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Friday, February 1, 1946

CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, 01110

REPORT FROM
GERMANY

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By IRVING IIAYETT

Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent

(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)

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Wiesbaden

ARTICLE THREE

I did not stay long in Frank-
furt. Capt. Patterson sent a jeep
1 0 end driver to pick me up in the
morning. Don't worry about your
boys and husbands over here. They
are being well fed and well billet-
ed. The G.I.'s are billeted in for-
mer S.S. Troop barracks, which
are very luxurious and very com-
fortable. Those S.S. boys didn't
spare themselves anything. Why
should they? Weren't they the
"Elite Guard" — the world con-
querors?

My papers were finally in order
and I was loaded onto a truck
with my baggage and was on my
way to Wiesbaden, Judge Advo-
cate War Crimes Branch Head-
quarters. I arrived in Wiesbaden,
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1945, at 4:30
p.m., and was directed to No. 6
Friedrich Strasse.

Wiesbaden is a resort town with
many luxurious hotels which f, r-
merly catered to the tourists. It
has warm mineral springs run-
ning under it, which were famous
for their medicinal properties. Ev-
ery hotel has its "Bader," where
German tourists at one time came
to bathe, cure their aches, eat
well and drink well. It is a town
for wealthy people. There are
many large apartment houses and
many, many palatial homes — 15,
20 and 25-room affairs, elaborate-
ly and expensively built, with sun-
ken bathtubs, 6 feet by 9 feet, wal-
nut carved doors, oak paneling
and beamed ceilings. Yes, this was
a town for the rich.

ornate and massive; the light fix-
tures are of brass and heavily
designed. Heat is furnished by
concealed radiators. There are
two very comfortable leather win-
dow seats, a tremendous desk • -
big enough for even Goering, two
lounge chairs, a table, and three
chests of drawers made of pickled
pine. The doors are wide and
large and very heavy. The walls
must be at least two feet thick
because you can't hear any sounds
from the hall. The entrance hall
to the house is large and circular.
There is a beautiful carved stair-
case leading to the second floor
which has room after room on it,
one leading into another. Then
there is a third floor and an attic
and a tower with an ornate iron
staircase leading to it. I never
could find out what it was for.
Perhaps a lookout!

Council Endorses Fair
Employment Measures

With the struggle for perman-
ent fair employment practice legis-
lation brought to a critical stage
by the filibustering activities of
Southern senators in Congress, the
American public is called upon
to register once more their senti-
ments on this question.
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Detroit, which has been par-
ticipating in the campaigns for
FEPC legislation, has wired Sena-
tor Homer Ferguson commending
him for his support of FEPC, and
calling on him to join in the pro-
posed cloture, designed to end the
filibuster which has been holding
up the Senate's action on vital
legislation.
At the same time the Commun-
ity Council has wired President
Harry S. Truman to express gra-
tification at his continued en-
dorsement of the proposed legis-
lation.
The Council calls upon indivi-
duals and organizations to wire
Senator Ferguson and the Pres-
ident. Every effort should be made
to bring the FEPC legislation to
a vote in Congress. To do this it
will be necessary for the Senate
to intervene to end the filbuster.

The bathrooms are beautiful —
there are five of them. They are
all about the size of a living room
back home. All of them tiled from
floor to ceiling — stained glass
windows, dressing table built in,
wash stand and a 6 foot by 9 foot
tub and shower attachment. The
tub is sunken — you have to go
down three steps to get into it. It
takes one half hour of steadily,
fast-flowing water to get enough
in it to take a bath. It has all
kinds of gadgets, some of which I
haven't figured out yet. There is
one interesting gadget with three
buttons — one for the maid, one
for the butler and one for the
cook. Why should anyone want to
Sometime in February, 1945, the call the cook while taking a bath?
English sent 500 bombers into
Enough about my billet! I am
Germany with 2500 tons of bombs.
They bombed Wiesbaden. Just one messed in a luxurious hotel called
raid. You should see what that the Rose Hotel. It is a five-minute
one raid did to this town. It bomb- ride from my billet. It was for-
ed out the complete center of merly the most expensive and
town. It is nowhere near as devas- beautiful hotel in Wiesbaden. The
tated as Frankfurt, yet it is bad dining room has tremendous cut
enough. It is visual evidence of glass chandeliers, enormous af-
how terrible this war was and it fairs. There are beautiful rugs on
is prophetic of what is to come if the floor, gorgeous red drapes,
heavy tables, soft plush chairs,
we have another war.
clean, spotless linen — real linen,
I am billeted in a 20-room man- too — and sterling silver service.
sion on a hill overlooking town. We have German waiters, all in
It was formerly the home of a big-
frock coats, all born waiters who
shot Nazi. The swastika was re-
know what service means and
moved from the path into the who make a serious profession of
house but you can still see the being waiters. There is one strict
care and workmanship that went
rule in all Germany and that is
into the pieces of tile that were
"NO TIPPING ALLOWED." I
laid into the path leading to the
get Waldorf-Astoria service — I
house.
can't light my own cigarette, I
The room I occupy at No. 9 Gus- can't pull my own chair to the
tav Freytag Strasse was formerly table, I can't put on my own coat.
the den. It has oak panelled walls The food is good, German cooked
and six large windows. It is on the and baked and you can get sec-
first floor. The furniture that re- onds if you want them.
mains is of walnut, massive and
very heavily carved. There are 3 (Next week's article No ntinur. to tell
of us billeted here. The beds are of the lamiries of 111eshatlem)

