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JWB Arranges Hospitality
For GIs During Holy Days

AI Jewish Servicemen Assured Places to Stay and Worship
During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; Needs
Throughout State Being Checked

THE JEWISH NEWS

-Friday, August 24, 1945

Capt. Bob Kuhn Yvonne Adopted by GIs
on Mercy Missions $5,000 Raised for Support
Over Netherlands Of Belgian Jewish Orphan

Detroiter Home on 30-Day Sgt. David H. Sachs Writes About I I -Year-Old Girl Who
Is Visiting Her 'Adopted Brothers'; Her Parents
Leave After More Than
Perished in a Concentration Camp
Two Years Overseas

Detroit Army and Navy Committee of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board announces that plans are now being made to
After more than two years of
assure hospitality for all servicemen during the Holy Days.
overseas
duty, Capt. Robert
Under the leadership of Samuel H. Rubiner, chairman of
M. C., son of Mr. and Mrs.
the Detroit JWB Committee, and Fred M. Butzel, chairman Kuhn,
Max L. Kuhn of 11 Moss Ave.,
of the State JWB Committee, it is planned to provide
is home on a

facilities for servicemen to wor-
ship in local and state commun-
ities' synagogues on Rosh Hash-
anah and Yom Kippur and to
have home hospitality for them
on those days.
Detroit families already have
begun to indicate their readiness
to have service men and women

