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Jewish Youth's
LISTENING
POST
By DANNY RASKIN
THE JEWISH NEWS
The Children
Must Be Saved!
An Eloquent Plea from Jerusalem
By Henrietta Szold
LOOKING BACK-1942
APRIL . .. Junior Division of
Allied Jewish Campaign holds
opening dinner . . . First three
pledges of '42 are soldiers . .
Ben Desenberg becomes presi-
dent of Young Peoples Club of
Temple Israel . . . Ruben Gold
leaves for service and Diana
Rosenblatt takes over as presi-
dent . . . A.Z.A. collects over
25,000 pounds of paper in two
months, in war effort ... Jewish
National Fund sponsors youth
rally . . . Bob Mazer goes to
Virginia as USO field supervisor
. „ Bertha Belkin elected presi-
dent of Junior Home Relief and
Deborahs choose Sylvia Medintz.
MAY . . A.Z.A. opens East-
wood Park ballroom with annual
dance . .. Carl Bayer, Wayne U.
all-time all-star basketball player
and Jewish Center coach, joins
Lt. Com. Gene Tunney in Navy
physical fitness program . .
Over 50 Bnai Brith girls attend
convention in Milwaukee . . .
League of Detroit Jewish Youth
co-sponsors Inter-Racial Educa-
tion Conference with other ma-
jor youth groups in city.
JUNE . . . Jack Rubin places
third in National Collegiate Di-
gest Salon Contest . . . Junior
Division reaches $18,000 with
quota of $15,000 . . . Figure is
far over Chicago's final total .. ,
Dorothy Weber, Lillian Lash and
Sylvia IVIedintz, all of Deborah,
win coveted honors at Bnai Brith
convention in Milwaukee . . .
Leonard Moss receives gold med-
al in "I Will Do My Best" essay
contest at Wayne U. ... Newly-
wed Irving Jaffe becomes ser-
geant . . . Detroit represented
by 14 at A.Z.A. War Service con-
vention in Chicago .. . Pvt, Nat
Bloomberg and saxaphone plays
over CBS in "Cheers From The
Camps" program.
JULY . . . Lieut. Martin M.
Alexander reported overseas .. .
Zionist Youth Council and A.Z.A.
working with Metropolitan De-
troit Youth Council in latter's
scrap drive . . . Staff Sgt. David
Schw artz and Pvt. Art. Braiker,
"somewhere in Austrlia".
AUGUST . . . Helen Goodman
takes verbal barrage at USO
"prima-donnas" . Gladys Gold-
berger receives nurses aid diplo-
ma from Harper Hospital . , Joe
Zwerdling becoming national fig-
ure . . Sent to West Virginia
to open O.P.A. office and address
throngs in Charleston and neigh-
, boring cities, plus frequent broad-
casts . . . Sgt. Jimmy Coleman,
one of American military police,
pictured by Telenews in India.
SEPTEMBER ... Bicor Cholem
presents Yom Kippur dance .. .
Helen Goodman joins the
WAACS . . . Junior Home Re-
liefs summer USO work receives
plaudits . . . Edith Muskin heads
new social committee at Jewish
Center . . . Diplomats give dance
at Terrace Ballroom.
OCTOBER . . .' Club Satans
number 18 in service . . . Orig-
inal membership was 22 . .
Four of twelve Orioles now serv-
ing, are first lieutenants . . . Nine
A.Z.A. boys in service, more
ready to go . . . A.Z.A. Stunt
Nite at Bnai Moshe Synagogue
. . . Staff Sgt. Art Blumberg in
glider division . . Gamma Kap-
pa Chi frat numbers 22 with
Uncle Sam . . . War -Workers
Hostess Committee giving socials
for out-of-town workers . . .
Staff Sgt. Dave Schwartz now in
New Guinea.
NOVEMBER
Harold Novak
elected president of League of
Detroit Jewish Youth . . "Flags
On Parade" is first endeavor of
Jewish Center social committee
. A.Z.A. 314 presents annual
Thanksgiving Dance . . . Jack
Spencer, JWB, USO head, and
Bertha Belkin receive acclaim
for meritous work . . . Zeda
Blair made chairman of Junior
Hadassah's new defense program.
DECEMBER . . . Auxiliary
Lillian Solomon visits f r o m
WAAC headquarters in Des
Moines, Ia. . . A.Z.A. 321 gives
A 'flew days ago Henrietta Szold,
Baltimore-born 'social worker and
educator, marked her 82nd birth-
day, hard at work on the social
welfare activities and, primarily,
the Youth Aliya program which
has crowned her life's work. In
this special article from Jerusalem,
made available by the Palcor
Agency, "the Grand Old 'Lady of
Zionism" tells of the Polish Jew-
ish child refugee in Persia and of
the efforts that must be made to
save ten of thousands of other
young victims of Hitler's exter-
mination policy against the adults.
