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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, April 26, 1946

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Detroit Rallies Behind AJC as 100
Join Junior Division as Volunteers

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

Over 100 additional volunteers
were recruited by the Junior Di-
vision of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign as sonic 700 persons
crowded the social hall of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek at a
workers' rally last week.
With the various divisions com-
pleting their jobs of organiza-
tion, plans for the campaign are
now proceeding at an accelerated
tempo.
Sol J. Schwartz, president of
the Junior Service Group, is .ask-
ing for volunteer clerical workers
and typists to help out at Cam-
paign headquarters in the Hotel
Tuller.
More than 60 home meetings
were held this week by the Wo-
llen's Division of the AJC. Un-
der the direction of the Home
Hospitality Committee, headed by
Mrs. Fred A. Ginsburg, the ses-
sions have enabled Detroit wo-
men to give enthusiastic support
to the drive. A similar number of
meetings Will Iota, place this
week.
Detroit business and profes-
sional men have also rallied in
full support of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

By IRVING L KATZ
Article XIII

Biographical Sketches
of Detroit Jews

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Mark Sloman

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NE OF THE EARLIEST PIONEERS of the Detroit • Jewi.0
community was Mark Sloman, grandfather of Edmund M. Slo-
man, Detroit attorney. He was born in the small town of Gol•
lub, Germany, a short distance from Berlin. When he was three years
old his father died. His father had been in the leather business and
left his widow in comfortable circumstances. From the time he was
four years old until he was nine, Mark attended the Hebrew and pub-
lic schools of his native city. By this time his stepfather had disposed
of most of the worldly goods which Mark's own father had left when
he died, so the boy was forced to work to help support the family.
His stepfather was a glazier and Mark went from town to town with
him, carrying glass and helping him in his work. This continued untii
he was seventeen years of age, when he started out for himself in
order to save up enough money to go to America. He had almost given
up hope of doing this when he re-
ceived from his brother Simon,
who had gone to America a few
years before, enough money to cov-
er the expense of the trip, and he
started out for Hamburg, where
after many trials and hardships.
he boarded the sailing vessel "Ma-
ria Theresa" which took seven
weeks to make the crossing to
New York.
Arrives Penniless
Recognizing the special needs
of surviving E uropean Jews,
He arrived in New York penni-
many non-Jewish groups have
less, but a relative arranged for
joined the SOS Collection Drive
his passage by steamer to Albany
to supply food for overseas,
and then by canal boat to Buffalo.
He got as far as Rochester, New
In Ann Arbor, the Women's
York, where, because of abuse
International League for Peace
which he suffered at the hands
and Freedom has formed a spe-
of some of the passengers on the
cial committee for this purpose,
canal boat, he left the boat and
headed by Mrs. Geisen. This
walked the remaining distance to
group is devoting itself to the
Buffalo — a long four or five day
collection of canned foods. Other
journey with little food and with
organizations which have con-
straw for a bed at night. At Buf-
tributed to the Drive include
falo he received his transportation
Goodwill Industries and various
from his brother Simon to Plym-
outh, Indiana, where Simon lived. There Ile supported himself It; local church groups.
Organizations or individuals
selling notions and other inexpensive merchandise constituting
a small stock with which his brother supplied him. Shortly thereafter wishing to participate in the
Simon moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Mark followed him there. Drive by organizing an "SOS
He continued traveling to country towns selling from his small stocl:, Shower" should call Mrs. Helen
living frugally, saving a little. On two occasions he was robbed of all Singer, city chairman of the
his possessions, but not discouraged he started out again. He moved Drive, for help in planning the
to Detroit in 1850 and entered the employ of T. A. Parker who among affair or securing entertainment
other things dealt in wool and hides, and Mark obtained a thorough for a program.
grounding in that line of business. On October 9, 1853, he was married
Volunteers and vehicles are ur-
to Amelia Schlesinger. Their children were Samuel A., Adolph, Ed- gently needed for the newly-or-
ward, Eugene, Milton and Morris Sloman, Celia Frank, the wife of ganized Motor Corps of the De-
Isadore Frank, and Pauline, who was Mrs. Albert Zenner when she troit division of the SOS Collec-
died. His giandchildren were Edmund, Herbert, Waldo, Hubert, Ar- tion Drive, Mrs. Singer an-
thur, Russel and Cheri Sloman and Irma Hirschman, Margaret Sloss nounced.
of Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine Heintzelman of Marbelhead, Mass.,
Anyone interested in serving in
Irene Mitchel, Margueritta Martin, Mildred Pethrick, Lorraine Fisher the Motor Corps or wishing to
of Pittsburg, Dorothy Sloman and Gladys Drew.
donate the use of a vehicle should
call Mrs. Singer, UN. 3-9280.
Becomes Fur Dealer
In 1878 he started the firm of M. Stamen and Company and be-
came one of the largest raw fur dealers in the Middle West. He estab-
lished a reputation for fair dealing and integrity, and his business
was built upon the confidence he established with the trappers and fur
dealers throughout the state. He remained active sin this business until
shortly after the turn of the century when his eyesight began to fail
him and he took in his son Samuel A. Sloman and later his son Milton
Sloman Into the firm. Whiting A. Tillotson had been a partner from
the start of his business and continued as such until he died some
forty years ago. The business is still carried on by Arthur W. Slomat,
Aloe Furniture Cleaning
under the original name "M. Sloman and Company."
Mark Sloman was known for his kindliness and for his generosity
to the poor. His charitable gifts were as a rule made quietly and anon-
ymously. He was active in the United Jewish Charities which later
became the Jewish Welfare Federation, was President of Pisgah
Lodge Bnai Brith, was a member of Friendship Lodge of Masons. He
was one of the small group of Jewish pioneers that founded Temple
Beth El in 1850 and was an active member and trustee thereof. Short-
ly before the Civil War he became active in the operation and conduct
of the so-called "Underground Railroad" at Detroit, an unofficial secret
organization which assisted fugitive slaves to escape into Canada. Dur-
ing the Civil War he was a member of the civilian police and active
in other civic organizations. He died in 1908 at the age of 75.

