Fridayi Noverillier-24, 194IF
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Tweiffy
7,500 Detroit Jews in Action;
JWB Seeks More Records
3 Detroit Jewisit
Soldiers Wounded
On Three Fronts
GUEST EDITORIAL
Organizations Urged to Appoint Committees to Provide
Lt. Jacobs Back in States
Data for Detroit War Records Committee in Order to
From Italy; Sgt. Kaplan, Pvt.
Complete Files of All in Service
Koss Also Casualties
The Detroit War Records Committee of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board has already compiled the names of 7,500 Jewish
Dispatches reaching us from
men and women in active service. There are thousands of the European Theater of Oper-
ations tell of the wounds receiv-
other Detroiters about whom information is still lacking.
It is of the utmost importance that the list be completed ed by three Detroit soldiers.
Second Lt. William Jacobs,
as speedily as possible, and it is essential that all organiza-
tions, individuals, parents and friends of men and women in with the infantry in Italy, suf-
fered a broken leg when he step-
service cooperate fully in this effort.
Organizations are especially urged to appoint war rec- ped on a mine on Sept. 3.
Sgt. Arthur Kaplan, who was
ords committees and to provide necessary information about injured
in France on Sept. 11,
veterans of the present war as well as those in active service has returned
to action.
to the Army and Navy Committee, whose offices are at the
Pvt. David Koss was hit in the
Jewish Community Center, Woodward and Holbrook, MA. foot by shrapnel while fighting
8400.
in Germany on Sept. 17.
The War Records Committee of the Jewish Welfare
Lt. Jacobs, 25, son of Mr. and
Board will be pleased to supply the necessary blanks to or- Mrs. Phillip Jacobs, 2265 W.
ganizations and individuals. 'The blank appearing on this Philadelphia, now is stationed at
page may also be used for this purpose.
Billings General Hospital, Indian-
The Jewish News, in cooperation with the Jewish Wel- apolis, Ind. after being home on
fare Board and its affiliated organizations, will periodically a brief furlough. A graduate of
publish lists of names of men and women in service, and Northwestern high school, he at-
Wayne University for two
readers are asked to study the lists and to submit for in- tended
years until enlisting in the army
clusion in the record the names that are missing from the in February, 1941. Entering as a
list now on hand.
private he was first sent to Battle
The "A" list of names follows:
Creek and from there went to
Iceland for seven months. A ser-
Those whose record is complete:
COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS
2nd Lt. Mark Abend
2nd Lt. Marvin Abram-
ovitz
2nd Lt. Herbert C.
Abrams
Captain Sam Abramson
Ensign Leonard Eugen
Adler
1st Lt. Morris Adler
2nd Lt. Alexander Ar-
nold Agree
Captain Max Gordon
Aiken
Major Martin Max Al-
exander
Captain Harold C. Allen
1st Lt. Louis Alper
Captain Elliot B. Al-
pern
Captain LeRoy L. Al-
ter
2nd Lt. Jerry S. Amer-
nick
1st Lt. David Apple-
baum
2nd Lt. Michael M.
Appleblat
1st Lt. Gerald Robert
Aptekar
•
Ensign Samuel Arden
2nd Lt. Morton .Arno-
-Vits • -
Captain Ralph G. Aron-
stam
Lt. (J. G.) Lester B:
Arwin
2nd Lt. David I. Aske-
nose
1st Lt. Alvin August
Major Harry Edward
August
Ensign Isadore Aver-
buch
-
AWARDS AND CITA-
TIONS
Pfc. Norman Adelman,
Presidential Citation
Pfc. Israel Aronovitz,
Silver Star
CASUALTIES
Adaskin,
Saul
Pfc.
Wounded in action in
Sicily Aug. 10, 1943
Albert Agress,
Sgt.
Wounded in action in
Asiatic Area May 9,
6
1944
Pfc. Theodore A. Al-
lowitz. Missing in
action in the N. Am-
erica Area Feb. 17,
1943
1st Lt. David Applebau.