30 - day leave.
those who will be free to come
Capt. Kuhn, a
here.
Flight Surgeon
At Ann Arbor and Lansing,
with the 385th
plans are being carried out at
Bombardment
the local Hine]. Foundation for
Group, wears
men attending the various train-
the presidential
ing courses at the colleges. At
citation and six
hospitals and guardhouses, men
battle stars.
will be contacted by chaplains
Serving in Eng-
through the Detroit committee to
land, Czechoslo-
provide for their needs.
Capt. Kuhn vakia and Ger-
The State Religious Commit- many, he flew on many combat
tee of the JWB, headed by Dr. missions.
B. Benedict Glazer, of Temple
He participated in "mercy mis-
Beth El, has been in close con-
tact with Army camps through- sions" when food supplies were
out Michigan in regard to the re- dropped to the starving people
SGT. BILL MILLER, YVONNE SYTNER, SGT. D. H. SACHS
ligious program that is being of the Netherlands, and rendered
medical assistance on the con-
carried out.
Sgt. David H. Sachs, who was Sytner, who was taken from a
tinent during the air evacuation
Survey Army Camps
of former German prisoners back popular here in sports circles and Brussels orphan home.
in sponsoring basketball teams
Samuel Kurzon, Detroit area to their homelands.
"As you can see," Sgt. Sachs
director for the USO and Na-
with his brother, Philip "Cincy"
Capt Kuhn, a graduate of the Sachs, writes thrillingly from writes, "Yv-Onne is a little doll.
tional JWB, is making a survey
at the present time of the Mili- University of Michigan Medical Florennes (near Brussels), Bel- At present she is spending a
tary bases in. the state and in College, went into service in 1942. gium, regarding his group's adop- month here visiting all her adopt 7
the Detroit area to determine the
tion of an 11-year-old Jewish ed brothers. She appears in the
picture in an army uniform we
number of men who will remain
girl—Yvonne Sytner.
here for the-holiday.
Sgt. Sachs and a buddy, Sgt had tailored for her. Both her
The National JWB is the only
Miller, are shown in the accom- parents were taken by the Ger-
agency recognized .by the mili-
panying photograph with Yvonne, mans to a concentration camp,
tary to represent members of the
whose joy over her "adopted. never to be heard from again,"
to
Jewish faith in arranging re-
brothers" is evident.
Sgt. Sachs is assigned to spe-
MRS. ABRAHAM SRERE
ligious observance.
In his letter to The Jewish cial service work in athletics,
Detroit's National JWB offices Tells Her of Having Heard News, Sgt. Sachs informs us that recreation and army morale. He
at their homes for the Holy Days.
the personnel of his group—the has been in service three years
Organization of the program of are located in the Jewish Com-
Sermon by Dr. S. S. Wise
344th Bombing Group—and all and overseas 18 months.. He
placing every Jewish service munity Center, 8904 Woodward.
in London Synagogue
those attached to the personnel writes that he. and his group are
man and woman in the state in
of Station A-78, had contributed slated for an assignment to the
Jewish homes is being carried on Capt. Chesluk Returns
Mrs. Louis L. Kazdan, the for- the sum of $5,000 for the room, army of occupation and that they
by Mrs. Abraham Srere, home From Germany, Tells
mer
Alta
Seligson,
a
teacher
in
board and schooling of Yvonne expect to go to Germany soon.
hospitality chairman of the De-
the Detroit public schools who
troit Army and Navy Committee Of Survivors' Hopes
of the National JWB.
Jewish internees in Nazi con- is making her home with her S/Sgt. Mellin Describes
centration camps received the parents at 18601 Kentucky dur-
Statewide Program
ing her husband's absence over-
At Selfridge Field, at Romulus expert medical care of Capt. seas with. the U. S. army, re- Thrilling Visit to Nice ,
Detroit Kin
Herman
M.
Chesluk
following
Army Air Base and other Army
ceived
a
surprise
and Navy bases, locally as well their liberation by American
T/Sgt. Milton Mellin, whose Through
call from her
as throughout the State; at iso- forces in Germany. He recently
experiences
at the dedication of
husband
last
lated areas around Alpena and returned to Detroit after 18
Writing from Germany, Pfc.
Saturday •night the synagogue at Bad-Nauheini
months
in
Europe
with
Gen.
the upper peninsula, Fort Brady
from London, were recorded in The Jewish Steven H. Meyers, son of Mrs.
Patton's
3d
Army.
and Prisoner of War Camps, the
where he was on News on July 27, writes an in- Emmy Meyers of 9811 Linwood,
Capt. Chesluk, 35, son of Mr.
Jewish soldier is being contacted
a brief leave
writes that he had met a man
for the holidays. -Arrangements and Mrs. Solomon Chesluk, is
from his post in teresting reliort of his experi-
are being made for servicemen spending his 30-day leave with
who
was just released from
ences
during
a
visit
in
Luxem-
France.
at Fort Custer and patients at his wife, Marian, and son, David,
Buchenwald and who is looking
bo ur g and in
Capt.
Kazdan
at
2474
Calvert.
Percy Jones General Hospital
for relatives in Detroit.
informed his cities in France,
A graduate of Wayne Univer-
and Convalescent Facility by the
wife that the while on a fur-
committee at Battle Creek and sity College of Medicine who