This story on the Persian children
is to be read in the background
of the refusal, as of this date, of
the Iraqi government to grant
transit across its territory to these
youngsters.—The Editor.
About three months ago, the
office of the Youth Aliya in
Jerusalem was thrown into a
state of excitement by the re-
port that 440 children, sons and
daughters of Jewish parents of
Polish citizenship, had landed at
Pahlavi, Persian port on the Cas-
pian Sea. They constituted a sec-
tion of a large group, numbering
upwards of about 14,000 adults
and children, Christian and Jew,
ish Poles, civilians and army
detachments.
In the following weeks, report
rushing in on the heels of re-
port raised the number of the
Jewish children to 500, then to
600, and 800, and finally, at the
present moment, it stands at 933
known by name. Slowly details
seeped through. Eighty per cent
of them are parentless, many of
them veritable orphans, most of
them separated from their par-
ents by a series of cruel happen-
ings, some of them actually
abandoned by desperate parents
compelled by the barbarity of
war conditions to entrust their
children to the mercies of the
public as the only alternative
promising safety. Whatever the
explanation, only one-fifth, num-
bering 179, were accompanied by
their parents.
Innocent Victims of Nazis
The . young refugees range in
age from 18 months to 18 years.
By far the larger proportion, over
600, are of school age, from 7 to
14. The overwhelming majority,
perhaps all but the 40 babies
below kindergarten age, have
been wandering from place to
place for three years, since the
invasion of Poland by the Ger:
mans and the slicing off of a
considerable Polish terrain by
Soviet Russia. They have been
sleeping in the woods, half-naked,
exposed to disease, eaten up by
the vermin, starved, guiltless, in-
nocent, badly-used victims of the
war and the war lords.
Youth leaders, many of them
members of Hechalutz, elder
brethren in fate, who chanced
their way, shepherded them.
They are now with them in the
camp adjacent to Teheran, tend-
ing and teaching them.
The members of Hechalutz, to-
gether with adult Jewish refu-
gees and a committee of the
Teheran Jewish community, are
supervising the Jewish section of
the camp. As a result of their
activity, the Jewish Agency re-
ceived lists of names of the chil-
dren and their ages, supplement-
ed by details regarding their
parents so far as was known.
Funds were supplied also by the
Joint Distribution Committee, to
bring a modicum of comfort to
the campers.
Immediately on receipt of the
first news of the evacuation of a.
Polish contingent from Soviet
Russia across the border to Iran,
the Youth Aliya organization of-
fered to assume responsibility
annual dance . . . Nine chapter
314 boys now answering Reveille,
while Pisgah Lodge has 57 stars
on its flag! . . Lieut. Martin
Alexander heard from in North
Africa . .. Temple Beth El pre-
sents V Hop . . . P.F.C. Nat
Bloomberg columnizes the Bri-
tons from England.
JAN. 1, 1943 . .. Uncle Danny
attends first birthday party of
niece, Diane Rochelle Rosen, and
sincerely says farewell to ice
cream FOREVER!!
HENRIETTA SZOLD
towards the children involved in
the grant of B-3 (students') cer-
tificates by the Palestine Gov-
ernment. The decision was taken
despite the fact that its function
hitherto has primarily been the
care of adolescents from 15 to 17.
On. Youth Aliya's behalf, the
Jewish Agency applied to Gov-
ernment for 800 certificates, of
which 700 were sent to Teheran
forthwith. This number supplied
a certificate to every child not
entitled to enter Palestine on
the certificate of „its parents.
Help Needed from Abroad
The Polish Government in-
formed the Jewish Agency that
it would allocate four pounds
monthly for the care of each
child. In view of the tender age
of our prospective wards, and
the prevailing -high cost of living,
the sum promised falls short of
covering the need. Hadassah,
the Women's Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, pledged a
monthly addition of two pounds
for 600 children. Similar help
will doubtless come from other
agencies abroad. But the finan-
cial challenge to the Jewish world
free to act must be met with
more than effervescent enthu-
siasm.
Since the first indications of
the Polish evacuation from So-
viet Russia startled us, official
sources established by the Jew-
ish Agency and individual refu-
gees who reached Jerusalem,
have warned us that the present
933 are the heralds of thousands,
of tens of thousands to come, and
to come soon. From the view-
point of Jewish rehabilitation,
what we do now must be in the
spirit of the postwar reconstruc-
tion we dream of. Action must
be swift.
In Palestine, interest has
mounted high. From all sides
the Youth Aliya administration
is swamped with adVice, pro-
posals, offers of help. The Yishuv
quivers with recognition of its
duty to act efficiently and to
sacrifice.
Awaiting Their Arrival
Day after day we hope for the
message announcing the date of
departure of the children from
Teheran and the mode and route
of passage to Jerusalem. At all
events, we in Palestine, and the
Jewish world abroad, must be
ready to welcome the young
wanderers home in the manner
befitting their need and our need
of them.