Wounded in action at
Tinian July 27, 1944
Pfc. Isadore Arnkoff.
Wounded in action in
France July 11. 1944
Pfc. Israel Aronovitz.
Killed in action at
Saipan July 1944.
ENLISTED MEN AND
WOMEN IN SERVICE
Sgt. Louis Aaron
Pvt. Harold Abel
Pvt. Richard J. Aaron
Pvt. Martin Louis Abel
Pvt. Raymond Ivan
Abel
T/Sgt. Leo Abrahamson
Pvt. Abraham Marvin
Abrams
Cpl. Bertram C. Abrams
T/Sgt. Herman Abrams
Pfc. Manuel C. Abra-
hams
Pfc. Frank Battling
Abramovitz
Pfc. Hillel Lester Ab-
rams
A/C Jerry H. Abramson
Sgt. Marshall M. Ab-
ramson
Pvt. Jess Abrin
Pvt. Barnett Robert
Abromovich
Pvt. Herbert C. Abugow
Cpl. Bernard Ackerman
T/Stgt. Harvey Leonard
Ackerman
Pfc. Saul Adaskin
Hosp. Corpsman Theo-
dore Louis Adelberg
Pfc. Norman Adelman
Pvt. Sadie Adelman
S/Sgt. Sidney Adelman
Sgt. David Adelson
A/C Eugene Bernard
Adelson
Pfc. Hyman Adelson
Pvt. Milton Harry Adel-
son
Pvt. Seymour S. Adel-
son
Pfc. Howard B. Adilman
Pfc. Joseph Adler
Pvt. Louis Adler
Pvt. Morris Adler
Cpl. Sol Adler
Cadet William Adler
Pvt. Ben Agaus
Cpl. Eugene N. Agins
Pvt. Carl Agranoff
Pfc. George A. Agree
Yeoman 2/C George W.
Agree
Sgt. Albert Agress
Sgt. Hyman Ainbinder
Pfc. Irving Albert
Pfc. John Jacob Albert
T/5 Ben Alexander
Cpl. Cecil Alexander
Cpl. Marvin J. Allen
Sgt. Leo Allowitz
Pfc. Theodore A. Al-
lowitz
Pvt. Phillip Joseph Al-
per
Cpl. Gordon Alpern
Cpl. T/5 Irving Alpert
Pvt. Sam Alpert
Cpl. Carl Altman
Cpl. Gerald Joel Altman
Cpl. Lee Richard Alvin
Pvt. George Paul Am-
berg
Sgt. Milton J. Amer-
nick
Cpl. William Martin
Anderson
Field Director Sue Sel-
ma Anspach
Pvt. Kurt Anspach
Pvt. Leonard Antil
Pfc. Sollie Antman
Pvt. Albert B. Apple
Pvt. Albert Gregory
Applebaum
Cpl. Fred Phillip Apple-
baum
Pfc. Leo Applebaum
Sgt. Norman M. Apple-
ton
Cpl. Sam Arbit
Pvt. Yale Arfa
John
Pvt. Lawrence
Arden
Pfc. Isadore Arnkoff
S/Sgt. Daniel Arnold
S/Sgt. David Arnold
Pvt. Charles Aron
Pfc. Israel Aronovitz
Pfc. Morris Aronovitz
Cpl. Bernie Aronson
Pvt. Joseph Aronson
S/Sgt. Jacob M. Art
Cpl. Irwin Artman
S/Sgt. Leo E. Ash.
Pfc. Franklin N. Ash-
man
CpI. Sam Hyman Aska-
nazie
Richard Harold
Pvt.
Atkins
S/Sgt. Henry Auslander
Pvt. Irving Auslander
Sgt. T/4 Harry Aver-
bach
Pfc. Jerome Avison
Pvt. Joseph M. Avrush-
in
Pfc. Bernard .Axelrod
Cpl. Louis Axelrod
COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS
(Records incomplete)
Lt. Sidney L. Adelson
Lt. A. C. Adler
2nd Lt. Alfred N. Adler
Lt. (J.G.) Sidney Adler
1st Lt. Sidney L. Alex-
ander, Jr.
