in Eur- the Zacher home, Rabbi Glantz
buildings, reminiscent of better were donated by Messrs. H. Katz- Friday at the Michigan Theater. ope, that same thing will hap- officiating.
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times, representing two diamet- loan, Samuel Stahl, J. Feirstein It is the film adaptation of the pen here. Legally, of course, that
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Walter
Bloch
can
never
happen
here
as
long
novel of the same name by Eliza-
rically different trends in Jew- and Asher Smith.
and son have returned from a
ish thinking and acting; the first,
The Hebrew Ladies' Aid So- beth. By way of contrast, the as we hold true to our American cruise to Georgian Bay.
that is at present the quarters ciety contributed to our social companion feature, "Seven Days heritage of government. The
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of the Budapest Gestapo, sym- evening at the Belcrest-Great Ashore," starring Alan Carney very foundations of our social
Mr,
and
Mrs.
Ellis
Isaacson
and Wally Brown, is a light- and government al system, the
bolizing the rich anti-Zionist class Lakes party.
and son are leaving this city to
Constitution
and
the
Bill
of
hearted
musical
with
beautiful
of yore whose motto •was "Buda-
On Sunday, July 23, Mr. and
in Chicago.
pest is our Zion the Danube our Mrs. Kling entertained several girls and the bands of Freddie Rights, prohibit governmental per- make their home
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secution of minorities. The basic
Jordan" and the second symboliz- officers and hostesses at their Fisher and Freddie Slack.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kahn have
principle laid down by the Dec-
ing the Zionist stream set in cottage at Walled Lake, and on
UNITED ARTISTS — Bing laration of Independence is that left for Chicago to become ac-
motion and driven by Dr. Theo- the same date Mr. and Mrs. Jack
dore Herzl: Soon we imagine we Rothberg entertained officers and Crosby in "Going My Way" went all our citizens are guaranteed quainted with their granddaugh-
hear the second-one whispering hostesses at a lawn party at their into its seventh week. In addi- inherent rights—and the Bill of ter, recently born to Capt. and
tion to Crosby and Berry Fitz- Rights formally guarantees all Mrs. David Kahn.
to the first that commonplace home on Chicago Blvd.
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remark of "You see! I told you!
On Sunday, Aug. 6, Mr. and gerald, "Going My Way" has the personal liberty, all the
Mrs. Wm. Kentz has returned
Now how much happier would Mrs. Schlafer entertained several everything that makes a good equality before the law, all the
protection of minorities any one home from a trip to Pittsburgh.
you and your children be as officers and hostesses at a swim motion picture.
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The United Artists' program could ask.
prosperous farmers on the shores party, followed by a lawn party
Tech. Sgt. Fred Golden has
But even in Europe those gov-
of the Jordan which you could at their home on Pemberton Rd.. is rounded out by a featurette
titled "Halfway to Heaven," with ernments which persecute minori- returned to his military assign-
have acquired then with a small Grosse Pte., Mich.
ties could never have come to ment after a week's furlough with
fraction of your tremendous in-
Following are the women who Betty Jane Rhodes and Johnny power if the majority of the in- his mother, Mrs. B. Weinberg.
come, how much happier would served at the Downtown USO Johnston.
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dividual citizens in those coun-
you be than to have been humili- Canteen Aug. 7: Mesdames Jul-
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harry Bernstein
FOX—Get set for laughter, tries had not first been poisoned
ated to the lowest degree and ius Ring, I. Auslander, Emery
hopelessly languish and starve in Ehrenwald, L. Greenfield, Charles because Abbott and Costello are by whispered propaganda to a of Rochester, N. Y., accompanied
the miserable ghettoes of your Berkowitz, Jerome Stern, Joseph back in circulation—and in style, point where they forgot the ob- by Miss Miriam Kramer of this
adopted Zion on the shores of Stern, Benjamin Wiatneck, Ed- too. For this pair of fun-makers vious fact of the equality of man. city, have arrived here for an
your adopted Jordan, not to men- mond Labe, Alex Roth, E. R. are appearing in "In Society" That is one vital reason why indefinite stay. * * *
tion the poison-gas chambers." Weiss, Charles Berger, Abe Mil- on the Fox Theater screen that America today needs organiza-
To compliment Mrs. Isadore
tions like the Jewish War Vet-
To which the first replies: "Nov ler, Grace Diamond, Jos. Binziz, opened Friday.
A companion feature will also erans to meet all subtle inuen- Karbel of Detroit, and Mrs.
I am awakening and sobering up. Julia Laeffer, Violet Solomon,
does, all selfish propagation of Harry Bernstein of Rochester,
be shown.
but alas! It sems to be already Sadie Weiss, Sam Bei4witz.
late, and for myself within the
The Mt. Sinai Hospital Asso- r
ghetto—I am afraid—it is even ciation sponsored the Sunday
irreparably too late."
morning bagel and lox breakfast
on Aug. 6. Following are the
Sate Apart ment Property'
women who served: Mrs. Julius
Ring, Mrs. J. Rosenthal, Mrs. Es-
ther Davis, Mrs. Sant Klein and
Miss Jewel Klein.

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FROZEN IN
THE BANK

Charlevoix Beach Hotel

Druggists Donate Ice Cream
for G.I. Parties Bi-Weekly

Sam.. number of dollars bark
terlorated dollars.
No earning:, no
future.
'Don't delay another day
ev•teh to real estate profit s. After
the war onies the Deluge. better
AVe
self. Get all t he Terse &
f. .111 Mr. Bedford.

Clement.
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TM:,
tilt. 3
Rath. filth showers, 2 incinerators
near sbo es nets 12', prive half
fortnel

Fischer Indian 'Village.
19 n P t
Original value
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fumes
sale
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New
apt s. 2-3 rms.
sieves n. It refill/. Nets $6200, rs-
ekteenient bldg. cost $28 • Sen. Entire

E.:.,6110. About half rash.

Kietlawn -20 tine apts. 1-1 rms.
new (ankles, hot water
h eat er
r oll
tiled
baths
showers.
10 '; net ,o en at trivial
rents.
About vo,,608 dw n.

lakewooel - quality 37 nets.
"Hs.
Va..
tubular
boiler.
steel
Rat hs
ith showers.
Rent $20. tins.
non to build. Only $120.-
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$05•080.
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1/111/* Building

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Voluntary contributions of ice
cream have been made by a
number of pharmacists, members
of the A escuiapians, Jewish Phar-
maceutical Fraternity, to the
parties for servicemen given by
the USO at the Jewish Commun-
ity Center and the Belcrest
Hotel.
A committee of pharmacists
handle the arrangements where-
by one donor contributes to the
Sunday afternoon party at the
Center, and another to the Wed-
nesday evening party at the
Great Lakes Club at the Belcrest
Hotel. At the present time, over
40 pharmacists are on the list of
contributors, the schedule extend-
ing through the month of Sep-
tember. Plans are being made
for a continuance of the contri-
butions throughout the entire
year.
Pharmacists who have not yet
been contacted, and who wish to
become donors, are asked to leave
their names with Ben Bavly,
of the Committee, at Madison
4413.

Overlooking Lake Michigan

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Charlevoix

Michigan

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W. E. FLYNN, Manager

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