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Detroit 26, Michigan, December 28, 1945
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Allied Campaign Goal to Be Two Million
etroit Jews to Support
$100 000,000 Drive
,
Page 6
New Hebrew School to Honor Keidan
Page 5
—International Photo
Unpacking a t Atlantic City
to attend the United Jewish
Appeal Conference • is Capt. Rob-
best Gamzon of Paris; a former
leader of the Maquis, the famous
Fr e n c h underground fighting
force, who addressed the con-
ference which set the $100,000,000
drive for relief.
Truman Orders U.S. Rescue
39,000 Refugees Annually
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Quits: Dr. Leo
Srole, (below), physi-
cian who resigned
from his post at the
UNRRA shelter for
displaced persons at
Landsberg, Germany,
charging cond itions
were bad. Since then,
conditions there have
improved, following
inspection by U. S.
military leaders.
Survivors :
Daughter of Underground,
Five - year -old.Kathleen
Apothekar, who at the age of 1 was left alone in a Paris hotel
when her mother was deported by the. Nazis, is shown tele-
phoning relatives upon her arrival in New York aboard a
troopship, with aid of National Refugee Service, a UJA agency.
After years under the swastika, they
are all that remains of a once happy family. Grand-
ma is too old. to provide for the children and they
look to the United Jewish Appeal for food, a home,
medical care and other necessities. Funds supplied by
the American Jewish community through the UJA
will enable the JDC to bring them life-saving relief.
Ins
Honored by HUC:
Seventeen of the 18 widely known spiritual and lay leaders of the
nation, who were awarded honorary degrees by Hebrew Union College in exercises in Cin-
cinnati in celebration of the College's 70th anniversary. Dr. Julian Morgenstern awarded the
degrees to: Top row (L-R) : Dr. B. Brickner, Dr. Louis Binstock, Rabbi N. Eisendrath, Mrs.
J. Walter Freiberg, Rabbi E. F. Magnin, Dr. L. Mann; middle row: Thomas Mann, Dr. Alex-
ander Marx, Dr. Julian Morgenstein, Henry Morgenthail Jr., Dr. A. A. Neuman, Rabbi Max
Raisin; bottom row: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. A. L. Sachar, Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg, Dr.
Raymond Walters, Dr. Stephen S. Wise. and Dr, H. A. Wolfson.
LT. GEN. TRus_
COTT, front, left, and LT. GEN.
BEDELL-SMITH, touring the?.
Landsberg camp for displaced'
persons, following Dr. Srole's
charges that the camp was run
no better than during Hitlerism.
—International Photo