Neugarten Medical Aid
Re-elects Mrs. Aller

ton with Mrs. Maurice Klein as
guest of honor.
Others elected were Mrs. Benja-
min Krell Jr., Mrs. Norman Noble,
Mrs. Samuel Shewitz, and Mrs.
Charles Rothstein, vice-presidents;
Mrs. Samuel Gale, recording-sec-
retary; Mrs. Charles Hyman, fin-
ancial-secretary; Mrs. Harry Plis-
kow, corresponding-secretary; Mrs.
Albert Weiss, special correspond-
ing-secretary; Mrs. Samuel Roth-
stein treasurer; Mrs. Morton Ja-
cobs, publicity; and Mrs. Morris
Roth, auditor.
On Monday, Feb. 4, at 11:00 a.m.,
a joint meeting of the 1945-46
board members will be held at
the Pallister Tea Room.

Russian Consul Speaks
At Jewish Reception

MRS. CHARLES ALLER

Mrs. Charles Aller took office
as president of the Neugarten
Medical Aid for her second con-
secutive term at the annual in-
stallation of officers meeting Mon-
day, Jan. 28 at the \Vardell-Shera-

Page Nine

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Le al Chronicle

Pavel I. Fedosimov, Secretary of
the Consulate of the U. S. S. R.,
was the guest speaker at a recep-
tion launching the Hospital Pro-
ject Campaign of the Jewish
Council for Russian Relief, Jan.
30.
$800,000 has already been
pledged to the Hospital Projects
Campaign by Jewish fraternal or-
ganizations. landsmanschaf ten and
relief societies in this country.

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

By IRVING I. KATZ

Executive Secretary, Temple Beth El, Detroit

is n series of articles cos crime Jews In Mich-
igan from 1763 to (late. It Is written by the historian
of Temple Beth El un i t contains material never before

published.)

Michigan's German-Jewish Pioneers

1840-1850

Until the year 1815, most of the Jews who came to America were
of Spanish origin. Then came a change and the Jewish immigration
from Germany began which is known in American Jewish History as
"The Second Wave of Immigration." The reason for this immigration
was the state of affairs in Germany following the Napoleonic Wart.
The nation was backward in government and industry, militaristic and
brutal in politics, and particularly severe against the Jews. Hence, the
German Jews, and especially those
residing in Bavaria where the anti-
Semitic laws were most severe,
came here to seek opportunity,
freedom, and above all liberty to
worship according to the dictates
of their conscience. Those who
came were chiefly the rank and
file of the population, poor or mid-
dle class workmen, merchants,
with rarely a professional man
among them. The German-Jewish
immigrants were hard working
and enterprising, and were gener-
ally good business men. Many be-
gan their business careers as pack-
Chaplain Morris Adler just re- peddlers and later became mer-
turned from Toyko will be official chants of importance.
ly welcomed in Detroit Wednes-
The revolution in Germany in
day, Feb. 13 at the luncheon of
the Sisterhood of Congregation 1848 affected also a new element,
Shaarey Zedek Torah Scholarship the "forty-eighters," consisting of
well educated and rather financi-
Fund.
ally competent Jews who, having
sympathized with the democratic
their native land in order to
avoid the penaltiies of such syrn-
void the penalties of such sym-
SOLOMON BENDIT
pathy. Many of those who came to these shores founded commercial
enterprises which grew into business organizations of much Import-
ance.
The revolution in Germany in 1848 affected also a new element, the
"forty-eighters," consisting of well educated and rather financially
competent Jews who, having sympathized with the democratic move-
ment, had to emigrate from their native land in order to avoid the
penalties of such sympathy. Many of thosee who came to these shores
founded commercial enterprises which grew into busine.! organiza-
tions of much importance.

