Friday July 20, 1945

DETROIT \JEWISH CHRONICLE and The bled Chronicle

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Jewish Refugees Say Pogroms
Rage in Polish Small Towns

BREMEN — Two Jewish ref- , exit passes from Poland, signed
ugees charge that pogroms are uy Soviet officials and listing Ha-
raging against Jews in Poland nover as their destination as sub-
and said that Soviet authorities stantiation of their statement that
were ordering Jews to large ci- Soviet authorities considered emi-
gration the best protection
ties for their own protection.
Bernhard Sehmajuch of Kra- against Polish anti-Semites led by
kow and Samuel Sultan of Char- the violent AK organization.
neca, natives of Poland and vet-
The refugees said AK (Armja
erans of imprisonment in German Krajowa, Army of the Country,
concentration camps, told the old military caste organization)
story to Capt. Manuel Polikoff, seeks to prevent the return of
of Baltimore, Jewish chaplain of Polish Jews from abroad.
the U. S. 29th Division.
Sultan asserted that the AK
Polikoff said their story tend- had even revived the dreadful "ri-
ed to confirm similar reports he tual murder" fake in an attempt
had received from other sources. to rouse feeling against Jews.
He said it helped to explain the
He said that on arriving at his
abject fear many concentration
camp inmates have expressed of home in the village of Charneca
returning to their Polsih home- he found all surviving Jews had
fled to larger Katowice at the
land•
Sehmajuch and Sultan showed suggestion of Soviet officers.

Why A Jewish War Veteran's Organization

By ARCHIE H. GREENBERG

National Commander, J.W.V.

A correspondent of one of the
Anglo - Jewish newspapers has
written a letter tc• the editor urg-
ing that the J.W.V. immediately
disband the newly organized
Frances Y. Schlanger Post, of
Boston, the first all-girls post or-
ganized by any veteran organiza-
tion.
Just why this irate letter-to-
the-editor writer should urge dis-
solution of J.W.V.'s first all-girl
post (a second one has since been
organized in New York) is not
clear; it would be more logical
to urge the dissolution of the en-
tire Jewish War Veterans organi-
zation.
For surely, it is nothing more
than sex discrimination to forbid
female Jewish war veterans from
organizing if male Jewish veter-
ans are given that prerogative.
The letter writer in question
objects to our all-girl J.W.V. post
in much the same manner that
various persons have critized the
entire J.W.V. in the past. In
brief, he declares that an all-Jew-
ish girls' post tends to promote
segregation; that it is un-Ameri-
can and that it is "an example
of Old Testament bigotry and in-
tolerance" that does little honor
to the memory of. a Jewish girl
"who died for democracy."

States, by their very service to
their country, have proven their
Americanism is not diluted, but
rather enhanced, by their Juda-
ism.

10 to 15 Per Cent Veterans

Asks State Nets
For Fishermen
In Palestine

LANSING — Jewish fishermen
in the Mediterranean and Red
Seas won't be able to use illegal
fish nets seized recently in Green
Bay waters by Michigan conser-
vation officers.
A Milwaukee resident, Leo-
nard R. Shapiro, has been in-
formed by the conservation de-
partment that illegal nets can-
not be offered for sale, but that
webbing is stripped out and de-
stroyed, leads and corks only be-
ing offered at public auction.
Mr. Shapiro had sought to
purchase the nets for shipment
to Palestine.

Beth Aaron

Federation Charity?

(Continued from page 1)

HUNGRY, CLOTHE THE NAKED AND SHELTER THE
HOMELESS. THEY DID NOT GIVE THEIR MONEY SO
THAT IT WOULD BE USED TO BUILD UP A PRIVATE
BUSINESS. THEY DID NOT GIVE THEIR MONEY SO
THAT CERTAIN OFFICIALS MIGHT ENHANCE
THEIR PRESTIGE BY PUBLICITY.

Right now Detroit Jewry is being asked to contribute
to various causes. The need for charity has never been
greater than it is now, in this darkest hour in the history
of our people. A million and a half of our brethren in
Europe are completely destitute. Couldn't they use the
$20,000 which has been spent to subsidize the Jewish
News? Common decency would say that to give charity
funds to a private firm is to "pervert" the meaning of
charity.

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main Synagogue on the corner
lot. Government regulations at
present restrict the amount to be
spent upon such a building. When
the priorities are relaxed further
building operations will be
started.
Beth Aaron Congregation, which
aims to serve the Northwest sec-
tion, has a membership of about
100 now, At present services are
being conducted at the home of
Aaron Margulies, the president, at
18240 Ohio. Mr. Margulies
founded the congregation about
two years ago and since then, has
been one of the main factors in
its growth.
Other officers are: Vice presi-
dents, Sol Rubin and Mr. Schnei-
der; secretary, Samuel Friedman;
treasurer, L. Levin; executive
board, C. Krupp, George Schnei-
der, B, Silverman, S. Sternfield, J.
Haris, H. Amernick, M. Strasner,
A. Josephson, S. Seligson, N.
Reznick and G. Hecker.