Major Michael Alpern
Captain Harry D. Alt-
man
Lt. Louis Altshuler
Major Sam S. Altshuler
Lt. Meyer S. Ascher
2nd Lt. Norman Ash
2nd Lt. Daniel Avrunin
Lt. Morris Axelrod
CASUALTIES
(Records incomplete)
Milton Adler. Wounded
in action in Mediter-
ranean Area July 13,
1944
He. Herman Aronshon.
Killed in train crash
in N. Carolina, Jan.
10, 1944
Pvt. Herman Asher.
Killed in Florida,
1943
ENLISTED MEN AND
WOMEN IN SERVICE
(Records incomplete)
Charles D. Aaron
George Aaron
Bernard Aaronson
Michael Aaronson
Bert W. Ablitz
Isaac Abramovitz
Jerome E. Abrams
Lou Abrams
Franz W. Abramson
Milton D. Abramson
Cpl. Charles Acker
Isadore V. Acker
Norman L. Adel
Pvt. George Adelberg
Joseph Adelman
Lewis Adler
Milton Adler
Sanford Adler
Sidney P. Adler
Pvt. Phillip F Aiken
Samuel Albert
Al Alexander
Alfred Alexander
Gabriel N. Alexander
Pfc. Herman Alexander
Bernard Allen
Gurston S. Allen
Pvt. Jack Allen
Pvt. Shirley Allen
Sgt. Ted Allen
Harold Alter
(?,
Louis Alpert
Kalman L. Alpiner
Lewis Alpiner
Ben A. Alterman
Kenneth W. Altman
Morris Altman
J. Alvin
George Amber
Paul Amber
Carl Amdur
Sgt. Charles Anchill
Herman Anchill
Pfc. John M. Anstandig
Pfc. A. Antonovsky
A/C Robert Applebaum
Selik Applebaum
H. B. Appelman
Morris Arbit
Julius Armos
Pvt. Jack Aronoit
Pfc. Herman Aronsohn
Sarah Arwood
Pvt. Louis Asatinsky
Cpl. Jerome M. Ash
Pvt. Herman Asher
Cyril Astrein
Carl C. Austin
The Serve-A-Camp Project: A Plea
To Detroit's Jewish Organizations
By MRS. HENRY MEYERS
The ever increasing tempo of the war in the Pacific is
creating a tremendous need for redoubled effort on the part
of Detroit's Serve-A-Camp project. A year has elapsed since
Detroit women undertook a part in the National Serve-A-
Camp work. The parent organization is the Women's Di-
vision of the Jewish Welfare Board.
Through various Serve-A-Camp groups
our fighting men all over the world are sent
packages, periodically, containing those ar-
ticles which it is impossible for them to se-
cure in the remote corners of the eartth
where they may be stationed.
Our adopted Camp is Honolulu, Hawaii.
We were successful last year in making a
written appeal to the Jewish Women's organ-
izations in the city, an,d securing a satisfac-
tory budget. We attempted, by the shipment
Mrs. Meyers
of monthly packages to the Pacific area, to
let our boys know we are ever conscious of their heroic
efforts. We know that we are only serving in a small
measure ,but we feel, and have been told by the recipients
of our packages, that it is an effort worth while.
From toilet soap to salami, from victrola records to
gefilte fish, we have endeavored, in some small measure to
fill the aching void for things back home, by these well
chosen substitutes. Our efforts have been rewarded. many
fold. Our satisfaction, based on the many appreciative let-
ters we have received, has spurred us on to renewed am-
bitions for greater service to these boys.
