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Father Pens Poem
In. Honor of Son,
A Nazi Prisoner

H. W. Morris
Dies in Action

THE JewISH NEWS

Friday, Sepfember 8, 1944

Former Jewish News
Employe Describes
Liberation of Guam

Lt. S. J. Kempner Chaplain 'Tepper
Dies in England Killed in France

Is Sixth of Temple Beth El
Reported Killed on Aug. I 7;
to Give His Life
His -Two Brothers are in
Sgt. Benjainin Goldman Was Pfc. Benno Levi Writes Ex-
In the Present War
priences of U. S. Troops
Active Service in Army
Captured by Germans on
When They Freed Natives
Another Gold Star was added
His Fourth Mission
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Kemp-

to the service flag of Temple Beth
El this week when news came 'Of
the death in action of Flight Of-
t:Lev Herbert W. Morris.
F/O Morris, son of Henry Mor-
ris of 1507 Abbott St., Ann - Ar-
bor, was born Aug. 29, 1923. He
was confirmed at Temple Beth El
in 1938. \
He was killed July 17, over
France. He enlisted in January,
1943, and was overseas since May.
F/O Morris attended Central
High, Ann Arbor High and
completed two years at Univer-
sity of Michigan.
The current Bulletin of Tem-
ple Beth El carries a congratula-
tory note to Henry Morris on the
engagement of his son to Lorraine
• Zussman.• T h i s congratulatory
note was published' a\day before
_ news came of F/O Morris' death
in action.
• - •
• Other survivors are a brother,
. Kenneth, and.a. sister, Selma. .
There are now six Gold Stars
on the temple Beth El Service
. Flag. -

Greenberg Family
Has 4 in U.S. and
Canadian Forces .

U. S. Army and Canadian
Army Take Three; U. S. Navy
Takes Brother-in-Law

• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Green-
- berg of Fenkell Ave. have three
sons and a son-in-law serving in

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Pvt. Karl

• Pvt. Joseph

Pfd. Benno Levi, who was on
Deeply moved by the news
that his son, Sgt. Benjamin Gold- the staff of the circulation de-
man, is now - a prisoner of war Partment of The Jewish News
in Germany, J. C. Goldman of until his induction into active
service in June,
1943, is now in
Guam. -•
His -last letter :,
gives a graphic:
description of
his experiences.
"We h a v e.
been here since ,
July 21 and we
have- seen t h e
campaign
through from Pfc. Levi
the beginning to end," he writes.
"My greatest thrill came when
I saw, the first natives freed from
a Jap concentration camp. We
had been marching • all day and
were .dead tired and hungry, but
we soon forgot our misery: when
we saw the line of many hun-
dreds of freed natives. They were
so happy, it alinost made us cry.
81t. and Mrs. B. Goldman
"Some of them kept repeating,
2754 Calvert Ave. wrote a poem `Happy days are here again.'
which he dedicated "To. My Son." Some thanked us for having got-
land back for them.
Sgt. Goldman, an Air CorpS ten their
of the natives •spoke Eng-
Radio Operator on a B-24, has Most
and all greeted us with
been in active service since lish
`hello'
or 'good evening.' Some
March, 1942. He- went overseas greeted
us in a strange way.
last • May and was reported to They bowed
their, heads a n d
have ' failed to return from his with a mechanical
smile' said
fotirth mission over Germany `hello'. That's how they_had
. beeri
and to haVe been captured • by forced to greet: the Jap' soldiers
the Nazis on June 21.
and they thought they. had to
A graduate of Central High do
the same to us. But they soon
School, Sgt. Goldman, who is 22 learned differently.
Years old; - studied at Wayne .Uni-
"All along the line - our men
versity for one year. He had his
Jewish education in ..the Sholem gave .out cigarets and cans of
C - rations. Many of the natives
Aleichem Shule.. . -
Three months before going had been sick and were driven
overseas, he married the former in trucks."
Pfc. Benno Levi, son of Mr.
Jane Friedling of Dexter Blvd:
The • poerii written by Mr. and Mrs. Herman 'Levi of Dela-
lchhan in his son's honor fol- ware. Ave., was born in •Alsfeld,
Germany, June 3, 1923. He at-
lows:
Birthdays come as years go,
tended public school in his na-
Every birthday—a milestone,
tive city until the fifth grade.
Today is mine, yet I know
That glootny
I am alone, He came to this Country in Feb-
ruary, 1935; and reSided here
From my dear sonny boy,
Did not arrive that- birthday -card, since with his family. His broth-
No pipe, - cigars, or "book of fun"— er, Ernest, and a sister, Ruth,
Heavy is my lonely heart.
•-
-
arrived with them and another
Alone I sit now -In a park,
With sad eyes I gaze upon the Moon, sister, Miriam, joined the family
Submerged in thoughts depressing -• ... here in june, 1938. •
. dark . , .
Strict Sabbath observers, the
With him I wish to commune • .
entire family , has been active in
!Perhaps, he -too, lobics. up. above.
Perhaps, he - too, now thinks of me? Orthodox circles and -Benno was
Perhaps, he senses my paternal love,. a leader in Young Israel. He was
Far away in captivity?"
honored'by The jeWish News
staff on his - 20th birthday, June
Lonely are my days of • late,
Sadness conies with every night,
For- since: that _ tragic, fateful date, 3, 1943, prior to his induction.
•
Sonny cannot • daily write.

