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Sntilos' Faith Rewarded

Barney a Nazi Prisoner.
Ifis Letter Informs Parents

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--"'ISH NEWS

Pfc. Bob Weisman
Killed in Germany

Friday, April 20, 1945

Nadlers 100 Percent in the War Effort

2 Sons in Active Service,
Father in C. G. Reserves

"I am now in a German pill
box on the Siegfried Line; the
wasted a lot of money
Reported:- 'Missing Dec. I 8, Note Dated Dec. 31 Finally Germans
building them," wrote Pfc.
Mrs. Nadler Chairman of Shaarey Zedek Red Cross Unit
Robert P. Weisman in one of his
Arrives Through Aid of Red Cross; Tells Folks Not to
Sgt. Martin in France; Brother Leon With Airborne
last
letters
to
his
parents,
Mr
Worry; Two Brothers Also in Service
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and. Mrs. Israel Weisman of 9650
Engineers, Now Hospitalized
. The strong faith of Mr. and the POW's get in America. I N. Martindale.
The
Nadler
family
is among
Mrs. Smilo of 3902 Clements was am going . to feel quite funny
Pfc. Weisman entered the arm-
Overseas Since December
greatly rewarded. this week.
Upon discontinuation of thc
tonight because I probably won't ed forces last August, a couple the 100-percenters in Detroit
Jewry
actively
engaged
either
in
On Dec. 18 they received word wait up till 12 o'clock to see the months after his graduation from
ASTP program he was sent t<
that their son, Pfc. Barney Smilo, New Year in. But anyway, next Cass Tech. He went overseas in service or in important war ef- Camp Rucker, Ala., with tho
forts.
21, was missing in Germany.
Field Artillery Battalion, anc
year I know I will definitely January and he made the su-
William Nadler of 1136 Atkin- has been overseas since Decem •
Not for a single moment did be home with both of you to preme sacrifice on March 20, ac-
they give up hope that they have a real good time."
cording to a message his parents son is completing his third ac- ber, 1944.
would hear
He was graduated from Cen-
received f r o m
Captured' During Attack
from him.
tral High and Wayne University
the war depart-
Capt.. G. E. Decker of Co. C.,
Last Satur-
receiving his' B. S. from the lat•
ment Thursday,
801st Tank Destroyer, who was
day, word ' fin-
ter where he majored in music
April 5.
Pfc. Smilo's commanding officer,
ally arrived that
At the time of his enlistment h€
Young Weis-
wrote his parents encouraging
he was a Ger-
was with the Board of Educa.
man, who was
them to retain hope. He said
man prisoner of
tion and taught orchestration
to turn 19 a few
that Barney must have been
war.
He plays the violin and viol
days after his
captured during an attack on a
The good news
and has taken part in overseas
death in Ger-
sector that was taken by the
came in a let-
entertainment programs for ser-
many, was with
Germans. But he informed the
ter from their
vicemen in addition to his reg-
the Third Army
Smilos that this sector was re=
son, sent through M,
ular duties.
somewhere be-
taken by the American troops
Wm. Nadler
Pfc. Nadler
the Red Cross Pfc.. Smilo
Pfc. Weisman tween Coblenz
He is a graduate of the United
two weeks later.
and transmitted from Geneva,
Hebrew Schools and studied it
He has been overseas since and Trier, his father believes,
Switzerland,
the Shaarey Zedek religious
March, 1944 and served in Eng- when he was killed.
school.
Writes from POW Camp
Pfc. Weisman wrote home
land and in Belgium before go-
Pfc. Smilo wrote an interest- ing to Germany. He was a lead- every day while he was taking
Enlisted in 1942
ing letter on Dec. 31:
Pfc. Leon Nadler, 21, enlisted
er in Habonim labor Zionist his basic training at Camp Rob-
"I am very sorry this had to youth movement and had anti- inson, Ark., and stopped off here
in December, 1942, and was giv-
happen," he states, "because I cipated going to Palestine at the en route to Camp Meade, N. Y.,
en a deferment to complete hip
you have , been worrying first proferred opportunity. He before leaving for overseas.. He
second year with the Genera:
and probably -.701 continue to is a graduate of Central High tried to reassure his parents that
Motors Institute in Flint. He
took his basic training at Camr
worry. This is some btiliib I and attended the United He- he was being transferred at the
Fannin, Tex., was an ASTP stu-
couldn't help. The situation 1 brew Schools and Temple Beth time, not being shipped out.
dent at the University of Cin-
was in gave me no choice.
The Weisman family came
El religious school.
Mrs. Nadler
Sgt. Nadler
cinnati and when the prograrr
"At present I am in good
A brother, Sgt. Sidney, is in here from New York four years
health, which is the important Italy, a n d another brother, ago soon after the boy's Bar tive year as a member of the was discontinued was sent tc
