THE .. .JEWISH NEWS

S,•-• 1943

Page Seven

The Soldiers France Forgot

(Continued from Page 6)

intervened with the pollee for • resi-
dence permits, work- permits, and 'the
like; for its members, Some JeWiSh
volunteers were even admitted into
Petain's Legion.
Everything depended on the, particu-
lar official in charge. If he *as a
soldier who had been at the front and
knew of the bravery of the Foreign
Legion there, he treated the Jewish
volunteers somewhat better than others
did. But the young fascist officials who
had not been near the front cared
nothine, for the men who had served
their adopted country. They continu-
ally arrested Jewish soldiers on the
streets and dragged them to the police,
who in most cases promptly released
them.
. Later the situation changed. The
Vichy government offered no protest
on behalf of demobilized Jewish volu-
teers in German-occupied France, who
were being persecuted along with the

other Jews, put in concentration camps,
deprived of their businesses, etc., nor
did it make any exceptions for the
Jewish soldiers in unoccupied France.
In the concentration camps today there
are many Jews who fought for France,
many who were seriously wounded,
and many who were decorated for
bravery. The families of those Jewish
soldiers who died for France are treat-
ed just as brutally.

number, however, they as well as the
Spanish volunteers were held under
various pretexts. At first it was de-
manded of them that they show a sum
of 5,000 francs for their release, or an
American visa. Later the amount be-
came 10,000 francs, and finally neither
this sum nor a visa could obtain a
release.

Sent to Morocco

The Foreign Legion in North Africa
was filled with German spies. After
the armistice, when I left the hospital
in Carpentras, I went to Fuveau near
Marseille to be demobilized. More than
300 Germans of the Foreign Legion in
Morocco had already arrived there and
were demanding to be transferred to
the German Army. The French acced-
ed. They arrived in town singing Nazi
songs and promptly began to attack
Jewish volunteers. The French officers
seemed powerless to stop them.
The volunteers, however, were ship-

No more fortunate are the Jewish
volunteers (said to be between three
and four thousand) who were sent to
Morocco shortly after the start of the
war. It should be noted that because
of the hard and dangerous service
there, it was considered equal to front-
line duty. These volunteers should
have been released after the armistice
because they had enlisted only for the
duration of the war.
With the exception of a very small

Bnai Brith's Bond Goal:
Two Submarine Chasers!

Forced to Work

Our Letter Box

A STUDENT OF PROF. BOAS
THANKS THE JEWISH NEWS

All Lodges, Auxiliaries and AZA Join in Detroit Drive to Editor, The Jewish News:
This is by no means the first
Sell $1,000,000 Worth in February; Ships to Bear
time that I have felt impelled to
Shield Giving Sponsors Credit
let you know how much we ap-

ped to the labor camps of the Legion,
where they were forced to work on the
projected Trans - Sahara Railroad,
which the Germans had ordered the
French to build so that they might
reach the English colonies in Africa.

The Legionnaires live there under
the most inhuman conditions imagin-
able. Some are at Bou-Arfa, a real hell
in the Sahara, to which the worst crim-
inals of France were sent before the
war and about which Albert Londres,
the reporter who died so tragically,
wrote that it surpasses the worst that
Dante saw in his inferno.
A large percentage of the Jewish
volunteers either became very ill or
died there. Many went insane.
On my way to the United States,
the French police interned me in a
concentration camp in Quedzem, near
Morocco. When I demanded that they
free me because I was wounded in the
war and decorated with the Croix de
Guerre, I received this answer front
a high French police official: "If you
volunteered in the army, it is a sign
a concentration camp is the place for
that you wanted the war. In that case
you."

In Appreciation

The feeling of camaraderie
which exists between the field
workers of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board Army and Navy
Committee and the service-
men, is best expressed in the
following letter received re-
cently by Elconan Saulson, of
Detroit, now director of the
Southern Texas Area:
"Dear Connie:
"I hate to bother you, but
my bathing trunks are . in
your office between the files
and the window, and if it
isn't too much trouble, I'd
like you to hold them for me
until the next visit. At the
same time, I should like to
reiterate how much I ap-
preciate all you have done to
make my visits so delightful
and enjoyable. I don't believe
I could ever put into words
what it all means to me, the
hospitality, the welcome I re-
ceive at Sweetwater. Perhaps
my steady attendance will
convey to you an inkling of
how dear the town and all its
associations are. I shall prob-
ably be there next week-end
again as usual."

School Sets Record
For Food Output

The total food production of
the National Farm School in 1942
exceeded that of any season in
the 46 years of the school's exis-
tence, it was announced by Dr.
H. B. Allen, president. The Na-
tional Farm School, located in
Bucks County, Pa., founded in
1896 by the late Dr. Joseph Krau-
skopf, trains city boys for farm-
ing.
The yield of the 1,000 acre farm
which is worked by the student
body of the school, came last
year to over 800,000 pounds of
milk, over 600,000 eggs, 8,000
pounds of butter, 10,000 bushels
of potatoes and 4,000 bushels of
apples.

