Friday, August 17, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Maj. H. Sommer, Who Defied Nazis, Returns to Vienna He and His Wife Survived Humiliations at Theresienstadt; Cardinal Innitzer Says Nazis in Vienna Behaved Like 'Wild Beasts' Toward Jews BY LANDRUM BOLLING - ,(Jewish Telegraphic Agency War Correspondent) VIENNA, (JTA)—Major • Gen. von Sommer, a famous Jewish general of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, who for long was believed to have been executed by the Nazis, has reappeared in Vienna where he returned with his wife from the former concentration camp at Theresiendstadt, Czchoslovakia. Get $70 for JNF At Woodhull Lake The sum of $70 was contribut- ed fo the Jewish National Fund for land redemption in Palestine by a group of people who met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ainbinder. at Woodhulr Lake. The appeal was made by Isidore S o snick, presi- dent of the Tur- over Aid Society a n d vice-presi- dent of Detroit Mizarchi. P a r t i cipants I. Sosnick: who assisted in the appeal in- cluded in addition to Mr. Sos- nick and Mrs. Ainbinder, Rabbi Wohlgelernter, Dr. Mandel- baum, Sam Katzman,. Morris Berris, Mr. Zimmerman, Mr. Bloom, Mr. Sandler, Mr. Shapiro, A. Cohen, Mr. Zitzman, Mr. Wil- ner, Mr. Davison, Mr. Glickman, Mr. Levin and Mr. Sucenick. (Gen. Von Sommer, a, few days after the Anschluss, on March 12, 1938, created something of a world sensation by the course of action he took when Nazi storm troopers called at his home and ordered him to report immedi- ately for compulsory street cleaning work. Asking permis- Prof. E. Waugh Directs sion to change his clothes, he Center's B. & P. Group appeafed in a few minutes • in The Business and Professional his full general's uniform, wear- Discussion Group of the Jewish ing all of his medals, and an- Community Center, which has nounced he was then ready to been meeting re g ularly on Wed- wield shovel and broom. ' The nesday evenings throughout the party of storm troopers, shamed summer, will meet next Wed- and apparently unwilling to de- at 9 p. m., in the Center grade the general's uniform nesday- outdoor court All are invited. saluted and retired.) Prof. Edward Waugh of the Still vigwous at the age of 75, Gen. Von Sommer has apparent- U. of M. Extension Service has ly largely . recovered from -- the been leading the group during Agency Working to Convert effects of his confinement. Both the summer. His net 'subject Unit Into a Nucleus for U and he and his wife told the J.T.A. will be "The Soviet Union its Foreign Policy". Permanent Guard correspondent they hopefully * * * anticipate an opportunity event- ually to migrate to the United Dr. Barnett Will Speak L 0 N D 0 N, (JTA)—Negotia- States to join their daughter, At Center on Wednesday tions to convert•' the Jewish Mrs. Ellen Fryer, of Middle- Dr. Morton Barnett will be Brigade into a nucleus for a borough, Mass., where her hus- the speaker at a discussion next permanent Jewish garrison. in band is a physician of Lakeville Wednesday evening, at 8:30 palestine are now under way by State Sanatorium. A son is a o'clock, in the Conference Room the Jewish Agency, it was re:- physician in the French Congo. of the Jewish Community Cen- vealed by Moshe Shertok, head . Like all survivors . of that ter. He will discuss problems of the Agency's political depart- camp;- Gen.- Von Sommer and related to present-day living, ad- ment, addressing the World his wife recall with vivid emo- justments to homecoming serv- Zionist Conference; tion the horrors of their experi- icemen, and difficulties encoun- Greeting the Conference in be- ences there. "We don't know tered by women in a changing half of the Jewish Brigade, Sgt. how we escaped death," his wife world. Feinstein stated that the Jewish said. "We would be among Dr. Barnett is on the psychia- order of the day . must 'be • "All tho-se selected to be sent to the Jews Out of Europe." He said gas chambers in Poland, and tric staff of Receiving Hospital that members of the Brigade not and on the teaching staff of then there would be :a change. in only gaye of their own financial plans. That was.. a miracle that Wayne University's Medical resources - to. help the liberated School. He was resident physi- happened again- and again." Jews, but stimulated theni spirit- clan of Receiving Hospital. , Cardinal Innitzer Says Nazis ually. In a number Of liberated Beh-aved Like •"Wild Beasts" All young women of the cam-, towns, Jews came out with blue- Theodore Cardinal Innitzer, munity are invited to attend. white flags to greet the units Archbishop of. Vienna who; dur- There is no admission charge. of the Jewish Brigade, he stated. ing the Nazi regime,.. was kept 410 * * * Sgt. Grabowski, another mem- under close - surveillance, describ- "Starlight Dancing" At ber of the Brigade, told the ed to the J.T.A. correspondent Center This Saturday conference that the Brigade pro- the German . treatment. of Jews The adult party committee posed to take to-Palestine the as "the most fiendish phase of will present "Starlight Dancing" remains. of Dr. Theodore Herzl, Nazi barbarism." "It was as wild beasts that the at the Jewish Community Cen- father of political Zionism, who Nazis- behaved toward the Jews," ter outdoor court, this Saturday, is buried in Vienna. He de- he said. "And that