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30th Year ot Service to Detroit Jewry
,Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 47, NO. 33
Poland, Land of Horror,
Depicted by Refugees
More than $3,000 was raised for the upkeep of Jewish
orphans in France and Poland at the rally sponsored by
the Polish Jewish Federation held Monday night at
Shaarey Zedek. The rally was addressed by two Jewish
underground leaders who fought in the underground
movements in Poland and France all thorugh the war.
Detroit Jewry got its first eyewitness account of what
the Nazis did to 6 million Jewish martyrs. All Jewish
organizations are asked to adopt Jewish war orphans.
It takes $300 to maintain a child for a year.
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The speakers
here from the
European u n -
derground were
Dr. Nathan
Eck, leader of
the Jews in Po-
land, editor and
WASHINGTON — President
former high Harry S. Truman has asked the
s c h b of princi- British government to open the
pal, and Mel- gates of Palestine, so that as
Dr. Nathan Eek ech Topiol, many Jews 'as possible be permit-
president of ted to enter there. This was dis-
the Federation of Polish Jews in closed at a press conference
France and leader of the under- Thursday. President Truman re-
ground in southern France.
vealed that he proposed the mat-
There are only about 80,000 ter of easing immigration restric-
Jews in Poland of the 4,000,000 tions into Palestine at the Pots-
who lived in that country before dam Conference.
the war, Dr. Eck stated. Between
The President said that he had
150,000 and 200,000 Polish Jews discussed the question of a Jew-
escaped to Russia and another ish national state with both Prime
20,000 are still in former Nazi Minister Clement Attlee and Fcr-
concentration camps. Altogether mer Prime Minister Winston
Polish Jewry now numbers only Churchill.
about 250,000.
Discussions on Palestine's sta-
Took Jewish Wealth
tus are still going on, the Presi-
Describing the German . treat- dent said.
ment of Polish Jewry, Dr. Eck
omm.o.s.a .m.m ••
told how soon after the Nazis
entered Poland they began con-
fiscating Jewish property. "The
Germans were very efficient,"
said Dr. Eck. "They came with
trucks and went from house to
Sunday has been pro-
house taking everything they
claimed by President Tru-
thought useful. It took them
man as a Day of Thanks-
several months to rob Polish Jews
giving for our victory. All
of all their wealth.
synagogues and temples will
"The will to live among Polish
hold special services that
Jewry was so strong that they
day.
would not believe the stories
Another day of prayer
about the gas chambers. They
will be proclaimed on V-J
hoped to the last and were cer-
Day when the Japs sign the
tain that Hitler would perish.
surrender terms.
When, towards the beginning of
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Sunday, Day of
Thanksgiving
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Detroit Jewry Must Act
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle has in a series of
editorials revealed that the Detroit Jewish Welfare
Federation used public funds to "subsidize" a pri-
vate business. We revealed that nearly $20,000 of
charity money wa gs given to the Jewish News, a
nf . w publication, without consulting the donors who
had contributed money to charity. We also showed
that by this "tieup" between the Federation and the
other Anglo-Jewish paper, the Jewish Federation
leaders were in a position to push their views and
their opinions—thus using public funds to control
viblic opinion.
We pointed out the dangers of a "kept" press.
e also showed that five Federation leaders were
also on the board of the new publication, an ana-
malous position. For they were in the position of
having voted to subsidize with public funds a pri-
'ite
enterprise in which they had an interest.
Do you want these conditions to continue? If
01-1 are against such practices, you should let your
voice be heard. Write to the Federation. Protest.
Organizations, especially, are asked to interest
themselves in this matter, for it is of vital impor-
tance that all charity funds go for charitable pur-
Poses. Pass resolutions and send them to the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation. Let us also know what
Your reactions are.
Year
City's Jewry
Hy C. Broder '17 -J Services
At Synagogues
Hails End of
Mourned by
Temples
Greatest War
Detroit Jewry And
All Synagogues and Temples in
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Truman Backs
Open Door
In Palestine
5.
10c Single Copy, $3.00 Par
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1945
HY C. BRODER
The Detroit Jewish community
is mourning the death of Hy C.
Broder, president of the Detroit
Jewish Community Center, and
one of the leaders in Detroit's
Jewry. Mr. Broder, aged 47, died
suddenly Thursday afternoon,
August 9.
Funeral services for Mr. Bro-
der were held at 3 p.m. Sunday
in the Clover Hill Park cemetery
chapel. Dr. A. M. Hershman and
Cantor J. H. Sonenklar of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek officiated. Mr. Bro-
der is an example of a civic-
Shaarey Zedek officiated. Inter-
ment was at Clover Hill ceme-
tery.
Mr. Broder was born in New
York but was brought to Detroit
by his parents when he was a
year old. He graduated from old
Central High School in 1915. In
1924 he married Miss Celia
Meyers. Mr. Broder was president
of the -Cook Coffee Co., which he
organized in 1921.
He was active in all Jewish
communal affairs, devoting time.
effort and money to better the
Jewish community here. One of
his main interests was the Jewish
Center, which he sought to make
the crux of Jewish communal life.
Mr. Broder was co-chairman
of the Food Division of the War
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United Nations
Asked to Loan
PalestineFund
LONDON (WNS) — A resolu-
tion petitioning the United Na-
tions for an international loan to
be used in the rebuilding of Pal-
estine was submitted this week to
the World Zionist Conference by
its political committee.
