DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Chaplain Marcus Will Recount Horrors of
German Concentration Camps at AJC Tea
u
Friday, Febr ary 15, 1946
REPORT FROM
GERMANY
Chaplain (Capt./ Robert S. Mar- chenwald Camp to go to Pales-
cus, director of the recently es- tine and personally accompanied pieces, among which will be "The
tablished Department of World them there. Chaplain Marcus, Four Freedoms" and "Free and
Equal Blues."
Jewish Affairs of the American
By IRVING HAYETT
On exhibition at the tea will
Jewish Congress, will be the guest
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
be a group of posters designed
speaker at the Fifth Annual Con-
(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)
and created by Mrs. Marcus For-
gress Tea of the Detroit Section
This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
] don and her poster committee.
of the Women's Division of the.
Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.
American Jewish Congress, . cul-
Patronesses at the tea will oc
minating their fund-raising cam-
Mesdames Samuel S. Bankle, Ar-
paign, to be held at the Hotel
thur B. Colton, Kolman Z. Sachse,
Statler at 1:30 p.m., on Wednes-
Arthur Stone, Arnold E. Frank,
day, Feb. 20.
Louis Fineman, Robert S. Wisok,
ARTICLE V
Captain Marcus, who also rep-
Louis Hamburger, Benjamin
A
S
I
HAVE
reported
before,
resents the American Jewish Con-
Klein, William Roth, Samuel Kat-
center. It is now not even I
the Concentration Camp trials wreck. It is just a bunch of
gress on the American Committee
: kin, Harry Stocker, Irving Shevin,
are
now
in
the
process
of
being
for the Rehabilitation of Euro-
Joseph Buegeleisen, Samuel R.
bricks, mortar and twisted steel.
pean Jewish Children, assumed
Greenbaum, Max Dushkin, Hen- prepared and will not go to trial I did not see one complete wall
the directorship of the Depart-
ry Cohen, Max Osnos, Edward for a short while yet. I have been standing in all the ride through
ment of World Jewish Affairs im-
Bernstein, Joseph Frenkel, Charles loaned to the Investigation and the town. It is far more devas-
mediately after his discharge
Feinberg, Lewis Tatken, Herman Apprehension Sub-Section of the tated than Frankfurt and I am
War Crimes Branch for about told that it is the worst bombed
from the U. S. Army, in which
Schmier, Paul Faust, Herman Co-
three weeks, until the trials do city in Germany. The British
he served as a chaplain for three
hen, Nathan Spevakow, Milton J. start.
bombed Kassel time and time
)ears, twenty months of which
Miller, Harry Frank, Harry Book-
I was given travel orders anti again in retaliation for Coven-
were spent overseas. Having been
stein, Charles Milan, Morris Wein-
;tailed
out
with
a
"team,"
con-
try. They did a most thorough
one of the first to reach the con-
garten, Clara Nestor, Samuel Rai-
sisting of a Capt. Kuschner, a
centration camps, Chaplain Mar-
mi, Samuel A. Green, Max Said- pathologist, and four civilian em- job. I have been told that one V
cus made it possible for 300 chil-
man, Saul LeVine, Irving C. Mah- ployees like myself, an attorney the raids came unwarned and
CHAPLAIN R. S. MARCUS
dren who were existing amid
ler, Kalman Shapiro, Herman Os- from Indiana, a Notre Dame that 35,000 people were killed or
injured in that one raid. The
wretched conditions In the Bu-
nos, Nathan Freedland and I. Z. graduate and a very nice chap
whose subject will be "What I Silvarman.
trolleys are running again, how-
named Fred Baer, an interpreter ever, and people on bicycles are
Saw in Germany," will give an
named Klein, a typist from Kap- all over the place. Most of the
eye-witness account of conditions
stus, a driver and myself. We Germans I saw in Kassel were
in the displaced persons camps
were headed for Lubeck, Ger- walking. They were poorly dress-
and the activities of the World
HABERDASHER
many, in the British Occupied ed but they were well fed, had
Jewish Congress on behalf of the
Zone. Lubeck is situated on the those round faces and rosy cheeks
Book-Cadillac }
United
unfortunates placed there.
North Sea, a seaport at the ex- that I've seen so much of over
Hotel
Artist Bldg.
Mrs. Minnie Merlin, dramatic
treme north end of Germany.
here and were busy going about
CL. 0172
Pupils
of
the
Carmel
Hebrew
CH. 3768
artist, who has worked with the
their business. They do not look
School have donated $250 for th"
Open Evenings '(II 9
First Stop Kassel
Ann Arbor Summer Theatre and
like a beaten people should look.
Contemporary Theater of Detroit, settlement of a family and $75 for
We started out about 10 a.m , to me. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe
I will present several dramatic trees for Chamisho Osor drive.
January 3, 1946, in a command I'm expecting too much.
Gerald Helman,, JNF chairman
Underground City
of the school, Larry Eisenberg, car with open sides, and we had
winner of the first prize for bring- a trailer with our stuff in it. It
Our first stop was the "Tran-
was
very
cold
and
all
of
us
were
ing in thq highest amount, and
sient Mess." We parked our car
Edward Rupzumna, winner of the dressed as warmly as possible and and started into what I thought
also
covered
and
wrapped
in
two
second prize, were leaders in the
was a cellar. It turned out to be
drive. Other active participants or three blankets. Our first stop an underground city. It is one of
was
Kassel.
