Friday, February 22, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
Heroes' Mother Squares Her Shoulders
New Yiddish Speaking
Bnai Brith Lodge to
Pick Name on Thursday
Mrs. Kogan Gets Medals;
Sons Met Supreme Test
A number of leaders in Yid-
Displays Glow of Humble Pride in Her Grief at Ceremonies dish speaking circles, who have
been working for the organiza-
Held to Honor Lt. Aaron, Awarded DFC and Purple
tion of a Yiddish speaking Bnai
Brith lodge, will meet next
Heart Posthumously; Name Vet Post for Boys
Thursday, at 8:30 p. m., at the
Marshall Lodge headquarters,
12233 Linwood.
Principal speaker will be Rabbi
Milton Aron, director of the new
Wayne Hillel Foundation. There
will be musical talent and humor-
ous reading in Yiddish.
The group has been conduct-
ing a contest to find a suitable
name for the new lodge and at
this meeting the winner and the
name selected will be announced.
All persons interested in joining
a Yiddish Bnai Brith Lodge are
invited.
Leaders are anxious to obtain
the minimum number of mem-
bers required for the application
of a charter prior to March 13.
from Henry Monsky. The tem-
porary officers are headed by Mr.
Shane.
MRS. FLORENCE KOGAN receiving Distinguished Flying Cross
and Purple Heart as posthumous awards to her son, 1st. Lt.
Aaron Kogan, who died in action. MAJ. DWIGHT SLOAN pre-
. sented the award. Between them is HARRY KOGAN, Mrs.
Kogan's son. Others in the photograph are, left to right: HARRY
MADISON, Jewish War Veterans' state commander; JULIAN
KOGAN, another son of Mrs. Kogan, of Mexico City; JOSEPH
JONES, LEON GINSBERG and HARRY NATHAN, adjutant of
the Michigan J.W.V.
By ROBT. I. CLIFTON
Jewish News Staff Writer
A Jewish mother, her heart seared in the holocaust of war,
a mother who had sacrificed two sons that others might live in
peace, tried to rise for the ceremony that was to honor her boys.
The grim, but kindly faced,
army major, his own eyes sus-
Mrs. Kogan's Friends
piciously moist, put his hand on
Of
the
large assembly present
her shoulder and gently pressed
her back into the chair. Another to witness the ceremonies in
which 10 awards were made post-
officer standing at stiff military
humously and 29 were presented
attention nearby intoned the cita-
to discharged veterans, nearly
tions. The major leaned down,
half were friends of Mrs. Kogan,
and as he pinned two medals on testifying to the love and respect
The Citations
Distinguished Flying Cross
"For extraordinary achieve-
ment while serving as Navi-
gator of a B-24 aircraft leading
a squadron from another group
on a bombing mission to Ger-
many, 1 March, 1945. Volun-
teering to lead a formation to
attack a target on which he
had not been briefed. Lieu-
tenant Kogan was able to per-
form difficult navigation with
such skill that the target was
bombed with outstanding suc-
cess. His courage, coolness and
accurate navigation when con-
fronted with extraordinary cir-
cumstances reflect the highest
credit upon himself and the
Armed Forces of the United
States.
Purple Heart
"For his supreme sacrifice
in the European Area on 20
March, 1945."
her breast, the mother bowed her
head and sobbed softly.
The sound of weeping ceased,
and with the arms of her daugh-
ter-in-law around her, she again
squared her shoulders to the
world—on her face, in its grief-
stricken resignation, a glow of
humble pride because two boys
—sons of her own flesh—had met
the supreme test and had not
been found wanting.
Gave Two Sons
The mother was Mrs. Florence
Kogan, of 11340 Dexter Blvd.,
and the ceremony, in the Spanish
Room of the Fort Shelby hotel
Friday afternoon last, was to
honor especially her son, 1st Lt.
Aaron Kogan, Eighth Air Corps,
to whom a grateful country had
awarded posthumously the Dis-
tinguished Flying Cross and the
Purple Heart. •
The second son, Charles, killed
in combat, was with the 29th
Infantry Division in France.
Accompanying Mrs.
Kogan
were her other two sons, Harry
and Julian, and Harry's wife
Helen. Two married daughters
were still living in Grodno in
1939, but no news has been re-
ceived concerning them since that
time. Julian had come from his
home in Mexico City for 'the
event, the first time he had seen
his mother and brother in 23
years. He is married and has two
children.
in which she is held by the com-
munity.
Because of the quota restric-
tions, the Kogan family was
broken up for several years dur-
ing their immigration to Detroit
from Grodno, Poland (then Rus-
sia). In 1920 Gabriel Kogan, the
father, came here to make a new
home for his family. In 1927
Harry arrived, leaving his wife
and one child to follow in 1930.
In that year, at intervals of
several months, Charles came,
and then Mrs. Kogan and Aaron.
Aaron, throughout his life, was
most attentive to his mother, and
he refused to be separated from
her.
