Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Twenty
AIDS RETURNING SOLDIERS
Orphan Girl Becomes
"Daughter of Regiment"
mittee, headed by Sgt. George
W. Friedman of Los Angeles,
A beautiful brunette whose presented the JDC representa-
shy smile enchants all who see tives in Brussels with their check
her, the unanimous pin-up girl for five thousand dollars.
of the whole 344th Bombard-
Since the deportation of her
ment Group in Belgium, Yvonne
parents,
Yvonne had lived with
Sytner has 2,500 loving "dad-
dies" and there's not a bit of one unwilling family after an-
other. Eventually she was taken
jealousy among them.
to the JDC home, where kind
Yvonne, you see, is eleven treatrrent and care restored her
years old and has just been to he alth of body and spirit.
"adopted" by a whole unit of
Only about 3,000 Jewish chil-
American officers and men who
lost their hearts to the little dren have survived in Belgium.
Jewish orphan they saw while 0. these, the JDC supports some
attending the opening of a new 1,365 in JDC institutions and
home established by the Joint :n private homes. At present,
Distribution Committee for the JDC has a total of seven
homeless children and orphans children's homes which are car-
ing for over 300 children and
in Belgium.
So interested in the JDC work two more buildings are being
were the visitors that they de- prepared to house Jewish or-
cided to "adopt" a child and phans who are now in other in-
make financial arrangements stitutions but under supervision
for her care and education. from Jewish welfare workers.
A happy postscript to the
Yvonne, a native of Antwerp
whose parents had been deport- Yvonne Sytner case occurred
ed long ago for "political ac- late in September when she was
tivity," was unanimously chosen traced by relatives in the United
as the "daughter of the regi- States who are trying to bring
ment." Her sweetness and charm her to America where they can
so captivated the bomber group adopt her. The Bomber Group
that she was invited to spend a had indicated that, should Yvon-
month on the field in the care ne leave Belgium, the funds they
of the Red Cross woman on the had raised for her were to be
base. When the schools reopen- placed in a scholarship fund to
ed in Brussels, Yvonne returned be used at the discretion of the
to the JDC home where she now JDC for other children like
Yvonne, one of the hundreds
lives.
helped by the JDC.
insure
that
she
would
re-
To
ceive a good education, the
Yvonne Adoption Fund was es-
tablished to raise 250,000 francs,
approximately 100 francs per Season's Greetings
man. Crumpled one, five and ten
franc notes were placed in spe-
cial containers in the mess and
recreation halls. Contributions
Alexander Licht Co.
of 100 francs or more were re-
"
dy
"Dad
warded with a special the
1326 BROADWAY
com-
card and before long,
A True Story from Brussels
Ariiong the major problems confronting Jewish
Palestine today is the reintegration of demobilized
servicemen and women. The Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, which derives its American support through the
United Palestine Appeal, is collaborating with the
War Needs and' Rescue Fund in providing vocational
retraining for ex-soldiers, helping them find employ-
ment in commerce and industry, and aiding in the
establishment of agricultural settlements for those
the Haltayal Co., established with U.P.A. nnancial aid
to offer employment to demobilized servicemen;
(center) a house under construction at Birin, a new
ex-soldiers' settlement; (right) an ex-soldier serving
as a sanitary inspector for the Tel Aviv Municipality,
which reserves all such posts for demobilized service-
men. The U.P.A. is now celebrating its twentieth
anniversary as the central fund-raising instrument of
American Jewry to provide resources for the up-
who wish to return to the land. Depicted above are
of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
(left) a former soldier at work in a textile factory of building
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