Friday, May 18, 1 945 THE . . JEWISH NEWS Page Nine rt 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 , • 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. , 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. , 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. • Does Your Business Need Additional Capital? s _ 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: We Loan on- Machinery — Equip- ment — Chattel Mortgages — Con- tracts—Notes._ Prompt, Confidential Service Commercial Acceptance Corp. • - Henry Jassy, Pres. 614 Fox Bldg. Have You Met Your 7th War Loan Buying Quta • Contributed By The Makers of R. G. DUNN CIGARS Buy War Bonds! / / / • f . % • • / / / '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 •8212 TWELFTH "yellow" foreign identification Abington Theater Bldg. cards valid on May 10, 1940, the TR. 1-8899 TO. 8-1048 Jewish Telegraphic Agency was TO. 5-2692 told by Chief Inspector Qoffin 1111=11111111 ■ 11111 ■ 11111111•11•11111=1 • 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 The Detroit News THE HOME NEWSPAPER , , CA. 6472 For Home Delivery, Call RAndolph 2000