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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Fe6ruary 23, 1945

Pfc. G. H. Landau Wins Commendation Seaman Weisberg More Information Needed
From General for Heroism Under Fire Again Wins Bnai
To Complete Honor Roll
A unique commendation for mendation to Pfc. Landau, 20, son Brith Contest
heroism was recently awarded to

of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Landau
Pfc. Graham H. Landau by Maj. of 2291 Longfellow.
Gen. William A. Burriss.
The citation, presented at an
The photograph shows Maj.- overseas post, reads:
Gen. Burriss presenting the corn-
"On 20 November 1944, during
an intense artillery barrage which
inflicted numerous casualties,
Private Landau voluntarily left
his foxhole to administer aid to
his wounded comrades; then, dur-
ing the continuing barrage, help-
ed to evacuate the injured to a
place of safety."
Pfc. Landau has been in serv-
ice since May, 1943, and has been
overseas since October. He is
with the 100th Infantry Division
with the 7th Army somewhere in
Germany.
A graduate of the United He-
brew Schools and Central High,
Pfc. Landau excelled on the track
and football teams at Central.

Detroit V-12 Student Tops
AZA Sermon - Writing
Competition for 1944

Have you a relative in the Armed Forces? The war record of
the Detroit Jewish community will be incomplete without his
name. Please fill out this blank and mail it TODAY to the Detroit
Army and Navy Committee, 8904 Woodward Avenue. (Phone the
Army and Navy Committee, at MA. 8400 for more blanks.)

WASHINGTON—Seaman Har-
vey Weisberg, 2/c, Navy V-12
trainee at Columbia University
and member of the Bnai Moshe

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INFORMATION
REGARDING SERVICEMEN
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD BUREAU OF WAR RECORDS
8904 Woodward Ave., Detroit 2, Mich.
MA. 8400

Name

Last

Receives Praise From Sports
Writer in the Dallas, Tex.,
Morning News

Lt. Lou Handler, well-known
to Detroiters for his prowess in
various fields of sport, and as di-
rector of Camp Tamakwa in
Algonquin Park, Ontario, is being
hailed by the Dallas community
as a "find", in
t h e refereeing
of the Golden.
-• Gloves tourna-
ment. His refer-
eeing has been
described as top
flight.
In an article
appearing in the
Dallas Morning
News, George
- _ White, sports
Lt. Handler c o l u m n i s t
writes: "Success of the Dallas
district tournament was due in
no small measure to the excel-
lence of the officiating". He
goes on to say:
"Lt. Handler is one of the few
persons who have had the distin-
ction of holding both a fighter's
and a referee's license at one and
the same time. Among the bet-
ter known names who have fig-
ured in bouts he has officiated at
are those of Joe Louis, Billy Conn
and Tony Canzoneri".
Lt. Handler has been in Dallas
five months and is attached to
the Eighth Service Command,
serving with the 3847th Service
Unit (Dallas high schools ROTC).
He was formerly stationed at Ft.
Sheridan, Ft. Eustis and Camp
Stewart.

Lt. Zwerdling is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Osias Zwerdling of
Ann Arbor, well known for their
Jewish communal activities. He
is married and the father of a
year :old son, David.

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Lt. Levine Promoted
In. Transport Corps

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Levine
of 1632 Burlingame have learn-
ed that their son, Herschel H.,
has been promoted to first lieut-
enant in the Transportation
Corps.

Lt. Levine is in Belgium.
He was a junior in the Detroit
College of Law. when he enlisted
as a private in October, 1942.
For the past two years he has
been with the Transportation
Corps and has been stationed in
Gibralter, Africa, Malta, Sicily,
Italy, England, France and Lux-
eihbourg.

M. Goldberg Killed;
Gewerkshaften Gets
Gift in His Honor

Pvt. Max Goldberg, 27, was
killed in Germany, on Nov. 25,
1944, his family recently learned.

Born and educated in Detroit,
he was a graduate of Northern
high and had been employed by
the Karp Coal
and Ice Co. un-
til he entered
service in April,
1944. After com-
pleting his basic
training at
Camp Hood,
Tex., he was
sent overseas in -
October.
He was the
husband of Mrs. Pvt. Goldberg
Ellen Goldberg, who with their
31/2 year old daughter, Barbara
Ann, resides at 3205 Tyler. Son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Goldberg of
4011 Duane, he also is survived
by a brother and sister.

His uncle, Eli Freeman of 2900
Orleans, has given a liberal gift
to the Gewerkshaften campaign
in memory of Pvt. Goldberg and
in honor of his wife and daugh-
ter, and has pledged to contri-
bute $25 annually to the drive.

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Birth Date

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State

Birthplace

Civilian Occupation

Marital Status:

Married

Single

Date Entry in Service

Handler Hailed Lt. J. Zwerdling
For Refereeing Gets Promotion

Lt. Joseph Zwerdling, who was
commissioned upon his gradua-
tion from the Tudge Advocate
General's School in Ann Arbor
on Jan. 13, has been promoted
to -first lieutenant. Lt. Zwerdl-
ing, whose promotion was an-
nounced on Jan.
29, is serving as ,'
assistant t r i a
judge advocate„
for general court .-
martial at Ft.
Sheridan, Ill.
A graduate of
t h e University
of Michigan Law
School, he h a s
been i n service
two years, hay- Lt. Zwerdling
ing been stationed at _Ft. Rose-
crans, San Diego, Cal., before
being assigned to the JAG school.

Serial No

First

Service: Army...... Marine Corps

Navy

Coast Guard

Rank or Rating Upon Entry

Present Branch Service

Present Rank or Rating

SM. HARVEY WEISBERG

Chapter, Detroit, of Aleph Zadik
Aleph, Bnai Brith's organization
for boys of high school age, is the
winner of first place in the 1944
annual AZA sermon-writing con-
test, it was announced by Henry
lyfonsky, chairman of the Bnai
-Brith Youth Commission.

