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Zionist, Allied Flags Wave Adler will Conduct 'Rusalka'
Over Dachau Watchtower At the Masonicf Temple May 27
Detroit Friends of Opera ticket
Americans Facing Hard Job Cleaning Out Horrible Con-
committee, headed by Mrs. H.
ditions Left by Germans; Chief Rabbi of Berlin Found
Glenn Shutes, reports a steadily
Alive at Terezin; 100 Jews Survive in Prague
DACHAU, Germany (JTA)—The Blue-and-White Zion-
ist flag is flying from the watchtower of this former dread
concentration camp, alongside the banners of the. United
Nations, a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent found
upon his. arrival to observe how the Jewish survivors were
faring-15 days after their liberation by U. S. troops.
The Americans are facing
heavy odds in cleaning up the
horrible conditions that the Ger-
mans left here. However, 1,000
of the 2,539 Jews h.ave been hos-
pitalized and Dr. • Benjamin
Zacharin, Kaunas surgeon who is
working in the camp hospital,
told the correspondent that most
of them- will survive.
All of the inmates, Jews and
non-Jews, are eager to leave the
camp,. 'but that will not be pos-
sible for some time as there' are
500 cases of typhus fever here.
Chief Rabbi of Berlin
Found Safe at Terezin
PRAGUE, - (JTA) — Approxi-
mately 100 Jews remain in this
city, which had a pre-War Jewish
population of 60;000, • a Jewish
Telegraphic Agency correspond-
ent was told by a young Czech
Jewish cameraman while the lat-
ter was photographing the debris
left by the last-minute battle be-
tween Czech patridts and the
Germans.
When the correspondent asked
the photographer, Franticek Her-
man, -whether there were any
Jews left in this capital, he
smilingly .said:" Shalom, Sha-
lom." He had been hidirig the
fact that he was a Jew all dur-
ing the German occupation, and
this was the first time he had
admitted it openly.
During a visit to -Theresien-
stadt, '(Terezin), the correspond-
ent found among the survivors,
Chief Rabbi Leo Baeck of Ber-
lin, who was deported from Ger-
many in 1943. Dr. Baeck is safe
and well.
The Prague radio announced
this week that the ghetto. in
Theresienstadt through which
90,000 Jews passed is being liqui-
dated with the assistance of the
medical branch of the health sec-
tion of the 'Czechoslovak Na-
tional Council.
Russian War Relief
Drive to Culminate
At Banquet Sunday
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U. S. GI's Mark V-E Day
In CzEch Synagogue
WITH THE U. S. 4TH ARM-
ORED DIVISION, in Czechoslov-
kia, (JTA)—V-E • Day services
were held in one of the few re-
maining synagogues in Europe,
in the town of Horasdevice, -by
Capt. Emanuel Schenk of New
York. Rabbi Schenk, who holds
a Bronze Star for gallantry,
found in the rear of an obscure
courtyard an undamaged, attrac-
tive synagogue which once serv-
ed the 50 Jewish families who
lived here.
Of these fifty families, one
survivor remains, Jacob Levy, a
former butcher who has three
children living in Chicago, He
was not deported during the
German occupation because he
was married to a non-Jew.
Czechs cleaned up the syna-
gogue, and then watched as
Chaplain Schenk rededicated the
edifice in the presence of a con-
gregation consisting of American
Jewish soldiers grouped around
Horasdevice's last Jew.
Milan Mayor Issues Decree
Annuling 'Anti-Jewish Laws
MILAN, (JTA) — The anti-
Jewish laws introduced here by
the Mussolini regime in 1938
were annulled in a decree issued
by the mayor of this city. The
order said that all anti-Semitic
measures would. be considered
null and void pending general
regulations by the government
"to restore normal relations be-
tween citizens by implementing
social equality."
of the Police and Security De
partment. The "yellow cards"
were issued to permanent non
Belgian residents and automati-
cally were renewed for succes-
sive two-year periods.
The situation of German Jews
now in Belgium has improved
in recent weekt. • It hat been an-
nounced that their identification
cards shortly will. be stamped
With the words "Non-Enemy,"
thus absolving• them- from report-
ing every month to the -police.
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The Russian War Relief Drive
will culminate with a banquet
this. Sunday evening. This cam-
paign which was conducted by
the Jewish Committee of the
RWR began with a- conferenCe in
January for the purpose of unit-
ing all elethents of Jewry in this
great effort.
Seventy five organizations sent
delegates. Religious organizations,
family clubs, fraternal groups,
trade unions and folk vereins
were represented:
The committee has carried
through two projects. The first
was the clothing • drive _which
realized an = excess of 150,000
pounds of clothing, and the sec-
ond was the shipment of a car-
load of food to Russia.