was suppos- at 9:30 p. m. Joe Stark and his scribed how the Jewish Brigade ed to have been the finest flow- Continental Orchestra will fur- entered Rome on the day when ering of German culture. Those nish the muisc. Refreshments the conversion to Catholicism of. who have not actually seen their will be served. There will be Dr. Israel Zolli, chief rabbi of deeds of horror find them im- dancing will be until 12:30 o'clock. Rome was announced. Plans for the affair were made possible to believe. - During all The Brigade, Sgt. Grabowski these years I 'have been confined by' the following members 'of the reported, lost no war prisoners committee: Bee Bortman; Bernice to my home under Gestapo and Ruth Friedland, Ethel Ra- to the Germans in their fight guard. Nevertheless, Jews were vine, Harry Sternberg, Sylvia on the Italian front. There are smuggled in to see me. - They 43 graves of fallen members of Weiss and Sol Wickstrom. told me first hand of their. prob- the Jewish Brigade at the Bol-, lems and together we arranged zano cemetery, and many other . such relief as was - possible under Convict 2 Palestinians graves elsewhere, he said. the circumstances. For Possessing Grenades "For example," he continued, EXHIBIT PALESTINE BOOKS "we established a welfare ser- JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Two AT RELIGIOUS INSTITUTE vice which sent hundred's of food packages monthly to the Jewish youths, Moshe Salomon Theresie nstadt concentration and Joshuah, Mizrachi, were NEW YORK—The exhibit of camp. The Nazis tried to break sentenced by a military court to Hebrew books, printed in Pales- 15. to 17 years imprisonment, this up, but the joint work r of tine during the war years, at Jews and Catholics Continued: respectively, on the charge of the Jewish Institute of Religion, possessing 25 hand grenades. Unfortunately, they were all 40 W. 68th St., will be extended too few and those who worked The verdict must be confirmed until Sept. 1. by higher miltiary authorities. with me on the project. were Salomon said that it was use- Included in the exhibit are seized by the .Gestapo. Thank less for any Jew to defend him- a series of rare letters and docu- God, that the reign of terror has ended, though you can still see self against the police charges, ments which depict the strug- the marks of what we have ex- since the court would convict gles of Jews in the ghettoes of perienced here," he concluded. him under any circumstances. Europe during the past decade He attacked the Palestine. Police and the part they played in "for suspecting and hunting underground resistance move- Jewish youth." ments. Jewish Center Activities - Jewish Brigade As Garrison in Palestine Asked • , . . Lesser's Planning Labor Day Program ,- Announcement is made by Les- Sees Clovers Lodge, located on Grand Traverse Bay,. Omena, Mich., that a special • celebration is being planned for the Labor Day week-end, with Max Brodyn and Zelda Zlatin in charge. Every Friday night, special programs are conducted at - Les- ser's Clover Lodge, and g u e's t artists are frequently featured on programs. A limited number of reserva- tions are still being accepted from those desiring to spend their va- cations at Lesser's Clover Lodge. I. KNOPPOW PAINT STORE Wholesale and Retail QUALITY PAINTS and PAINTER SUPPLIES — For Sale and For Rent — PAINT SPRAYERS - WALLPAPER REMOVERS - SANDERS 15019 LIVERNOIS UN. 2-8088 e",/. 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This meeting, which was ar- described as being a vast Oeme- ranged by the Detroit Chapter tery, none having been .spared: of the Federation of Polish Jews, He joined with M. Topiol in was presided over by Morris paying tribute to the Zionist Mohr, chairman of the Detroit and other Jewish groups who organization. Harry Kaminer ap- fought under the Jewish flag peared on the program and made and made sacrifices of an heroic an appeal for funds for the nature in order to demonstrate support of 'Jewish children in that they would rather die than France by the French Federa- submit to Nazism. tion 'of Polish Jews. - Work of Jewish Maquis Irving Berlin confides that he M. Topiol's • address was de- will direct his talents toward voted to a description of the Broadway again after: the 'com- heroism of the Jews in France. pletion of his "Blue Skies" at He told numerous.' stories of Paramount. He has finished a bravery by JewS as individuals stage revue which he will take back to New York with him in and acting, as groups.. He- related how a Jewkh girl September. single-handedly rescued • 34 Jew 7 ish children by smuggling them' into safe territories before she was captured and put to death —knowing all along that her life was doothed. M. Topiol also related how a Jewish *detachment- of Maquis, fighting under the Jewish flag, captured a town and turned it All Winter Items! over to the American troops. Praises Palestine Jews SUITS . He especially expressed grati- DRESSES tude to the . Jews Of Palestine COATS for , their magnificent gifts to BLANKETS the underground.. He pointed • out DRAPES that the Jews of Palestine gave Pay Next Fall When More money to the underground You Take Them Out fighters against Nazism than was contributed by all the Jews of France to the. Jewish ; National Fund in 20 - years. 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