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As he did in days gone :by,
When he was, among the free,
Troubled is my yearning heart,
My son - is: In captivity -;

S2/C Katkowsky. .- Pvt. Irving

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the armed forces of the United
Nations.
Pvt. Joseph. Greenberg, 22,
who volunteered for the Cana,
- dian Army in October, 1942, and
was sent .overseas two weeks .af-
- ter •the invasion of Normandy,
- was injured on Aug. 9. -
A second son, Pvt. Karl Green-
berg, 24, who was a Troop Ser-
geant Major in the Canadian Ar-
my resigned 10 weeks ago to be-
come a private -with the Canadian
Paratroopers. -
Pvt. Irving Greenberg, 30, now
in England with the American
infantry, is married to the for-
trier Ruth Moskowitz. Mrs.
Greenberg and their two-year-old
Son, Nathan, .reside at 15375 Al-
den Ave: - -
S 2/c Isadore Katkowsky is
married to their sister, Anne,
who, with their 20-month-old
son, lives at 3134 Fenkell Ave.

Ensign Fishman Home;
11 Months in Pacific

Ensign Mickey' Fishman, son of
Mr, and Mrs. Morris Fishman,
was home this week on leave
after being on duty in the Pacific
for 11 • months. He returns to ac-
tive duty on. Friday.
His brother, Chief Petty - Of-
ficer Herman Fishman, is in
China and is assigned to Naval
Intelligence at the U. S. Embassy
in Chungking.

Sgt. •Goldman lost this mother,
the late Rose - Goldman, when .he

Winsen Twins
At Same Camp

Harry. Zarankin
Returns to Fort Ord

. Cpl. Harry Zarankin; who is
stationed at Fort Ord, California,
and who has _been in service
e h t nionths,
was horhe on a
10-day furlough::
and visited here'
with his wife,
the former Rose
Goldberg, a n
their son, Barry.
Cpl. Zarankin
son of Mr: and'
Mrs. Morris Zar-
ankin, of 14891
Quincy, was Cpl. Zarankin
graduated from Central High
School arid . studied at Wayne
University. Before entering ac-:
tive service he was associated
with his father in the plumbing
business.

Honors

For Pfc.

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Refugee Tells How
Ie Killed the
Japanese

—

SGT. WERNER KATZ

Inducted into the ,Army six
When the war industries went
into full gear; he took a job as months apart, the twin sons of
a draftsman with a _concern mak- Mr. and Mrs. Ben Winsen of 2992
ing •airplane parts. He worked
for about a year before enlisting
in the air corpi in -September,
1942, not being 'called to active
duty until March 10, 1943. -
.He took his .basic training at
SioUx -Falls, S.. D., Harlingen
Field, Texas, and pyersberg,
Tenn., Where he was married last
March.

Cpl.