Scholarship to Wayne
Aaron, who was born June 1,
1920, attended Hamtramck high
school, and upon graduating was
granted a scholarship in art at
Wayne University. When he en-
listed as a cadet in the Air Corps
in 1942 he had been studying
for two years at Wayne, major-
ing in sculpture and industrial
design, with water colors as a
sort of hobby. During that time
several of his works were exhib-
ited in Wayne's annual art show
at the Detroit Museum of Arts,
two of them winning blue rib-
bons. Throughout his scholastic
career, Aaron, according to his
instructors and friends, was a
top-ranking student, a serious
worker and popular among his
classmates.
Charles, born in 1910, was em-
ployed by Leo Abramovitz in the
Broadway Fruit Shop, until he
was inducted into the Army in
1943.
Sponsor Kogan Post
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kogan
have a son, Shield, 20, in the
Navy, with two years' service in
Japan. With their other three
children, Sara, 14; Louis, 12, and
Aaron, 11, they reside at 1961
Gladstone.
Harry Nathan, deputy adjutant
of the Department of Michigan,
Jewish War Veterans of the U. S.,
has announced that in honor of
Mrs. Kogan's two sons, the Grod-
no Society of Detroit is sponsor-
ing a new Aaron and Charles
Kogan Post, JWV.
The medals were presented by
Major Dwight H. Sloan, Fort
Wayne, acting commanding of-
ficer of the Army's Michigan Re-
cruiting District. He was assisted
by Lt. Otto' Stanheiser, and the
citations were read by Lt. Roy L.
Lemons.
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Red Cross Drive
To Start March 1
Honolulu USO-JWB
Director Feted Here
Detroit Army and Navy Com-
Abraham Srere One of Vice- mittee held a luncheon Feb. 14
Chairmen of Campaign
at the Standard Club for Sey-.
mour Fishman, USO-JWB direc-
for $2,400,000
Abraham Srere is one of the
vice-chairmen of the 1946 Detroit
Red Cross campaign which will
have its kick-off meeting at a
luncheon next Thursday at the
Book Cadillac Hotel.
Detroit's 1946 quota is $2,400,-
000. The drive will commence on
March 1 and will continue
through March.
William Friedman is chairman
of the professional division.
The 1946 Fund Campaign slo-
gan is, "Your Red Cross MUST
Carry On."
Campaign headquarters are es-
tablished on the sixth floor of
the new Red Cross Building, 153
E. Elizabeth.
Rosenberg Decorated
By Panama Govt.
tor stationed in Honolulu, when
he stopped in Detroit on his way
back to Hawaii.
Fishman told of his impressions
in the Pacific area, stressing the
needs that still exist for continued
support in the USO's local and
overseas program.
Besides Fishman, guests incluct.
ed : Mesdames Samuel R. Glo-
gower, Delia I. Meyers, Julian
Krolik, Joseph Falk, Daniel
Krouse, and Messrs. Samuel H.
Rubiner, Isidore Sobeloff, Abe
Sudran, Herman Jacobs and Sam-
uel Kreiter.
150 to Be Initiated
Into Rosenwald Post
A welcome home party for
every veterans men and - omen,
of World War II, will be given
by Julius Rosenwald Post 218 of
American Legion, in the auditor-
ium of the Bnai Moshe, 3710 Law-
rence, next Wednesday evening,
it is announced by Commander
Max Ornstein, a veteran of World
War II.
Preparations are being made
to initiate 150 new members
who have joined the post this
year, bringing the total to 350.
There will be music, addresses
and refreshments.
The 40 and 3 Degree team of
the Legion will initiate the new
members.
An invitation is extended to
all veterans to attend this party..
The government of Panama
has conferred the decoration of
"Knight of the Order of Vasco
de Balboa" upon Louis James .
Rosenberg, international lawyer,
author and vice-dean of the con-
sular corps of Detroit.
In recent years, Panama has
conferred this decoration upon
seve,ral distinguished Americans,
including former Secretary of
State Hull.
The Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs of Panama states that the
decoration is given to Mr. Rosen-
berg as a recognition of his "per-
sonal merits and of his services
rendered to the Republic of Sam Morganroth Back
Panama".
From C. B. I., Joins Brothers
Capt. Maury Levin Is Home In Furniture Business
Sam Morganroth, recently dis-
After 53 Months' Service
charged from the army after
Capt. Maury Levin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Meyer Levin of Fuller-
ton Ave., is on terminal leave,
having been discharged from the
army after 53 months of active
service.
After a year's service in the
South Pacific, India, Burma and
China, he returned to the U. S.
from Shanghai on Jan. 23. Serv-
ing in the Signal Corps, he was
attached to the Air Corps. He
was awarded the Bronze Star for
service in the Central Burma
campaign.
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more than two years' service, has
joined his two brothers, Jack and
Ben, in the firm of Morganroth
Bros., designers and builders of
upholstered furniture. The store
is at 7409 West _McNichols.
Sam, who before going over-
seas was employed with the
Michigan Towel Supply for 18
years, served with the Medical
Battalion in the China-Burma-
India theater of operations.
The Morganroth firm, which
has been in business 21 years,
now is conducted by the third
generation of the family.
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