viisterican Yetvish Periodical Cotter
Fr iday, April 27, 1945
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE irk: T . 7.1 Legal ChrolIclo
Co-Author of Expose, Buchenwald Camp
'Plot Against the Peace Yields 4,500 Jews
Is a Detroiter
PARIS (WNS) — About 4,500
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An outstanding and startling
the plot which the
e xpose
Naz i s a re now hatching to regain
power in the postwar era has
been revealed this week in the
new ly published book, "The Plot
Against the Peace," written by
Michael Sayers and Albert E.
Kahn. Mr. Kahn is a Detroiter,
son of Mrs. Moritz Kahn and the
late Moritz Kahn, and author of
"Sabotage."
The Plot Against the Peace"
uncovers Nazi Germany's secret
plans for a Third World War.
The book reveals how the behind-
the-scenes clique which really
rules Germany, is plotting to
undermine the peace, split the
United Nations, and convert mili-
tary defeat into actual victory.
Written by two journalists
who have won an international
reputation for their exposes of
fifth-column activities and world-
wide fascist intrigues, this book
offers thoroughly documented, in-
disputable evidence to prove that
. Germany's undercover apparatus
is at work in the United States
today, laying the groundwork for
a postwar secret offensive against
America. The book discloses how
. German' spies and assassins are
; already carrying out their new
assignments in the United States,
as throughoit the rest of the
world.
"The Plot Against the Peace"
is a book that names names.
Among the vitally important dis-
closures discussed are how Ger-
many is secretly preparing for
the continued postwar operations
of the Nazi apparatus; the real
story behind the German factories
of death; the clandestine build-
ing of German hidden arsenals
in Spain, Argentina and other
countries; the plot for maintain-
ing a Nazi-Junker officer corps
in temporary exile abroad after
the war; who are the "real
brains" behind the German in-
ternational network; how the
Germans have smuggled funds,
diamonds and other valuables in-
to the United States to finance
their postwar machinations; and
what the German plans are for
disuniting' the – United Nat ons,
inciting international turmoil and
thus making impossible the fulfill-
ment of the Allied peace aims.
In many ways "The Plot
Against the Peace" is a deeply
shocking book. The authors have
left nothing to the imagination
in their account of the hitherto
untold secret history of Nazism,
and in their description of the
character and deeds of the Ger-
man General Staff. But, as the
authors write, "These facts had
to be recorded and they have to
be read."
"The Plot Against the Peace,"
published by the Dial Press, is
of vital importance to every
American who is concerned with
the future yeace and security of
his country. It is one of the
most amazing, revealing and urg-
ent documents of the decade.
LIST OF SURVIVORS
The Jewish Social Service Bur-
eau has just received a list of
274 Jewish survivors of Cologne,
Germany. The list may be con-
sulted at the office of the Bur-
eau, 5737 Second Ave.
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Jewish survivors were found at
the Buchenwald concentration
camp. Chaplain Herschel Schac-
ter, who is now at the camp,
said that 2,000 of the survivors
are from Poland, 1,000 from
Hungary, and the remainder from
various E u Top e a n countries.
About 1,000 are children between
three and fifteen.
Of the 1,000 children in this
camp, only four of them are with
their fathers. Many lost their
fathers when nearly 5,000 Jews
were evacuated from Buchen-
wald shortly before its liberation.
A secret school for the chil-
dren in Buchenwald was run by
Mordecai Striegler, a Warsaw
writer.
A typical story of how young-
sters were saved from the Ger-
mans was told by Yisrael Riff-
skin, who formerly lived in Po-
land. For almost four years he
has been hiding his son, Josai,
in one concentration camp after
another, to prevent him being
killed by the Nazis.
When he was first arrested,
Slaffstein said, his wife was sent
to a death camp, but he was
spared because he was an ex-
pert leather worker and was
needed by the Germans. He
bribed a Nazi officer with the
entire stock of his small business
to allow him to take his baby to
the concentration camp with him.
Slaffstein saved the child by pay-
ing a weekly bribe to the camp
commandant.
After a year and a haif the
inmates were sent to the Hassag
munitions factory. Slaffstein and
two other workers brought along
children. The other children were
shot, but Slaffstein saved his son
by having him listed as an
adult, through the cooperation
of a trusty.
When the Russians approached
the camp was evacuated, and
Slaffstein carried the child to
still another camp where the Jews
were used to dig anti-tank tren-
ches. When the Red Army also
closed in on this camp, all the
slave laborers were loaded into
open freight cars and sent to
Buchenwald. Slaffstein hid young
Josai in a sack and, again, with
the aid of a trusty, had him list-
ed as an adult.
National Hebrew
Teachers Meeting
In Detroit May 11-13
A national conference of the
Hebrew Teacher's Federation will
be held in Detroit on May 11,
12, 13. The Detroit Hebrew
Teachers' Organization of the
UHS is affiliated with this na-
tional group, and will be host
to the National Teachers' Or-
ganization. Thirty delegates rep-
resenting practically every Jew-
ish Educational Agency in the
United States, will be present to
plan the work of the Confer-
ence, headed by Joseph Haggai;
Michael Michlin is co-chairman,
Morris Lachover, executive sec-
retary, and Norman Ruttenberg,
corresponding secretary.
