Page Two
Friday, April 5, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH C1-10 "Nlr , F end The Legal Chronicle
English Bride in Detroit
On First Visit to States
REPORT FROM
GERMANY
This is a story of a brave Ca-
nadian and his equally brave
English wife.
Rt. IA. Frank Roth, of Wind-
sor, feii in love with Miss Betty
Axelrod, of Liverpool, "England.
during his stay in the British
Isles as a RCAF pilot. He was
shot down over Germany in 1943
and was immediately interned in
a German prison camp. Never
losing faith, Roth waited patient-
ly for a chance to escape. In 1945.
two years later, he finally sue-
ceeded.
By 111%'ING IIAVETT
.lewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)
this series of articles tells of the War Crimes
Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.
"Sholetn Alechim"
(Continued from Page 1)
The story I heard that night is
hard to put into words. The mo-
tions of the hand, the shrug of
the shoulders, the blazing anger
in the eyes, the catch in the voice,
the filling-up of the eyes with
tears, the clasped hands uplifted
in a sort of prayer, the smiles --
they cannot be put on paper nor
into words. There were so many
words unspoken. There was so
much that did not have to be
said. I will try to tell you the
story I heard, as I heard it:
"One night five years ago the
Nazis came to our little house
in Kola and told us to get out.
My wife, my Eva and I left the
house, as we were — we took
nothing, just what we wore —
nothing. We were all three sent
to a concentration camp near
Dresden. We were there two
years. Only God knows how we
are alive today. From there we
were sold as slave labor to an
Arbeits Lage at 4 marks a day.
For our work we got one kilo
of bread, 5 grams of margarine
and 20 grains of sugar for 12
(lays — for that we workAl from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. one week and
from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next.
My daughter too worked twelve
hours a day. They put 1500 of
us into a room that was intend-
ed for 200. We sat and slept in
that room with our knees under
our chins, one packed next to
the other. We could not even
turn around.
and offered my daughter a
piece of chocolate. We got to
talking and suddenly the Cap-
tain exclaimed, "You are Jews!"
Ile told us to wait. In a, short
back with blan-
time he
kets, a coat for me and my wife.
candy, food — and he was so
so excited.
excited and we
Then he found us a place to
live. Ile took us to the Chaplain
Rabbi and for the first time my
wife and I said Kaddish — first
time in a long, long time. It
was forbidden in the Ghetto.
The Rabbi advised me to conic
to Stuttgart where there is a
large Jewish community. But
Stuttgart is Kaput, so I
to Ludwigsberg, it is only 20
kilometers away. Ilere I met a
half-German, half Frenchman,
who told me that he had the
money to go into business and
would take me as a partner. So
here we are.
came
were
Offered Chocolate
"M., wife, daughter and I took
a train — a train to Heidelberg.
Ve got there late and it was
already (lark. We had no money,
we had only the clothes we
wore. I went from house to
house seeking lodging. 1Ye were
so dazed at that time that It
never occurred to us that we
could demand housing. We were
sitting on the bank of the Neck-
ar when along came an Anirri-
ezn Captain. lie stopped by us
Schools Prepare
For Passover
Thursday, April is, the first day
of Chol Hamoed of Pesach, is the
day set for Passover programs in
all the branches of the United
Hebrew Schools. Playlets, com•
munity singing, recitations will
be the main features of this pro-
gram.
At the David W. Simons Branch.
the newly organized Hebrew Par-
ent-Teacher Association will spon-
sor a Passover program.
Adult evening classes at Shaa-
rey Zedek will close Tuesday, April
9, with a program which will be
staged between 9:30 and 10:30 that
evening. Rabbis Morris Adler and
Gershon G. Rosenstock, members
of the educational committee and
the more than 200 evening class
students will participate in the
closing exercises which will be
held in the foyer of the Shaarey
Zedeli Social Hall.
Irving I. Katz, executive seeTC-
tary of 'temple Beth El, was el-
' ected president of the National
Association of Temple Secretaries,
an affiliate of the Union of Am-
erican Hebrew Congregations at
the Third Biennial Convention
held recently in Cincinnati
Left to right: Isaac E. Blocho
administration secretary; Max Fe-
der, first vice-president; Irving 1.
Katz, president; S. I). Schwartz,
second vice-president and Jacobi
H'eiss, treasurer.
The Youth Groups of Shaarey
Zedek, 13nai Moshe, Temple Beth
El and Temple Israel will pre-
sent the annual Spring Formal
Dance Saturday night from 9 p.
m. to 1 a.m., at Shaarey Zedek
Social Hall. Merle Harris retie,-
sents Temple Israel on the dance
committee; Joel Hamburger, Tem-
ple Beth El; Diane New, Stud
Moshe, and Eliot Charlip, Shaarey
Zedek. The Michigan Theatre Or-
chestra, led by George Kavanaugh
will play for the dance.