Need anything be added to the
above to convince the free Jew-
ish communities that we stand
before a cause and a duty of
national importance? Is the chal-
lenge not supreme? Can we,
who believe that the Jewish
renaissance idea has proved it-
self to be the only way of re-
demption for the Jewish people,
evade its call? Teheran gives
us the opportunity—an opportun-
ity which is a privilege — to
achieve a work of supreme hu-
manitarian as well as Jewish
national value.
(Copyright, 1943, by Independent
Jewish Press Service)
Frank L. Reinherz, of Boston,
is missing at sea. A member of
the Coast Guard, he is a gradu-
ate of Brookline High School and
Suffolk Law.
Friday, January 8, 1943
Mt. Sinai to Have
Games Party Feb. 9
Our
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
At a luncheon-meeting of Mt.
Sinai Hospital Association, held
in the home of Mrs. Harry Get-
ter of Cortland Ave., plans were
formulated for a night of games
to be held Wednesday evening,
Feb. 9, in the General Motors Dear Boys and Girls:
Auditorium.
An interesting minor holiday
Under the chairmanship of is approaching. We know it as
Mrs. Jacob Levine, committees Hamisho Osor b'Shevat, the Jew-
have launched an intensive tic- ish Arbor Day. It is also known
ket sale. She is assisted by Mes- as Rosh Hashanah Le-Ilonoth,
dames Harry Getter, Morris Solo- meaning the New Year for the
mon, Daniel Rachmiel, I. A. Leib- Trees. It marks the approach of
son, Leon A. Katzin, Isaac Ros- Spring in Palestine and the be-
enthal, Samuel Kline, Samuel ginning of the planting season.
Atlas, Louis Goldfine, David We will observe it On Thursday,
Nushno, Sol Rosenhouse, and Sol Jan. 21. I hope you will all read
the story of Hamisho Osor b'She-
Katz.
vat and learn for yourselves the
. Mrs. Daniel Rachmiel heads interesting ceremonies enacted in
the gifts committee and is as- Palestine on the occasion of this
sisted by Mesdames Joshua Kar- festival. Boys and girls of all ages
bal, Ralph Paul, Jack Cherney, pla at trees and help make the
Walter Golden, Jack Rubin, Max land of Zion fruitful.
Rosenbaum, Wallace Newton,
Today I am again quoting for
Ann Meizels, Sol Rosenhouse, you a number of important say-
Julia Ring, Louis Goldfine, Helen ings from the Talmud. Best wish-
Ring, William Fisher, Bernard es to you all for a pleasant Sab-
Rose, Bernard Dickman, Oscar bath.
Snyder, Joseph Sapperstein, Ben-
UNCLE DANIEL.
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jamin Kiviwitz, A. B. Penfil, Wil-
liam Lapin, Samuel Kline, Lew
Talmudic Sayings
Rose, Jack Nadler and Boris
"Before me," said the Lord,
Bronson.
"there is no difference between
Mrs. Jacob Harvith, president, Jew and Gentile; he that ac-
and Mrs. Charles Gitlin, chair- complishes good, will I reward
man of public relations commit- accordingly."
The Lord who proclaimed the
tee, announce that plans have
been made for an interesting pro- Law of Sinai is the God of all
nations.
gram, refreshments and prizes.
The virtuous of all nations par-
Mrs. Max Schubiner, executive ticipate in eternal bliss.
secretary, TR. 1-6044, and Mrs.
Be always sincere in your yea
Jacob Levine, TO. 6-9035, are in and your nay.
charge of ticket sales.
Teach thy tongue to say, "I do
not know."
The wiser the man, the more
careful should he be in his
conduct.
To resist sin is as meritorious
as to be actively engaged in a
Mrs. Morris Rand, chairman of good work.
the program committee of the
Sisterhood of Temple Beth El, Aharon Remez is Now
announces that the meeting on
Stationed in Canada
Monday will be addressed by
Tony Weitzel, Free Press- column-
Aharon Remez, son of the Pal-
ist, who will speak on "A City estine labor leader, David Rem-
Finding Its Soul." Mr. Weitzel ez, is now in Canada. He came
will'be introduced by Mrs. Oscar here as a Shliach from the youth
Zeman. Mrs. Nate S. Shapero movement in Palestine to the
will give the invocation.
youth of this country. His ad-
Mrs. David Marx is in charge dress is care of No. 1 Squadron,
of the dessert luncheon which No. 31 R. A. F. Depot, Moncton,
will precede the meeting at 1:30 N. B., Canada.
p. m. The meeting and luncheon AL MILLER
will be for members only.
Weitzel to Address
Beth El Sisterhood
Mr. Weitzel is a graduate of
Western Reserve University,
Cleveland. He was associated
with the Cleveland News and
Scripps-Howard newspapers prior
to coming to the Detroit Free
Press in 1938.
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