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VOL. 48, NO. 39

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946

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First Papers

Served Heroically
in Armed Forces

Atom Bomb and Other
Sc entific Discoveries

Doctors in Rural Areas

IN WAR

BY DR. PERRY P. BUENSTINE

IN PEACE

ROSH IIASIIONAII, 1914

IT WAS SEPTEMBER, 1944, in
a tiny village called Hereford,
England. The mass Nazi air raids
over England had come to a halt.
However, the buzz-bombs and the
rockets still played havoc in many
places.
England after four years of
blackout changed to a dimout on
Sept. 29, 1944. Significantly enough,
It was the eve of Rosh Hashonah
and as this New Year was being
ushered in faint lights were per-
missible in Hereford.
We rolled into town In large
U. S. Army trucks. Included were
about 100 American officers and
enlisted personnel who represented
various hospital units. Together
with representatives of Canadian
and English armed forces and a
handful of English Jewish ref-
ugees who had settled in this vil-
lage, we totaled a congregation of
about 200 people.

QUAKERS GAVE HOUSE
THROUGH THE COURTESY of
kindly Quakers, we used their
house of worship. With the aid
of an English Jewish chapRin by
the name of Burman, we con-
secrated this Quaker church as a
synagogue and ushered in Rosh
Hashonah with this little group of
200 Jews whose homes were in
almost every state of the union
as well as many countries over
seas.
It gave us all an added sense
of wellbeing and unity. The faith-
ful brotherly spirit was beauti-
fully exemplified in this hour of
worship, with prayers for the
health of dear ones and for peace
to all people everywhere.

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•

HOMES BOMBED OUT
I HAVE LEARNED since that
this small group of Jewish people
in Hereford has dwindled since
the end of the war. Most of them
have returned to their former
homes in Manchester, London and
elsewhere.
They had to find new places of
residence as their former homes
had been bombed out before they
arrived in Hereford.
We who served In this part of
England to which this story has
reference will forever be mindful
of our debt of gratitude to a
Catholic chaplain from New York
and a Protestant chaplain from
Massachusetts, as well as the Here-
ford Quakers who aided us to
observe Rosh Hashonah, Yom Kip-
pur, and Passover while stationed
in England during the war days.

ISINOKUR POST AIDS
Installation of officers of the
Ladies' Auxiliary, Lt. Jack Wino-
.kur Post No. 268 was held at a
ji inner in the Detroit Leland Ho-
'1, Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Past department president, Bir-
die Rosenberg, assisted by Esther
Tenzer, senior vice-president of the
state department, installed the fol-
lowing officers: president, Sylvia
Lipson; senior vice president, An-
nette Horwitz; junior vice presi-
dent, Marilyn Heydt; treasurer,
Molly Kazdan; judge advocate,
Ceil Beresh; recording secretary,
Caroline Ruzumna; corresponding
secretary, Laura Feldstein; chap-
lain, Sylvia Blumenthal; guard,
Es ther Covensky; conductress,
Diana Gordon; trustees, Gloria
Stelnhart, Yetta Steinberg, Lillian
Soberman.

Orientation Lectures

Broadcasts to

Inemy•Occupied

Countries

ALL Are

Interrogation of Prisoners

Founded New Industries

Kin Greet 68 War Orphans at N.Y. Pier
With Tears of Joy and Vows of Affection

remnant of the millions of
European Jews who perished.
They are the children which the
OSE found, homeless, in all the
corners of Europe, to whom it
gave back a decent appearance,
a home, and a Jewish education;
and, above all, the loving care
and attention of its staff.
Disciplined but not frightened,
well behaved but not intimidated,
the little group ,sat around its
guide and temporary "mother,"
watching the skyline of New York
go by in silent admiration as their
little boat slid up the Hudbon to
its berth.
• • •
RELATIVES IMPATIENT
THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS and
policemen at their pier who had
sacrificed their Sunday to be pres-

small

OVER 1,800 PASSENGERS on

the overcrowded French Liner
Athos II, whom the maritime
strike had left stranded aboard
their ship In New York Bay last
Sunday with no prospect of imme-
diate debarkation, watched 68 of
their number transferred to a lit-
tle excursion boat and taken to
the mainland.
All 68 were Jewish war orphans
from Europe, and they were being
taken ashore by officials of the
American committee of OSE, which
had arranged their immigration
to the U. S., to be handed over to
relatives who had been waiting
at the pier.
The children, under the super-
vision of Mme. Eugene Masour,
seemed to appreciate the efforts
made on their behalf by the
OSE, culminating in the ship-
ping union's consent to break its
picket lines for a few hours to
let the orphans step ashore in
New York.
When the little boat cut itself
loose from the big liner, the OSE
children broke into song. They
sang the songs of the resistance
movement, of fighting and of
glorious deeds in the bloody days
which they had lived through in
France. For the OSE was the wel-
fare organization of the under-
ground; its workers risked their
lives not once but many times,
and more than one of them lost
his own life to save that of a
Jewish child.

