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Friday, July 19, 1946

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By IRVING HAYETT
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent

(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)
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Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.

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The Flossenberg Concentration Camp Case
(Continued)

SWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal

The Voice of the
Man in the Street

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Photos by ERIC BENNETT
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Pa e Five

MAN OF 11 -11f

Ingenious, energetic, quick thinking Dr. Perry P. Burnstine, newly
elected commander of the department of Michigan, Jewish War Vet-
erans of the United States is saluted by the Chronicle and accorded
honor as the Man of the Week.

Burnstine was born in Windsor, Ontario, and came to Detroit at
the age of eight. As a boy, he was very much interested in sports. The
youngsters of that day played a different kind of football than is
played today. They used a blown up rubber ball which was rolled to
the batter on the ground and kicked. There were bases the same as In
baseball and nine players to a side. The various blocks were organized
into gangs. Thus the Montcalm gang would play the Winder Street
gang and all too often the game would wind up in a gang war. Rivalry
was very intense.

TIME: Sunday morning.
PLACE: Dexter and Webb.
Last week, I listed some of the groups shot and admitted the QUESTION: How does the Ha-
"I remember other things we don't have in the city any more,"
gannah (Jewish R es !stance reminisced the doctor. "At election time, we used to pile wooden boxes
defendants In this case. Here are same in a written statement.
Movement in Palestine) affect on the Hastings Street car line and set huge bonfires. In those days,
more of them.
(Looked very worried.)
you personaiiy?
Ludwig Buddensieg was com-
automobiles were rare and the accepted thing was to take a horse
Karl Frederick Alois Geiselman
manding officer of Flossenberg for came from Hamburg and is an
and buggy ride in Palmer Park or Belle Isle with a few delicatessen
over four years. He signed a habitual 'criminal. He wore the SIDNEY FRIEDMAN, 12028 Dex- sandwiches. Incidentally, there was only one delicatessen In the whole
city."
ter.
statement that beating and green triangle having been con-
I feel the Hagannah is a great
shooting of the inmates by his victed as a felon at least 5 times.
Like most other boys of the time, Burnstine sold newspapers. His
140 guards was a daily occurence He was the Blockeldest in Block thing. The Jews ought to have station was in front of the City Hall and the chief engineer was his
their own home-
and that during his four years of 19 which contained the young
daily customer. When he used to descend in the basement of the City
land and if you
duty there as guard company prisoners. He was known for his
Hall and see the huge wheels that turned the machinery, he was
want to attain
commander 350 to 400 inmates brutality toward boys. He has
fascinated. He determined then
your object, you
were shot by his company alone. beaten boys to death. (Smiled and
and there that his field in life
(Stared straight ahead).
have to fight
then sneered and whispered.)
would be engineering.
for it.
Karl Buttner is a habitual crim.
August Ginschel, served in a re-
When he entered high school,
The time has
Inal having been in confinement formatory as a boy. He was an
his determination was still in this
come for Jews
for the past 12 years. He was orderly in Block 1 which was a
line and accordingly, he took all
all over the
Block Eldest in Block 12 where special block for more important
the science and mathematics
world to wake
the kitchen was. He had beaten prisoners. As Block orderly he has
courses he could. There was one
up and see
prisoners who were working for beaten many prisoners. M trans-
course which was especially
what the situ-
him until they died. He would al- port guard he shot many on the
adapted to this line but there was
ation really is.
low food to spoil in the kitchen transport. He has been in jail or
a twenty-five dollar fee attached.
England is de-
and after it was spoiled would prison camps for the past 6 years.
Burnstine looked about him but
termined that we do not get Pal-
feed it to the prisoners producing (Worried.)
there was no possible way for him
estine and the Jews are just as
dysentery. He dragged sick pris-
Karl Bracher, comes from Ber-
to raise that stupendous sum so
oners out of bed, beating them lin and was a courier and clerk in determined that 'we will. It is or-
engineering flew out the window
with a riding whip and kicking Flossenberg. He acted as Ser- ganizations like the Hagannah
as a career.
them with his feet and then geant on the transport and shot which will mean the difference be-
Next, he decided to become a
forced them to work. He told one prisoners who were physically un- tween success and failure.
dentist. However, when he finished
of the inmates that he would not able to continue to march. (No
high school, there was again the
send sick people to the hospital reaction.)
JEANNETTE CRISPY, 3327 Mon-
question of the tuition fee so den-
but would finish them himself.
terey.
tistry lost a good man. Just about
Gerhard Haubold, comes from
(Sneered.)
I feel that the Jewish resistance
that time, the Board of - Education
Georg Degner was a Pole. In Saxony. In private life he was a movement is in the right and I
