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THE JEWISH NEWS
Resnik, JDC Aide in Italy,
Relates Secret Aid to Jews
Dr. Srole Returns Maurice Jacobs, Executive of JPS,
To UNRRA Job at Named Interfraternity President
Landsberg Camp PHILADELPHIA—The highest Jewish college fraternity was
Lives of Thousands Saved by Catholic Church and Laymen,
He Reports on Return to U. S.; Tells of Synagogue in
Basement of Monastery -at Assissi
NEW YORK.—Thousands of Jews in Italy owe their
lives to Italian citizens • and the Catholic Chui.ch from
Cardinals to parish priests, it was disclosed by Reuben E:
Resnik, director in Italy of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, who recently returned to the U. S. after two years
overseas.
Revealing for the first time the of security."
extent of secret aid to the Jews where they can have a feeling
by the Italian people during the
Calls Palestine Solution
REUBEN B. RESNIK
•• • ■•■61.-.
Nazi occupation of Italy, Mr.
Resnik, the first representative
of any private AD3sLisan r 1' e
rg en e y to enter that country,
told how thousands of
Jewish men, women and child-
ren were hidden in convents, in
asylums for the insane and in
homes for the poor and aged by
friendly Catholic churchmen and
laymen.
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Pope Grants Sanctuary
"Although their lives were
endangered by helping the Jews,
fearless Italian Catholics took
special pains to hide Jews from
the Nazis," Mr. Resnik said.
"Pope Pius himself granted
sanctuary within the walls of the
Vatican in Rome to hundreds of
homeless Jews. During the oc-
cupation, the JDC spent thou-
sands of dollars in Italy as in
other countries, paying for the
upkeep of Jews.
"Through the heroic acts of
Italian Catholics, who gave them
false identity cards, false ration
cards and other papers, many
Jews in Italy were • able to stir- ,
vive the Nazi occupation.
Synagogue in Monastery
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"In the very monastery tolli.kk-
ed by St. Francis of Assissi, Jews
worshipped in their own syna-
gogue, built in the basement of
the monastery. While Catholics
worshipped overhead,' they knew
that beneath them their fellow
--human beings, victims of Nazi
oppression, also were praying.
The Jews' own sacraments and
religious items had been kept
safe in the Monastery at Assissi."
Since liberation, Mr. Resnik de-
clared, Jews have come out of
hiding and many- of them are
receiving care in camps for dis-
placed persons set up by the
United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Agency. "Yet for.
many native Italian Jews, and
for thousands of Jews fleeing to
Italy from Poland, UNRRA aid
is insufficient," he stated.
Precarious Condition
"The living condition of most
of the Jews in Italy remains pre-
carious. Despite the extensive
program of relief and rehabilita-
`idon of the Joint Distribution
Committee, amounting to $120,-
000 monthly, this winter • will
result not only in a high incidence
of sickness and disease, but also
a loss of hopefulness and feeling
of futility among Jews in Italy
unless greater aid is forthcoming.
"The $100,000,000 campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal must
reach its goal in 1946 if the Jews
of Italy are not to lose forever
their hope and their ability to
start their lives again."
The first and most important
step in the solution of the prob-
lem of Europe's displaced per-
sons, Mr. Resnik said, "is t) re-
settle these people in a place
'here they want . to be, and
Friday, January 11, 1946
Although asserting he was op-
posed to any effort to influence
the joint Anglo-American Iiiquiry
Commission,. whose members
should "base their conclusions on
fact, not pressure," Mr. Resnik
said "an overwhelming majority"
of European Jews wanted to
emigrate to Palestine, and said
he felt that unlimited emigration
to that country was the only
solution to the problem of Eur-
ope's homeless Jews.
"In Austria," he said, "95 per
cent of them—in other countries
a tremendous majority—believe
that Palestine offers for them the
place where they can develop
their lives and interests with the
minimum of difficulty. In addi-
tion they have a sentimental in-
terest in going to what to them
is their homeland."
TheeictOrel§aiics -
Becomes Master
Of Mosiac Lodge
Dr. Leo Srole, whose resigna-
tion as UNRRA physical director
at the Landsberg, Germany,
camp for displaced persons, re-,
cently brought about a hurried
inspection by U. S. Army author-
ities, is back on the job deter-
mined to help correct some of the
faults he found there.
Originally charging that the
Landsberg camp was "filthy and
run no better than in the concen-
tration camp days of Hitler," Dr.
Srole, according to a letter from
his wife to her aunt, Mrs. Sidney
Fishman, of 2945 Webb, Detroit,
is "working harder than ever;
his hands full with so many ref-
ugees continuing to pour in from
Poland to the Landsberg camp,
to find shelter from the po-
groms."
While Dr. Srole's early com-
plaints cited the crowded condi-
tions, his camp, he cabled to his
wife, who resides at Reading, Pa.,
now has 6,000 persons living in
space meant to house 4,000.
Mrs. Srole has started a drive
in her community to raise funds
to purchase 100 pounds of cocoa
and 500 pounds of coffee. "I am
in need of additional help," Mrs.
Srole writes her aunt, "so I am
appealing to all of you to give
as much as you can for this cause.