thing in a POW camp. Please MM2/c Martin, is in the Navy. Mitzvah. He was a member of Coast Guard Reserves, serving in Fort Leonard Wood, /vIo., for fur-
don't worry about me because I Their parents are active in the the AZA here. Mr. Weisman, Flotilla 1702, 17th Great Lakes ther training.
Overseas since June, 1944, h€
will get the same treatment that Detroit Zionist circles.
who has a variety store on Liver- Division.
nois Ave.; is a member of the
Mrs. Nadler is chairman in is attached to the Airborne - En-
Arlazaroff Branch of the Jew:- charge of the Shaarey Zedek gineers with the 82nd A/B Divi-
sion. At present he is hospital-
ish National Workers Alliance. Red Cross unit.
ized in France with a back in-.
There is another son, Donald.
Their two sons are serving in j ury.
France.
He was graduated with honors
Sgt. Martin Nadler, 26, enlisted from Cass Technical High School
Cpl. Barnes Yagoda Tells of
on Dec. 19, 1941, and was in the and was awarded a four-year
His Experiences in a Town
Signal Corps training from June, scholarship to Houghton School
1942, to May, 1943, with the 'Civil of Mines and Engineering. Like
in Liberated Germany
Service Enlisted Reserves. He
The Hyman Ginsbergs of 9503 was then sent to Camp Crowder, his brother he is a graduate of
the United Hebrew Schools and
Among the most touching ex- McQuade Ave. . have received
periences of which our service- two letters from their son, Cpl. Mo., for four months and was studied at the Shaarey Zedek.
accepted as an ASTP student at
Mr. Nadler is a member of
men overseas write are their first Saul, one de-
the University of Minnesota Shaarey Zedek and the Zionist
visits to synagogues which have scribing the
where he stayed for six months. Organization of Detroit.
been desecrate&::::::::.,
preparations be-
by the Nazis
ing made for
and ;:hieli are
the Seder and
being rededicat-
the other relat-
ed by the Allies
ing the high-
as they drive on
lights of t h e
into enemy ter-
Seder held on
Mr. and Mrs. 1VIax Freedman
ritory.
Simiutak,
of 3728 Grand have learned re-
In a letter
Greenland.
cently of the wound which their
written to his
Cpl. Irving Cohen. wounded son, Pfc. Saul Freedman, sus-
Cpl. Ginsberg
family, Cpl
while fighting with Gen. Pat- tained on Feb.
writes, "On the Cpl. Ginsberg
Barney Yagoda
eve of the first Seder I am 200 ton's 10th Armored Division near 23, while fight-
tells of services Cpl. Yagoda
feet above sea overlook- Trere, Germany on Feb. 28, has ing with the in-
LATE LT. D. GINSBURG
held in a synagogue in a town ing the North Atlantic. Five of
fantry some-
The labor Zionists of Detroit somewhere in Germany. He us were very much surprised
where •in Ger-
writes:
and honored by a Passover pack-
will honor the memory of the
many. Struck in
"Today I attended services in age coming from our chaplain
'late Lt. Daniel Ginsburg through
the head by a
the sale of $250,000 worth of war a synagogue. It was very inspir- through the courtesy of the JWB
shell, he is re-
bonds, during the 7th War Loan. ing—and heartbreaking. When I and Temple Israel in New York.
covering in a
The sum realized through the entered, all that could be seen The package was dropped by a
hospital in Paris.
:sale of bonds will be used to pur- were four bare walls, everything plane and outside of the Matzos
Pfc. Freed
chase a bomber bearing the de- holy and significant had been being a little crushed a?.1 was in
man, 22, h a s
removed by the Germans. There excellent condition."
*ceased hero's name.
been in the Pfc. Freedman
army for several years and over=
Among Cpl. Ginsberg's cam-.
Second Lt. Ginsburg, son of is just a hole in the wall where
seas since November. Before
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ginsburg of the Holy Ark had stood.
ments on the Seder he remarks, S/Sgt. S. Cohen Cpl. I. Cohen
entering service, he was an en-
"There were two women there "For the meal we had gefilte
7727 Mack Ave., died in action on
received the Purple Heart. He gineering student at the Law-
Iwo Jima. He was the guiding who had seen the Gestapo de-
spirit and organizer of the De- stroy the furnishings and close fish, it was in the package I is now convalescing in a hospital rence Institute of Technology.
A brother, Cpl. Tanie, is a
-ti oit Habonim labor Zionist the doors back in 1938. These mentioned. Yours truly was the in England.
Cpl. Cohen entered service on radio operator in France.
youth movement and was the women were the only Jews left youngest present and' never in
builder of Camp Kineret near in the vicinity."
my life have I ever entertained Feb. 15, 1943- and after his basic
Chelsea, Mich.