took over the Detroit College of
July 1944 he was made command- pharmacist. Before coming to heartily endorse the things they
DR. PERRY P. BURNSTINE Medicine and the tuition was only
ing officer at labor camp Mulsen. Flossenberg he was in the Toten- are doing. We have to show our twenty-five dollars. Thereupon, Burnstine became a doctor.
Ile had approximately 750 pris- kopf at Auschwitz. During his strength if we expect to attain
After interning at' Receiving Hospital, he entered into practice for
oners in his charge. He selected a tour of duty at Flossenberg he our ends and
himself. He took care of a lot of Welfare patients and as a result, he
group of prisoners to go to Flos- was in charge of camp arrest. He this is the only
performed
and
participated
in
ex-
had hundreds of babies named after himself and members of his family.
senberg to answer for an alleged
way we can do
mutiny, all of whom were execu. ecutions in the arrest. He admits it.
In 1940, he was one of the first doctors to offer free medical serv-
that
during
his
short
tenure
in
ice for selective service without compensation. He treasures a copy of
ted. The prisoners in his charge
The English
the Detroit News of November 25, 1940 In which the entire back page
were undernourished, required to charge of the arrest, 19 or 20 were request for the
is devoted to pictures of the type of examination he gave in his office
work hard and the death rate was shot in the arrest and 14 hanged. Hagannah to
to volunteers for the army.
approximately 20 percent per All were stripped before execu- lay down its
month. (Defiant smile and sneer.) tion. (Shook his head and whis- arms is ridicu-
Came the war and Burnstine volunteered for the medical corps.
lous. They did
Christian Eisbusch is a West- pered.)
First, however, he was medical examiner for draft board number 25.
Josef
Hauser,
had
been
in
the
that
once
be-
phalian. He Is a habitual criminal
He holds a letter of appreciation from President Roosevelt for service
and was in prison for the past 10 penitentiary before his arrival at fore and were
rendered without compensation.
years. On the transport evacuating Floss. He became a Capo in the left defenseless
in
the
Arab
In the medical corps, he showed great ingenuity in many fields.
Gannacker, a by-camp, he killed armament factory. He has beaten
He started a system of keeping a card record of every soldier from
by beatings and shot prisoners. prisoners until they died. He riots.
stated that "if an already finished
I raise my head high when I the very first time he ever appeared on a sick call. The card then
(No reaction.)
August Fahrnbauer, comes from product was damaged by care- realize that for the first time in recorded his every subsequent trouble, the - treatment and the doctor's
upper Bavaria. He was command. lessness or stupidity it was con- history, Jews are rising in their observations. This card was then passed .on Pilf.11 the man to every
ing officer at Plattling and had sidered sabotage by my superior might and fighting back against subsequent outfit to which he might- go andenstituted a complete
medical record. _
between 400 and 500 prisoners and and instead of reporting the men, an oppressor.
England will learn in time that
50 guards under him. Many pris- I would beat them." He admits
Following t h4.':-'01girieering
.
bent-he had exhibited as a boy, he
oners were killed by his guards on beating prisoners for stealing or she has a new kind of Jew to developed, rflitiiy gadgets for,finger and toe exercises for casualties. He
his transport under his orders. sabotage with a rubber hose until deal with. She will then give in. also `!.;;,reloped a portable indoor and outdoor medical, surgical operat-
some of them bled from the nose. The Jew must and will win out
(No reaction.)
field unit. All of this was developed out of salvage materials.
in the end.
Johann Geisberger is also a (Defiant look and sneer on lips.)
A
few weeks ago, he received a letter of commendation for his
Bavarian. A former Master Sgt.
Peter Herz, was born• in Ro-
work as Captain in the medical corps authorizing him by direction of
in the Totenkopf (Death head mania of German origin. For al- PETER SIMON,
3M Webb.
unit). It was his mission to take most 2 years he was a guard in
I am very much in sympathy the secretary of war to wear the army commendation ribbon. When
he left the army, he was a major.
roll call in the morning and at the Concentration Camp at Gross with th''
movement. We can be
night. He took part in executions Rosen, arriving in Floss ik4rch
n: I u . in such a war even
Another one of his innovations was in the care of KP's. They
and beatings. (Sneered.)
1945, He admits having slide two sucse
e
taip, anppponent
Is Gr at Bri- were accustomed to have two buckets of water, one to wash the hands
Michael Gelhardt. In 1941 and concentration camp prfers who
in and one to rinse them. Since everyone used the same buckets,
1942 he was a Corporal in the had fallen because t.14," were-4,=, doing in mud of what they are infection spread until, Burnstine rigged up a portable handwasher.
guard at Flossenberg, and was on weak to walk an more when at are fighting [tine because they Still another method he started to fight infection was in the case of
I was fighting tekhe same thing
the detail which executed 30 Rus- were lying on the.gi an.0.:
...e s he sh o
s 'etien I was in the food containers. It was the custom to lean the covers of the huge
sian soldiers in three batches of a distance of / i h e last shot
tra
n
s-
this 1,, during cans of food on the ground against the containers. Then the food was
