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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945

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Jews
3,500,000
Temple Beth El
Killed in Poland ; Plans Institute
For Protestants

50,000 Survive

SOFIA (WNS)—The Germans
slew practically all Jews in the
Russian territory they occupied,
it was disclosed here by Ilya
Ehrenburg, famous Russian war
correspondent and writer.
Approximately 30,000 Jews es-
caped liquidation at the hands
of the Nazis in occupied Russia
by fleeing into the interior of
the Soviet Union.
Mr. Ehrenburg estimated that
the Germans massacred about 3,-
500,000 Jews in Poland where,
he said, there are about 50,000
survivors. He said "almost all
Jews of Czechoslovakia have
been annihilated," and that
"there are no Jews left in Ger-
many, except a few thousands

See POLAND—Page 5

Mufti to Seek
Haven in Mecca

NEW YORK (WNS)—The ex-
Mufti of Jerusalem, wanted by
the Allies for punishment as the
organizer of two Nazi-inspired
anti-British revolts in the Mid-
dle East and as the founder of
Hitler "Moslem Legion" in Eur-
ope, will seek to gain sanctuary
in the holy Moslem city of Mec-
ca, according to information re-
ceived here.
Mindful of the fact that as
recently as a year ago, the prime
minister of Egypt, with the tacit
backing of several British colo-
nial officials, sought of the Brit-
ish Government an amnesty for
the ex-Mufti which would per-
mit him to return to Allied ter-
ritory to assume leadership of
the Palestine Arabs and partici-
pate in the Arab unity parleys.
Jewish groups are planning to
seek formal indictment of the
ex-Mufti by the United Nations
War Crimes Commission in Lon-
don if his name is not already
on its list of wanted war crim-
inals.

BRIGADE GETS FLAG

WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY
IN ITALY (WNS) — Palestine's
blue and white national flag was
formally raised over Jewish Bri-
gade Headquarters last week in
a simple, quiet ceremony.

Local, regional and national

lladassah Spring Conference,

which opens at the Detroit-Le-

$100,000 Raised

By Histadrut

In Drive Here

The third annual Institute on
Judaism for the Protestant min-
More than $100,000 has been
isters of Detroit will be held on
raised in Detroit in the Hista-
Monday, April 23, from 10:30
drut Geverkshaften campaign,
a. m. to 2:30 p. m.
which was officially concluded at
The Institute is being arrang-
ed by Temple Beth El in asso-
ciation with the Detroit Council
of Churches, the Detroit Pas-
tors' Union, and the Council of
Religious Education.
The guest lecturers will be Dr.
Israel Bettan, professor of homi-
letics and Midrash at the Hebrew
Union College, who will speak
on "The Origin of Preaching in
the Early Synagogue—the Back-
ground of the Sermon as Part
of Worship," and Dr. Abraham
Cronbach, Professor of Jewish
Social Studies at the Hebrew
Union College, who will lecture
on "The Prophets of Israel and
the Modern Social Scene."

10 Detroit Boys

Reported Killed in

War in Week

The names of 10 Detroit Jew-
ish boys lost in action were list-
ed within the last week, a record
total. In all _cases the next of
kin have been notified.

KILLED IN ACTION

TECH. 5/g LEWIS A. SIMON,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Simon, 16910 LaSalle.
PFC. ROBERT J. RAFELSON,
husband of Mrs. Ilene, 18922
Muirland, only son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mark Rafelson, 18085 Oak
Dr. Pfc. Rafelson's death puts
the ninth gold star on Temple
Beth El's service flag.
PAUL HAROLD LEVINE, 18,
navy fireman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Levine, 18027 Rose-
lawn, lost in Pacific on aircraft
carrier.
SGT. MILTON S. COHEN, son
of Mrs. Rose Cohen, 2985 Leslie.
PVT. HENRY R. KOHEN,
3424 Dickerson.
SGT. MORTON SILVERMAN,
22, lost on an amphibious unit.
PVT. J. G. ALPERN, husband

