Friday, December 20, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Sixteen

The traditional Chanukah dret..! ,-J
sent before a firing squad. As she
waited for the bullets, she began del's four Hebrew letters on each
to sing "Eli-Ell." The bullets did side—Nun, Gimmel, Hay and Shin,
not come. Instead, the commander are the initials of the Hebrew
of the execution detail asked her words Ness Godol Hoyoh Shorn,
to sing Gounod's "Ave Marla." meaning, "a great miracle occured
When she had done so, he post- there," the miracle being the eight
Jewish Children's Aid, affiliated poned the execution. For Mrs. days during which the oil burned
with USNA. They were placed
TINY WOMAN COMES down with a foster-family, and grow Jelin had been an opera star be- in the Temple.
Weizmann Institute
the gangplank of the S. S. into fine young Americans. They fore the days of the ghetto and
"Marine Perch." For a moment it enlisted in the U. S. Army im- gas chamber.
at RehovotIvAided
Two days after this reprieve, the
looks as if she will be trampled mediately after Pearl Harbor.
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under the rush of disembarking
Meanwhile the mother had been Red Army liberated the camp
REHOVOTH, Palestine — Dr. passengers, burly porters hauling sent to concentration camp. She where Mrs. Jelin was a prisoner.
Chaim Weizmann is not only a luggage and busy government of- survived, living for the day when
The quaint origin of latkes as
leader of world Zionists but also ficials. A United Service for New she would rejoin her boys. She
one of the world's leading scien- Americans worker comes to the can hardly wait to see them. That the most popular Chanukah deli.
rescue, steers her through the cus- is why the USNA worker has to cacy is supposed to be the pan-
tists.
cakes hastily prepared by the
Shortly before Britain's new toms inspection, and over to a fight back tears.
Only one of the boys is at the Jewish women for the soldiers of
recrimination program got start- desk. Her name?
"Bierman — Mrs. George Bier- pier. He is going to have to tell Maccabeus when they halted for
ed the cornerstone of the new
his mother, as gently as he can, rest while pursuing the troops of
Weizmann Institute of Biophysics man."
She is the niece of Rabbi Leo that the other lies under the Star the Syrians. So strengthened were
and Physical Chemistry was laid
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former president of the of David, in a grave on Anzio the Maccabean warriors by those
at Rehovoth by Dr. Weizmann Baeck,
pancakes, that Judas Maccabeus
himself. This was the first step Reichsvereinigung der Deutschen beachhead.
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Is supposed to have decreed that
in a long range program planned Juden. Her story?
Her
husband,
Dr.
George
Bier-
Jews should eat latkes on Cha-
by the American 'Committee for
IIORRIBLE MEMORY
the Weizmann Institute of Sci- man, was a wounded veteran of
nukah.
the
first
World
War.
For
his
A GOOD DEAL OF THE time,
ence to honor the great scientist
services
to
the
Fatherland,
the
Eva Jelin seems to be gazing at
for his work of the past century.
Nazis, in 1942, gave Dr. Bierman something invisible to the people
U.S. GROUP ASSISTS
a
special
privilege.
He,
his
wife,
around her. She is. She is remem-
The American committee and its
supporters in the United States and their son Ludwig, would be bering a scene in the streets of
raised a million dollars for the sent to Theresienstadt concentra- Kovno, Lithuania, where her hus- •
band and child were burned alive
Weizmann Institute, and the His- tion camp.
Theresienstadt was the camp by the Nazis.
tadrut, Palestine's Jewish trade
Mrs. Jelin was sent to forced
union organization, has contribut- where the inmates were not
to
ed $80,000. This money will be gassed to death or beaten just labor. Later she was condemned
to die in a gas chamber. Together
used to build and equip the insti- death. They were permitted
tute, as well as run it for a couple to starve to death. Dr. Bierman with other Jewish prisoners, she
was forced into the room, and the
starved to death.
of years.
• • •
gas was turned on. But It came In
Only this month, $500,600 was
slowly. Mrs. Jelin called out to
allocated by the Palestine Founda- FACES A NEW LIFE
the SS guard that the death she
tion Fund and the Jewish Nation-
MRS. BIERMAN AND Ludwig would have welcomed, was too
al Fund of America for the estab- survived to come to America.
WOMEN'S .APPAREL
long delayed. Enraged at this
lishment of the institute.
Judged by his size, Ludwig looks criticism of Nazi efficiency, the
The new institute will be closely about eight years old. He is 15.
guard pulled her out and beat her.
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associated with American scien-
In the United States, Mrs. Bier- He said she deserved to die more
133 E. GRAND RIVER
tists in many ways besides receiv- man will have a chance to give
painfully.
oukAY.WttattitsztY
ing financial support. At the her son some of the things he has
A few days later, Mrs. Jelin was
Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute a lacked. Perhaps she herself will
number of scientists are assemb- be able to case the burden of
ling highly specialized and deli- tragic memories which bows her
cate equipment which they will frail shoulders.
Another woman, a trim, bright-
eventually bring to Rehovoth.
eyed figure in a neat brown suit,
SCIENTISTS TO JOIN
Many leading sceintists attend- approaches the USNA desk. Will
ed the inauguration ceremony and the worker please announce her
among them were Prof. Herman name, so that her sons will know
Marks, of the Brooklyn Polytech- that their mother has arrived at
nical Institute and Prof. L. F. last? The worker looks up the
name and tries to conceal her
Fleiser of Harvard Univerisity.
They stated that many excellent emotion. There is a special note
men of science had expressed their on the "dock notice."
In 1939 this woman's two sons
wish to work with the new insti-
tute and announced that a num- carne to the United States un-
ber of specially gifted young Am- der auspices of the European
ericans might be sent to Rehovoth
is expected to prove valuable in
to do research work.
The core of the new institute determining the industrial causes
will be the Daniel Sieff Institute, of cancer.
In nutritional work new fermen-
established 12 years ago for re-
search work, which has attained a tation processes are being devel-
high standing in the scientific oped that will make it possible to
world despite its isolation from transform vegetable products into
food containing meat proteins.
the main stream of science.
STUDY CANCER, SYNTHETICS
It will be the aim of the insti-
tute to conduct research work and
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achieve practical results that can
be exploited by industry for the
benefit of mankind.
A number of research projects
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already underway will be expand-
ed as the institute grows. These
included a study of cancer, the de-
velopment of new nutritional pro-
cesses and the manufacture of
synthetic rubber and plastics.
Cancer research at present car-
ried on at the Daniel Sieff Insti-
tute involves a study of chemical
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compounds that appear to have
the power to impart cancer. This

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