The food campaign which is
still in progress will terminate
with the banquet honoring Aaron
Rosenberg; who served as the
'president of the ComMittee for
three years preceding the con:-
ference.
Detroiters to Attend
Parley of Polish Jews
At • Chicago Sunday
A delegation composed of
Morris Mohr, president, and I.
Mellin, J. Kahan, - C. Loberman,
Morris Lesser 'and Philip Imber
is going- to Chicago, to attend
the Mid-western conference of
The American Federation. of
Polish, Jews at the Sherman
Hotel, SUnday, May 20.
The conference is being called
by the Chicago District in con-
nection with the coming Wo,rld
Conference of Federations for
Polish Jews to be held in New
York, May 26 to June 2.
Dr. Joseph Tenebaum, nation-
al president of the American
Federation for Polish- Jews, will
•address the Chicago Conference.
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increasing advance sale for
Anton Dvorak's fairy tale opera
"Rusalka-," to be presented Sun-
'clay evening, May' 27, • at 8:30
o'clock in the Scottish Rite Ca-
thedral of Masonic Temple.,
From New. York City have
come two distinguished artists,
who are already at work on the,
production. Herman Adler, who
Will conduct "Rusalka," is musi-
cal - 'conductor of the Columbia
Concerts Opera Co. Richard
Richtarik, stage designer for the
Metropolitan Opera Co. in New
York (also for the City Center of
Music and Drama . there) is de-
signer and stage director for
"Rusalka." , •
Adler was a musical prodigy
who began playing the violin at
the age of five. When at 10 he
gale - a sonata recital in public,
his father—frankly alarMed at
such precocity—forbade hind to
make a career of his music: But
he studied secretly and later,
when sent to Prague by his par
ents to study law, he managed to
take lessons on the side in cotht-
erpoint and composition with the
noted composer Novak. .
Finally he• openly -gave. up hiS
law studies and entered Prague
Conservatory. •A long series of
successes brought him to this
country, where in 1940 he made
his American debut—conducting
the New York Philharmonic
Symphony in a Concept for Czech
relief.
$65,000 Bond Drive
Elects Officers; Plans
$6,500 Bond Drive
Youth Education League ham
elected the . following officers;
president, Mrs. James V. brown;
Mrs. J. Rosen and Mrs. S. Kalt,
vice presidents; Mrs. L. Mann,
recording secretary; Mrs. D. Pur-
ther, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. B. -Gelman, treasurer; Mrs.
A. Kane, financial secretary; Mrs.
C. Goldman, publicity; Mrs. J.
Edelstein,- Mrs. Harold Briskman,
memorial fund; Mrs. P. Olender,
case chairman and Mrs. A. Camp-.
bell. •
Mrs. Eli Gross was appointed
chairman of 'the 7th War Loan
Drive. The quota . has been set
at $65,000. A' check for•$500 was
sent to the Tuberculosis Wing of
the Rothchild Hospital in pales-
tine. -
Mrs. L. Fried is chairman of the
installation affair to be held in
June. •
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_ HERMAN ADLER
Fred A. Ginsburg, Mr. and Mrs.
James L.- Stein; Mr. and Mrs.
David Wilkus,. Mr. and , Mrs.
Henry Wineman and Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Wollner.
When in the spring of 1944,
-Columbia Concerts organized its
own _concert company Adler was
chosen as director. Iie
believes that during the last
decade, America has taken over
the cultural functions formerly
centered. in Europe and that a
tremendous musical renaissance
will spring from this country.
Boxholders, for the opera in
elude Mr. and Mrs. H. C.-Broder;
Fred M. Butzel, Mr. and Mrs.
Abraham Cooper, Mr. and Mrs:
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'M' Hillel Oneg Shabbat
Will Mark Shevuoth
The Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation, University of Michigan,
will hold an Oneg Shabbat serv-
ice this evening in celebration
of Shevuoth.
The services will be sponsored
by the student Zionist organiza-
tion, Avukah.' Beth Laikin, of
Detroit, president of Avukah will
address the audienCe.
The * State Department of
The Jewish War Veterans
of the United Statei
Announces the •
Availability of a
Belgium to Repatriate
HALL --
All Alien Deportees
For your parties, dances,
BRUSSELS,
(JTA)-Belgian
affairs, banquets. Facili-
repatriation authorities are au-
ties for every purpose.
Spacious quarters newly ,
thorized to bring back to this
renovated and furnished.
country all deportees who held
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"yellow" foreign identification
Abington Theater Bldg.
cards valid on May 10, 1940, the
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency was
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1. Who is Jean Borotra?
2. Who is General Weygand'
3. Who was Konrad Henlein?
4. Where is Honshu?
5. Who is Col. Matt Winn?
Answers in Sunday's Detroit News, page 2; Also Monday's Magazine
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