8, 10 and 12. He was one of the them. He was,*-
' i th
covered by the soiled lids and infection followed. He ordered the con.
ro:A. (Looked wor-
guards who fired into the first port that left, 1
ty.
tainers placed on a base made of old ration boxes with a notched rack
, f
group but observed the other two reed.)
If they lib lo e s r . - on the side. Infection of the men was thus prevented.
then I lost in
my battle too. I nu A s . one of the charter members of Post 135 of JWV in 1936, Dr.
:was
ei
one of the originators of this movement. He was
as de-
feel the United
'
ommander in 1942 but resigned to enter the army. T
year
States has won rar`m
le Nva
s. 'sr
the war against the offices 0 'fi ed to the same post. He has held national posts including
By LEON SAU ERS
the forces of deputy national `-nuty national publicity, deputy national radio, and
Le
He gio is h a p ls eo st p2 a1s8t. national surgeon and a
Fascism and in past commander of Am
ic a t .n ie issm
a.
the same way,
d has he performed, one would
the Jews will
Burnstine is especially warm in his feelings on the subject of
I have before me a product of be hard put to find an answer.
.
win the fight fighting anti-Semitism.
the Viking Press in the form of
And still, Alec Woolcott was against their oppressors.
book, entitled "The
"I believe we should fight it openly," he declared. "We in the
I popular. His radio tales were mas-
We will win this fight because
Woolcott" by Joseph Hanne:
terpieces of narrative. The sim- the thing we are fighting for is Jewish War Veterans should fight anti-Semitism as Americans and as
Alexander Woolcott,44
e plest story would take on a ro- dear to us and we are willing to veterans. We have the special opportunity of fighting through other.
lean Anatole l a tk''"
zon ,
veteran organizations and we ought to make the most of it." All we
lt,. mantic tinge and never failed to give our all for its attainment.
size. I refer,
ask is a fair opportunity in any line of endeavor. We want no favors.
In have a punch line to drive home
ing irony and not to 11. 44 . . ,;
Just the opportunity to serve in battle just as well as in civic service."
the idea behind it.
•
PAULINE BLOCH, 4374 Fullerton.
literature.
Nave
His friends knew him as the
He believes that Jews should enter into all professions.
I don't believe in wars and vio-
Neither does ;Woolco
grit. "Old Meanie" and he enjoyed lence. If the Hagannah attacks
France's benevolent '
"We
should disregard any expressed or implied anti-Semitism in
se is playing the meanie. It added the English, there will be re-
And the whimsy U n
these fields," he urged. "Doctors are needed everywhere and so are
spice
to
his
life
every
minute
of
taliations and killings. Then come other professional men. The fact that one-third of all Jewish doctors
on different level. I
irear-
Woolcott is kndl3GEITAB1 fiery which he enjoyed as a gourmet the arrests such as we have just In the Unitted- States participated in the last war shows that the medi-
whether
in
food
or
in
art.
In
his
had.
akily for the impistOWDBR
calssion, at least, is not overcrowded."
o r-
I believe in being diplomOk . FjI
L with which he tb. boxed n•with a lackadaisical radio talks he was
different
from
his
real
self.
But
in
On the subject of the future of Jews in America, Burnstine waxed
ies and reviews for
'n . " His both he was a good talker and a Course, we must — -
oratorical.
never lose sight
veneer of senumeit alisthoi pro- poor listener.
of our ultin; . te
fame is based on his raer," , and
"Our opportunity for the future is very great," he enthused. "Sin-
The anthology before me con- goal but
gram / "The Town , Criprototype
tt dus
cerity of purpose, charity of heart and service to our country will
tains stories from his "When exhaust
help
make Jews a part and parcel of real attainment in the eyes of
for his having been the to Din-
•diplom-
Rome iBurns," assorted articles acy
efore
we
of the "Man Who Carn,
Americans
and those of people in every country in the world.
and reportorial essays under the resort
1 $
ner."
to force.
, he was title, "Long, Long Ago."
"Jewish
accomplishments in the war have proven to the whole
En
g 1 and is
Among the literatleing is per-
The value of the book is great- far
world that they hold their country dear. They have shown that they
,,, more for ru, lies literary
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ly enhanced by the introduction of
are willing to render the last full measure of devotion and they al-
sonality than for .F4orepo La John Mason Brown in which the for a little
ways will. Of course, in the line of our future, our education along
g oup like
achievements. Like tit ular. /If one person of Woolcott stands out like ti
the lines of real Judaism will play an important part."
l ose In Pales- s.
Guardia, he was Po d kl;he ac• a living statue. The stories are
ne to fight
:
should Inquire, "Wh what great headlined with brief summaries of
Burnstine has three children, all of them now attending Wayne
eccessfully un-
tually accomplish, r what great
University. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, the
(Continued on Page 11)
S K \we have help from the out- Michigan State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.
work did he write
long as we continue to
Iod Jewish books available at the Zion Book Store,' 'As
` 44e right on our side, we He is a life member of Phi Delta Epsilon, medical fraternity. He is on
the Staff of Grace Hospital, Wayne Diagnostic Hospital and Edith
Hebrew, English 12th Street, near Clainnount.
\'t this outside help.
K. Thomas Memorial Hospital.
900$
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