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practicing lawyer in New York.

Aged Jews Found Alive

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Rosh Hashonah

Message

from

HAROLD L. ICKES,

Secretary of the

Interior

WASHINGTON (WNS)—Secretary of the In-
terior Harold L. Ickes issued the following Rosh
Hashonah message to the Jews of America:

"I extend greetings and good wishes
for the New Year to my fellow Americans
of the Jewish religion. Although the last
twelve months have been a period of rising
hope. the plight of your co-religionists in
Europe has been only slightly ameliorated.

"Heroic deeds have been performed by
men and women of all faiths. strugirling to
restore civilization to a maddened Europe.
The average of the horror has been great:
how much greater then must it have been
for those unfortunate ones at the very ton
of the scale who suffered the full vengeful
lust of the blood thirsty Hitler and his sat-
ellites. Yet, there have been evidences of
a forceful progressive success by the Unit-
ed Nations. Encouragement has been given
to the downtrodden peonies, and it is not
beyond the realm of possibility and certain-
ly within the mind to hope that the next
twelve months will witness an end of the
slaughter thrust upon men by Hitler.

"The grief and anguish which this war
has brought to thousands, and more especi-
ally to those of Jewish faith, will leave an
indellible mark on mankind. It is my fer-
vent hope that victory can quickly be ach-
ieved and that we, as a nation, may help
reconstruct a world in which men will
respect each other as humans entitled by
right to enjoy the freedoms which are the
mark of civilization."

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YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH

AND THE

Ladies of the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah

WISH ALL THEIR MEMBERS, CONTRIBUTORS

FRIENDS
A Happy and Victorious New Year

AND

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Give your children a thorough Jewish education—enroll
them in Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and Beth Jecob

School for Girls.

Among the Jews found alive
here after the Germans were
driven from the city were 85
aged and feeble persons, most of
whom had been living in a pub-
lic home for the aged. Most of
them were German Jews who had
been deported here.
Edmund Kahn, a former Paris
jeweler, related how 40 Jews
were saved from death by the
villagers of the Alpine town of
Allemont. The villagers held the
Jews in hiding for more than a
year at the risk of paying with
thQ . r lives.

Resume Normal Life

Of the more than 3,000 Jews
who lived in the Grenoble area
approximately 1,500 have sur-
vived the Nazi occupation. After
months of underground existence
they are gradually resuming their
normal pursuits. Those in need
are being helped by the local
Jewish relief organizations which
functioned underground all
through the Nazi period of ter-
ror.
This Saturday the first regular
synagogue service since the lib-
eration of the city was held in
Grenoble. The services were con-
ducted by Major Earl Stone of
Chicago, senior Jewish chaplain of
the 7th army.
Last week the Jews in Gren-
oble held a memorial meeting for
two of their heroes who were ex-
ecuted by the Gestapo last De-
cember. The men whose death
was honored were J. Breifski and
J. Samois, both Polish-born Jews.
Originally the Jewish popula-
tion of Grenoble consisted of
about 40 families. But when the
war broke out the Jewish popula-
tion was ugmented by 3,000 refu-
gees from Alsace-Lorraine and
northern France.

Jewish Survivors Found

As the Allied armies of libera-
tion are moving closer to Ger-
many, there is mounting evidence
that more Jews may have sur-
vived the Nazi occupation in
southern France than was origin-
ally estimated. This week it was
learned that approximately 150
Jews were found hiding in the
small village of Voirons, 20 miles
from Grenoble. Among them was
Rabbi Salmon Schneerson of
Paris. Rabbi Schneerson is a
member of the famous "chassi-
dis" family headed by Rabbi Jos-
eph Schneerson, known as the
"Lubavitcher Rebbe," who now
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Among
the survivors there was Moshe
Brycman, secretary of the Left
Poale-Zionin Paris. Also found
in Voirons were Assia and Sonia
Gafon, who were staff members
of the ORT in Marseilles.

Women's Auxiliary, Jewish
Home for Aged

A regular board meeting was
held in the lounge of the Home
at 11501 Petoskey on Wednes-
day, Sept. 13, at 1:30 p. m.
The president, Mrs. N. J. Lip-
pitt, appointed Mrs. Samuel
Weller as hostess for the an-
nual tea to be held on Oct. 16.
Mrs. S. Schwartz, purchasing
chairman, bought pillows and
hosiery for the Home.
The Good Cheer will again pay
weekly visits to the aged resi-
dents of the Home.

Rabbi Moses Fischer

Extends congratulations to the members of the

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Synagogue who, through their generosity, have

A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT

By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN
Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Beth El

Shall the year 5705 be one of hopes fulfilled, and
ideals realized? Shall it be a year of peace achieved—
a year in which swords shall be beaten into the plou gh.
shares and spears into pruning hooks and shall it herald'
the glad time in which men shall learn war no more 9
Shall it usher in the day when every man shall it in
safety under his own vine and fig tree with none to make
him afraid? And above all, will it usher in a new era
of peace, and security and good will for the Jew—or at
least for the comparative handful] of Jews who remain
alive after the years of terror, torture and martyrdom,
unequalled in the past, through which they have lived?

While it seems likely that the battling nations sh a ll
have laid down their arms long before the New Year
shall have run its course, we cannot with too great as-
surance give answer to these questions. All that we can
do is to face them prayerfully and with the determination
to do what we can to bring about a better day for our
people and for all peoples everywhere.

We must be alert to the truth that in our own hands
will, to some extent, be the shaping of our fate as Jews.
If, as in the past, we shall be divided into mutually
antagonistic groups, each at the throat of the other; it'
we shall continue, because we differ in our interpretations
of Jewish history and philosophy, to indulge
i
in name-
calling—or worse—in an attempt to read out Of the
circle of Jewish fellowship those who do not see eye to
eye with us, we may as well concede that whereas our
avowed enemies could not totally destroy us, we shall be
sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

Therefore the New Year calls upon us fora
or lAe
rt(1. 1hamnag ye
of attitude toward our own fellows in faith.
we repeat the penetential words of the Psalmist, "Create
ill me, 0 God, a clean heart and a right spirit do Thou
renew within me." Let us strive not for uniformity of
thought and conduct so much as for unity of spirit, in
which we have been so sadly lacking. Perhaps the New
Year will be our Day of Opportunity. At least, let us
pray God, it shall not through our own fault, be the
time of our total undoing.

As producers of nature's greatest

Protective Food—MILK .. .

the members of the

MICHIGAN
Milk Producers
Association

extend

NEW YEARS GREETINGS

with best wishes for

A HAPPY HOLIDAY

4 Happy New Year to All

Zipper Repair
Service
Al H. Harrison Co.

Congregation and the Sisterhood of Bnai Moshe

Friday, September 15, 1944

35 E. GRAND RIVER, 4th Floor
Opposite Hudson's
RA. 7374

freed the Synagogue from the encumbrance of the

The Officers and Board of Directors of

Mizrachi Organization of Detroit

Wish the Members and Their Families
And the Detroit Jewish Community

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR'

It is our hope that our people shall lose the stigma of suli,, ring

and homelescsness in the coming year and that our dream
and aspirations may be realized and Eretz Israel shall
become the Land of Israel.

mortgage. Also for their inaugurating an emergency

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fund for the rescue of Jews in Hungary.

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Extend Heartiest Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Ali

Its Members and to the Entire Jewish Communiti

for a

A Happy and Victorious New Year

