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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, December 27, 1946

Yeshiva University Greets S.A. Students

Our Athletes

By FRANK BECKMAN

AFTER FLOPPING miserably
in its first two games, Wayne
University's basketball team will
be seeking victory No. 1 when it
meets Michigan State Saturday
night at the State Fair Ground's
Coliseum.
Judging from its performances,
the Tartars ap-
pear doomed to
come out on
the short end
of the MSC con-
test. Wayne has
fallen before
Springfield, 49
to 41, and Ohio
University, 66 to
39, in games
id,
marked with ob-
vious rebound
Beckman
recovery and shooting weaknesses
on the part of the Detroiters.
Coach Ertell has shifted corn-.
binations so extensively that any
attempt to list the starting lineup
would be purely conjecture.
Of the five Jewish men on the
squad (Danny Arnold has drop-
ped), Chuck Frankel, Iry Cohen
and Abe Farness have the best ',
chance of answering the opening
whistle. That leaves Bernie
Friedman and Jack Levitt for
relief 'duties.
Frankel was plagued with a leg
injury during the SprIngfield and
Ohio games but should be in top
shape against the Spartans.
• • •
EVEN THOUGH Central did
lose to U. of D. High, 27 to 23,
in the season's opener, the Trail-
blazers still had something to brag
about.
That "something" was the per-
formance of Sam "Sonny" Taub,
who was by far the best man on
the floor.
Taub scored 15 points against
U. of D. and despite this, his team-
mates insist he had a very, very
bad night.
Central, too, did not play up to
its high standards and the defeat
does not by any means reflect
the team's potentialities.
• • •

Dr. Samuel Belida, president of the only Jewish University in the Western Hemisphere, greets Lud-

wig Nadelman of Quito, Ecuador; David Starec, of Natal, Brazil; Hershel Bajtner and Marcus Brener,
of Lima, Peru; and Sol Steinmetz, of Caracas, Venezuela. The admission of these students from
South America is part of the expanding program of Yeshiva University to train Jewish student youth
to assume positions of active leadership In commu lilies throughout the world. At Yeshiva University
they will receive an education in general academic and Jewish subjects. Prior to matriculating In the
regular departments of the university, they will be tutored individually to strengthen their educational
background in both content and language. Student' hsve come to Yeshiva from India, Palestine, Iraq,
South Africa and about 20 other countries and continents.

How OSE Saved Lives of Tiny Victims
of Hitler in French Hideouts Related

Smuggled Children
Abroad During War

AY back In the early thirties,
W when
only a few people were

aware of the Hitler menace, the
child care personnel of the OSE
already started on its rescue work
which during the war was to save
the greatest possible number of
Jewish children in Western Eu-
rope.
The first OSE children's home
in France, opened in the first
half of the thirties and located in
Montmorency, a suburb of Paris,
may be considered as the mother-
institution of the great net of
children's homes which later was
spread to cover the whole of
France.
There was a time when chil-
dren made their way unaccompa-
nied from the German-French bor-
MICHIGAN-ONTARIO League der to Montmorency, carrying lit-
hockey fans may be wondering tle notes and tags addressed to
what has happened to high- the OSE. When the lone children
scoring Joe Levine, who last did not know whither to go,
year led the Detroit Auto Club French gendarmes directed them
to the M-0 championship. Ac- to the home.
cording to our latest informa- ASSISTS SURVIVORS
tion, Joe is playing semi-pro
This home also received the chil-
hockey in the Pacific Coast dren from the ill-fated ship St.
League. Although no official rec- Louis, which in 1937 carried a
ords are available, Pete Roc- load of German refugees from
chin!, a team mate of Levine's one port to another in search of
last year, said Joe, a member of a haven. After successive refusals
the Los Angeles six, Is second by various countries to admit
In scoring in the league.
them, several European states
•. * •
agreed to give the refugees tem-
PITTSBURGH OF THE Basket- porary asylum, and the French
ball Association of America has OSE also took a part of the chil-
traded Moe Becker, former all- dren into their homes.
Later, when Hitler overran Aus-
American from Duquesne Univer-
sity, to the Boston Celtics. Becker tria and Czechoslovakia, and the
will atpear in Detroit when Bos- plight of Europe's Jews became
ton takes on the Falcons Feb. 19 increasingly w or s e, the OSE
opened a second home in the lit-
at Olympia.
• • •
SEYMOUR GREENBERG of
Chicago was ranked tenth among
U. S. tennis players in ratings re-
leased recently.
Greenberg came close to
achieving the major upset of
1946 In a match with Don Mc-
Neill, national champion and
tanking player of 1910. Seymour
was nosed out by McNeill in the
New York State finals, 4-6, 4-6,
7-5; ,9-7 and 8-6 in a duel that
lasted three and one-half hours.
• • •
A MEMORIAL TROPHY for
the outstanding Jewish athlete of
Stark county, Ohio, has been
awarded .to Dr. Hyman Ginsburg
of Canton.
Dr. Ginsburg, a dentist, starred
in basketball and tennis at Geneva
College., He is now a member of
the Canton Jewish Center cage
team.
• • •
THE 92nd STREET YMHA
(New York) won its 100th straight
softball game defeating Wings AC
til to 0, early this month. Started
- n 1939, the winning streak was
interrupted by the war and re-
f
sumed again this year with the
f
original team.