The program committee con-
sists of Bernard Isaacs, chair-
man, Simcha Rubenstein and A.
J. Lachover, members of the com-
mittee.
A publicity committee consists
of Joseph Haggai, A. J. Lach-
over, A. Twersky and Morris
Plafkin. Other committees are:
Synagogue, A. Panush, A. Ro-
berg, A. Schachter; reception, S.
Kasdan, Max Gordon, J. Cash-
dan, Edward Rubenfein, Hyman
Goldberg, Leah and Rose Pike
and Mrs. S. Lehrman.
Jews to Observe
National Family Week
Jewish groups will join in the
all-American observance of Na-
tional Family Week, May 6-13,
according to an announcement
by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein,
president of the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America.
National Family Week has
been sponsored by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America, the National Catholic
Welfare Conference and the
Synagogue Council of America
as a means of drawing attention
to wartime problems of the fam-
ily, child welfare, juvenile de-
linquency and in order to safe-
guard the spiritual values of fam-
ily life during the period of re-
adjustment of the returning ser-
viceman.
Page Nina
Plain Talk
Landsmanschaf ten
To Discuss Fight
On Anti-Semitism
By AL SEGAL
April 14, 1945
THIS is written the evening of Died in Victory
April 14.
This morning, at my radio, I
was listening to the marching
feet of the procession that car-
ried Franklin Delano Roosevelt
through Washington for his last
brief stay at the White House.
I still feel deeply moved by that
experience and I do not think
it will be too late to cherish it
many years later even, and to
keep it burnished like some rare
jewel.
Men who forget it will be un-
worthy of a noble inheritance;
they are the dins-witted and the
morally abtuse incapable of un-
derstanding the meaning of a
great experience.
In that hour, at their radio
sets, understanding men became
aware of the majesty of great
living. This wasn't death the ul-
timate disaster. This was a life
being celebrated; this was the
final, triumphant procession of
life that had been nobly wrought.
I must confess I cried. Now,
hours later, I analyze my tears.
They were shed for pride in the
human family which, for all its
faults, can produce a great spirit.
My tears were for pity for this
family of mankind that can rise
so high and yet falls so short.
Feel Humble
Yes, this man being carried
on the Army caisson was one
of all of us, one of our brothers.
By the elevation of his own char-
acter and of his work he had
made us feel humble and ashamed
of ourselves. How we had failed!
All these degrading prejudices
of ours! All these hates! All
these discriminations by which
men are set apart from the broth-
erhood! His life had been of
the brotherhood.
He wasn't a saint .either. He
had his faults and had made his
mistakes. He was like all of us
but his feet had tried and had
gone far up the mountainside.
When I searched more deeply
in my tears I find that some of
them may have been for myself.
Had I fallen short?
(The announcer said the peo-
ple crowded along Constitution
Ave. were crying, too. The wo-
man in the red coat with her
handkerchief to her eyes. The
colored girl. The woman in deep
black. The man surrepititiously
brushing away his tears.)
Did they all understand their
tears? They couldn't be crying
just for this body on the Army
caisson, not just for human
greatness come at last to the
grave, not just for a President
who wasnt permitted to enter
the promised land for which he
had labored.
Understand the Tears
This will be a greater America
if people understand the tears
they shed that day. If they un-
derstand they will say: "This
was my fine brother and how can
I make myself to be like him
and to be worthy of him and
give meaning to my tears? He
was the friend of man. He knew
no essential difference between
decent men, no difference of col-
or or race or creed. Mankind
was his kinsman.
"I cry because I am sorry for
myself; for, in what way have
I measured up to this, my broth-
er? I have carried hate against
my neighbors and against them
have uttered falsehood which I
picked up.
"I cry because I have failed.
My tears will be in vain if with
them I do not wash my heart
of all the falsehood and preju-
dices which I have permitted to
encrust it. I must never lose
that great moment when I sat at
my radio set listening to the
triumph of this great life. I
must keep it an inheritance to
hand down to my children. I
shall hand it down to them, say-
ing this was my richest moment.
It was the time I found myself
and felt humble and ashamed.
(The announcer said the peo-
ple stood there reverently, like
people in a cathedral aware of
a divine instance in their lives.
Their tears were bright as if by
dazzling illumination.)
There will be memorials for
Franklin Roosevelt and for years
to come men will be thinking of
what new monuments to erect to
him. What memorial shrine, what
statuary, what institutions, what
national parks?
Like Lincoln, Franklin Roose-
velt died in the hour of victory,
an opportune moment for his
earthly immortality. Unlike Wil-
son's, his death spared him the
trials of the peace-making and
the reconstruction. Franklin Roos-
evelt will stand forever immor-
talized in victory.
The noblest memorial of all
will be the American people
themselves resolving to rise to
his moral stature, to dedicate
their ,tears to the humanity which
he served, to keep forever, as
their richest inheritance, the mo-
ment when they were listening to
him marching out of his great
and good life.
