Friday, August 30, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Thirteen

Detroit Contributes $2,750,000 National JDA Leaders Mee in Chicago
To UJA as Drive Goes On

Chicago Goal Set
At $9,750,000

Campaigns recently concluded in
ten leading American cities on be-
half of the United Jewish Appeal
have raised approximately $50,-
, 000,000, it was announced this
week at UJA headquarters in New
York.
The $50,000,000 raised by these
large cities — New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, De-
troit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas,
Kansas City and Bufl`alo — repre-
sents one-half of the nation-wide
$100,000,000 goal set by the United
Jewish Appeal as the minimum
sum needed to restore to health
and to find new homes for the
shattered remnants of the Jewish
people of Europe.

During the first eight months of
1946, the United Jewish Appeal in
approximately 2,000 local commu-
nity drives throughout the coun-
try has already raised more than
$72,000,000 toward its $100,000,000
goal. Another 1,500 communities,
including Chicago and Boston, will
launch their drives for the United
Jewish Appeal early in September
in an all-out effort to fulfill the
nation-wide goal. Chicago has set
Its goal at $9,750,000, while Boston
will be seeking $5,425,000.

Among the large cities, New
York has already raised more
than $29,000,000 for the United
Jewish Appeal; Philadelphia has
contributed $5,000,000; Detroit, $2,-

750,000; Cleveland, $2,150,000; St.
Louis, $1,450,000; Dallas, $750,000,
and Buffalo, $808,221.

Jewish Troops in
Hawaii Back Yishuv

NEW YORK—From all over the
world, expressions of solidarity
with the Jewish community ir
Palestine and encouragement in
Its valiant struggle for survival
continue to flow into the offices of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica.
Latest to be heard from are
Jewish servicemen stationed it
the mid-Pacific. In a cable ad
dressed to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
president of the ZOA, Chaplain
Morris M. Mathews declares "that
the Jewish service personnel in
the Hawaiian Islands stand behind
the vigilant flank of Palestinian
Jewry."
Chaplain Mathews is former
rabbi of the Community Syna-
gogue Center of New York City.
The complete text of the cable
reads:
"In this critical hour when our
brethren fight for their self-re-
spect and the welfare of millions
of our unfortunates in Europe,
we are with them. The Jewish
service personnel in the Hawaiian
Islands stand behind the vigilant
flank of Palestinian Jewry. Con-
tinue your gallant efforts in the
welfare of Judaism. May God
crown them with success. Jewish
immigration into the Eretz must
be reopened. Fight on for our
people in Palestine and in the
world!"

Reorganization
of Service Group Is
,
Actively Started by Seven Divisions

Reorganization of the Detroit
Service Group, volunteer service
and fund raising arm of the Jew
ish Welfare Federation, is active-
ly under way this month. Begin-
ning with the Food Trades, which
met August 14, and the Mechani.
cal Trades, which followed on
August 20, organizing committees
for each of the seven trade and
professional divisions of the Ser-
vice Group are gathering to out.
line plans of divisional organiza-
tion which will include procedures
for year-round program, nomina-
tion and election of officers, se-
lection of representatives tc
Boards of the Federation and
Service Group, and all other es-
sential organization machinery.
These plans will in each case be
submitted to a September meet.
Mg of all workers in a division
(or approval.
Indicative of the kinds of rec-
ommendations which will be sub-
mitted to the September meetings
are those drawn up by the Food
Division organization committee,
under the interim chairmanship of
Harry Becker, Tom Borman, Ben
Grosberg, Nathan Lurie and Max
Schayowitz. These call for sub-
mission on Wednesday, Sept. 11,
to a meeting of all Food Division
workers, of a projected year-
round program which would in-
clude opportunities for contribu-
tors to inform themselves fully
about local, national and overseas
Jewish problems which their gifts
to the Jewish Welfare Federation
help to meet, as well as the op-
portunity for active participation
in helping the Federation to bud-
get its funds effectively and to
plan the development of old and
new services to the local commu-
nity.