This -roan, Leibel Friedman,
Capt. Kazdan night before — lough, and of
by the Detroit committee for had offices in the Eaton Tower
formerly'
of Chmielnik, Poland,
his
visits
to
prior to his entry into the serv- Friday night—he attended ser-
has only one surviving son, the
ice in May of 1942, Capt. Ches- vices in London and heard a ser- Jewish homes '-
Sgt. Lazaroff Wounded; luk worked with an evacuation mon by Dr. Stephen S. Wise of and synagogues.
rest of the family having been
Before reaching ,.
New York, who was in England
murdered by the Nazis. He is
Hospitalized in Chicago hospital with the 3d Army.
Capt. Chesluk told of Jewish to attend the World Zionist Con- N i c e, France,
looking for an uncle, Joseph
T/Sgt.
M
e
11
i
n
ference.
T/Sgt. Aaron Ephraim Lazar- s u r vivors' accounts of Nazi
Hershkovitz of Detroit, formerly
and his bud- k.
atrocities
and
how
they
hoped
The call to Mrs. Kazdan was dies experienc-
off, who was wounded in action
of Chmielnik. Mr. Friedman or
to
be
sent
to
Palestine.
in the Pacific, when the B-29 he
made from the Red Cross Club in ed very tough T/Sgt. Mellin
those knowing of his whereabouts
Capt. Chesluk saw service in London.
was in was attacked and mir-
traveling due to overcrowded
aculously escap- Normandy, Northern France, the
Capt. Kazdan practiced medi- trains, the poor facilities of the are asked to communicate with
Rhineland,
Ardennes
and
Cen-
ed being shot
cine in Detroit before enlisting country and the lower stand- Pfc. Meyers' uncle, Herbert
down, was home tral Europe and holds five cam- in the army medical corps in ards of the land as compared Meyers, 8911 Linwood, Apt. 14,
paign
stars.
over t h e past
October, 1942. He is a graduate with what the boys have been TY. 7-9597.
week-end on a
of the Wayne University Col- used to.
Pfc. Meyers writes us that
visit with his Jewish Brigade Units
lege of Medicine.
He was especially thrilled Leibel Friedman gave him a note
parents, Mr. and Stationed in Luebeck
with his visit to the Nice syna- in Yiddish, which he transmitted
Mrs. Jacob La-
VIENNA, (JTA)—The Vienna
gogue, with the reception given to us. It is believed that Mr.
zaroff of 2256 radio reported that units of the Capt. Allan Stiglitz
him, with the Ailyah-Hagbah- Friedman is a clothing merchant.
Hazelwood.
Jewish Brigade arrived in the Receives Discharge
the officers .honored him with.
An aeronautical engineering
T/Sgt. Lazar- German city of Luebeck and will
And he was deeply touched by student at Wayne University be-
off is at present. be stationed there as part of the After 4 Years- of Duty
the- acknowledgement of the con- fore entiring active service in
T/Sgt. Lazaroff being hospital- British occupation forces.
tribution he made to the syna- December, - 1945, Pfc. Meyers was
Capt.
Allan
Stiglitz
was
the
ized in Chicago. In service two
(In Jerusalem it was an-
an ASTP student and at Fort
and a half years, he was on one nounced by the Palestine Gov- first of the personnel at Selfridge gogue.
Gourmets would be especially Sheridan and Fort Benning be-
of the first missions over Tokyo.
ernment that special broadcasts field to get Ms discharge after
V-J Day. He en- interested in the portion of fore going to England in October,
He was married last January will be beamed to the units of
in Omaha, Neb., to the former the Jewish Brigade over the
listed Aug. 8, T/Sgt. Mellin's letter in which 1944, to France last January, then
si 1941, and served he describes the sumptuous meal to Germany. He expects to re-
-Nora Kort, daughter of Mr. and Palestine radio station beginning
31 months over- he was served in a Jewish home turn home around Labor Day.
Mrs. M. Kort of Taylor Ave.
in October.)
seas in Egypt, in -Nice. And those who are Before entering Wayne he was a
Lybia, Tunisia, fond of collecting souvenirs Cass High student.
He came to Detroit with his
Sicily. N a p l e s, would be thrilled with that por-
Foggia and In- tion of his letter in which he mother from Nuremberg in May,
ia, Burma. He tells about the many trinkets he 1939. His father arrived . here.
has four bronze collected and the large numbers from Germany a year earlier and
stars and a of customers he found for some died on the day his family ar-
rived in this country.
Presidential of them in France.
Capt. Stiglitz Unit Citation.
He was attached to the 9th,
10th and 12th.-Air Forces.
Capt. Stiglitz, born in De-
troit, eras graduated from Cen-
Discharged Jewish service- submitted to The Jewish News
tral High and received his de-
men
are taking advantage of by returned servicemen at our
gree at the University of Ari-
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zona.
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When he enlisted . he was en- lish their Homes and Jobs papers.
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Law School. He lives with his charge in our Classified columns. hopes that this new service to
father, Harry Stiglitz, at 2277 W.
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Capt. L. L. Kazdan
In Trans-Atlantic
Phone Call
Wife

.

.

Buchenwald Victim
Seeks
Sgt. Meyers

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