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THE JEWISH NEWS

Detroiter 50 Yards Away
When Ernie Pyle W as Killed

Friday, May 1 8 , I94S

List 8,150 Detroit Jews in Service

With the belief that more than
10.0,30 men and women of the
Jewish faith from Detroit are in

gan. Twelve deaths in action, in- cent of the total in uniform.

cluding those who died other
Benno Levi, Who Red Germany in 1935, Winner of Silver
Awards of all types . through
the armed forces, the Detroit than on the battlefield, during April totalled 369, with 53 for
Star for Heroism on Guam Writes of Being in
April
brought
the
total
to
145.
last month. The recent announce-
Army and Navy Committee of the
Fox-Hole Near Famous War Correspondent
Jewish Casualties 563
ment that Lt. Raymond Zussman
Jewish Welfare Board again

Total casualties, including
America celebrated VE-Day. 10 Jap• soldiers and about 50 civ- urges relatives to help bring the killed, missing, prisoners and received the Congressional Medal
Ticker-tape and flags mingled in ilians. A Jap officer we had cap- records up to date.., For those wounded, reached 563 when" 66 of Honor posthumously, for hero-
the breeze as jubilant people tured, who has a sister in Hono- who have not yet filled out a more were recorded in April. It ism last September, will be list-
crowded downtown areas to wade lulu and understands English, wa r . . records blank they are ob- amounts to approximately 7 per ed as of May. It is the highest
award the country gives.
through flurries of scrap paper came with us. When we asked tainable through the JWB, 8904
and shake hands with strangers. him what he thought of the Am- Woodward, MA. 8400.
It was a happy moment.
For those who have new in-
ericans, he said, 'Very strong.'
Far away, nearer Japan, mil- We asked him if he liked us and formation since filling out the
MISSING IN ACTION
T/Sgt. Sidney R. Jacobs
lions of men fought on. A war he said, 'I like.' He went ahead blank it is urgent that you sup-
Casualties
(Incomplete Data)
Bronze Star.
still raged and a letter received, of us to look into the caves and plement your previous data to WOUNDED IN ACTION . 'Lt. Aaron Kogan, Miss-
S/Sgt. Irving Jaffee,
(Complete Data)
Purple Heart.
ing in European Area.
last week, from Pfc. Benno Levi, urged the soldiers and civilians bring the records up to date.
Pvt. Herbert C. Abugow
Pfc. Saul Katser,
F/O Irving Levine,
Wounded Dec. 12, 1943
former Jewish • -
Distinguished Unit
to come out, assuring theni that 8,150 From Community Listed Pvt.
Missing over Italy,
Fredrick M. Baron;
Badge, Oak Leaf
Feb.
20,
1945.
News employe,
we meant no harm."
• Wounded in Germany,
Cluster.
Acording
to
the
Jewish
com-
S/Sgt.
Roy
G.
Meyers,
April
6,
1945.
served as a re-
Pfc. Charles Katz,
"I'm sorry to say, I didn't have munity war record monthly re- Pfc. Sanford J. Blau,
Missing.
Purple Heart.
minder.
MISSING IN ACTION
a nice Passover. I celebrated the port to the Bureau of War
Wounded at Nichols
*S/Sgt. Benj. Klempner,
(Complete Data)
Field, Bataan, Dec.
Ernie Pyle,
Seder in a fox-hole, but next Records of the National Jewish
Presidential
Unit
F/0 George Gilbert,