preciate the treatment of our
news at your hands in the col-
umns of The Jewish News.
At the same time I would like
to express my personal congratu-
lations on the Boas article which
you published in the issue of
Bonds. It was decided by the
Jan. 22. I was not only moved,
delegates of the Greater Detroit New Field Secretary
as one normally would be, by the
Bnai Brith Council to sponsor
scientific and yet humanly vigor-
two Submarie Chasers.
Of Hillel Foundations
ous statement of his, but chances
are that this article impressed me
Bnai Brith Ship
particularly since I may be one
Upon the launching of these
of the few Detroiters who stud-
submarine chasers, the vessel's
ied with Boas.
prow will bear a large shield an-
HERMAN JACOBS,
nouncing: "This Fighting Ship
Executive Director,
is sponsored and made possible
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST 7 —
by the War Bond and Stamp
Jewish Community Center.
FLORSHEiM. DEALER
* * *
Purchases of the people of the
flORSIllii
Hope
Is
Not
Lost
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council."
Editor, The Jewish News :
enj
Harry Yudkoff, president of
Your paper is definitely on my
required list of reading material.
the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
I am enjoying it more and more
Council, asks the community to
Open Evenings
with each issue.
get behind the council's "Spon-
The news is far from good, in
sor A Fighting Ship" program by
fact succeeding events continu-
buying bonds through Bnai
BROTHERS
ously bring darker forebodings space that you gave us in your
Brith. A call to CH. 3372 will
SHIRT
MAKERS
for the many tasks before our valuable newspaper in publiciz-
bring a Bnai Brith Bond sales-
NEW SPRING SHIRTINGS
people.
man to the caller's home or of-
ing our 31st anniversary banquet.
Made to Measure or Ready to Wear
With men in the lead in Anglo-
fice.
SOL LUMBERG,
$2.50 and up
Jewish affairs who are fearless
Auxiliaries Help
Secretary,
1244 Wash. Blvd.
RAndolph 1214
and forthright, no matter how
Detroit Mizrachi.
All Bnai Brith lodges and aux
Sarah Lee Meyer, a Hillel pro- great the opposition, nor how
iliaries 'are cooperating in the duct, has been appointed nation- loud the voice of appeasement,
$1,000,000 drive, according to al field secretary of the 79 Bnai we may yet in our day see the
Mrs. Lillian Aaron, president of Brith Hillel Foundations and summation of our task, a seat at
Pisgah Auxiliary, and Max Gold- Counselorships.
the Table of Justice.
hoff, treasurer of Pisgah Lodge,
AARON L. KARP.
co-chairman of the city-wide Russian War Relief
* * *
741641
* DOOR PRIZES
drive.
EZRA WOMEN'S THANKS
* REFRESHMENTS * FREE WAR BONDS
Unit
Meets
Sunday
The participating lodges in-
Editor, The Jewish News:
clude the following: Pisgah
American Federation for Pol-
Aaron Rosenberg, chairman of
Lodge, Louis Marshall Lodge, the folks committee for Rus- ish Jews expresses to you sin-
Thodor Herzl Lodge, East Side sian War Relief, has called a cerest gratitude for the coopera-
Lodge, and their respective aux- conference for Sunday, at 1 p. m., tion you have extended us in
Admission Charge Entitles You To Play All Evening
iliaries, as well as the A.Z.A. at Jericho Temple, 2705 Joy publishing our weekly releases in
SPONSORED BY MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
groups in Detroit.
the
columns
of
your
paper;
par-
Road. Rabbi J. S. Sperka will
TUES., FEB. 9th at 8 P. M. Sharp—GENERAL MOTORS AUDITORIUM
ticularly in connection with the
AZA Sets Goal
be the speaker.
annual luncheon of Ezra Women's
The nine AZA chapters have
The campaign for warm clothes Division, held Jan. 19. We are
their goal in War Bonds is in full swing. The folks com- certain that this contributed
sales at $7,500, according to mittee has opened eight receiv-
much towards the success of the
Leonard Belove, city AZA dir- ing depots for clothing.
event.
ector. Lou Gorzeck of Bnai Moshe
For information call Mr. Ros-
BENJAMIN GRAUBART,
chapter 321 has been named as enberg, Cadillac 5690; J. .Rosen-
Executive Director
chairman. To date the chapters blatt, co-chairman of clothing
* * *
have turned in $3,500.
compaign, TR. 2-6597, or Philip
Mizrachi's Thanks
Mr. Belove has been appointed Kaplan, TR. 2-5108.
Editor, The Jewish News:
to direct the AZA . activities of
We wish to take this oppor-
District 6, with offices at 606
tunity of expressing our sincere
Murphy Bldg.
thanks for the liberal amount of
Pisgah Lodge Bowling League
has sold $90,000 in bonds. Ac-
cording to Milton Weinstein, pres-
ident, a goal of $200,00 or $100
Orders Now!,
for each of its 200 members, has
been set as the mark until the
campaign ends on Feb. 24.
* Fancy cookies,
petite feurs, fine
Prisoners of War
nuts,
torten, cakes
Lieut. Irving Rathblott, 29, of
.. . whatever you
Philadelphia, is held captive by
need for a party or
Japan on the Philippines.
We use the finest butter in all
for
a dainty Val-
baked
goods
that
calls
for
butter
Major Milton Kramer,
of
to give it that distinctive Perwein
entine box.
Allentown, Pa., previously re-
- richness and flavor.
ported missing in action after
the fall of Corregidor, is a pris-
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partment.

Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council has voted to
link its drive to sell $1,000,000 in War Bonds in one month
to the Treasury Department's new Bond sales program to
"Sponsor A Fighting Ship."
This program gives the Bnai Brith an opportunity to
"Sponsor A Fighting Ship" through the purchase of

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