Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Twenty
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Orphan Girl Becomes
"Daughter of Regiment"
U. P. A. AIDS RETURNING SOLDIERS
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
Sytner has 2,500 loving "dad- parents, Yvonne had lived with
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 treatirent and care restored her
years old and has just been to health 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.
these, the JDC supports some
Jewish orphan they saw while
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.
two more buildings are being
So interested in the JDC work
prepared
to house Jewish or-
were the visitors that they de-
cided to "adopt" a child and phans who are now in other in-
stitutions but under supervision
make financial arrangements
from Jewish welfare workers.
for her care and education.
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.
To insure that she would re- helped by the JDC.
ceive a good education, the
Yvonne Adoption Fund was es-
tablished to raise 250,000 francs,
Season's Greetings
approximately 100 francs per
man. Crumpled one, five and ten
franc notes were placed in spe-
d
cial containers in the mess an
recreation halls.Contributions
Alexander Licht Co.
of 100 francs or more were re-
dy"
"Dad
warded with a special the
1326 BROADWAY
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card and before long,
A True Story from Brussels
the Haltayal Co., established with U.P.A. nni.ncial aid
Among the major problems confronting Jewish to offer employment to demobilized servicemen;
Palestine today is the rejntegration of demobilized (center) a house under construction at Iliria, a new
servicemen and women. The Jewish Agency for Pales-
an ex-soldier serving
tine, which derives its American support through the ex.soldiers' settlement; (right)
United Palestine Appeal, is collaborating with the as a sanitary inspector for the Tel Aviv Municipality,
War Needs and Rescue Fund in providing vocational which reserves all such posts for demobilized service.
retraining for ex•soldiers, helping them find employ. men. The U.P.A. is now celebrating its twentieth
ment in commerce and industry, and aiding in the anniversary as the central fund-raising instrument of
establishment of agricultural settlements for those American Jewry to provide resources for the up-
who wish to return to the land. Depicted above are building of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
(left) a former soldier at work in a textile factory of
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