11, 1941; Wounded at.
Citation, 2 Oak Leafs.
Benno writes,
year, - I'll celebrate at home."
Missing over Germany
Corregidor, May 5,
Pvt.
Benno
Levi,
Welfare
Board,
with
headquarters
Cpl. Edward Schwartz,
1942,
met his death:
Silver Star.
Awarded Silver Star
in New York, new information Ph.M. 2/C Harold Bob- • Missing in Europe.
Pfc. Harry Linton,
only 50 yards; ,
Pfc. Marvin Tamaroff,
roff,
wounded
on
Iwo
Presidential Unit
received
during
April
brings
the
Last
September,
Benno,
who
Missing
in
European
Jima, March 3, 1945.
away from his
Citation, Feb.. 1945;
Area, March 23. 1945.
escaped from Germany in 1935, total of Detroit men and women Pfc. Clive Cantor,
Bronze
Star, April
fox-hole. •y 1 e
Wounded in Europe.
PRISONERS OF WAR
in
service
to
8,150,
an
increase
1945.
was
awarded
the
Silver
Star
for
T/Cpl. Irving Cohen,
had been visiting
(Incomplete Data)
Pfc.
Solomon
Medow,
of
90
during
the
month.
"gallantry
in
action"
on
Guam,
Wounded in Germany,
Cpl. Sol Shindel,
Bronze Star.
their company Pfc. Levi
Feb. 28, 1945.
Prisoner in Germany.
Pvt, Edward L. New-
Of the 8,150, which includes Pvt. Aaron. Z. Cutler.
when a Jap machine gun- which when his company had been
Pvt. George Fecteau,
Mark, Purple Heart,
Wounded- in Germany,
- Prisoner in Germany.
April 9, 1945.
had been harassing them all ordered to seize a strategic moun- 1,430 commissioned officers, a
Jan. 27, 1945.
-PRISONERS OF WAR
tain
and
friendly
planes
mistook
Pvt.
George L. Pantzer,
total
of
323
have
been
discharged
Pfc. S. Joel Dvorman,
morning, opened up and instant-
(Complete Data)
Purple Heart.
them
for
enemy
columns.
While
Wounded
in
Germany,
from service since the war be-
*Pfc. Larry A. Bader,
S/Sgt.
Samuel Pitkow-
ly killed the famed war cor-
April 4, 1945.
Prisoner in Germany.
the planes strafed and bombed
sky. Air Medal. March
Cpl. Edward Feinstein,
respondent.
*Pvt. Jerome Blumen-
1945
; Presidential
them as the men lay flat on the
Wounded in Europe.
feld, Prisoner in Ger-
Citation, March 1945.
Saw Plenty of Action
Pfc. Sidney Fershtman,
many.
ground, Benno, jumped up, grab-
Pfc.
William
Plotkin,
Wounded, Nov. 1944.
Pvt. Sidney Cohen,
Purple Heart, Nov.
Wrting from the Ryukyu Is- bed the divisional banner, and
Pvt. Harold Finegood,
Prisoner in Germany.
1944.
1 W
94o5u. nded, March 27,
lands, where "we've already seen while exposing himself to fire on
Cpl. Abraham Elson,
Capt. Raymond Ris-
Prisoner in Germany,
mann. Presidential
quite a bit of action, Benno tells all sides, kept waving it back
T/Cpl. Irving A. Fowler,
Dec. 11, 1944.
Unit Citation, Feb. -
Wounded in Europe.
of their taking the seven islands and forth until the planes dis-
Pvt. Sam Faigenbaum,
1945.
Pvt. Saul Freedman,
Prisoner in Germany.
Pfc.
Manuel Rott,
in the Kerama group and then covered their error and ceased.
Wounded in Germany,
Pfc. Lawrence Gorosh,
Ph. M. 2/c Harold Bobroff, 22,
Purple Heart.
March 23, 1945.
hitting Iye Shima. "EVerything
Prisoner
in
Germany.
2nd
Lt.
Marvin E.
who
was
wounded
by
He is a graduate of Central
a mortar
Robert H. Hirsch
*Pvt. William Kideckel,
Schlossberg, Air