Writing of the pains taken by the ttiou;'it of asking the Four training in the field artillery, he
The bond drive in his memory the American Army to salvage Questions here in the frozen was assigned to. Georgia Univer-
sity as an engineering student.
will be conducted by the City the remnants of the ruined syna-
Nine months later, with the abo-
Committee of the Jewish Na- gogues and of the attempt made North." •
Cpl. Ginsberg, 22, is a Central lition of -the ASTP program, he
tional Workers' Alliance. Harry to provide religious services for
Schumer is chairman of the the Jewish boys, Cpl. Yagoda High graduate and was a first became attached to the 10th
comments: "I am proud and year student at Wayne when he armored division and was ship-
.drive.
Cpl. Edward Feinstein, one of
thankful ,to be an American. entered service in December, ped overseas last September.
Cpl. Cohen was among those the five -survivors of his infantry
America is the most wonderful 1942. In Greenland seven months,
Gives Life to Save GI;
country in the world. I realize he is a radio man attached to surrounded in Bastogne, and company of 166 men, - has just
Fraised bi.Gen. Patton .... 'that more and more each second." the air corps. He was an active came out uninjured. .In the last returned from overseas. The re-
• NEW , YORK (JPS)--Rejected
member of AZA.
drive into--_ Germany, however,
, Cpl. Yagoda, 21, son of Mr. and
he was wounded in the- right hip. cipient of the Purple Heart and
by 50 medical schools in the .u. Mrs. Kart Yagoda, 3748 • Law-
S., to ,which he . applied. for ad-
A graduate of Central_ high, he the Presidential Citation, he is
rence; is. serving with the med- Pfc. Engle, Reported
had completed two years at now stationed at Camp Atter-
3nission, deipite . a . brilliant medi- ical corps and is attached to an
Wayne - University prior to en- bury; Ind.
cal record at .city College here, anti-aircraft and coast artillery Missing in Germany,
tering , the army.
Seymour . SehWartz, ..20,., son , of battalion. Prior to his induction
A- brother, Cpl. Milton, has
Escapes
Nazi
Prison
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Isadore been in Iran more than two years
Mr. and Mrs. Morris - Schwartz on Feb: . 28, 1943, he was a
Cohen of 3225 Collingwood, he is and recently has returned front
of Brooklyn, - enlisted in the pharmacy, student at the Detroit
The cloak , of grief .which has married to. the former Evelyn a furlough in Palestine' with
Army as a medical corpsman Institute of Technology. After
and was killed in Germany, Feb. taking his basic training at Camp Veiled. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pleskow of Grand Ave.
high praise for the manner in
Gordon W.: Engle was lifted this
9, while rescuing wounded sol-
A brother, S/Sgt. Sol Cohen, which the Jews treat visiting
Hulen, Tex., he was stationed at week then they received word
was inducted on. Feb, 18, 1942 servicemen.
diers in a mine field.
various camps throughout the
His parents have • received a country and was sent overseas in from their son, Bill, 19: Pfc. and is now stationed at Peterson
Another brother, Flight Offi-
.personal letter from Lt. Gen. February of 1944. From Scotland Engle whO was reported missing Field; Colo., as a chief - dispatch- cer Sam, who has been station-
George Patton which reads: "In he went to England and partici- in Germany on March 7, escaped er. A graduate of Central high, ed at March Field, Riverside,
the Bible it says, 'Greater love pated in the Normandy invasion. a German prison camp and has he received his B. A. degree from Cal., recently • left for an over-
than this no man hath. that he He has served in Belgium and joined the armed forces in Ger- Wayne University in 1942. His seas post. He is a navigator on-
many.
wife is the former Viola Shul- a B-24 Liberator. .His wife, Lil-
who .. laid down . his life . for his Luxembourg.
The Engles, who with their man of Elmhurst Ave.
friends.' I believe you should take
lian, who had been living in
Cpl. Yagoda, who wears three daughter, Martha, reside at 2410
Both servicemen . were active California -is residing with her
great pride in the fact that your battle stars, is engaged to Lenore
Tuxedo,.
heard
from
their
son
in
the
AZA
and
the
Jewish
Com-
heroic boy did. exactly that."
parents, M•.. and Mrs. Ray- Sof-
Rose of 9810 Lawton Ave.
on April 14.
munity Center.
ferin of 3267 Calvert.

Honor Lt. Ginsburg's Synagogue Services
Memory Through Sale Overseas Described
Of $250,000 in Bonds

Asks Four Questions
At Greenland Seder

Cpl. Irving Cohen,
Wounded at Trere,
Gets Purple Heart

Pfc. Saul Freedman
Wounded in Head

Cpl. Ed Feinstein
Back; 2 Brothers
At Overseas Posts

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