Full Participation
Organizational structure being
recommended by the Food Divi-
sion includes provision for full
participation by the membership
of the Division in nomination and
election procedure, and a manag-
ing Board which would consist of
A
division chairman, four vice-
chairmen, a secretary, representa-
es to the Boards of the Fede-
ralion and the Service Group,
) chairmen of standing committees,
and additional persons represen-
tative of the major trades in the
Food Division.
o The guiding principle in the re-
rganization program of the De-
troit Service Group is wider par-
ticipation by workers and con-
tributors in Jewish communal af-
fairs, according to Irving W.
Blumberg, president of the group.
The entire project is viewed as an
Important step in the broadening
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion's Board structure this year
to include representation from the
trade and professional groups, the

Women's Division, the Junior Ser-
vice Group, and generii - 7 organiza-
tiona7 groupings in the commu-
nity, as well as the representa-
tion, as in the past, from the
Jewish community at large and
the member social agencies of
Federation.
During the period of Service
Group reorganization, the division
and section chairmen and co-
chairmen who constituted the
working leadership of the 1946
Allied Jewish Campaign, are act-
ing as provisional steering com-
mittee and temporary Board of
the Service Group. After each di-
vision has organized and elected
its officers, these officers will
jointly plan the structure of a
permanent Service Group Board.

UJA Meeting
Hopes to Lessen
Europe Suffering

Emergency efforts to help Eu-
rope's 1,400,000 destitute Jewish
survivors forestall added hardship.,
during the coming winter, and
adoption of special measures to
assist the Jews of Palestine in
expanding the capacity of the
Jewish homeland to absorb many
thousands bf new immigrants
from devastated Europe will high-
light discussions when delegates
from 14 Michigan communities
meet Sunday afternoon, Sept.. 15,
at the Detroit-Leland Hotel for an
extraordinary conference of the
$100,000,000 United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine.
Sunday morning, Sept. 15, mem-
bers of the East Central region
of the Joint Distribution Corn.
mittee from six states in the Mid-
dle West will hold their first an-
nual meeting in the Detroit-Lel-
and. They will join the Michigan
United Jewish Appeal conference
during the afternoon at a com-
bined session.
The United Jewish Appeal con-
ference will be addressed by Ed-
ward M. M. Warburg, chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York and of the
Joint Distribution Committee, and
Mrs. Avis Shulman, noted Jewish
communal leader who has just re-
turned to this country following
an extended tour through Europe
and tension-ridden Palestine. Both
speakers will present up-to-the-
minute reports on the plight of
stricken European Jewry and on
present accomplishments of the
vast rescue program launched by
the United Jewish Appeal in their
behalf.

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Lachman, of Chicago, were among the delegates from all sections of the country who met in Chicago
August 16 through August 18, and helped form a National Council for the Joint Defense Appeal to aid
the defense program of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of Ilnai
Brith in combatting anti-Semitism. The delegates, members of the JDA National Executive Commit-
tee, also agreed to hold another national conference this winter.
The 13 National Executive Committeemen shown in the above photograph were among the 40
communal leaders present. Left to right seated are: Joseph A. Wilner, of Washington, D.C.; Frank
IL S. Kaplan, of Pittsburgh; Donald Oberdorfer, of Atlanta and national JDA chairman; Mr. Frankel;
and James L. White, of Salt Lake City. Left to right standing are: Max N. Kroloff, of Atlanta;
Eugene N. Solon', of Dallas; Jesse Wolfert, of St. Louis; David IL Litter, of New York City; Gutave
M. Berne, of New York City; Mr. Lachman; David Coleman, of Los Angeles, and Jacob Alson, of
New York City.

Tearful Eyes Watch Death Camp
Survivors Cut Their Wedding Cake

A childhood romance of two Polish Jewish sweet-
hearts that continued through the agony of separation,
survived imprisonment in four concentration camps, and
kept its light alive despite the fear of each that the
other had been done to death by the Nazis, culminated
in a wedding in the synagogue of the Hebrew Shelter-

