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THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Young Jewish War Vet, 17, in Navy
A Year, Becomes Member of "WV

Pfc. Weiss Speaks
Hungarian, Amazes
Dachau Internees

Stand and• Marvel at Ability
of American Soldier to
Talk Their Language

Benjamin Seidman, who . will
be 17 this September, receives
Jewish War Veteran Certificate
of membership from National
Commander Archie H. Greenberg
as Louis •0bolsky, his post com-
mander, proudly looks on. Be-
lieved to be the youngest mem-
ber of the JWV, Seidman en-
listed in the Navy on Sept. 4,
1943, two days after his 15th
birthday. •
Young Seidman saw action
aboard an English gunboat dur-

ing the Normandy invasion, and
was with the Allied land forces
in France during the battles at
St. Lo and Cherbourg.
• He was honorably discharged
from the Navy with the rank of
Seaman Second Class on Nov. 6,
1944, after more than a year in
service, when his sister revealed
his true age to his commanding
officer. Enlisting under the name
of Jerry Bernhardt, the young
veteran was trained at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station.

Lt. Ross in Tears
As He Sees Young
Victims of Nazis

Beth El Sells
1,218,075 in
7th War Loan

War over for Some, He Says,
But Jewish Life Is as
'Perilous as Ever'

All Jewish servicemen. • who
have come face to face with the
results of Nazi bestiality are
touched to the core, but those
servicemen who have spent their
years of youth in Zionist move-
ments, feel - the tragedy of the
victims of the Germans as al-
most a personal tragedy.
- Lt. Alex Ross,„
a n Hashomer •
Hatzair leader
in Detroit • for
many years,
pens his reac-
tions in a letter
to his parents.
"Friday morn-
ing I spent a
few hours in
t h e Hechalutz
office. There
Lt. Ross
was a steady
stream of Jewish boys and girls
coming into the office. They
were recently all returned from
German concentration camps .. .
The stories I heard made me
shudder. There wasn't one who
had not lost all or part of his
family. Now they were home-
less, penniless, no one caring for
or about them. Some had been
Zionists, others had not. But all
wanted to go to Palestine. There
they felt they would have a
chance to live again. Hechalutz
is doing its best, but what can
one do when England closes the
gates and says "You shall not

enter."

"Are there tears in your eyes
as you read this, my parents?
can see them now for in my eyes
there are tears, too, and I am
young and hardened. Tears of
pity, tears of rage, tears of sor-
row are mixed.
"On the train I made friends
with a little French boy . . . Of
course, he was impressed with
my uniform and asked me about
whether I had been to Germany
and killed Germans . . . Then he
asked me if the war was over
and I had to answer "for you
the war is over but not for me."
I had in mind not only the Pa-
cific war but the struggle which
as Jews we must everlastingly
carry on, for now I have seen
that even though nazism is
crushed the Jewish position is as
insecure and Jewish life as
perilous as eVer."
Lt. Ross is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. Ross of 4211 Tuxedo
Ave. A brother, Perry, is serv-
ing with the Air Corps.

The effort which Mrs. Caroline
Weiss, of 4095 Clements expend-
ed in teaching her son, Pfc.
Arthur Weiss, Hungarian has not
gone to waste, his letters testify.
When visiting concentration
camps in which there were many
Hungarian Jewish internees, he
amazed thern with. his knowledge
of the language.
Pfc. Arthur writes: "Have been
spending quite a bit of time at
"ye olde concentration camp Dac-
hau," lately and by now I've
heard so many
tales about life
in a concentra-
tion camp that
I think I will
write a book on
the subject.
"The other
day I was in the
woman's section
of camp and I
ran across great
numbers of Hun-
Pfc. Weiss
garian Jewesses.

He Amazes The m
"It is really something to see

how surprised they are when I
begin speaking Magyar to them.
They just stand there and marvel
at the fact that an American
soldier can speak such good Hun-
garian.
"They are practically all young
girls in their twenties, and when
I look at them and listen to their
stories, I thank God that you
came to America when you did.
All these Jewish girls are like
the hundreds walking up and
down Dexter, and their only
crime was that they were Jewish
and unlucky enough to be born
in Europe . . . Every Jew in the
U. S. should get down on his
knees every day and thank God
that he is an American . . .

Friday, June 22, 1945

Pvt. Monheit Home;
Liberated on May 30

Pvt. Max Monheit, 20 son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Monheit, 15530
Normandy, who was liberated
from Stalag 2A
in Germany, on
May 3, has re-
turned home for
a 60-day fur-
lough. He was
with the 95th
Infantry D i v-
ision of the 3rd
Arniy when he
was captured
near Metz, last
Nov. 14.
Pvt. Monheit
In service since September,
1943, he had been overseas since
August.
A brother Cpl. Roubon R., has
served with the tank corps in -
Italy.
Pvt. Monheit will report to
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., at the
termination of his furlough.