. Non-Jews Join
SOS Campaign

Mr. J. Howard McGrath, soli-
citor general of the United
States, will address an all-city
dinner meeting of attorneys at
6:30 p. in., Tuesday, April 30, at
the Book-Cadillac Hotel, Recent-
ly returned from Europe, Mc-
Grath will make his first Ameri-
can report at this meeting.

On April 24, S. Ralph Lazrus,
treasurer of the Benrus Watch
Co., spoke to the Jewelers Section
at a dinner at the Book-Cadillac
Hotel. He is national chairman of
the Jewelry division.
A two-month period of inten-
sive organization by the Meat
Section will culminate in a pledg-
ing meeting and brunch on Sun-
day, April 28, at the Belcrest
Hotel. Mrs. Joseph IL Ehrlich
will address the group.

The first series of pledgings in
the Food Division has demon-
strated the intention of Jews in
Detroit's food industry to offer
full support to Jews overseas.

Caplan Receives
Legion of Merit

Major Leslie Caplan, of Detroit,
was awarded the Legion of Merit
recently "for
e x c e ptionally
m e rito rious
conduct in the
performance of
o u tsta nding
services."
As a medical
officer for 2,600
American pris-
oners in a Ger-
man prison
c a m p, Caplan
W o r ked cease-
Leslie Caplan lessly in adritin•
istering medical aid to the sick.
Hp did this in spite of a forced
march of more than 600 miles,
which found him nearly exhaust-
ed. Although injured in the leg,
the Detroiter discharged his re-
sponsibilities in such a manner
that not a single life was lost.

Brandeis Camp
Candidates Being
Selected Now

Because of the need for lead-
ers, the American Zionist Youth
Commission five years ago estab-
lished the Brandeis Camp Insti-
tute to stimulate latent leadership
powers among American Jewish
youth. Almost 1,000 candidates
have already passed through the
camp during that time.
By a carefully planned round or
studies, work, and social activi-
ties, the Brandeis Camp Insti-
tute, named after the late Su-
preme Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis, attempts to arouse in
the candidate a feeling of per-
sonal identification with Judaism,
Zionism, and Palestine. Educators,
thinkers and scholars impart to
the students an active realization
of the tasks and problems facing
Jewry today and the principles of
leadership techniques. S port s,
field work, entertainment, and
cultural activities in the Pales-
tinian manner supplement the
educational program of the Insti-
tute.
Give to the A.J.C.

Greenberg Heads
Vocational Service

Samuel S. Greenberg has been
elected president of the Board of
Trustees of the Jewish Vocational
Service succeeding Harvey H.

Goldman.

Mr. Greenberg, an attorney, has
been a member of the Board since
1942 and has served as its secre-
ta•y. Elected with Mr. Greenberg
are • vice-presidents, Robert N.
Janeway, an engineer associated
with Chrysler Corporation, and
Maurice L. Klynn, personnel
manager of Federal Department
Stores and Davidson Brothers;
secretary, Max Schayowitz, of
Grosse Pointe Foods; and treas-
urer, Mrs. Stanley P. Fleisehaker,
housewife and former social
worker,
Men repairing a bombed house
at Sutton, England, recently found
thirty-five birds' nests in what was
left of the thatched roof.

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ALTMAN RECEIVES AWARD
Dr. Raphael Altman, of Detroit,
was awarded a Certificate of
Honor, the Yearbook of the Amer-
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