Rabbi Adler's Return
Spurs Torah Fund

RABBI MORRIS ADLER

As this permanent endowment
fund to the Jewish Theological
Seminary will honor Rabbi A. M.
Hersman on the home front and
Chaplain Morris Adler on the war
front, the news of Chaplain Ad-
ler's return has added great im-
petus to the work of the com-
mittees, according to Mrs. Cary
S. Schiller and Mrs. Seymour Si-
mons, chairmen.
A quota of $21,500 is the goal
of the Sisterhood and will be used
directly to train rabbis and teach-
ers to guide Jewish youth. Using
the unit of $6.11, the numerical
value of the letters in the Hebrew
word Torah, the individual pledge
to the luncheon which will be
held at the Shaarey Zedek will
be two or more Torah units.
Special gifts start at $25. Tickets
may be obtained from Mrs. Meyer
Shugarman at To. 8-8754.

Rosenberg Re-elected
To Head Philosophers

The Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Colony
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, located in Washtenaw County, were the
first places in Michigan where Jews, from Bohemia, Hungary, Silesia
and Bavaria, settled. There were two reasons for their selection of
these places: First, because in 1840 Washtenaw County was the best
county in Michigan for farm stock, wool and hides; secondly, because
many of the farmers in this county, also recent immigrants, were
German and the Jewish arrivals found here the language of their
native land and a place where they could earn a living, mostly as ped-
dlers, until they could establish themselves as merchants, manufac-
turers or craftsmen.

Among the first to come to Ann Arbor from Bohemia were the five
Well brothers who arrived as follows: Solomon in 1843, Moses and
wife in 1844, Leopold in 1845, Marcus in 1846, Jacob in 1848, and their
parents in 1850. Leopold Well and Judah Sittig, a Bohemian Jew who
came in 1845, attempted farming and so did Moses Well together with
one Woodel, also from Bohemia, but all gave it up after a year or so.
The Weil brothers were orthodox Jews and conducted the first Min-
yanim (religious services) in Michigan from 1845 on, when other Jews
joined them. The Jewish cemetery in Ann Arbor was acquired in 1848
or 1849.

Charles E. Bresler, Connstadt born, came in the early 40's to Ypsi-
lanti where he bought horses for shipment east. He established an ex-
tensive business in furs and wool and crossed the ocean 191 times. He
made a fortune in importing steel pens and in the beginning of the
50's came to Detroit. He was one of the eleven charter members of
Detroit's Temple Beth El.
Other Jewish immigrants who came to Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti be-
fore 1850 were: Charles, Henry and Emanuel Lederer in 1847; Charles
Fantle in 1848; Adolph and Louis Bresler and their father, Leo Bres
ler, Moses Rindskopf, Solomon Bendit, David Weidenfeld and brother,
Adam Hersch, Isaac Altman, Simon Sloman, a dry goods dealer named
Hayman, Fantes brothers, and one Feder.
The Lederers moved to Lansing in 1849 where they established a
tannery, soap factory, and general store. The following 'moved after
a few years to Detroit: Charles Fantle (father of Moses Fantle), Ju-
dah Sittig (grandfather of Mrs. Moses Fantle, Mrs. Joseph Siegel and
Marcus Freud), Moses Rindskopf (father-in-law of Mrs. William Rind-
skopf), Solomon Bendit (grandfather of Mrs. Cora B. Simons), who
was one of the charter members of Temple Beth El and its first vice-
president and treasurer, Adam Hersch (grandfather of Alvin D.
Hirsch) who was also a charter member of Beth El, Isaac Altman
(father of Miss Annie Altman), Adolph Leo and Louis Bresler (the
latter two were charter members of Beth El while Adolph is the grand-
father of Mrs. Lewis Daneman) and Simon Sloan.
(Article III of this series, next week, tells of the life and adventures
of Edward Kanter, the founder of the Gennan American Bank in

Attorney Louis Rosenberg was
re-elected, for the second year.
president of the Detroit Philosoph-
ical Society at its 46th annual
meeting Friday evening, Jan. 25,
at Hotel Statler.
The other officers and directors Detroit.)
elected at the meeting are as fol-
lows:
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. Floyd W. Owen, Wallace K.
Wonders, and Dr. Emil Amberg,
vice-presidents; Charles A. Meyer,
secretary-treasurer; Dr. Noah E.
Aronstam, Prof. William M. Trap,
OPTOMETRIST
Wallace Visscher, Prof., John W.
Announces
his
Honorable
Release from the U. S. Army
Schol, and Emil 0. Tolonen, di-
and the Opening of Complete Modern Optical Offices at
rectors.
The principal speaker of the
evening was Emil 0. Tolonen who
2nd Floor — next to T. B. Rayl's
spoke on the subject of "The
EYES
EXAMINED
• GLASSES FITTED
Modern Theory of Wholes." Pre-
24 Hour Optical Repair Service
ceding the meeting there was a
dinner attended by the officers
CADILLAC 9353
and members of the society.

Dr. C. STOLAR

1 15 STATE STREET

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