The resolution also provided
that, in view of the fact that
Germany had confiscated and
stolen billions of dollars of .Jew-
ish property, the United Nations
allocate part of the reparations to
be imposed on Germany for set-
tling a million Jews in Palestine.
At the same time the resolu-
tion urged that Palestine he im-
mediately declared as a Jewish
Commonwealth.
Another portion of the reso-
lution urged that the Jewisl, Bri-
gade be made the nucleous of a
Jewish Army in Palestine.
Back Wise, Silver
The Zionist Actions Committee,
the highest world Zionist body
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Detroit and throughout the world
Detroit Jewry and Jews
held V-J services of rejoicing throughout the world cele-
over the final end of the greatest
brated the end of the blood-
war in history. Special prayers of
thanksgiving were recited at these iest war in history with
rites.
wild rejoicing. On Dexter
S4ices were held at Temple a band played Tuesday
Beth El at Shaarey Zedek Syn- night after President Tru-
agogue, at Temple Israel in the
man announced the end of
lecture room of the Detroit Art
Institute, at Bnai Moshe Syna- the war. Men, women and
gogue, Bnai David, Congregation children danced in the
Beth Tefilo Emanuel and the streets.
other houses of worship. Throngs
On Twelfth and on Linwood
of worshipers packed the Syna-
crowds gathered to congratulate
gogues and Temples.
each other and to rejoice. Im-
Special prayers of thanksgiv- promptu parades were staged.
ing will be included in the High Flags were hung out. All sorts
of noise makers were used to cele-
Holiday ritual at many Hous-s brate the destruction of our en-
of Worship.
emies. In hundreds of Jewish
homes there were parties. Thou-
sands went downtown to join the
vast throngs in Detroit's most
joyous celebration. Way into the
early hours of the morning auto
horns sounded the festive note.
"God be thanked that we lived
NEW YORK (WNS) — Jewish
to see this day, to see the end of
scientists played a noteworthy the war." This remark was re-
part in the atomic research lead- peated hundreds of times. While
ing to the discovery of the atom- in most homes there was rejoic-
ic bomb. It should be said, how- ing, to more than 200 Jewish
ever, that the Jewish scientists
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were at work with the thought
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be used to advance man's happi-
ness in peace. It was Hitler who
first thought of turning it to de-
struction and the Allied govern-
ments had no alternative but to
press forward to the same end.
The Scandinavian Jewish scien-
NEW YORK (WNS) —
tist, Dr. Niels Bohr, as well as a
"Thank God," cried the mo-
number of American Jews also
ther of Meyer Levin, the
he ped.
soldier who fired the first
Leading the list of Jewish con-
telling shot on the Japanese
tributors to atomic research is Dr.
in the war.
Lise Meitner, • a Jewish woman
Meyer Levin was the
physicist, who was born in Vien-
bombardier on Captain Kel-
na in 1870 and who since 1922
ly's plane which sent the
was a lecturer in Berlin Univer-
first Jap ship to the bottom
sity. In 1933, when the Nazis
in the first 24 hours after
came to power in Germany, she
"Remember Pearl IIarbor."
was dismissed from the Univer-
"I have been hoping and
sity on racial grounds, but contin-
praying for this happy mo-
ued for some time her research
ment. Thank God that
for a method of releasing atomic
peace may have come at
energy at the Kaiser Wilhelm In-
last and thank God for the
stitute in Berlin. Just about the
atomic bomb, terrible as it
time when she completed her dis-
is," said Mrs. Levin.
covery, she was exiled from Ger-
"Let's pray to God that
many as a Jewess. She took her
that
this will be the last
secret along with her denying it
war. If that has been ac-
to the Nazis.
complished, the sacrifice of
Second on the list is Dr. Otto
one onwillm lllnlys yvoha
Frisch, also born in Vienna, who
my only son will not have
was dismissed as a Jew from the
been in vain," said Mrs.
Hamburg University in 1933. Af-
Levin.
ter Dr. Meitner was compelled to
leave Germany, she lost no time 6)14=1.o.moe ■ ramm.
4 Jewish Scientists
Credited for Bomb
,.
"Thank God,"
Cries Mother
Of Meyer Levin
Ask $36,000,000 to Bring
Million Jews to Palestine
LONDON (WNS) — The Jew-
ish Agency is now considering
"immediate plans" to bring 1,000,-
000 new Jewish settlers to Pales-
tine. This was announced to the
World Zionist Conference by Eli-
ezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency, in addressing the
Conference. He declared that
$36,000,000 is required for the
immediate settlement of refugees.
Palestine must first be designated
as a Jewish commonwealth before
mass settlement is possible.
The $36,000,000 immediately
required by the Jewish Agency
is not for the Jews of Pales-
tine, he said, but for the new-
comers.
Urges Reparations
The cost of transferring a mil-
lion Jews to Palestine, a scheme
also studied in intergovernmental
circles, he said, is estimated at
$1,200,000,000 on the prewar ba-
sis, while others set the figure at
nearer $1,800.000,000.
The money stolen from the
Jews by Germany and its satel-
lites is estimated at from 7 to 12
millard pounds, and were repara-
tions paid to the Jews the financ-
ing of the transfer of one million
Jews to Palestine would be solv-
ed. He urged all Jewish bodies to
join in presenting a single claim
for reparations and deprecated
the present situation where sun-
dry Jewish bodies are filing sep-
arate clain- s thus weakening the
chances of Jewry to collect its
due.
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