friday, August 25. 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

SEGAL

9

B'nai B'rith Furnishes Synagogue for Rafugee Shelter At Fort-Ontario

(Continued from Page 4)

Religious School of
Temple 'Israel Opens
On September 9-10

look forward to.
"Memories like that help to
keep me going; that, and think-
The Religious School of Tem-
ing of you and all you've meant
ple Israel will re-open its ses-
to me. On days when I feel
sions at Hampton Public School,
dow n I like to go back to the
beginning of our family in Amer-
18460 Warrington Dr., on the
week-end of Saturday, Sept. 9,
ica.
"I remember one summer when
and Sunday, Sept. 10.
we were kids you took us for a
The younger children, begin-
drive to New York. We went
ning with the first kindergarten
down to the aquarium by the
of the age of four, and going
Battery. Father told us that the
on through the 5th grade, will
a quarium building used to be
begin their classes on Sunday
called Castle Garden. It was the
morning, Sept. 10, at 9 :30.
place where the immigrants land
The high school of Temple
ed. That was where father land-
Israel, or grades 10, 11 and 12,
ed when he was a kid.
will also meet on Sunday morn-
"There was a deep impression
ing.
o n the front step, made by many
The Confirmation Department,
footsteps through many years.
or grades 6, 7, 8 and 9, will re-
Father laughed and said, 'Look!
sume their training for Confirma-
Here you can see my first foot-
tion Saturday morning, Sept. 9,
print in America. Here's where
at 9:30.
I made my first step in this
The choir of Temple Israel is
country.'
now rehearsing new music especi-
"I have always thought of that
ally composed for the high Holy
,pot as the gate at which Amer-
Day Services of Temple Israel by
ica welcomed us. I think of it
its choir director, Dan Frohman.
now in this desolation of war in
Temple Israel will resume its
which a man sometimes begins
services in the Auditorium of
to wonder what it's all about and
FORT ONTARIO.--Synagogue equipped and furnished by Bnai Brith at the Fort Ontario emer- the Detroit Institute of Arts on
whether it's all worth while.
Rosh Hashonah Eve, • Sunday
gency
refugee shelter housing 1,000 European refligees is dedicated. Bnai Brith provided two Sif•ei night, Sept. 17. Before then
"I know it's worth while and
I understand what it's all about Torah, prayer books, Shofar, covering for the Ark, prayer shawls, tefillin, menorah, and chairs.
Sabbath Eve services will con-
Left to right: Hyman Kolko, president of Beth Joseph Congregation, Rochester, N. Y.; Robert tinue at the Temple Israel meet-
when I remember father's first
Lurie,
director
National
Bnai
Brith
War
Service
Department,
who
made
arrangements
for
equipment
footprint in America and the
ing room, Room 14, Boulevard
long, good way he was allowed with Bnai Brith in Rochester; Rabbi Moses Tzechaval, of Belgium, refugee rabbi of the shelter, who Bldg, 3076 East Grand Blvd.,
accepted
the
equipment
on
behalf
of
the
refugees;
Jack
Cohen,
chairman
of
the
war
service
committee
to travel afterward. The oppor-
every Friday night at 8:30.
tunity he had to make his life of the Upper New York State Bnai Brith Council; Rabbi Leon Stitskin of Congregation Beth Joseph;
Isaac
Cassorla
of
Congregation
Light
of
Israel,
Rochester;
Miss
Ruth
Gruber
of
the
Department
of
good, to work hard and to earn
his way, to make a modest suc- the Interior, who accompanied the refugees from Europe; and Jacob S. Hollander, superintendent of Red Cross Alleged to
cess, to bring his children up the Jewish Children's Home of Rochester. The dedication of the synagogue was the first public func- Have Urged U. S. to
right as citizens who could make tion at the refugee shelter since the official welcome extended by the government.
a full return to America for all
Admit More Refugees
it had done for us.
Jewish
Industrialist
Tells
First-Hand
Story
Nat. Committee Against NEW YORK (WNS) — The
"I know it's worth while be-
cause a just and decent way of of Atrocities Against Jews in Hungary
New York Post, liberal daily, last
Persecution of Jews
life is worth risking everything
week carried a report that the
for when a man feels grateful
CAIRO (WNS) — Koloman ready cash over 3,000 pengos In Anti-Bigotry Drive
International Red Cross had sub-
mitted a memorandum to the
for the privilege of having been Kamarash, a prominent Jewish was to be given up. The next
allowed to live it.
WASHINGTON ( W N S ) —
industrialist f r o no Yugoslavia, decree ordered all Jewish shops United States Supreme Court State Department urging "that
"I understand what it's all
the number of emigrant Jews to
to be closed in the course of 24
about because I feel that the who reached the headquarters of hours. About 20,000 Budapest Justice Frank Murphy, chairman be admitted to the United States
American father discovered at General Mikhailovich's Army af- shops were Jewish, and German of the National Com m i t t e e should be substantially increased,
his first step in this country is ter having escaped from Hun- trucks could be seen daily taking Against Persecution of the Jews, and that a corresponding number
what the shooting is all about. gary, where his wife committed away wares from these shops declared here this week that the of entry permits be accorded."
committee would carry on a The memorandum, the New York
I should feel horribly disappoint- suicide after exposure to indig- till nothing was left.
ed if it didn't turn out to be nities, declared upon his arrival
"The next decree ordered all campaign of education in all Post said, was submitted by Al-
the same America in the future. to safety that the two Hungarian Jews to live in ghettos. Jews parts of the country during the fred E. Zollinger, delegate of
but even then I would say, well, officials most responsible for the were allowed to bring with them coming months to combat the the International Red Cross, who
