ANtericalt ,newish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Friday, December 20, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle JWB to Honor Records Aides Page Sever • 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. • • • 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. 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