See CASUALTIES—Page 12

Program Outlined for Hadassah
Regional Conference in Detroit

Zionist leaders will participate in
the Central States Region of

Founded in 1915

and The Legal Chronicle

DR. BARNETT B. BRICKNER

he victory rally held last Sun-
day night at Cass Tech. Pledges
are still coming in and prospec-
tive contributors are still being
canvassed. It is hoped that the
goal of $125,000 will be reached.
The national quota for the Hista-
drut campaign was $2,000,000
and it is reported that this sum
was raised. The boys and girls
raised more than $1,000 by means
of a tag day.
Nearly 3,000 contributors to
the drive, represending 118 or-
ganizations and the general Jew-
ish public, attended this rally
and concert. They heard Rabbi
Barnett B. Brickner of Cleve-
land, and Baruch Zuckerman,
noted Yiddish journalist and or-
ator. They were entertained and
stirred by the singing of Moishe
Oysher, noted cantor, who was
accompanied at the piano by Re-
becca Frohman. A. H. Kushin-
sky, who managed the drive, gave
the introduction. Morris L.
Schaver was chairman of the af-
fair and told of the Histadrut
campaigns in other years here.

See HISTADRUT—Pag e 9

Bulgarian Anti-Semites
Sentenced to Death

SOFIA (WNS)—Alexander Be-
lev, former Commissar of Jewish
Junior Hadassah Choral group. Affairs, and his principal assist-
Miss Nell Jaffe, assistant curator ant, Ki•il Kalkalutchev, who were
tried in absentia, accused of anti-
at the Toledo Museum of
Art, Jewish persecutions, were sen-
tenced to death last week by the
Bulgarian Peoples' Court.
Three other functionaries of
the commissariat—whose where-
abouts are also unknown—were
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Yaroslav Kalizan, who, under Be-
lev's direction, arranged the de-
portation of thousands of Jews
from Macedonia and Thrace, was
sentenced to 15 years, as was
one of his associates, Borislav
Naoumoff. Seventeen other offi-
cials received preson terms.

land Hotel this Saturday night
and will continue through Sun-
day and Monday. In keeping
with wartime regulations, this
will be a streamlined conference,
confined to the presidents of the
c onstituent chapters and business
and professional divisions, in the
region, but open to all Detroit
Hadassah members.
A special exhibit of Hadassah's
projects has been arranged by
Mrs. Benjamin Bond and her
daughter, Dorothea Bond, presi-
dent of the Little Women of
Hadassah.
The Business and Professional
Divisions will meet this Saturday
night. Miss Sophie Blanche
Schwartz, chairman of the De-
troit division, will preside and
will discuss the Hadassah Medical
Organization. This discussion
will be followed by a cultural
MRS. SAMUEL RUBINER
program featuring fine arts in
Palestine.
will
discuss Palestinian art and
Miss Rose Poskel and Miss
Helen Kass of Detroit will dis- Miss Muriel Singer of Toledo,
cuss Palestinian dances and mu- literature.
Miss Rose Bloom,
sic, with dance illustrations by
See
HADASSAH—Page
8
a youth group and music by the

Bnai Brith Program
On WWJ Saturday

The National Office of Bnai
Brith has arranged for the
broadcast of a radio program
entitled "Unity in Service," over
Station WWJ at 6 p. m. this
Saturday. The participants on
this program, as representatives
of the three faiths, are Fr.
Flannigan of Boy's Town, Capt.
Maurice Witherspoon, chief of
chaplains, Third Naval District,
and Henry Monsky, Bnai Brith
president.

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Histadrut Honors Zionists Seek
2 Young Heroes To Reconcile

One of the most stirring epi
sodes at the Histadrut rally last
Sunday at Cass Tech was the
Hamoleh chanted by Moishe Oy-
sher, noted cantor, in memory
of two Detroit Jewish youths,
reported lost in action recently.
The prayer was chanted for 2nd
Lt. Daniel Ginsburg, 22, of the
Marine Corps, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Ginsburg of 7727
Mack, who was reported killed
on Iwo Jima, and for Pfc. Allen
Henry Eizelman, 24, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. Eizelman, 3341
Clements, who was reported lost
in Germany.
Lt. Ginsburg was a leader in
the Habonim, labor Zionist youth
groups here, and one of the
builders of Camp Kineret.