National Orthodox
Convention Opens
In New York

NEW YORK — The rescue and
relief of Europe's Jewry, and the
leading Eretz Israel developments,
will be among the main problems
that will be discussed at the 24th
national convention of the Agu-
dath Israel Youth Council of
America, which opened Friday,
Aug. 30, at Camp Agudah, High-
mount, N. Y. The convention,
which will close on Sept. 2, will
also deliberate on the means of
fostering genuine Torah-Judaism
among the American Jewish
youth.
Greetings to the convention were
received from President Truman,
who exptessed his "trust that the
conference in Highmount will be
fruitful of wise counsels and con-
structive action to promote the
relief of human suffering and to
maintain the highest traditions of
the ancient Jewish culture."
Greetino. s were also received
from teeing government officials,
including Henry A. Wallace, Sec-
retary of Commerce; Senator
James M. Mead, of New York,
and Congressman Sol Bloom, of
New York, chairman of The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Hebrew Schools
To Get Help
Through Dinner

New York—In order to improve
the standards of Jewish education
Ben-Zion Berkenwald, 21, and Rachel Silberberg, 19, Polish Jewish by bringing greater support to ex-
childhood sweethearts who survived four concentration camps beam isting Hebrew Schools and Talmud
upon the 200 guests• who attended their wedding.
Torahs, plans have been complet-
ing and Immigrant Aid Society and his father were together in ed for a joint testimonial dinner
last week when Ben-Zion Berken- the same barracks, and worked on in honor of Harold 0. N. Frankel,
•ald and Rachel Silberberg be- the same shift side by side. But grand master of the Independent
came man and wife.
when the elder Berkenwald's Order Brith Abraham, and Her-
Ben-Zion, 21, and his bride of health began to fail under the bert B. Sussman, president of the
19 were marked for execution strain of the heavy labor, and United Galician Jews of America,
when United States troops freed the jailers noticed that the son to be held at the Hotel Biltmore
them more than a year ago from was caring for the father and on October 27.
the concentration camps in which trying to lighten his load, they
Judge Adolph Stern, who was
they were each performing slave assigned them to separate bar- chosen chairman of the dinner,
which is being sponsored by the
labor. Every member of Rachel's racks and to different shifts.
family was killed by the Nazis
The guards had orders to kill Fraternal Organizations affiliated
during the war; and to Berken- about 15 prisoners a day, and with the National Council for Or
wald there remained only his three weeks before the day of thbdox Jewish Schools, announ
brother. Leo, 23, who sat in the liberation the father was killed. that the proceeds of the affair
front pew of the synagogue, with When the American troops ar- go towards religious educa
Judge Jonah J. Goldstei
tears running down his eyes as rived at Allem, Ben-Zion was one
Rabbi Esekiel Landau, intoned of the 40 Jews left from the preme Court Justice Ph'
the marriage blessings.
original shipment of 1,050 from Kleinfeld and former
District Attorney Samu
Berkenwald and Rachel grew Osweicim.
up together in Lodz, where his
Ben-Zion made his way back to stein were named honor
father was a plumber, and her Lodz, where he remained until men.
father was a storekeeper. When October. Early in that month Ra-
the Germans invaded Poland chel, who had meanwhile been
$25,000,000 worth
the two families were herded liberated by American troops from
into the Ghetto, Rachel's father the Freiberg concentration camp, machinery, equipme,,,
died of starvation.
where she worked in a munition materials will be rC1/...
factory, also returned to 'Poland. ing 1946 for
TAKEN TO LABOR CAMP
WANES
On a June morning in 1943 FINALLY REUNITED
America)
Rachel learned that I3en-Zion had
After four long months with nr executio
disappeared. He had been taken word from her, his daily visit of
Alrea
to a labor camp near Lodz. He inquiry to the Central Jewist. grom"
was transferred to the notorious Committee in Lodz was rewarded. and,
death camp at Osweicim in Oc- and he rushed to meet Rachel I Ben
tober 1944, at the same time that who had just come back from;sic
Rachel and her mother were de- Germany. From her he learned
ported to the same place. Ben. that she had been transferred I
Zion did not know she was there, from Osweicim to Freiberg, where t
but he did meet his father, and she worked in an ammunition
the two were transferred to a la- plant. When the Red Army
AND HIS
bor camp at Allem where they proached Freiberg, Rachel was
ORCHESTRA
quarried stone hundreds of feet hurriedly transferred to the deati -
underground. At first, Ben-Zion camp at Mathausen, but tt

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