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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Refugee in U.S. Army
Sends Gift Appeal
NEW YORK — When young
Manfred Philip fled from Ger-
many in 1939, a refugee from
Nazi persecution, he did not real-
ize that the pendulum of history
would bring him back as con-
queror and guard over the very
supermen who had destroyed Ger-
man Jewry.
Having reached the United
States with the aid of the agen-
cies of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, he and his mother, Mrs.
Dagobert Philip, settled at Eas-
ton. Pa. Ten months later he
enlisted in the U.S. Army and
waited for the opportunity to
meet his oppressors on the bat-
tlefield. Soon he was en route
to Europe—destination Germany.
Pvt. Philip, in the course of
official duty, has been to Da-
chau, the most notorious of all
the concentration camps. Philip,
who is stationed near Munich
with the Civil Affair Unit, wrote
to his mother:
". . . I also was in Dachau
the other day and although I
have not seen the worst there, it
was enough not to forget it all my
life. I undersand that the United
Jewish Appeal is going to start
a tremendous drive for rehabili-
tation and resettlement of in-
mates of concentration camps."
Then he asked that $50 be
withdrawn from his bank account
and sent to the United Jewish
Appeal.
Another contribution from oc-
cupied Germany was received by
the United Jewish Appeal from
Pvt. Frederic Linder, who has
made generous gifts to the cam-
paign during the past several
years.
Vaad Hatzala Saves
Sailor's Grandmother
From Death Camp
NEW YORK — F-le Jack E.
Frei is Pitching into the war ef-
fort with just a little extra vig-
or. He has good reason for doing
so. Five years ago his grand-
mother disappeared from her
home in Vienna. Her fate was
obvious — deportation to a con-
centration camp and the fatal
processing operation which would
inevitably lead to a crematorium
in a Nazi murder factory.
Imagine his joy when the mail-
boat that hove to his battle fleet
in the Pacific brought him a let-
ter announcing that his grand-
mother was alive and in Switzer-
e se-
land as her release had ben
cured by the Vaad Hatzala.
He wrote the following letter:
"Gentlemen:
"Let me congratulate you on
the outstanding work you are do-
ing and the excellent results you
have obtained.
"1 have a very personal reason
for sending you this contribution.
You have rescued my grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Rosa Frei, from Therei-
senstadt. Thanks to you she is
now recuperating in Switzerland.
"With the expression of sin-
cere gratitude, I am
"Very truly yours,
"Jack E. Frei.
"Enclosed is a postal money
Buy
A Unique Inter-Creedal Experiment
By BERNARD POSTAL
National Director of Bnai Brith Information
This article, which appears in the summer issue of COMMON
GROUND, tells of a number •of unique eexperiments by public
schools in 15 cities in building inter-creedal understanding by
the joint observance of Passover•Easter and Christmas.Hanukk a h.
CHRISTMAS-HANUKKAH PAGEANT STAGED
AT BROOKLINE SCHOOL" was the headline that
appeared in Boston newspapers during the middle
of Dcember, 1944. Simultaneously, the press of
the country reported from Kingston, N. Y.: "RABBI
PROTESTS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHING OF
CHRISTMAS STORY."
RUSSELL ST.
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These two headlines point up
a problem that comes to public
notice only when it becomes a
matter of protest, but they also
point to a possible solution tried
with no little success in the pub-
lic schools of at least 15 cities.
Notwithstanding t h e separa-
ion of church and state in the
United States, Christmas is an
integral part of American life
and mores. This is particularly
true in the case of the public
schools where the singing of
Christmas carols, the lighting of
Christmas trees, the distribution
of Christmas gifs and the dra-
matization of the Nativity story,
make the Christmas period a par-
ticularly happy one for children.
Jewish children, obviously, can-
not derive the same enjoyment
from the Christmas festivities as
their non-Jewish classmates, for
the holiday is not their own.
Since Christmas is a Christian
religious holiday, the pre-Christ-
mas festivities in the public
schools confront Jewish children
with two alternatives: to share
fully in the joyous observances
and run counter to their own re
More than two hundred of the 982 on the executive committee of the Co.
refugees being temporarily sheltered ordinating Committee for Fort On.
by the government at the Emergency tario, arc shown observing the needle
Refugee Shelter at Oswego participate work exhibited by some of the woman
in Arts and Crafts Exhibit "dedicated refugees. (Top photo) Joseph Smart,
to the authorities and private agencies Director of the Emergency Refugee
as an expression of gratitude for the Shelter, stands alongside of a head of
rare and constant interest they have himself done in wood by Mrs. Marian
shown to us and to a fm orable devel• Sommerberg, sculptor formerly of
opulent of spiritual and material ac• Hamburg, who is in this country with
tivities at Fort Ontario." The exhibit, her three children, all of whom were
Oredings
permitted to contribute through their
special gifts and talents to the benefit
of the greater community." Lower
pliotc't Mrs. Rubin Lavine of Syra•
c•.ise and Mrs. Robert Ileilbrunn of
Rochester, the two representatives of
the National Council of Jewish Women
order for $100."
A few days later another let-
ter was received by the Vaad
Hatzala from an enlisted man
serving in the same battle fleet.
"Gentlemen," it read, "recent-
ly one of my shipmates told me
that your organization helped his
grandmother out of Thereisen-
stadt.
"No doubt there are many
other people you have saved and
many more are waiting for your
help.
"I am sorry my contribution
cannot be bigger at this time but
ligious teachings, or to refrain
from participation and set them-
selves apart from their class-
mates for the duration of the
Christmas porgram, with a re-
sultant feeling of being outsid-
ers.
Undesirable Choices
Both choices are patently un-
desirable. Certainly they arc
not in keeping with the spirit of
goodwill characteristic of the
Christmas period.
Progressive educators who rec-
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It is a real pleasure for its to be able
.1 o' to our mom .Jewish cus-
tocners and friends our most sincere
wishes for a happy and prosperous
New Year.
the refugees hope, "will also demon. among the exhibitors at the show.
skate the talents arid achievements of Mrs. Sommerburg, who was a student
our residents who will he happy to be of Prifessor Zitkleh, 4s repretiented
the Tel Aviv Museum with a series of
twenty.four wood cuts entitled "The
Other Way." The National Council of
Jewish Women is one of a group of
private welfare agencies supporting
the supplementary program for the
refugees at the Emergency Shelter....
it has to
be adjusted to navy pay.
"Respectfully yours,
"Harry A. Rosenberg, S-1c.
"Enclosed : One money order
Capper & Capper
for $25.00."
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Friday, September 7, 1945
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