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Beth El Men's Club
25th Anniversary
Celebration April 22

Congress Hears
Polish Jews Tell of
Nazi Atrocities

Dr. Levi A. Olan. rabbi of
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Rep-
Temple Emanuel, Worcester, resentatives of Polish-Jewish or-
Mass.. one of the prominent ganizations in America testified
younger men in the reform rab- at the hearings by the House
Foreign Affairs Committee on the
resolution introduced by Rep.
Emanuel Celler proposing the
appointment by President Roose-
velt of a commission to cooper-
ate with the United Nations War
Crimes Commission in prepara-
Lion of "definite plans" for pun-
ishment of Axis criminals.
Dr. Raphael Lemkin, a former
prosecutor of Warsaw, stressed
that Nazi destruction of the Jew-
ish people of Poland and other
European countries is based not
on philosophical and mystical
grounds, but on the determina-
tion to acquire property. Joseph
Thon, representing the National
Organization of Polish Jews, call-
ed for punishment of the entire
German people and government,
as wel as the army, for the mass-
acre of several million European
Jews, and for the use of poison
gas in exterminating civilian pop-
ulations."
The charge that "the first and
possibly the greatest war crimes
DR. LEVI A. OLAN
were committed by the Gestapo
binate, will be the guest speaker and storm troopers against hun-
at the 25th anniversary banquet dreds of thousands of defense-
of the Men's Club of Temple less Jews" in Germany was made
Beth El on Sunday evening, by Professor James H. Sheldon,
April 22, in the Social Hall of administrative chairman of the
Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
the Temple.
A catered dinner and a fine Pointing out that these crimes
program has been arranged for were committed before the war
the evening by the chairman, actually began, Sheldon said:
"Any program of punishing
H. G. Schlafer, and his commit-
tee. The past presidents of the war crimes which does not com-
Men's Club will be guests at this prehend the punishment of those
affair. Walter S. Heavenrich, the responsible for these mass-mur-
first president of the Men's Club ders is unworthy of consideration
and a member of the Congrega- because it leaves the way open
tion since 1890, will participate for a repetition of these crimes
and will do nothing to remove
in the program.
The banquet is open to Men's from the German mind the basic
Club members and their wives, evil for which it has been re-
and will climax the most suc- sponsible."
cessful year in the history of
the club. The Men's Club has a
membership of over 600 and is Interfaith Group
one of the largest and most ac-
Notes Rise in Bias
tive in the country.
NEW YORK.—Warnings that
5,000 Czech Jews
attacks against Jewish, Catholic,
Arrive from Russia
Negro and other minority groups
in the United States were increas-
BUCHAREST (WNS) — A ing and would increase further in
transport of 3,000 Czechoslovak- the postwar years were voiced
ian Jewish survivors from the this week in New York by leaders
notorious Oswiecim camp arrived of the National Conference of
last week in the liberated Czech- Christians and Jews.
oslovakian town of Kosice. They
To help combat this trend, 160
travelled on Soviet trains.
delegates from 51 cities, meeting
Transports of Romanian Jews in an all-day conference at the
repatriated by the Soviet author- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, voted
ities from Transnistria to Ro- unanimously to recommend to the
mania are arriving daily via Jas- organization's board of trustees
that a $2,000,000 budget be au-
sy and Galatza.
thorized for racial and religious
cooperation during the coming
Orthodox Rabbis
year.
Call Conference
Carlton J. H. Hayes, former
The Union of Orthodox Rab- Ambassador to Spain and Catholic
bis of the United States and co-chairman of the organization,
Canada has called a session of asserted that there have always
its emergency, religious, relief, been "embryo fascist" groups in
rehabilitation and reconstruction this country fostering the ideals
department, to be held in Cin- if the Ku Klux Klan. He declared
that the future of American life
cinnati Tuesday. April 17.
This session will discuss plans —business, religious, political, eco-
for rehabilitation work in the nomic and social—depended on
how this threat was met.
liberated countries.
Joining in Mr. Hayes' warning,
Rabbis Thuniin and Stollman Elmo
Roper, director of the For-
will represent the Vaad Harabon- tune Poll of Public Opinion, said
im of Detroit.
that he, too, believed America was
faced "with a very great revival
Th e purchase of War Bonds will
and renewed virulence of some
place the world on a free demo- form or other of Ku Klux Klan-
cratic basis.
ism."
He declared there is a tendency
to seek a scapegoat for the war
In these days of stress it is
and economic adjustments which
very important to take care of
may follow.
your health. Let us help you.
"The problem of anti-minorities
IN THE HEART OF
is all one problem," Mr. Roper
DOWNTOWN
said. "It simply has different
sides. Anti-Semitism has spread
all over the nation and is partic-
ularly virulent in urban centers.
Anti-Catholicism is more virulent
than you think."