We have received various letters from readers who
are shocked that $20,000 has been given to a private en-
terprise, one might say, behind the backs of the people,
The contributors should have had a direct voice in the
matter. It is such tactics which hurt the cause of charity,

On the positive side, the Jew-
ish War Veterans are an asset
to American Jewry because by
their very existence they are a
dramatic every day reminder that
Jews are patriotic Americans,
that like every other American
group they fought and died in
the service of their c o u n t r y.
American Jewry spends untold
millions in so-called "defense ac-
tivities." By all the many facets
of public relations — the press,
radio, magazines and other me-
dias — these agencies are trying Eisenhower Deplores
to prove that Jews are not this,
Jewish Suffering
and not that.
Gen. Eisenhower expressed
From an affirmative point of
view, what are the defense agen- "great sympathy for the tragic
cies trying to prove: they are suffering of very many Jewish
trying to prove that American people under German tyranny"
Jews are normal Americans. As in a message to the World Jew-
normal Americans, many of us ish Congress.
The message was inspired by
Jews have been dislocated by the
Menuhin's packed-house
war. Families have been broken Yehudi
concert
the benefit of the
up. Men have been killed, wound- congress' for
relief and rehabilitation
ed and otherwise impaired. As fund for Jews in Europe on Wed-
normal Americans, we face the nesday evening, July 11, in Al-
problems of rehabilitation and re- bert Hall, London, under the pa-
conversion. We're concerned with tronage of John G. Winant, Am-
care of the wounded, veterans' erican Ambasador to Britain.
Old Argument
In truth, the argument of our rights and all of the other prob-
letter-to-the-editor writer is an lems facing the fifteen million
old one dressed up in girls' cloth- men and women eventually to be
ing. Why, he asks, should there mustered out of service.
be a Jewish veterans organiza-
We are a cross-section of the
tion; why shouldn't Jewish veter- American Jewry of the future —
ans join existing non-sectarian between 10 and 15 percent of all
veterans organizations.
American Jewry will have the
To carry it one step further, I'd status of veterans. Rich and poor,
like to ask: Why should there be orthodox and reform, good and
a separate Jewish Federation of bad, we of the J.W.V, are the
Charities? Why should there be American Jewry of the future.
separate Jewish fraternal orders What has happened to us, what
like Bnai Brith, Brith Abraham, attitudes we have developed and
etc.? Why should there be Jew- what hopes and aspirations we
ish orphanages, old folks homes? possess are in a large part the
Why should there be Jewish cen- controlling factor in Jewish life
ters and country clubs? Why tomorrow. We can be guided, but
should there be Jewish social ser- we cannot be pushed. No outside
vice agencies dispensing counsel, non - veterans organization will
relief and other aid to Jews by lead us but we are prepared, in
other Jews?
the manner of democratic organi-
To admit, and honor, the exist- zation, to cooperate and work
ence of these other Jewish organi- with all other groups, Jewish and
zations and then to question the non-Jewish.
validity of a Jewish veterans or-
Today we are accepted on a
ganization is illogical and hypo- level of equality by the other vet-
How Well Do You
critical. It is about time that it erans organizations — the Amer-
is finally discarded once and for ican Legion, the Veterans of Fo-
Remember the NEWS?
all, a part of a forgotten Ameri- reign Wars, the Disabled Ameri-
can credo that subscribed to the can Veterans, the Catholic War
Check by Answering
belief that Jews should rightfully Veterans and all other veterans
organize for religious, and only groups, We are entitled to simi-
These Questions:
religious, purposes.
lar acceptance by Jewish organi-
zations. There must be no more
100 Per Cent American
The existence of Jewish organi- questioning by Jews of the right
Who is Spruille Braden?
zations, no matter what their of Jewish service men and women
purpose, does not alter the basic to organize as a Jewish War Vet-
Who is Andrew J. Higgins?
fact that Jews are Jews because erans organization; no non-Jew
Who is Lou Novikoff ?
of religion, and that American questions such a right and simi-
Jews are Americans because of larly no Jew who belongs to any
Who is Jos. W. Martin, Jr.?
birth and choice. Surely, the Jew- Jewish organization has a right
ish War Veterans of the United to do so.

Raise Funds For JNF Mufti Listed As
At Tlsha B'Av Rites War Criminal

Answers In Sunday's News, Pg. 2;

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Synagogues in Detroit and all
over the United States raised
funds for the purchase of land in
Palestine at their services on Ti-
sha B'Av. This day commemorat-
ed the 1,876th anniversary of the
destruction of Jerusalem and the

WASHINGTON. — The Hebrew
Committee of National Liberation
disclosed that the former grand
mufti of Jerusalem, Hadj Amin
El-Husseini, has been officially
criminal list.
placed on the United Nations war
burning of the Temple by Roman
El Husseini is being detained

legions.
by the French under house arrest
More than 1,000 communities near Paris. Among o th er t h ings,
aided the Jewish National Fund he is accused of instigating the
in this drive, in response to the murder of several hundred Jews
in Bagdad.
call of the organization.

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