Pvt. Bert Cohen Ends
Specialized Training

Pvt. Bertram Cohen, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Cohen of 2247
Taylor, has been graduated from
the Curtiss Technical Training
School at Buffalo, N. Y. He has
received specialized training in
the repair and maintenance of
the C-46 commando cargo plane.
This training, plus his previous
schooling at Amarillo, Tex., and
at Sioux Falls, S. D., qualifies
him as a skilled technician on
the C-46, the B-17, B-29 and
C-47's. His next assignment is
at George Feld, Lawrenceville,
Ill., where he will receive crew
chief training and aerial engi-
neering.
A brother, Sgt. Martin, is at
the Dibble General Hospital in
Menlo -Park, Calif., and a
brother-in-law, Capt. Harry L.
Friedman, is stationed in Italy.

Leonard N. Simons and
Samuel Rands, co-chairmen
of the Temple Beth El 7th
War Loan Committee, re-
port sales of $1,218,075 in war
Forage For Food •
Among the birthdays occur-
bonds as of noon Monday,
"All of them' are still hungry ring in July are the following:
June 18. This sets another
Mrs. Robert J. Newman, July
high record for Beth El in. and they wander around hunting
for food. Yesterday a couple of 4; Mrs. Herschel 'V. Kreger,
bond sales.

guys came up to me while I was
on guard and began to ask me
Capt. Rom Returns
in sign language if T knew where
to get something to eat . . . They
For 30-Day Leave
turned out to be Hungarian Jews.
"You should have seen how
Capt. Jack Rom has just re-
turned from Italy for a 30 - - day happy they were when I began
speaking Hungarian to them, and
leave which he is spending with when I told them that I, too, am
his wife, Thelina, and their Jewish, they acted as if meeting
daughter, Rosalind Joan, who are me was the greatest thing that
residing temporarily with Mrs. ever happened to them."
Pfc. Weiss, 20, entered the
Rom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
army in August, 1943, after being
A. Meyer of 87 S. Parke, Pontiac. graduated from Central High the
Capt. Rorri had
previous June; he has been over-
'b e e n overseas
seas since September.
26 months, hav-
His brother, Sgt. Harold, also is
ing served as a
serving in Europe.
medical officer
with a field ar-
Additional Servicemen's News
tillery battalion
on Pages 20, 24
with the 88th
division. He en-
tered service in
July, 1942 and
went overseas
April, 1943 with
Capt. Rom.
the 80th Station Hospital and
remained in North Africa until
last September.
Capt. Rom's mother resides at
3248 Sturtevant.

Mothers' Clubs' Patriotic
Social Rally Wednesday

CLEANED

The annual patriotic rally and
social of the Council of Mothers'
Clubs will be held next Wednes-
day, at the Jewish Community
Center, Woodward at Holbrook,
at 8:30 p. m.
Representatives from the fol-
lowing organizations will parti-
cipate: War Chest, Civic Protec-
tion Agencies, USO, Serve-A-
Camp Project, Pioneer Women,
Roosevelt Memorial.
This occasion will depict the
war effort activities of the Coun-
cil of Mothers' Clubs.
The Young Women's Study
Club will present a pageant en-
titled "Jewish Women Through-
out The Ages".
Fenkell Mothers' Club will
meet Tuesday afternoon, at 1:30
p. m. at the home of Mrs. Helen
Firestone, 15729 Princeton, for a

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July Birthdays

GUAM, (JTA) — Soldiers of
Jewish faith at the Army Air
Force depot here were present-
ed with an Ark holding the Holy
Torah in a ceremony 'which sym-
bolized the inter-faith coopera-
tion in the armed forces.
The Ark was constructed by.
personnel of the depot who, with
one exception, were non-Jewish
Sgt. Thomas Filip of Detroit, su-
pervisor of the work, did not
fully un.derstand.the significance
of the "Aron Kodesh;" • S/Sgt.
Theodore Salzberg of St. Paul
and Sgt. Harold. ThOmpson of
Coleman, Mich., admitted they
had never seen a Hebrew ser-
vice; yet all contributed to the
construction of the sacred symbol
with skill and enthusiasm.
Presentation of the skillfully
painted, curtained Ark, contain-
ing an elaborate wood carving
of the Ten Commandments tab-
let, was made by Col. 0. F. Carl-
son, commanding officer of the
AAF Guam Air Depot. In a
presentation speech, Col. Carlson
pointed out that the ceremony
symbolized "one of the very basic
ideals for which all the Allies are
fighting."

NEW YORK (JPS)—The New
York Post in an editorial here
condemned as a "deplorable
practice" the application , by
Columbia University Graduate
Schools, of quotas against
Negroes and Jews and invited
comment from Columbia Uni-
versity students, faculty and
alumni.

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