looked good for the first few High and the son of Mr. and Mrs. shell on March 8, is back in ac- T/Cpl.
Wounded in European
Prisoner in Germany.
Medal;
April 1945.
Area. March, 1945.
hours after we landed," he re- Herman Levi of Delaware Ave.
*Pfc. Herman I. Radzin,
S/Sgt. Philip Schon-
tion in a Pacific island base hos- Pvt.
Morris M. Hoff,
Prisoner in Germany.
berger.
Purple- Heart.
lated. "I was sure that we would
pital.
Wounded in Europe.
Sgt. Sidney L. Singer,
Pfc. Jack S. Segel,
take the 10 square mile island in
S/Sgt. Irving Jaffee,
Prisoner in Germany.
Purple
Heart.
A Central High graduate, he
Wounded at St. Lo.
*Pfc. Barney Smilo,
Pvt. Henry W. Selig-
one day. I was wrong. In the
August, 1944; Wound-
Prisoner in Germany.
was inducted on May 5, 1943 and
man, Purple Heart.
afternoon we ran into Jap mines,
ed at Cologne, March,
Pvt. Raymond Yosco-
Pvt.
Walter Shapiro,
took his boot training at Great
1945.
vitz, Prisoner in Ger-
booby traps,' sniper, machine gun
Purple
Heart.
Sgt. Charles D. Koshar,
many, Dec. 6, 1944.
S/Sgt.
Philip Shlom,
Lakes.
He
was
and mortar fire. From then on
Wounded in Europe.
*Indicates previously
Air
Medal
with Oak
transferred t o Ensign Donald A. Mah-
reported missing.
until our flag was hoisted on the
Leaf Cluster.
ler, Wounded in Paci-
CORRECTIONS ON
San
Diego,
Cal.
T/Sgt.
Louis
G. Silver-
highest peak of the island, we
fic Area, Feb. 14. 1945.
CASUALTIES
stein. Purple Heart
NEW YORK (JPS) — Capt.
for a six-week S/Sgt. Ben Rosenberg.
*Pfc. Sanford Blau.
met hell!"
and
Oak
Leaf
Cluster,
Wounded in Germany.
Heorman Dicker, German-born
Freed by Allied arm y
training course Cpl.
March 31. 1945.
In a previous letter, Benno had rabbi ousted by the Nazis in
Meyer Siegel,
after 33 months in
Cpl.
Jacob
Solomon,
at
the
hospital
Wounded.
Japanese Prison Cam p
written how happy the natives 1938, and now a chaplain with
Bronze Star.
Isadore Silverman,
Bilibid.
corps men's Pfc.
(Complete Data)
on Guam and the Philippines the U. S. Fifth Infantry Division
Wounded in European
• Pvt. Jerome Blumen-
school. He re-
Area, March 18. 1945.
Pfc. Morton Solovich,
feld. Freed by Allied
were when the Americans came.
T/Sgt.
Louis
G.
Silver-
Presidential Citation.
which fought its way through
armies from German
ceived further
This time it was different, he Germany, has been awarded the
stein, Wounded Mar.
Prison Camp.
Pfc. Eric H. Steiner,
training a s an
25, 1945; Wounded
*Cpl. Jack Nelson,
says. "The first day of the op- Bronze Star for his frontline
Purple Heart, Jan.
March 26, 1945.
Freed by Allied army
Operating tech-
1945.
erations we met some of the Jap work with the men of his out-
Cpl. Jacob Solomon,
from Germany Prison
Pfc.
Arthur Weiss.
nician at the U.
Wounded in France,
Camp.
natives. They were scared and fit. Captain Dicker, whose pre-
Purple Heart, March
March 19, 1945.
Ph. M. Bobroff S. Naval Hospi-
*Indicates previously
1945.
many committed suicide. With
2nd Lt. Joseph Utchenik
listed as Prisoner of
2ncl' Lt. Robert N.
sent home is Brooklyn, was grad-
Wounded in Germany,
War.
the help of our interpreter we uated " from the University of tal, Memphis, Tenn. While there
Wienner, Air Medal,
April 3, 1945.
