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Friday, March 30, 1945
CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, 01110
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Healing the Wounds of War
HIAS—A HEART OF MANY HEART THROBS
By LARRY BAXTER
It was I letter from the Jew- der three flags and about as
ish mother of an airman. She ninny concentration camps."
wrote: "My son has just com-
"Say, that is a story," I said.
pleted the allotted quota of 50 "Tell me about it."
missions—and he is safe. I am
"Well, the fundamental facts
sending 'HAS $18, When the are all very simple. At the out-
war is over, I'll double the do- break of the war, this young
nation."
man living in North Africa
Isaac L. Asofsky, executive di- joined the French Foreign Le-
rector of HIAS, handed me the gion. With the coming of the
letter. "Eighteen in Hebrew is Vichy regime, he was thrown into
Thai' and Thai' means life. I3,er a concentration camp, When the
son's life has been saved and Allies liberated North Africa, he
she is thankful. We get many joined the British Merchant Ma-
such letters, from soldiers and rine. After about six months
the families of soldiers,"
with them, he was taken ill,
"Why," I asked, "should sol- perhaps as a result of the pre-
diers think of HIAS when there vious confinement in the concen-
are organizations which serve the tration camp, and so had to leave
needs of the armed forces. Does the English Merchant Marine.
HIAS do any war work?"
When he got to feeling better,
"Do we do any war work, you he joined the American Merchant
ask?" said Mr. Asofsky. "If you Marine. But here again after
consider healing the wounds of five or six months, he again took
war, such work then I would say ill and was flown by an American
that all of HIAS activities at flyer to . the United States for
present are largely of this na- treatment. He will stay at HIAS
ture." The executive director of until he is sufficiently sound to
HIAS looked at his watch. "Come rejoin an American ship,"
with me," he said. "We'll go to
We passed near a very pretty
the dining room. The noon meal young girl.
is now being served there. May-
"You don't mean to tell me
be that will help CO\ answer she has been wounded by the
your question."
war?"
The large dining room was
"Well, I think she might be
filled with people—eating. Super-
ficially, it looked much like any included in that category," re-
large dining room—but there was plied Mr. Asofsky. "She is a
a difference. There seemed a young French Jewess, who three
deep pensiveness on the faces of times decided to get married
each time the war inter-
the people who were eating. "I and
fered."
think I see what you mean," I
said. "These people have seen
war."
"Yes," said Mr. Asofsky,
"these are the civilian veterans
of the war—quite as much
wounded as the veterans in our
hospitals."
We passed by one table. A pale
young man was sitting. He was
in civilian clothes.
"That young man," said Mr.
Asofsky, "could belong to three
veteran organizations. He served
in the French Foreign Legion,
in the British Merchant Ma-
rine and lastly in the American
Marine. If you ever want to
write a novel captioned Under
Three Flags, there's a living
model for you. He has served un-
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France. Her betrothed was called
to the colors and served in the
Council
French army and was decorated
for valor. When the French
army collapsed, boy and girl
fled to Spain and decided to get
married there—but under Fran-
co Spain, they discovered that
Jews cannot marry unless they
renounced their faith. So leav-
ing his betrothed, the young man
came to America and joined the
American Army, As an Ameri-
can soldier, he succeeded in hav-
ing his fiance conic to the United
States. As fate would have it,
however, as the bout bringing
her docked at the pier, her sol-
dier man was leaving with an
American army contingent for
overseas. So again they were
not married.
"I. can see now," I said, "why
her young eyes are so sad."
"I have read in the newspa-
pers," I continued, "that HIAS
has received many letters from
American soldiers abroad, ask-
ing for its aid in locating rela-
tives of Jewish children whom
they have picked up,"
"Yes," replied Mr. Asofsky,
"we have gotten letters even
from Christian soldiers who in
EIGHTY NINE YEAR OLD REFUGEE BECOMES CITIZEN: Mrs. Sophie
the wake of liberating one or
Cruenfeld, once decorated by Emperor Franz Joseph for her pioneer work
another European town have
in social welfare for children in Atstria, is sworn in as Citizen by Judge
come across little Jewish chil-
John C. Knox at Federal Court, Southern District. With her is Mrs. Esther
dren whose families as a whole
Beckwith Kaunitz, Director of Service to Foreign Born of the National
have been killed by the Gestapo.
Council of Jewish Women who tutored her for citizenship examination, and
There are people who tell you of
Pvt. Otto W. Kennedy, soon to leave for overseas, one of her three grand-
sons now in service.
the brutalizing results of training
soldiers to shoot. Well, that may
be true in Germany, but the ex-
perience of Hias shows that it is
"How is that?" I asked.
a fine Jewish boy in France (lur- not having this result on Ameri-
"Well, here, too, the funda- ing peace times—and was about can soldiers. I would say, on
mentals are simple," said the to get married—when the war
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