Orphan Flies to U. S.

• • •

FIRST TO ARRIVE
THE CHILDREN, many of
whom are just now getting to
know the warm atmosphere of a
family for the first time in their
lives, still consider themselves
children of the OSE and of the
resistance, both of which, together
with their liberators, handed them
back to life and achieved their
moral any! physical rehabilitation
in a short time.
These 68 are the first ones to
arrive here, out of the great num-
ber of children who are cared for
in the OSE's children homes in
France and other countries.
They are part of the pitifully

Malka Berger was only three
months old when her Dutch
Jewish parents entrusted her to
a Christian family and disap-
peared into a Nazi concentra-
tion camp. Now 4, she Just flew
from Holland to refugee uncle
in New York, Charles Berglas,
who will adopt her. Malka's
immigration here was arranged
by United Service for New
Americans, whose work is sup-
ported by the United Jewish
Appeal.

ent when the children came
ashore, had a hard job keeping
back the hundreds of relatives
who had gathered around the
building at the dock.
Upstairs, in the lounge, the close
relatives waited nervously for the
OSE personnel to hand them their
children. Each time the name of a
relative was called out to step
forward and receive his charged a
little drama of tears and joy of
excitement and momentary doubt,
unrolled itself.
An old man was there to pick
up his two little grandchildren,
whose parents had been gasesd
to death by the Germans some-
where in Poland, and whom the
OSE had found and cared for
after the war. Now the old man
will have to become a "Papa" to
the little children once more.
It was heart-rending, too, to
watch a seven-year-old boy meet
for the first time his father, who
had left for the United States be-
fore his son was born. Two sisters,
weeping tears of joy as they em-
braced each other after years of
separation, refused to be torn
apart even for a second.
An aunt, catching sight of a six-
year-old little girl, her niece and
the only survivor of a family of
80, stood motionless for a minute
without being able to utter a
sound. A mother, trembling all
over with joy, grasped her child
and closed it into her arms.
• • •
TALK BY GESTURES
TWO GROWN MEN wept un-
ashamedly when the welfare work-
ers handed them the of their
dead brother whom the OSE had
brought over. Then they stood
awkwardly not knowing what to
do next with the bewildered tot.
Many of the children spoke
only French and had to make
themselves understood to their
relatives by gestures and signs.
Others spoke nothing but Dutch.
Today, 68 Jewish boys and girls
are happy once more. They have
found a home, a family, and bright
hopes for the future. But these 68
are only the beginning.
The OSE is already hard at
work to get the next convoy over.
May there be many more to come.

Self.Supporting

Oil

Jewish Center
Activities

SAM LEVY, Health Education
director, has announced it e w
swimming classes for juniors. Clas-
ses for boys will meet on Monday
and Wednesday, 4:15 to 5 p. m.;
for girls, Tuesday and Thursday,
4:15 to 5 p. m. For information re-
garding gym and swimming sched-
ules call Harry Stutz, membership
secretary, MA. 8400.
• • •

BOYS AND GIRLS interested
In joining the Boy and Girl Scouts,
Cub Packs, and Campfire Girls of
the Jewish Center should contact
Ben Silverberg, MA. 8400. Those
interested in leading these groups
should also contact Silverberg.
• • •

THE TWENTY-SIXTH season
of the art school will open Sun-
day, Sept. 29. Advance classes will
meet Sundays at 10:30 a. m. and
Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Leon Makiel-
ski is Instructor. Elementary clas-
ses will meet every Tuesday and
Thursday starting Oct. 1 at 4
p. m. Stanley Twardowlcz is in-
structor.
• • •

FRED M. L'UTZEL will discuss
the "History of the Jewish Com-
munity of Detroit" at the Oct. 2
meeting of the Wednesday Nite
Discussion Club. The meeting will
start at 9 p. m.

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AT THE INSTALLATION meet-
ing of the Young Women's Study
Club to be held at 1:30 p. m. Oct.
1, the following will assume their
offices: Mesdames Victor Pack-
man, president; Sidney Miller, vice
president; Hyman Baron, second
vice president; Frank Reuben,
secretary; Charles Jones, treasurer;
Louis Alter, ticket committee;
Louis Moogerman, sunshine com-
mittee; Louis C,ovinsky, reporter,
and Al Jaffin, delegate. Harold
Arian, assistant director of the
Center, will preside.

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THE COUNCIL of Mothers'
Clubs will hold a Succoth cele-
bration at 8:30 p. m. Monday, Oct.
14, in the center auditorium.
Friends of the membr e'rs invited.