he
was
on
the
hospital
baseball
1944 ; Purple Heart,
did get most of them to come Berlin and the Hildesheimer
Awards
Pfc. Arthur Weiss,
1945.
and
basketball
team.
Wounded March, 1945.
(Incomplete Data)
with us. The little kids are the Seminary there. He enlisted in
Sidney Weiss,
1st Lt. Manuel Canter.
In July, 1944 he left for train- Sgt.
New Officers
first to lose all fear."
Wounded June 26,
Air Medal, 3, Oak Leaf
the U. S. Army as a private in ing at Camp Le Jeune, ,N. C. to
Clusters, Presidential
Capture Jap Officer
New
officers listed in
June, .1941, - and later was com- be attached to a marine unit. In 1944.
(Incomplete Data)
•Citation.
April for the first time.
Pfc. Fred Goodstein,
"Yesterday, we went out on a missioned a first lieutenant in August he was sent fioin the In- Pvt. Marvin A. Abrams,
(Incomplete
Data)
Wounded in Germany,
Purple Heart, Silver
Lt. Alex Block
patrol and brought in a haul of the Chaplain's Corps.
April 7, 1945.
Star.
fantry Training Center at Camp Pvt.
2nd
Lt.
Joseph
Braver
Sidney Aronovitz,
Sgt. Irving E. Pomish,
Ensign Peter Copeland,
Pendelton, Cal., to a Pacific base
Wounded in Germany,
Distinguished Unit
Lt.
Milton
Duchan
April 3. 1945.
Citation Badge.
hospital. He was with the 3rd Pfc.
Ensign William B.
Victor L. Baum,
Lt. Leonard Schwartz,
Gilles
Marine Division which invaded
Wounded in Europe.
Bronze Star.
1st
Lt. Florence P.
2nd Lt. Joseph Braver,
Capt. Arthur W. Semp-
Iwo Jima on Feb. 21.
Gould
Wounded in Europe.
liner. - Purple Heart.
Lt.
Nathan
Greenberg
Ph. M. 2/c Bobroff is the hus-- Cpl. Edward Chaifetz,
Pfc. Harvey E. Sibrack,
Lt. Herbert I. Lenter
Wounded in • Europe.
Bronze Star Medal.
Pvt. Fred Futterman, 19,.a one
F/O
Irving
Levine
band of the former Ethel Reznick Pvt.
Morris Einstein
(Complete Data)
Walter Salzberg, son of. Mr. who resides at 2641 Leslie,_ and
Capt. Alex Olenikoff
time refugee from Nazi tyranny;
Wounded.
*Sgt. Norman Adelman.
Capt. E. M. Rosenthal
Air Medal, Oak Leaf
was wounded on April 3, while and Mrs. A. Salzberg, 2746 Glen- the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Pvt. George Fecteau,
Jr.
Wounded.
•
Cluster.
Lt. Comdr. I. W. Ruskin
serving with a mortar section on dale, was commissioned an en- Bobroff,
Pvt. Arnold Greenbaum,
T/Cpl. Joseph Adler,
Lt. Leonard Schwartz
sign
pilot
in
the
Navy
at
Corpus
Wounded
in
Aachen,.
Purple
Heart,
Jan.
the U. S. 7th army front in Ger-
Lt. Herbert Seligman
Germany.
13, 1944,
Christi, Tex.
Lt. Leo Seligson
many.
Pfc. Morris H. Huler,
S/Sgt. Gerald J. Alt-
Sgt.
Shulman
Wounded
Capt. Arthur W.
,41110i
Wounded in Germany,
man, Ftesidential
A graduate of
Ens. Salzberg, a former student
Sempliner
March 15, 1945.
Citation, Jan., 1945.
Lt. Harold Tennenbaum
Futterman is the
at U. of D. and a graduate of Fighting in Germany
Pvt. Albert E. Lerner,
Pfc. Isadore Arnkoff,
2nd
Lt. Isadore
Wounded In Aachen.
foster son of Mr.
Purple Heart, Bronze
Cass Tech, enlisted in 'June 1943.
Warshaw
Pfc. Leon London.
Star.
3
Oak
Leaf
(Complete
Data)
and Mrs. Wil-
S/Sgt.
Harry
Shulman,
25,
in
He had been on the basketball
Wroeuan. ded in European
Clusters.
2nd Lt. Louis Jerome
