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Friday, December 20, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
JWB to Honor
Records Aides
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Jewish Tots Hidden from the Nazis
Coleman Named
by Polish Gentiles are Brought to U.S. Sanatorium Aide
NEW YORK—The nine-year-old
blond-thatched, blue-eyed
vounester held his sister's hand,
leaned on the ship's rail, and
looked quietly out over New York
bay.
Mrs. Glogower Helps
Plan N.Y. Dinner
NEW YORK—Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, director of the Select-
ive Service System, will be the
principal speaker at a dinner
Thursday evening, Jan. 9, at the
Waldorf Astoria, paying tribute to
the great army of volunteers who
participated In the work of as-
sembling the record of American
Jewry in World War II. General
Hershey's address will be broad-
cast. Mrs. Samuel P. Glogower of
Detroit is assisting In planning
the dinner.
The event, sponsored by the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board, will
honor Dr. Louis I. Dublin, na-
tionally prominent statistician, and
Dr. Samuel C. Kohs, volunteer and
professional directors, respectively,
of the DNB's bureau of war rec-
ords.
"There is the Statue of Liberty
I've been telling you about since
we left Bremerhaven," the former
U. S. Army major was telling him
in halting German.
Young Bondi Szapochznik, who
along with his little sister, was
hidden for four years by a Gentile
family in Poland while their par-
ents served as slave laborers in
Nazi concentrations camps, looked
starry-eyed at the "Young Lady's"
torch.
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FULFILLS PROMISE
in a frigid cattle train into slavi-
tude.
Three years, fraught with
nightmarish terror, passed and
Nachman and his wife almost
abandoned hopes for the survi-
val of their little family and the
possibility of a reunion.
In April, 1915, American troops
captured Mauthausen, and Nach-
man was liberated and sent to
MAJOR HENRY ORTNER, a
veteran of both world wars, who
recently acted as UNRRA director
of Camp Feldafing, continued ful-
filling his promise to Boruch. He
was pointing out the many things
FACTS ON SERVICEMEN
he had described during their 10-
Facts and figures on American day voyage.
Jews in uniform were assembled
"There's the New York sky-
by the bureau under the direction line—and there's the Brooklyn
of Dr. Kohs, with the guidance Bridge, and on this side is the
Major Ortner and his 2 Charges
of a technical committee of sta- New Jersey coast," ho continued.
the Landsberg displaced persons
tisticians under the chairmanship
The "sight-seeing" description center to await repatriation.
of Dr. Dublin.
was in fulfillment of a reciprocal
From there he wrote to his un-
A two-volume set of books, agreement made between him and
cle, Maurice Nosepzer in Brook-
titled "American Jews in World Boruch.
lyn, and the latter forthwith ap-
War II," has been based on the
Boruch had offered to tell the plied to IIIAS for aid. The rest
material amassed by the bureau.
Gift certificates entitling holders exciting story of his family's of the family was located and are
to complimentary copies of the plight under the Nazi heel, in re- now together again — in a new
set will be presented at the din- turn for a description of America. land of hope.
is the dramatic story the boy
ner to several ex-servicemen whose Here
told:
CHANUKAH BLESSINGS
combat records appear in the
When the Nazis started round-
book.
Blessed are Thou, 0 Lord our
ing up Jews for deportation in God, Ruler of the Universe, who
CONTINUE WORK
Miedezyrzee, Poland, early in '42, has sanctified us by Thy Com-
The bureau of war records of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nach- mandments and commanded us to
the JWB, which has been func- man Szapochznik, sought out a kindle the lights of Chanukah.
tioning since the attack on Pearl Gentile family which offered to
Blessed are Thou, 0 Lord our
Harbor, has directed the work of "risk their necks" and harbor the God, Ruler of the Universe, who
more than 1200 war records com- youngsters during the Nazi occu- didst wondrous things for our fa-
mittees in communities through- pation.
thers, in days of old, at this sea-
• • •
out the United States.
son.
PARENTS
ENTER
SLAVERY
Although, with the end of 1948,
ONE NIGHT, soon after the,
the bureau will officially bring its
couple parted with their children,)
work to a close, the files,' it is
announced by Dr. Kohs, will be S.S. agents whisked the parents
Season's Greetings
kept open for addition of what from their home and sent them
ever data may develop, and sev-
eral communities—New York, De-
troit, Newark, St. Louis, Cleveland,
Philadelphia and Los Angeles—are GREETINGS . . .
planning to continue their efforts
in 1947, to provide data for a
supplementary report.
2520 ORLEANS
LOS ANGELES—Adding strength
to its organizational program for
a $7,215,000 national medical cen-
ter program at Duarte, the Los
Angeles Sanatorium has retained
as associate executive director,
Bernard S. Coleman, outstanding
national figure in the field of
public health, social welfare and
tuberculosis work. This was an-
nounced this week by Samuel H.
Goiter, sanatorium executive di-
rector.
Coleman, graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology,
was former director of the Na-
tipnal Council of Jewish Tubercu-
losis Institute.
Coleman is a member of the
American Association of Social
Workers, the American Academy
of Political Science, New York
Academy of Sciences, American
Arbitration Association, and secre-
tary of the Sagan Foundation.
The Los Angeles Sanatorium is
engaged in a nationwide campaign
to create the medical center.
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