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Friday, April 13, 1945

106 Jews Found
Alive in Frankfurt

humanity mourns
his passing •

FRANKFURT (WNS)

of

the approximately 40,000 J ews
who lived in Frankfurt prior to
the advent of Hitler, only 106
were found alive when the Cit y
was entered by the Third Army,
The survivors, mostly aged and
ill, lived in six "Jewish houses."
The youngest is 38.
Karl Oppenheim, a f ormer
banker, told press correspond-
ents about 12,000 Jews remained
in Frankfurt after the prewar

exodus. These, he said, were sub-
sequently deported. In February
of this year, the Germans or-
dered the deportation of the ap-
proximately 400 Jews who were
not originally deported because
of marriage to non-Jews. About
300 of these were rounded up
on Feb. 14 and deported to an
unknown destination in a box
car. Among the remaining Jews
in the city there are about lo
who escaped deportation by hid-
ing. The others are either ill
or over 70. The Jews saved two
Safer Torahs.
One of the survivors, the eld-
erly and sickly Karl Rothschild,
related that Jews had not been
permitted to use air-raid shel-
ters, not even in the destroyed
synagogue. The Rothschild man-
sion, which was used by the
Nazis as a museum, is destroy-
ed. Shattered by bombs was
also the infamous Institute for
the Sutdy of the Jewish Ques-
tion.

1130 Refugees
Arrive in Palestine
In One Week

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Cultural Program to Revive Judaism
In Devastated Countries Announced

NEW YORK—The World Jew-
ish Congress has embarked upon
a program for the educational,
cultural and spiritual rehabilita-
tion of Jews in the war-torn
countries of Europe and North
Africa, it was announced today
by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of its executive committee.

"We are entering th e most
difficult phase of our rehabil-
itation work," said Dr. •Gold-
mann. "The first phase—phys-
ical re/lief and rehabilitation—
must go on but the present
problem is how to recultivate
the spirit of Judaism in lands
where everything Jewish was
marked for destruction."

Dr. Goldmann said that appro-
priations are being allocated to
a new Department of Culture
and Education to help build or
support schools, orphanages, train
teachers and furnish textbooks
to provide for the survival of
Judaism in war-torn communities.
Dr. Simon Federbusch, head of
the department, former member
of Poland's Parliament, said:
"In Europe a 1,000-year-old
Jewish culture has been destroy-
ed and deeply-rooted religious af-
fections mercilessly wiped out.
"The problems which face us
are diversified. French Jewry,
for example, turns to us for as-
sistance in establishing schools,
for text books, and for programs
of education. South
of education. North African Jews
have appealed to us for more
elementary guidance, for they
have places where illiteracy
among Jews is disproportionately
high. In some Latin American
countries, Jewish education is in
such a lamentable state that it
foreshadows a complete dissolu-
tion of Jewish communal life,

Lt. Arthur Edelstein
Commander on Ship

Lt. (jg) Arthur Edelstein, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Max Edelstein,
1530 Lee Place, is commanding
officer on his new ship. Lt. (jg)
and Mrs. Edelstein spent eight
months in Norfolk where he was
an instructor.
He was 13 months in New

Guinea where he received the
1 Bronze Star. The LCT he corn-
manded shot down 11 Jap planes
_J and destroyed six more.

unless something is done.
"It is no longer sufficient to
work for the rights and the safe-
ty of Jews, though this is one
of the paramount objectives of
the World Jewish Congress, in-
asmuch as the menace of internal
disintegration of the Jewish peo-
ple is far more serious than ex-
ternal discrimination.
"Jews have proven that they
can live creatively under op-
pression. However. they cannot
do so far a single generation if
the inner spirit of their Jewish
content is permitted to dissolve.
The time has come to prevent
the deeper menace of soulless-
ness."

BAY CITY NOTES

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ginsberg,
308 N. Jackson St., have been
advised of the arrival in Eng-
land of their son, Pfc. Paul D.
Ginsberg. His wife, the former
Miss Shirley Traines of Mt.
Pleasant, is attending Michigan
State College. His brother, Pfc.
Gordon I. Ginsberg, is also in
the European theater.

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•

Walter Bloch has left for Hot
Springs, Ark. to spend a few
weeks.

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tit

I. Goodgall is recuperating
from an operation which he un-
derwent recently.
▪ •
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Goldberg
have left for New York to spend
a week.
▪ • *
Mrs. Theo. S. Friedman has
returned home from Rock Is-
land, Ill, where she visited her
mother for a week.

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NEW YORK.—A total of more
than 1,100 refugees reached the
Jewish homeland in Palestine last
week, Rabbi James G. Heller, na-
tional chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal, a nn ounce d,
pointing out that 899 of them ar-
rived in Haifa from Italy.
Rabbi Heller announced that
since the outbreak of World War
H more than 70,000 Jews had
found a home in Palestine with
the help of the funds raised by the

United Palestine Appeal. In the
12 years since the beginning of
the Nazi regime in Germany, more
than 350,000 refugees had been
settled in Palestine, he added.

BACK PALESTINE

LIVERPOOL (Palcor). — The
British Commonwealth Party at

its annual conference here adopt-
ed a resolution favoring a Jew-
ish State in Palestine.

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