NEW YORK (IPS)—Chaplain
Irving Tepper, former director of
the Hapoel Hamizrachi, Ortho-
dox Zionist Organization, was
killed in action in France on
Aug. 13, according to word re-
ner of 1980 W. Philadelphia were ceived here.
notified
Chaplain Tepper, who' wa,s
was their son, Lt. 'Saul
J., 25, Was killed
landed under fire with the first
in England on
wave of troops in the invasion
Aug. 17.
of North Africa in 1942, He saw
Lt. Kempner, a
action with his battalion in Tu-
Fortress naviga-
nisia and 'Sicily and -was among
tor, had b
the first to land in Normandy on
wounded on
"D"- Day.
June .8, while on
a :Mission Over
the robot instal-
Posthumous
lations. He was
the recipient of
Aronovitz
the Air M e d a 1, Lt. S. Kempner
and '•the . Four Oak-leaf Cluster's.
Pfc. Israel Aronovitz, 23-year-
Having already received the .Pur-
ple Heart, he was in line for the old Marine, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arcinowitz of 2292' Clait-
Distinguished ,Flying Cross. •
His twin brother, -Lt. Irving H., mount Ave., who died on June
is stationed at •Langley Field, Va., 15 of wounds received while
storming the Jap
position on Sai-
pan, received the
posthumous
award of the
Silver Star for
heroism.
Pfc. Arnovitz's
heroisin includ-
ed • the knocking,
out of a Jap pill
box on the Tara-
wa b e a c hhead:, Pfc. Aronovitz
Pvt. G. Kempner Lt. I. Kempner saving many American lives.
and is a bombardier in the army
After serving in the Atoll and
air force. An older brother, Pvt. Gilbert Island campaigns, Pfc.
George, 30, of the army air trans- Aronovitz .moved with the 2nd
port command, is training as a Marine .Division attacking Tara-
pilot. at Tuscon, Ariz.
wa in November, 1943. On a Ta-
rawa . beach Aronovitz displayed
the courage, that won for him
the admiration of every- man in
his unit.
First
Aronovitz leaped into the water
and waded ashore with a paCk-
in Burma
mortar on .his 'back. He assembled
it under sniper fire and single-
NEW- YORK (JTA) Sgt. Wer- handedly destroyed the 'pillbox..
ner Katz, 24-year-old. Jewish ,
nor this "gallantry in action"
refugee from Germany, revealed he was given a citation from
this week how he became the Admiral Chester - W. Nimitz
first American soldier to kill .a which expressly stated that it
was "impossible to land barges
ashore until his (Aronovitz's)
mission was carried out." He
subsequently was awarded t h e
Silver Star.
Previous to his . enlistment in
1942, Aronovitz was a produce
manager at Packer's Outlet and
later was employed by .the Bohn
Aluminum Co. He served over-
seas for 'more than a year.
Besides his parents, Aronovitz
is survived by three brothers, Al-
bert, Harry and. Morris, who is a
member of a USAAF ground
crew in France; and four sisters;
Mrs. Fred Kohen, Mrs. Morris
Brotsky, /vlarian and Dorothk.

Pvt. Winsen

Cpl. Winsen

Japanese after the Allied drive
into Burma begah last winter.
A member of Merrill's Maraud-
ers, famed : jungle- fighters, Sgt.
Katz, who haS returned home on
furlough, related „:how he was
leading a reconnaisance _patrol
doWn a jungle path when three
Japan _ eie appeared before him
Katz killed the leading' Japanese
and -then fled froth the machine-
gun of the other two, although he
was wounded - in several places.
Interviewed at the headquar-
ters of the -National Refugee
Service, Sgt. Kati discloSed' that
despite his wounds - he Contin-
tied the 750-mile trek of the Ma-
rauders which ended with the
capture of the large -Biirma base
of Myitkynia. - •
A garbled Message from the
War Department several months
ago concerning Katz's wounds
reported that he had been killed,
and his brother here sat "shiva"
for several days until- a correc,
tion was received.

Seek Piano Music
For Servicemen

Collection of popular piano
music 'for use by servicemen on
ships, and in hospitals was begun
here this week as another means
of fulfilling the needs of our
servicemen.
Rose Biehl of 1695 Blaine, who
is assisting in this drive, pointed
out that there is an- accumulation
Of music in chests and benches
and,that much of it can be used
by servicemen.
Miss Biehl was encouraged in
this effort by Red Cross field di-
rectors and Army officials.
Special boxes for the collection
of this music have been placed in
the music departments of Grin-
nell's and J. -L. Hudson Co. music
departments and those having
such music are asked to present
it either to Miss Biehl or to drop
it in the boxes at Grinnell's and
Hudson's. Miss Biehl also urges
JWB Sends SUpplies
that those who do not have piano
music in their homes should pur-
To Jews on All Fronts
chase sheet music and present it
NEW YORK , (JTA-)—The Na- for use by servicemen.
tional JWB reports that special
religious supplies have been leaflets explaining the signifi-
shipped allover the world to cance- of Rosh Hashanah and
enable Jewish men and women Yom Kippur, more than 150,000
in uniform to observe the Jewish copies of' a new edition of the
high holidays which begin on Board's High Holiday prayer
Sept. '18. Shipments include a book and‘200 Shofars made in

Grand Ave, recently were re-
united - after a separation of 16
months: .
Gen. Hershey, head of the
Selective Service, made this re-
union possible 'as a 'result of a
letter from Mrs. - Winsen. The
twins, Cpl. Wendall and Pvt.
Daniel, now are based with the
Air Transport Command at Las
Vegas, N. M. They were sent
- om Camp Shelby, Miss., to the
TC post. •
Cpl. Winsen, spokesman for
the twins by right of his being
born five minutes ahead of his
brother, was inducted 16 months
ago and Daniel entered the serv-
ice six months later. Daniel was
assigned to the infantry at the
time.
Both attended Central high and
were employed as watchmakers
in a war plant before joining the
service.
million. greeting cards, 50,000 Palestine.

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