(EDITOR'S NOTE—Members
of Aleph Zadik Aleph in the
armed forces are permitted to
retain membership in the or-
ganization until their 21st
birthday.)

•

If Discharged, Give Date

If Commissioned, Give Rank and Date

If Photograph Is Available, Please Include.

Full Name of Nearest Kin

Relationship

Address

Street

City

Promotions, Honors, Awards, Acts of Heroism, Casualty or
Other Events or Services
Event-
Date Type of Award or Recognition Date

This is the second year that
Weisberg has been voted top hon-
ors in the contest, which is part
of the year-round religious pro-
gram of Aleph Zadik Aleph. He
receives the Sidney G. Kusworm
Award for his 1944 Berman, "The
Attitude of Jewish College
Youth". It -was delivered during
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg
the AZA Sabbath service held at of 2752 Boston Blvd. recently
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, De- received a telegram from the
troit, while he was a member of war department informing them
the Navy V-12 unit at the Uni-
that their son,
versity of Michigan.
Cpl. Lee Rosen-
berg, is missing
A former president of Shaarey
in France o n
Zedek Junior Congregation,
Jan. 17.
Weisberg has been a member of
A graduate of
AZA since he was 15. In 1943 and
Northern high,
in 1944 he shared with Sidney
he was assoc-
Berlin in the District 6 AZA de-
iated with his
bating title. While a student at
father in the
Michigan he helped conduct re-
Rosenberg Dept.
ligious services at the Michigan
Store on Mich-
Hillel Foundation.
Cpl. Rosenberg igan Ave., be-
fore entering service two and a
half years ago. He was station-
ed in the south for five months
and was shipped to England
where he was attached to head-
Among the many servicemen quarters until being transferred
to France in November.
who were thought to be missing,
He had been awarded the
but now 4Deing discovered in var-
sharpshooter's medal.
ious prison camps is Pvt. Al
Raider, son of Mrs. Sophia Raid-
er, 2654 Elmhurst.

Cpl. Lee Rosenberg
Missing in France

Missing Pvt. Raider
Is Prisoner of Nazis

Capt. Stone Back;
Served in Pacific
Since April, 1942

Capt. Samuel Stone, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Stone, 3860
29th, is spending a 21-day leave
with his parents, after a tour of
overseas duty.
A graduate of the University
of Michigan Dental School, he
was resident
dentist at the
Traverse City
State Hospital
before entering
service in March
1941. While in
this country he
was stationed at
Camp Grant,
C a m p Forrest,
Camp Livings-
Capt. Stone ton and Ft. De-
yens. Overseas since April 1942,
he served in Australia, New
Guinea, Woodlark, New Britain
and Leyte Island in the Philip-
pines.
A recipient of the Purple Heart,
he was returned to this country
on Feb. 1, and will report tt
Florida for reassignment.

S2-c Leonard Silber
Picked from 4,000 as
Hospital. Apprentice
Pvt. J. S. Dresner
In British Hospital .

A former employe of the
United Shirt Distributors, he was
well known in athletic circles
here. He entered service on
Nov. 14, 1942 and was shipped
overseas last July. He was re-
S 2/c Leonard Silber, son of
ported missing on Nov. 14, while
_Mr. and Mrs. Al Silber of 3253
with the Third Army.
• family recently received Sturtevant Ave., who was home
His
a post card from him informing on leave, returned to Great Lakes,
them that he is a prisoner in
Ill., and then
Germany.
will go to San
Diego, Calif., af-
ter being one of
Seymour Nash New JWB
four boys select-
Battle Creek Director
ed out of 4,000 to.
attend service
Aaron J. Pearlman, chairman
school. He be-
of the Jewish Welfare Board
comes a hospital
Army-Navy Committee at Battle
apprentice. H e
Creek, announces that Seymour
has been in serv-
Nash of the USO-JWB succeeds
ice 10 weeks.
Samuel Kurzon as associate di-
After his first
S
2/c
Silber
rector at the West Michigan USO
seven days of
Club.
training, he was the only one of
Mr. Nash, formerly assigned 1,400 recommended for Radar
to the Camp Ellis area, is a School and a week later was
former resident of Chicago and is made an instructor in chemical
planning to bring Mrs. Nash and warfare, with a temporary rank
son, Roger, to Battle Creek. He of apprentice petty officer, - first
is a graduate of the University class. •
of Chicago and formerly taught
Leonard was a member of AZA
school in Chicago. Prior to join- Chapter 309, graduating from
ing the USO staff he was as-
sociated with the Illinois State Central High and attending
Training School for Boys at St. Wayne University one semester
Charles; El.
as a pre-riled student. He is 18.

His head cut by shrapnel in
France on Nov. 19, Pvt. Joseph
S. Dresner, 19, is still hospital-
ized in England. He also is re-
covering from Trench foot in-
fection. He
the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hyman
Dresner, 1.8 5 1 8
Santa Rosa Dr.'s:
A graduate of
Central high, he
was a freshman'
at the Univer-
sity of Michigan
at the time of
his induction in
December, 1943. Pvt. Dresner
He was shipped overseas in May,
1944.
Pvt. Dresner has been award-
ed the Purple Heart and wears
three battle stars. His four broth-
ers are also in the service. They
are Lt. Jacob F. of the Ohio mili-
tary police; Capt. Morris H.,
quartermaster corps in India;
Pfc. Saul S., medical unit in Eng-
land and Milton H., aboard an
LST in the South Pacific. Milton
is Joseph's twin.