This year we are making another plea. As the battle in
the Pacific assumes greater proportions, and, as more of our
men are poured into the south Pacific, our work grows pro-
portionately. Our duty, as we see it, is clear. As long as our
boys tell us that our work is important—that work shall con-
tinue. What we do is infinitesimal in the general picture of a
country at war. We realize that, and pledge that we will do
all in our poiker to fulfill that small need. We want our
task forces in every remote corner of this war torn world to
know that we are thinking of them, working for them, and
Lt. Jacobs
Sgt. Kaplan
giving them tangible evidence that we are not unconscious
geant at the time, he was re- of their tremendous sacrifice. Will your organization help us?
turned to the States for officer's
training. Overseas since March,
1944, he fought in Sicily and then
in Italy.
Lt. Jacobs, recipient of the
Purple Heart, suffered his
wounds when he went into a
mine field, to help a fellow-sol-
dier whose leg had been blown
off.
Sgt. Ralph Friedman now in
Paris with the transportation di-
vision is married to Lt. Jacobs'
twin sister, Mildred.
Sgt. Kaplan, 24, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Kaplan of 2526 Cal-
vert Ave., who was inducted on
Feb. 3, 1942, is a graduate of
Northern High School. He. was
first stationed in Georgia and
was shipped to England in May,
of 1944. Decorated with the
Purple Heart, his shoulder
wound has completely healed.
Sgt. Kaplan, who was with
the Allied troops on D-Day, has
a brother, Cpl. Sidney, in service
in North Carolina.
Pvt. Koss, 22, still hospitalized,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Koss of 3255 W. Grand Ave.
He has been overseas since Sep-
tember, 1943, was in France on
D-Day, from there went to Bel-
gium and then to Germany. He
is with the medical corps and
was awarded the Purple Heart.
J. Herman Wounded;
In English Hospital
Pvt. Jack M. Herman, 21, who
was wounded recently for the
second time, now
is stationed at
a hospital i n
England. He is
the son of Mrs.
Rose Herman of
2677 Buena Vis-
ta Ave.
,A graduate of
Cass high school,
he was employ-
by the Fisher
Body Corp. be-
fore being in- Pvt. Herman
ducted into the army.
His brother-in-law, Ernest Zip-
ser, 29, wounded in Italy, is also
hospitalized. His wife and child
reside in Detroit.
Additional Servicemen's News
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Interesting Plans
Made at Center
By 'Service Wives'
Many interesting plans were
made by an enthusiastic group
of wives of men in service, who
are organized under the name of,
"Service Wives," at the Jewish
Community Center.
The group is under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Esther Mossman of
the Center staff. Mrs. Sadie
Saferstein is chairman.
Chairman of the program com-
mittee is Mrs. Frances Marko-
witz; Mrs. Ida Bader and Mrs.
Sylvia Winton are co-chairmen
of the USO committee; Mrs.
Miriam Ferst will head a War
Bond booth committee; Mrs.
Helen Felstein is chairman of a
home making committee and,
Mrs. Frances Agranoff will be
in charge of a knitting committee.
The first project will be to
serve at the downtown_ USO on
Jan. 1.
Wives of servicemen are in-
vited to attend the next meeting,
Nov. 30, at 8 p. m. at the Center.
2 Detroit Servicemen
Are Awarded the DFC
Two Detroit servicemen at-
tached to the 8th Army Air Force,
based in England, have been
awarded the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross. They are Lt. Isadore
T. Margolas, 3742 Glynn Ct., and
Tech. Sgt. Walter C. Schonhoff
of 2002 W. Grand Ave.
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INFORMATION
REGARDING SERVICEMEN
.
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD BUREAU OF WAR RECORDS
MA. 8400
8904 Woodward Ave., Detroit 2, Mich.
Serial No
Name
Middle
First
Last
Home Address
Street
Birthplace
Birth Date
City
State
City
State
Marital Status:
Civilian Occupation
Married
Single .....
Date Entry in Service
Marine Corps
Service: Army
Navy
Coast Guard......
Rank or Rating Upon Entry
Present Branch Service
Present Rank or Rating
If Discharged, Give Date
If Commissioned, Give Rank and Date
If Photograph Is Nvailable, Please Include.
Full Name of Nearest Kin
Address
Relationship
*-
Street
City
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Event
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