I have arranged with the UNRRA
alt — nn
t -ship
'.is-'
money to pay for the order."
office to which any college fra- elected to this office. He has
ternity man can be elected re- served the Conference for many
cently was awarded to Maurice years and has filled all of its
offices.
His interest in college fraterni- ,
ties dates back to his co-found-
ing of a chapter of his own
fraternity, Phil Epsilon Pi, at
the University of Maine in 1916.
He served Phil Epsilon as execu-
tive secretary, editor, and in
1944 as national president. He , is
also a member of Phi Sigma,
honorary biological fraternity,
and at one time served as an
associate editor of its magazine.
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MAURICE JACOBS
Jacobs, • executive vice-president
of the Jewish Publication So-
ciety of America, when he was
unanimously elected president of
the National Interfraternity Con-
ference.
The Conference consists of 60
national Greek letter college
fraternities, with chapters in the
United States and Canada. These
fraternities, Jewish and non-
Jewish, have - over 3,000 chap-
ters and have initiated over one
million and a quarter members.
Second Jew in Post
Mr. Jacobs' election marks the
S°
ti me -in the - e6nfertrnee's
37 years that a member of • a
Founded B. B. Lodge
He - is vice-president and life
trustee of the National Farm •
School; secretary and a member
of the Board of - Overseers of
Gratz College; a director of the
National. Jewish Welfare Board
and vice-chairman of the local
Army and Navy Committee of
the JWB; a trustee of Reform
Congregation Keneseth Israel
and an honorary director of its
Men's Club; a director of the
Jewish Chautauqua Society; a
director of the Associated Tal-
mud Torahs; a director of the
Jewish Student Advisory Board;
a governor of the American As-
sociation for Jewish Education.
He also is a member of the
executive committee of the Jew-
ish Book Council; a founder and
past president of ,__UniverAitx_
Lodge 617311a1
a n d a mem- .
ber of the Round Table Club,
Adolph Busch to Be Guest
On Program of Oratorio
„Before a gathering of 1,500
people in the Masonic Temple
Cathedral on Dec. 26, Theodore
Isaacs was installed as Worship-
ful Master of Mosaic Lodge No.
530, F. & A. M.
The installation was under the
direction -of Dr. Albert A. Hughes,
Past Grand Master of the State
of Michigan, who was assisted by
Guy W. Moore, Commander-in-
Chief of the Detroit Consistory,
and Richard L. Stead, Grand Til-
er of Grand Lodge of the State of
Michigan. The installation was
preceded by a dinner in the Crys-
stal Ballroom, and was followed
by a dance.
Lomzer Bros. Society
Gives $100 to War Chest
A late gift of $100 has been
received by the War Chest from
th% Lomzer . prothers 3494n 59 -
cIeik; according to Walter C.
Laidlaw, campaign manager. The
1945 Community War Chest Cam-
paign closed officially Nov. 16.
Farewell
By DR. N. E. ARONSTAM
The day grows short and labor lags,
Our substance wanes, our strength it
fags
As night breaks forth upon the wings
Of dusks and shadows, as it brings
Us memories of yesteryears:
Of childhood days, of joys and tears,
Of hopes and dreams we dreamt in
vain, -
Of visions, that our lives might gain
An anchor stanchioned in our soil.
Alas! we find ourselvs in coil
And chain, Prometheus like—unfree!
A vessel rudderless at sea,
Whereon our fragile craft has sailed
Too late, too late: the light has failed!
Detroit Oratorio Society's sec-
ond concert of the season will be
held at Music Hall on Jan. 25,
with Adolph Busch, world re-
nowned violinist, as guest artist.
Henry Siegl, pupil of Adolph
Busch and an outstanding vio-
linist in his own right, is concert
master of the orchestra, which is
composed of members of the De-
troit Symphony.
Arthur Gnau, musical director
of the society, will conduct the
performance. Ole Foerch, new
assistant director, will be at the
organ.
Tickets are available from the.
society, TR. 2-5490; Grinnell's
Music Hall, or Mrs. Haskell Berg,
TO. 7-1537.
JSSB Seeks Relatives
Anyone knowing the where-
abouts of the following is re-
quested to contact Mrs. Sue A.
-.Huffman of the J.9wish iSocial
Service Bureau, 5737 Second:TA.
2-4080, Monday through Friday,
9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Abraham Birenholc and Abraham
David Freedman, of Czetochowa,
Poland, sought by Chaim Birenholc.
Mrs. May Czeizier, formerly lived at
13226 Dequindre, sought by Josef
Stern of Sotumare, Roumania.
Louis Klein,. sought by F. (Olga)
Klein.
Maria Shierczewska, sought by.
Francisek Jablonowski.
- Jack Frainowitz, sought by niece,
Bella Frainowitz.
Mrs. Henia Tobiasz (nee Bader)
from --Wadowice, Poland, sought by
nieces, Fella Bader and Eva Messer.
Werner Fuchs. sought by brother
Erwin Fuchs of Wroclaw, Poland.
Eddye Lewis Bruce, sought by Mrs.
Ladislav Gaal (Edith). of Budapest.
Mrs. Widawer, dentist, sought by
Chaza Strait.
Isaac Josef. formerly lived at 1612
Virginia Park. and Frank Josef. for-
merly lived at 2934 John R. Street,
sought by Malka Sekler of Bucarest.
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