We
left
Wiesbaden
were Hyman Stolman, Harold Gu-
the many underground shelters
tenberg, Barry Lieberman and and within 30 minutes were on
one
of
the
famous
Autobahns,
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Morris Betman. Pupils inscribed
In Sefer Bar Mitzvah of the JNF, super highways built by the Ger-
Sheldon M. Brown, Donald Fox, mans in preparation for their
H. Fishman, Harold Gutenberg, war. The highways are built sol-
Jerry Godfrey, Raymond Gottlieb, idly enough to take the heaviest
Gerald Heiman, A. M. Leash, Har- tank. They are broad, two-lane
vey Kozin, Sheldon Plotnik Don- highways, separated by an island
have no cross traffic. They
The following message from
ald Sevel, B. Stein, Gerald Yaker, and
a
Seymour Tate and' Walter Zem- re really well built and laid out Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz, Chief
so that thqre is a maximum sa lv- of Naval Operations, was sent to
mol have given. 1$2811.
ing of tirnt in getting from one
The Carmel Hebrew School is big city to another. There are the USO Washington, D. C. Coun-
asking all parents of children who many of these Autobahns through- cil and to USO generally, on the
occasion of the Fifth Anniver-
have been or are going to be Bar out all of Germany.
r
sary of USO.
Mitzvah to inscribe In the Golden
A SMART, ULTRA-MODERN
We had to leave the highway
Book of the Jewish National Fund.
"On this Fifth Anniversary of
before we got to Kassel and had the USO it gives me great pleas-
For
information,
call
TO.
A-3503
FOOTWEAR CENTER FOR THE
to travel at a very slow rate of ure to send my greetings to the
or TO. 5-5462.
speed over broken and shell- USO Council of Washington, C
CRADLE-TO-COLLEGE SET
pocked roads for about three and to the officers, professional
hours. We passed through Gies- staff and the thousands of volun-
Saturday, February 16th is the day! Leon.
sen, Marburg, Borken and Fels- teer workers of your splendid
ard's Shoes invites you to the grand opening
burg, all of them small German organizations. I am happy to ex-
farming towns, not at all touched press the Navy's appreciation
of Northwest Detroit's modern new shoe
by the war. The farms are all and thanks for your splendid
salon at West McNichols near Prairie.
NEW YORK -- Responding to well kept, clean and orderly. The services to the personnel of the
Featuring famous make footwear for in.
the special needs of liberated houses are all the same. They all Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
(ants, children, misses and the college crowd.
Jews in Holland, the ORT, Organ- have bricked roofs of red, white Guard. As Chief of the Bureau of
ization for Rehabilitation through walls which are marked with Navigation in 1941, with respon•
Training, has begun vocational black wooden beams in a checker.. sibilities for the establishment of
training work for the first time board pattern. They are all elec- a comprehensive welfare and rec-
in that country.
trified but do not have running reation program for Naval per-
With the cooperation of the Am- water or toilets. They were 411 sonnel, I welcomed the formatio
pretty well stocked with cows and of the United Service Organiza-
sterdam ORT Committee, under chickens
and even turkeys. The
tions in February of that year
the leadership of Mr. Izaaks Bi•
farmers
of
Germany live wei!. Later. its C01111 11 1 111d1T.11)-( Thief of
jenkopf, and with the participa•
round and fat and do not feel the Pacific Fleet and the
Bon of such leading personalities are
Pacili ,
any pinch, as far as food is con- Ocean areas, 1
as the Chief of the Reparation
had the opportuni-
cerned, because of the war. Every. ty to observe the operations of tip
Service of the Dutch Govern-
body works front the three-year- Many USO activities in Hawaii
ment, Mr. Vandemost, the ORT old
to the grandfather .
and to appreciate their outstanditi:
has set up children's workshops
contributions to the morale of the
Not OM' Wall Standing
in cardboard making and wood.
working, WS well as training in
Just before we got to Kusiiel. personnel of the Armed Fore.—
special fields of metal work and the roads got very bad. Then we under my commend. Ku, on bylaw
manufacturing of techno•ehemical came to what is supposed to be of these personnel 1 extend tie
products for adults.
Kassel. Kassel before tlie war was thanks of the Navy and u hiiiii
u railroad and manufacturing and tinccre 'wad! none, Ifs(/" '
To bring ORTs program of (.
4 sigiicd, ('
manic nhubllltullun
th rough
Famou) Wra(herbird Shoe) For:
training to the thousands of iii;-
ptnerislied Jews of Europe, tio.
• Infant. and Children priced from .
American OUT Federation is now
our - hats-off" series is intend
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IH,000,uuo, of which $2,000,00u is Jewish us gunizations
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to 1w raised in Creator New York . als who hove Imply and individu- niut4(rially but also
Bad Oeynhausen
TOM COTTER
from
C
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Students Collect
$325 for JNF
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thru
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Nintitz Praises
USO on Birthday
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