service three years, was wound-
liam Rohlig, of
Area.
team while at Cass.
Cpl. Irwin Artman,
Elkind
Harry Milgrom,
Purple Heart.
2nd Lt. Henry Jerry
2470 Buena
Walter's hobby of building ed slightly in Germany, on April Sgt.
Injured in France.
T/Cpl. Ernest R. Baker,
Bodzin
Vista. He enter-
Purple- Heart, - Jan. 8,
model airplanes and sail boats 16, according to word received Pfc. Allen E. Rossman,
F/0 Sam Feinstein
Wounded
in
European
1945.
2nd Lt. Herbert Geller
ed service on
brought him the honor of win- by his family. He has been over-
Area.
Capt. Julian Becker,
2nd Lt. Daniel Ginsburg
Feb. 17, 1944,
Capt. Arthur W. Semp-
ning a boat race sponsored by the seas since Nov-
Air Medal, April 4.
F/O Gerson T. Lacoff
liner,
Wounded
in
1945 ; Three Oak Leafs
ember,
1944.
He::
2nd Lt. Morris Mersky
and took basic
Board of Education in 1938, with
New Guinea.
Pfc. Sanford J. Blau.
2nd
Lt. Leo Okum
training at Camp
Pfc. Morris. Singer,
his 50 inch sailboat. At U. of D., had served at
Purple Heart, Distin-
2nd Lt. Seymour E.
Wounded.
guished Unit Badge
Blanding, Fla.
Podolsky
Salzberg had majored m aero- Camp Polk,•,
2nd Lt. Isadore War-
with 2 Oak Leafs.
2nd Lt. Albert
Miss., Ft. Knox,
From there he
shaw, Wounded in -
nautical engineering. •
Pvt, Frank P. Blazof-
Rosenblum
Europe.
a
n
Area.
sky,
Purple
Heart.
Ky.,
and
-
Ft.
went to Ft. Ben- Pvt. Futterman
Ensign Warren
At the termination of his leave,
Pfc. Morris Weider.
2nd Lt. Henry J. Bod-
Shwayder
Shelby,
Miss.
ning, Ga. for specialized infantry which he is spending with his
Wounded In Pacific.
zin, Air Medal., March
Ensign Sanford
S/Sgt. Samuel Wein-
A graduate of
14, 1945.
training. He has been overseas parents and younger brother,
Warshowsky
stein, Wounded in
Pfc.
Leon
Brazner,
2nd Lt Milton Weiss
•Northern
High,
since January.
European Area.
Clarence, he will report at an air
Distinguished Unit
KILLED
IN
SERVICE
Supplementary List of
he is the son Of
Citation.
Pvt. Futterman possesses the base in Florida.
(Incomplete Data)
Promotiong—Names
T/Cpl, Irving Cohen,
Mr. and Mrs. J.
Combat Infantryman's badge. At
Allan Emery, Killed.
Already Reported
Purple Heart.
(Complete
Data)
Shulman
of
Pvt.
Joseph
Cohen,
1st
Lt. Morris Adler,
present he is recovering in Paris. Ph. M. 3/c Selik Becomes
Pvt. Julius Cohen, Kill-
Legion of Merit.
to Captain. -
1516 W. Chicago Sgt. Shulman
ed in plane crash in
*T/Sgt. Louis Cohen,
1st Lt. Jack B. Brenner,
Carps School Instructor
Mediterranean area,
Blvd. He was marired to the
Purple Heart, Jan.
-to Captain, April 1945
while en route to
1945.
1st Lt. Morris Cohl. to
former Beatrice Fox on. May. 11,
Palestine, Feb. 23,
Pvt. Sidney Feiner,
Captain, April 1945.
Ph. M. 3/c Martin Selik has 1944.
1945.
Purple Heart, April,
1st Lt. Marvin I. Dante,
Cpl. Milton S. Cohen,
1945.
to
Captain.
been detached from the Naval
A brother, David, is stationed
Killed in France,
Cpl. Edward Feinstein,
2nd Lt, Marvin M.
March 4. 1945.
Hospital in San Diego, and now at Camp Robinson, Ark.
Purple Heart, Presi-
Goldberg,
to 1st Lt.,
2nd Lt. Herbert Geller,
dential Citation.
March 1945.
is an instructor in the corps
Killed over England,