Silver and Wise

NEW YORK (WNS) — The
National Executive of the Zion-
ist Organization of America vot-
ed last week for the appoint-
ment of a committee to explore
the possibilities of bringing about
it reconciliation between the Sil-
ver-Wise factions in the Zionist
movement.
The decision to appoint such
a committee was taken after a
debate (luring which Dr. Israel
Goldstein, president of the ZOA

and chairman of the meeting,
reported an exchange of letters
between Louis Lipsky, Dr. Wise

and Dr. Silver. Dr. Silver was
reported to have stated in a
communication to Louis Lipsky
that he felt that the controversy
no longer centered around the
ZOA, but around the Zionist
Emergency Council.
The committee was specifically
instructed to reject any proposal
which might be construed as a
WASHINGTON — The Ameri- reprimand to Dr. Wise or which
can Jewish Conference and the might imply his ceasing of ac-
American Jewish Committee have
See ZION—Page 8
been notified by Secretary of
State Stettinius to appoint dele-
gates who will serve as advisors
to the American delegation to
the San Francisco United Na-
tions parley and who will also
sit in as observers at the con-
ference.
The board of trustees of the
These two organizations are
Hebrew Congregation
among 42 groups which will send Northwest
and 'Center- held their monthly
advisors to the world parley.
These groups include the Federal meeting at the home of Ira G.
Kaufman last Monday. The
Council of Churches and the Na-
tional Catholic Welfare Confer- meeting was highlighted by the
ence, the CIO, the American reports of the Sunday School,
building and fund raising
Legion and the American Bar the
committees.
Association and Lawyers Guild.
David J. Miller, chairman of
the Sunday School committee, re-
ported that the. Sunday School
will have a closing festival on
May 21, when the pupils will
present a farewell play.
Eighty-five children are en-
rolled and plans are being drawn
up, it was reported, by Mr. Mil-
WASHINGTON — The Amer- ler, for an enrollment of ap-
ican armies last week freed 900 proximately 300 children next
Jewish women from a Nazi slave year. The Sunday School was
camp. The women were half organized last January.
starved and bore the marks of Plan Synagogue
Morris Karo, chairman of the
brutal beatings. Many were in
such bad physical condition that building committee, reported that
it may take a great deal of care an architect was being hired to
to rehabilitate them physically draw up plans for the edifice
and mentally, officers said.
ee SYNAGOGUE—Page 12

Jewish Groups
Invited to Parley
In San Francisco

NW Synagogue

Building Rushed

Yanks Free 900
Jewish Women in
Nazi Slave Camp

Jap Prison Is Dark Memory
To Jewish Veteran of Corregidor

Pfc. Sanford J. Blau, son of
the late M. Martin Blau and Mrs.
Ruth Bubis, veteran of Bataan
and Corregidor and a Japanese
prisoner of war in the Philip-
pines for 33 months, came home
fhursday wearing a fighting
man's medals and the scars of
a dreadful experience.
Blau was on a world cruise
in 1940, and when the ship on
which he was working put into
Manila in December of that
year, he enlisted in the Army.
When Nichols Field was at-
tacked by the Jap's on Dec. 11,
1941, his left eardrum was shat-
tered by bomb concussions and
at Agaloma Bay in February his
right ear drum was ruptured
the same way.

Caught Last Boat

Retreating across Bataan he
caught the last boat to Corregi-
dor, where he was again wounded
when the last stronghold fell on
May 5, 1942.
Placed in a prison camp in a
port area, Blau feared he would
be sent as a prison-laborer to
Japan, and in August of 1942
faked an appendicitis attack and
was operated upon. While still
recovering he was sent to Pala-
waan, where he tried to make

an escape, was caught, and
feigned insanity to prevent be-
ing killed.
"I knew it was going to be
pretty tough," he said, "but I
maintained the ruse and was
shipped back to Bilibid and plac-
ed in the psychopathic section.
There were about 35 of us
there.

Beaten by Japs

"I had a good connection on
the outside and got a Jap guard
to smuggle notes out and money
in to me. One day I was caught
passing a note to the guard.
They beat me with sticks and
clubs for three days to get me
to tell to whom the notes were
going. I didn't talk.
"Then," he continued, "they
gave me and the guard 24 days
in solitary confinement. I lost
26 pounds.
"The Japs ran around like
man on the eve of our libera-
tion," he said. "They didn't
seem to know what to do.
"On the morning of Feb. 4
of this year, the American cav-
alry, infantry, and airborne units
liberated us. My weight had

See BLAU—Page 9