Friday, Sepieml;er 14, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Proceeds of Bnai Brith Youth
Dance Monday for New Building
Page Seventeen
Frankfurter, Kin Littman to Bring 'Joh Fellows'
Reach Palestine
To Masonic Temple on Sept. 23
With Refugees
Abraham Littman, Detroit's
HAIFA (JPS-Palcor)—Among Yiddish theatrical manager for
the 1,130 Jewish refugees who the past 27 years, this week an-
arrived here Sept. 9 aboard the nounced that the Yiddish theater
S. S. Mataroa from Toulon were season will commence here on
David Frankfurter, recently re- Sunday, Sept. 23, with matinee
leased from prison in Switzer-
land where: he was sentenced to
life for the assassination of Nazi
agent Wilhelm Gustlof in 1936.
With Frankfurter was his
brother who served with the
Yugoslav army, was a prisoner of
war in Greece and made his way
to the American. lines in France
after escaping from a prisoner of
war camp in Germany.
The 19th annual dance given
• by the Bnai Brith youth organ-
ization of Detroit on Yom Kip-
- pur night will be held this year
on Monday night, Sept. 17, at
the Masonic Temple Fountain
Ballroom. Phil Brestoff's orches-
tra will provide the music.
Sponsoring organizations this
year include all Aleph Zadik
Aleph (AZA) junior Bnai Brith
chapters, the Bnai Brith Girls,
Bnai Brith Young Men and Bnai
Brith Young Women.
Proceeds will be used to
finance the planned Bnai Brith
Youth Center.
Tickets are available from
members of all affiliated Bnai
Brith youth organizations.
The arrivals include 991 Jews
from B e l g i u m, Switzerland,
France and former inmates of
German concentration camps, also
360 trained agricultural pioneers
and 186 children.
Nab 3 Collaborators Among
1,600 Leaving for Palestine
David Frankfurter told report-
ers here: "This is the great day
of my life. My heart overflows.
I have come as a simple, modest
Chalutz with the desire to par-
ticipate in the upbuilding of my
country to the utmost of my
physical capacity. I want to join
a Kibbutz (collective group) here
eventually."
He said that he had wanted to
shoot Joseph Goebbels, Reich
propaganda minister who was
then in Switzerland, but not be-
ing able to find him he shot
Gustlof who had more power
than the Nazi ambassador.
Pre-Departure Dinner of Refugee Assembly Camp in France
Interrupted by Capture of 3 Nazi Aides; Frankfurter
Plans to Start New Life in Homeland
Music Study Club
Plans Opening Teas
Officers in charge of the dance
planning committee, shown in
the photograph, include, left to
right: Don Fiekowsky, chairman;
Fred Lifton, Marjorie Moline,
Betty Provizer, co - chairman;
Leonard Posner and Ilene Olkin.
MARSEILLE, Sept. 3. (JTA)—More than 1,600 refugee
Jews from all parts of Europe, most of whom have spent
years in German concentration camps, sailed from here for
Palestine, on Sept. 3.
A pre-departure dinner for the emigrants was dramatic-
ally interrupted when the refugees discovered in their midst
three persons who had collabor- 4>
ated with the Nazis, and were
attempting to flee to Palestine had high praise for the coopera-
to escape punishment. Only the tion of the American, British and
intervention of Capt. Abel Rosen- French authorities involved.
(The French steamer "Ville
berg, a French Maquis leader
who was in charge of the camp Doran" docked at Haifa on
where the refugees were housed Sept. 3 bringing 700 Jewish
pending their departure, saved refugees who lived in Switzer-
the three from violence. Capt. land and Italy, many of whom
Rosenberg announced that they had previously been held in the
would be turned over to the Bergen-Belzen oncentration camp
proper authorities and charged in Germany.)
with being war criminals.
Frankfurter Among Them
Among the passengers was
David Frankfurter, who was re-
leased from a Swiss prison sev-
eral weeks ago after serving nine
years of an 18-year sentence for
Nathan Epstein, president of
II: assassinating Nazi leader Wilhelm
Gustloff. Frankfurter told a the Detroit Auxiliary of the Los
JTA correspondent that he was Angeles Sanatorium, . announced
leaving E u r o p e because he this week that a conference of
thought Palestine was the only all local Jewish organizations
possibility for the surviving Jews has been called for Sunday, Oct.
of that continent. He said that 7, at the Workmen's Circle
e does not plan to resume his Bldg., Linwood and Burlingame.
medical studies which were in-
All organizations are urged to
terrupted when he was im- send representatives to this
prisoned, as he has forgotten too conference at which the Sana-
much.
torium's present position will be
Frankfurter thought he might outlined.
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Visit America, but declared that
Mr. Epstein states that the
e had no desire to settle there. business and professional group
is brother, Dr. Alphonso Frank- which has been assisting in the
furter, was also among the emi- activities of the Detroit LAS
grants. He was recently liberat- Auxiliary is actively engaged in
ad from a prisoner-of-war camp. enlisting support to complete
Pre-Departure Fete
Detroit's quota for the erection
Among the pre-departure fes- of the Detroit Pavilion at the
tivities and ceremonies were Sanatorium in Duarte, Calif.
Songs and dances around the
An appeal was made this week
'amp fires and services in the that worshipers in local synago-
vlarseille Synagogue. All Jew- gues should make their contribu-
sh relief officials handling the tions to the Sanatorium on Yom
ransfer of the 1,600 emigrants Kippur.
L. A. Sanatorium
Parley Here Oct. 7
Two "Bring a Member" teas
will mark the opening of the
new season's activities of the
Music Study Club on Sept. 18
and 25, at the home of the
membership chairman, Mrs. Ja-
cob Schakne, 8603 LaSalle. Mem-
bers are being urged to bring
new members to these meetings.
Next Tuesday's meeting will
feature Miss Betty Kowalsky,
pianist, Julius Chajes' pupil, a
member of the Music Study
Club Student Group.
Harmon to Broadcast
Football Over WJR
cast, will be the following stars:
Michael Rosenberg, noted
comedian of the English and
Yiddish stage.
Judah Bleich, eminent actor,
who directed the Public Theater
in New York for two years.
Ben Zion Wittier, well known
actor who was a favorite with
Detroit audiences and who is
known as a character actor and
singer.
Tickets for these performances,
at 75 cents to $1.50 Matin.ee and
$1. to $2 evening, plus tax, are
now available at the home of Mr.
Littman, 1927 Pingree, TYler
6-9186, and at the Metro Music
House, 10324 Dexter, TO. 8-4114.
Mr. Littman calls the attention
of local organizations that he is
prepared to arrange with them
for benefit performances during
the entire season.
Tel Aviv Press Assails
Light Sentence to Arab
ISA KREMER
and evening performances at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral of the
Masonic Temple.
Mr. Littman states that he will
bring to Detroit periodically spe-
cial attractions.
The Sept. 23 performances will
feature the great Yiddish humor-
ous musical revue "Jolly Fel-
lows."
Isa Kremer, one of the world's
best known balladists, whose
tours throughout the world have
brought her fame on the English
and Yiddish stage, will play the
leading role.
Assisting Miss Kremer, in ad-
dition to a celebrated cooperating
TEL AVIV (JPS)-Palcor)—
Davar, Hebrew labor daily, at-
tacked the light sentence of three
years imprisonment imposed on
Hamad Zawata, described as "no-
torious as a murderer even be-
fore the 1936 disturbances." Sen-
tence was imposed for the illegal
possession of a rifle, a revolver,
216 rounds of ammunition and
three grenades.
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