Capt. Martin Z. Feld-
2nd Lt. Dorothy
Dr. Nathaniel Sandler, chief of school. He is the son of J. I.
March 19, 1945.
stein, Bronze Star.
Goldsmith, -to 1st Lt.,
2nd Lt. Daniel Ginsburg
the Neuro-psychiatric section of Selik Of 14th St. and the son-in- T-4 Helfman Teacher of
Pfc, Sidney Fershtman,
April 1944.
Killed on Iwo Jima,
Purple Heart, Nov.
2nd Lt. Morris Harelik,
the 121st General Hospital in law of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ten- History at Sheridan
March 8, 1945.
1944.
to 1st Lt., April 1945.
Pfc. Herman It Hard-
England, was promoted to Major enberg of 19352 Roselawn. His
Cpl. Charles Finkel-
Lt. (J.G.) Ralph
'
stein,
Killed
in
Euro-'
stein,
Air
Medal,
Feb.
'
Helper,
to Lt. (S.G.).
on April 23. He has been over- brother, Norman is in Hawaii
T/4 Harold Hellman; son of
pears. Area, March 6,
26 , 1945.
2nd Lt. Samuel Kaner,
seas 17 months.
Cpl. Isadore Friedman,
and Bob is stationed in Europe.
the Benjamin Helfmans of 3830 1/c 1945.
to
1st
Lt
MF Paul H. Levine.
Presidential Citation,
Ensign Nathan H.
Maj: Sandler, whose offices
Fullerton, is giving a course in
Killed in Pacific.
Sept. 8, 1944:
Koval, to Lt. (J.G.),
Pfc.
Robert Rafelson,
were formerly in the Eaton Tow-
Cpl. Mordecai Gross-
THE MARINE CORPS high school American history at
March 1945.
Killed
in
Germany,
man,
Purple
Heart.,
2nd
Lt. Norman M.
er, is a Reserve Officer and has WOMEN'S RESERVE has been Ft. Sheridan. This is in accord-
March 13. 1945.
S/Sgt, Robert Gurwitz,
Pliscou, to 1st Lt.,
been in the army for three and reopened for enlistment. It is ance with the GI Bill of Rights Pvt. Jack Sernansky,
Air Medal, March
April 1: 45.
19
.
Killed in 'Germany,
1945; Oak Leaf Clus- • Ensign •'Gilbert J. Roth,
one half years, having been sta- of vital importance to the war provision which makes it possible
March 15, 1945.
ter, April 1945.
to Lt. (J.G.).
tioned at O'Reilly General Hos- effort to help the Marine Corps for those lacking credits to com- Sgt. Mortan A. Silver-
*Indicates previously
Lt. (J.G.) Harry P.
man, Killed in Ger-
•
reported.
Serwin, to Lt. (S.G.),
pital prior to being sent over : maintain the efficiency of the plete their education and earn
many, Sept. 14. 1944.
(Complete Data)
April 1, 1945.
seas. .
Corps and more women are need- their diplomas. He is a former Cpl. Lewis A. Simon,
T/Cpl. Robert H.
2nd Lt. Martin M.
Killed in Germany,
Hirsch, Purple Heart,
Slakter, to 1st Lt.
His wife, Jean and daughter, ed to take over jobs in the high school history teacher and
Feb. 20, 1945.
March, 1945.
Ensign Sara M. Slutsky,
Dorothy Louise, 21/2, reside at States and in Hawaii so that men teaching assistant at the Uni- Pfc. Robert P. Weis-
Pvt. Morris M, Hoff,
to Lt. (J.G.). -
man, Killed in Ger-
Purple Heart, April
2477 Taylor.
Ensign Sidney A. Verier,
can be released for combat,
versity of Michigan.
many, March 20, 1945.
1945.

Latest Record Through April

Ph. M. 2-c Bobroff
Recovers, Returns
To Duty in Pacific

Refugee Chaplain
Gets Bronze Star

Refugee Is Wounded
On Return to Reich

Ens. Salzberg Visits
Parents on Leave

.

.

Dr: Sandler Given
Promotion to Major

,

to Lt. (J,G.).