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tie town of Eaubonne. Further
homes were needed in the follow-
ing months, but due to the war
there was no possibility of build-
ing any additional ones.
The tragic events of 1940, the
bombing of Paris and the suburbs
and the threat of the approach-
ing German armies forced the
OSE to evacuate homes and in-
stallations to the center of France,
apart from populated communi-
ties.
And thus grew up the OSE
children's homes in that part of
France known for a while as the
unoccupied zone. Homes were
founded in the Department of
Creuse, in Chabannes, Masgelier
and Chaumont. Also in the region
of the Riviera in Boulouris and
later in Saint Raphael, by the
Mediterranean.

SHELTERS FOUND
When the workers of the OSE
began to rescue children in 1941-
12 from the terrible concentration
camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes, a
new problem arose in finding shel-
ter for the youngsters, and the
homes in Central France, in Mon-
tintin, Brout-Vernet and Couret
were established, followed by a
girls' home in Limoges and in-
fants' homes in Poulozat and Es-
pere.
At the same time a number of
medical dispensaries were opened
for adults and refugees.
Life in these homes, in both
zones, retained a semblance of
normalcy. The OSE., personnel
operating them did their utmost
to establish a carefree atmosphere
for the children, without letting
them feel the danger which
threatened them from the outside
world. Thus it went on until Au-
gust, 1942.

Page Fifteen

Veteran Bureau
Honors Bnai Brith

WASHINGTON, D. C. — Bnal
Brith, America's oldest and
est Jewish service organization,
won high governmental recogni-
tion this week when the U. S.
Veterans Administration named
the order as a member on its
National Advisory Committee of
Voluntary Service.
Announcement of the appoint-
ment was received by President
Henry Monsky from Brig. Gen. F.
R. Kerr, VA director of special
services, who paid tribute to Bnai
Brith for its work in behalf of
the disabled veterans.
Member agencies with which
Bnai Brith will be associated in-
clude the American Red Cross,
USO, American Legion, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans, Jewish War Veter-
ans, Masonic Service Association
of the United States, Women's
Overseas Service League and the
American Women's Voluntary
Services, Inc.

On Aug. 28, 1942, several OSE
homes were surrounded and raid-
ed by the police, who arrested a
great many children of German,
Austrian, Czechoslovak and Polish
Jews. After strenuous efforts on
the part of the OSE the police
agreed to release most of the chil-
dren under 16. The older children
arrested in the raids subsequently
died of typhus and other diseases
or were murdered outright.
At that time the OSE workers
began to make false identification
papers for the children and start-
ed hiding as many children as
possible. The atmosphere in the
homes soon became heavy with
apprehension and terror.

FURNISH PAPERS

In many localities the French
authorities facilitated the work by
actually furnishing the forged pa-
pers not only for the children but
also for the OSE personnel. One
after one they disappeared from
their original homes, only to ar-
rive a day or two later at another
home under a different name and
with new papers.
For a short while life returned
to "normal" after that, or rather,
the OSE personnel did all they
could to make it seem so to the
children.
In 1943 the OSE's special tin,
derground division, led by OSE
Director Garel, started smuggling
children across the border to
Switzerland, and those who could
not be taken out of France were
taken to Catholic cloisters or pri-
vate French homes where they
found shelter. But at that time
the Gestapo net extended over all
of France and the movements of
the underground workers became
more difficult from day to day.
In spite of all this, the OSE
succeeded in taking a great many
of its children from the German.
occupied zone into the Italian
one, which was considered much
safer.. At the beginning of 1944
there were no more children's

Roslyn Corn Assists
B and P Honor
Roll
'14

Roslyn A. Corn, vice-president
of the Business and Professional
Division of Hadassah, is assisting
with plans for the annual Honor
Roll to be held in the Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth
El, Monday evening, Jan. 27.
Muriel Wolfson of Chicago, dra-
matic actress, will present "My
Vineyard," written by Ben Aronin.
The or amalogue depicts the life
and work of Henrietta Szold and
is in five costume scenes.
Tickets are on sale at the Ha-
dassah office, 9111 Linwood avenue.

Premier Denounces
Poland's Anti-Semitism

NEW YORK—Premier Osubka-
Morowska of Poland in an inter-
view with delegates of the Amer-
ican Jewish Labor Council in War-
saw denounced anti-Semitism and
stated that the Poli. sh govern-
ment recognizes the fact that the
fight against anti-Semtism is part
of the fight against fascism," it
has been learned here.
The Polish premier also assured
the American trade union leaders
that the Polish government "is
ready to do everything necessary
in this fight."

homes operating publicly, and the
entire work involved in keeping
the children alive and in good
health was carried on under-
ground.
PUBLISH BOOKLET
Recently the OSE published an
illustrated booklet on the 27 chil-
dren's homes it re-established in
France since the end of the war.
It was a difficult task to get all
the children back again from the
Gentile families, the cloisters and
other places where they had
found shelter, but the work was
accomplished and is still belly: ac-
complished every day with izre-
lenting perseverance.

ORT Trains Jewish Youth for Jobs at Sea in English School

.

NEW YORK (Z0A)—The first
showing In the United States of a
Palestine exhibit, featuring the
cultural and economic development
of the Jewish community in the
Holy Land, will open at the Mu-
seum of Science and Industry at
Rockefeller Center in New York
City, in the spring of 1947. It will
remain on display there for several
months before embarking on a
tour through the major cities of
the United States.

Instruction in maritime subjects is the newest project of ORT-
Organization for Rehabilitation through Training—for Jews over-
seas. Ilere are shown refugees, who escaped from continental Eu-
rope to England, learning (at left) how to splice rope and wire
and (at right) elements of navigation aboard the Joseph Hertz,

former luxury yacht bought by ORT and named after the late
chief rabbi of England. This project is only one of the many
courses conducted by ORT in schools, workshops and farming
centers throughout the world to prepare Jews for a life of (self-
support wherever they go.