I fought for the America that mass deportation and extermina- bundles of personal necessities spread of bigotry.
advised the State Department
Judge Murphy asserted that that Hungary was ready to per-
was so good to my father and tion of hundreds of thousands not weighing over 50 kilos. These
to me and my brothers and sis- of Hungarian Jews are Ladislaw Jewish living quarters were sit- mass-meetings will be held in mit the emigration of its Jews.
ters.
According to the New York
Endre, Under-Secretary of the uated in provinces and consisted important cities to warn citizens
"So please don't feel sorry for Ministry of the Interior, and Lt. of abandoned mills, barracks, of the dangers inherent in the Post, the memorandum urged the
spread
of
bigotry.
If
attacks
on
ay having to be here. The only Colonel Stefan Dagy of the gen- brick kilns, gypsy houses, and in
United States to make a public
ones to be sorry for are those darmie, it was reported here by some towns of partially demol- Jewish citizens are not vigorous- statement on its willingness to
who can't understand what it's the Yugoslavian Central Nation- ished houses. The worst ghettos ly challenged, he said, inciters to admit more Jews from Nazi Eur-
all about. And please keep in al Committee.
were in the Carpathian regions, bigotry will be encouraged to ap- ope. "Such a statement," the
your hearts those happy Friday
Kamarash, who sought shelter in Bachka, and in Erdelj. In ply their tactics to other groups memorandum is alleged to have
evenings we used to have to- in Budapest after the Nazis oc- Munkach 5,000 Jews were packed in the nation.
asserted, "would impress the
Simultaneously it was dis- Hungarian Government as a vis-
gether and which we'll have cupied Yugoslavia, was an eye- into an insufficient number of
again, God willing.
witness, only a few weeks ago, barracks and several hundred died closed here that 250 Americans, ible sign of a favorable, reaction
Your son, Walter."
to the brutal German extermina- daily of hunger and disease. The of almost every State and re- to their decision to cease the
I f
Yugoslav Jews from Bachka were ligious denomination, had ac- persecution of the Jews also on
THE father returned the letter tion of the Jews in Hungary. first gathered in an abandoned cepted Judge Murphy's invitation this side."
He said that immediately after
his pocket. He looked at the the Germans' occupation of Hun- mill in Subotica from where they to join the National Committee
laylight fading in the window gary, the Gestapo in Budapest were sent to Baja, without hav- Against the Persecution of the
A quarrel is like a crack in a
pail ; it widens all the time.
. "I guess it's about time for suspended all the Jewish com- ing received any food. There Jews.
addish."
munities and established the so- they remained under the open
MICHIGAN RESORTS
To my friend the Kaddish called "Jewish Council" which sky till the end of April, when 4 ,1•••••
eemed almost superfluous after executed the orders of the Ges- they were packed into freight
the boy's letter. It seemed a tapo. From a list previously cars. 70 to a car, and without
Psalm of praise enough. Yet the drawn up, the police proceeded food or water were sent further
things the boy had cherished to arrest all prominent and weal- on. It was learned later on that
were all of the goodness of Goal thy Jews. Soon thereafter the the greater part of these wret-
which Kaddish celebrates.
police began to round up all ched people were found dead in
My friend joined in the Kad- other Jews suspected of having freight cars when they were un-
lish with a full heart .. . "Mag- money or property. His state- loaded, and that all the survivors
nified and sanctified be His great ment on the anti-Jewish measures were killed in lethal chambers.
ame in the world which he loath in Hungary, as reported by the
"There were no ghetto quar-
routed according to His will." Yugoslavian Central National ters in Budapest only because the
(He had the boy's letter copied Committee, follows:
government was of the opinion
i hand around to the unde•-
"Upon their arrival, the Ger- that the city would be spared
anding m en .)
mans requisitioned Jewish flats of Anglo-American bombing if
and villas, throwing the occu- the Jewish population lived dis-
Jerusalem was destroyed be- pants out into the street. All the persed all over the town, the es-
use its people held too strictly Jewish houses, of course, were caped Jewish industrialist said.
o the letter of the Law, instead
f the spirit of justice and the plundered. A decree soon ar- The so-called Jewish houses were
rived ordering the Jews to give marked at the entrance with a
olden rule.
For A Vacation of Leisure or Activity-
over everything they had of gold, yellow star. At the end of June,
diamonds, precious stones and the deportation of all Jews from
It is better to be the pursued platinum. All the Jewish bank Hungary, except Budapest, had
an the pursuer.
accounts were blocked and all been effected."

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Order Reinstatement of
Jewish Teachers in Italy

ROME ( WNS) —Jewish teach-
ers and other employees in the
educational system who were dis-
missed from their positions when
Mussolini introduced anti-Jewish
laws in Italy have been restored
to their posts this week by an
order of the Italian Minister of
Public Instruction.
Asserting that the reinstate-
ments will be made effective in
the liberated areas as speedily
as possible, the Italian Minister
condemned the racial laws as "an
offense to our civilization and
true traditions."
Simultaneously it was disclosed
that the liquidated Racial Office
in Rome has been converted into
an office for Count Carlo Sforza,
High Commissioner for Sanctions
Against Fascism.

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