FORMAL OPENING TODAY
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
came
You ask me about the future of
he Jews in Germany. The only
answer that I can give you is that
there is none. First let me give
you some figures and then I will
tell you why there is no future
for the German Jew. There wer:
250.000 German Jews in Germany
before the war. Now there are
10,000. There are 85,000 'Auslander'
Jews, non-German Jews in Ger-
many who eventually will be sent
home by UNRRA who is now car-
ing for them and very well too.
Of the 10,000 German Jews, al-
most all of them have homes,
places to stay, small shops, or are
working. I will tell you this,
Air Raid
though, 90 percent of the 10,000
One day in February 1945 we
German Jews would leave tomor-
had an air raid which lasted for
row if they could. I have not yet
107 minutes. We were 500 Jews in
spoken to one who wants to stay
that cellar. How we got out alive
in Germany. Yesterday we had a
I do not know. When we came
Hitler. Twenty years from now we
out Dresden was leveled. As if
will have somebody else. Anti-
God had swept across it with His
Semitism is here to stay in Ger-
hand and made a rubble of every-
many; it is in their blood now.
thing, in His anger. We were
There will be another war because
lined up in the streets and march-
Germany will always be military.
ed off. The men, guarded by SS
Future? There is none for the
men, and the women and children
Jew because there will be none
by SS women. The SS women
here. I would go tomorrow to
were even more brutal than the
America, Palestine or Canada if
men. We marched 12 days on foot
I could. Now, we are all three of
from Dresden into Czechoslovakia,
us living for the day when we
towards Theresienstadt. It was all
can leave. Did I tell you that we
a part of a plan. What a plan --
three are half the Jews that there
only from the minds of devils
are in Ludwigsberg? Yes, there
(-mild such a plan emerge. Write
are only six of us altogether.
to your Mends at home that we
"What are the opportunities for
tlere given one loaf of bread for
::2 people - yes, 32 people, no business? Well, I am in business
water, nothing else. We ate grass and again let me give you some
which my daughter gathered on figures. If I should make 1000
the sly - - that too was forbidden. marks in one month, after work-
The sick were carried by the well ing very hard, do you know that
until they died and had made the I, a German Jew, one of only
10,000 who are left, we who have
well sick. We were 500 when we
started and but 300 arrived at been persecuted and killed and
Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. beaten - do you know how much
We left our dead at the roadside of that 1000 I would pay in taxes"
as we followed the Elbe. We were I would pay 900 marks. Yes, 90
nercent of it. Do you know that
all of us filthy with lice. Just bags
I am paying a war tax? I am pay-
of bones covered with filty, itch-
ing for the war that German ,
ing skin. My wife asked one of the
waged against the Jews and
SS women if she could have a
•alinst the world? We German
little water to wash my daughter
Jews are treated by the American:-
with; her answer was, "If you
and everyone else as Germans, no
want to wash her, why don't you
better, no worse. We get the same
slit on her?"
food rations, we get the same clo-
One day in May we knew that
thing rations, we get no help from
something was up. Suddenly, the
SS began shooting into the Ghetto UNRRA, we deal directly with
the Landrat, with the Germans
with machine guns and then they
threw fire bombs and grenades in- only. It is sad indeed that th"
German Jew is treated by every-
to us. Many were hurt and killed.
one as a German is. The 'Ausland
Then it got quiet and suddenly
er' Jews are well taken care of .
we heard horses. The brave ones
They are clothed and fed by UN-
among us looked over the edge of
the window and then went hys- RRA. They have no shops and
terical with joy the Russians pay no taxes. Yes, they have it
good.
had come. What joy, what shout-
"So you see, there is no future
ing, what crying. what running
around looking for loved ones. We for the German Jew in Germany
carried the Russians on our backs. and perhaps there just is no fu-
We shouted and danced with them. ture. Only God knows. "Es is!
They fed us, gave us bread, can- schwer zu zein a Yid."
dy, cigarettes, coffee and even ci-
f,ars. We were free.
'Shaarey Zedek
Secretaries Elect
Katz President
Sophies' Fashions
A complete line of ladies' ready-to-wear, dresses, suits,
accessories. . . Also, custom-made suits, dresses
and millinery
LT. AND MRS. FRANK
During his period of imprison-
ment, Miss Axelrod never gave up
hopes of his return. She joined
the WRENS, the equivalent o
our WAVES, in order to do her
utmost in the war effort. Today
Miss Axelrod is Mrs. Roth, a
charming war-bride engrossed in
the problems of American living.
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Her visit with her husband
with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Krause
of Calvert Avenue, should accen-
tuate the positive about our great 0
United States.
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The executive officers of the
Mizrachi Organization of America
have embarked upon a national
Mizrachi Youth membership cam-
paign through which it hopes to
enroll all American Zionist young
people with orthodox leanings or • ,
sympathies, in a national youth
movement.
TUESDAY, APRIL 9
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groups throughout the country.
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law, announces the removal of his
offices to 3400 Guardian Building.
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