In an America thus dedicated,
all men, of whatever condition,
will enjoy the decent respect
which they deserve by reason of
their human dignity. A man will
be judged by his own quality,
and what of the color of his skin
or the way of his religion or
the race from which he is de-
scended It will be a new, more
hopeful, more courageous, more
democratic America.
THEATRES
MICHIGAN — Lana Turner,
Laraine Day and Susan Peters
in "Keep Your Powder Dry"
continue their explosive exploits
at the Michigan Theater for an-
other week. "Keep Your Pow-
der Dry" is a fast-moving story
of friendship and cat-fights among
three girls from different walks
of life as enlistees in the WAC.
UNITED ARTISTS—"The Thin
Man Goes Home" with William
Powell in the title role and
Myrna Loy as his charming wife
hold over for a second week at
the United Artists Theater.
Pleasure turns into business
when "The Thin Man Goes
Home" to visit his parents. There
is murder and a systematic sale
of oil paintings, both of which
Detective Nick Charles clears up
to everybody's satisfaction.
PALMS STATE — Based on
Vicki Baum's sensational best-
seller, "Hotel Berlin," with an
all-star cast headed by Faye
Emerson, Raymond Massey, Pet-
er Lorre, Helmut Dantine and
Alan Hale, opens at the Palms
State Theater on Friday. The
companion feature is "Fashion
Model" featuring Marjorie Weav-
er, Robert Lowery and Tim Ryan.
FOX — "Sudan," Technicolor
adventure romance starring Tur-
han Bey, Maria Montez and Jon
Hall, which started at the Fox
Theater Friday, tells the story
of Naila (Maria Montez) and
how she attempts to discover the
murderer of her father, King
of Khemmis. Turhan Bey, as a
rebellious slave leader, plays the
romantic lead. "Sudan" is pure
escapist entertainment.
A companion feature will be
shown.
The United Yiddish Folk Or-
ganizations, the central body of
Detroit Landsmansehaf ten, an-
nounces that the subject of the
next symposium in its series of
discussions of current Jewish is-
sues will be "Anti-Semitism and
How It is Being Combatted."
This discussion will take place
in the Social Hall of the Bnai
Moshe Synagogue at J p. ns. on
Tuesday, May 1. Hosts for this
occasion will be the members of
the Odessa Progressive Aid So-
ciety.
Arrangements for the program
and speakers have been made by
the Jewish Community Council.
The speakers will include Isaac
Franck, executive director of the
Community Council; Michael Gim-
bel, a member of the community
relations committee, and Dr. I. W.
Ruskin, member of the discrim-
ination committee.
Dr. Ruskin will be leaving
shortly after this meeting for ac-
tive duty with the U.S. Navy
with a rank of Lieutenant Com-
mander.
The speakers will discuss anti-
Semitic activities, discriminator
in employment, and education and
work in the general area of de-
veloping better understanding be-
tween Jews and the rest of the
corn munity.
Chairman for the evening will
be Max Nusbaum, who is chair-
man of the executive committee
of the United Yiddish Folk Or-
ganizations. H. B. Jacobs is pres-
ident of the Odessa Progressive
Aid Society, and other officers
of the host organization are Alex
Belkin, A. Wineman, Morris Kop-
nick, Harry 'Caber, B. Ross and
Mrs. S. Ross.
Bnai Moshe Annual
Mother-Daughter
Banquet Thursday
The annual Mother and Daugh-
ter dinner of the Congregation
Bnai Moshe Sisterhood will take
place on Thursday evening, May
3, in the banquet hall. The de-
tails are being arranged by Mrs.
Emil Phillips and Mrs. Julius
Hersh.
Preparations for the dinner are
being made by Mrs. H. Green-
baum and Mrs. Regina Hirsh.
Mrs. Bernard Klein has charge
of the tickets.
An excellent program has been
arranged and various prizes will
be awarded. The president, Mrs.
I. E. Goodman, urges that reser-
vations be made immediately by
calling the office, HO. 0862.
Bicur Cholem Group
Gives Hospital $1,000
Young Women's Bicur Cholem
will !sleet to nominate officers on
Monday, April 30, at the home
of Mrs. Harry Knopper, 17532
Santa Rosa Dr. Mesdames L.
Millman, A. Morder and S. Wunt-
ner will bo in charge of nomina-
tions.
At a previous meeting it was
announced that $1,000 has been
donated to the Jewish Hospital.
CINEMA — The Cinema Thea-
May 14 has been set aside for
ter, Columbia at Woodward, pre- USO day with Mrs. Ben Leamen
sents "The Life, Loves and Mu- as chairman.
sic of Giussepe Verdi." Also
Puccini's immortal opera, "Ma-
dame Butterfly," a brilliantly
HOLD SERVICES
unique program.
VIENNA (WNS) — The few
surviving Jews of Vienna last
NO JEWS FOUND
week held their first religious
PARIS (WNS) — Among the services. The Vienna Jews have
8,000 French deportees and war decided to continue, for the time
prisoners who are being repa- being, to wear the yellow badges
triated daily, there has not been which • were forced upon them
so far a single Jew.
by the Nazis.
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