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Friday, April 26, t946

Dinner Launches
Saw
It
with
My
Own
Eyes'
Allied Campaign
For $2,000,000
A 15-Year-Old Survivor Records Tragic

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver to Address Affair at Statler on
May 7; Hundreds of Solicitors Being Mobilized
to Raise City's Quota in United Appeal

Detroit's $2,000,000 Emergency Allied Jewish
Campaign officially will commence Tuesday evening,
May 7, at a dinner at Hotel Statler.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, president of the Zionist
Organization of America and of the Central Con-
1 ference of American Rab-
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bis, who is acknowledged
as one of the most brilliant
orators in the world, will
be the guest speaker.
Many hundreds of wor-
kers are being mobilized
to start solicitations for
Detroit's quota in the Uni-
ted Jewish Appeal's na-
tional goal of $100,000,000
immediately after the May
7 dinner.
Reservations for the din-
ner are being taken at cam-
paign headquarters in the
DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER Tuller Hotel, RA. 9887.
The three beneficiary agencies of the United
Jewish Appeal—the Joint Distribution Committee,
the United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee
Service—provide relief for the Jewish survivors in
Europe, assist in settling thousands of pioneers in
Palestine and aid in the settlement of newcomers in
this country.

100 More Volunteers to Aid
Junior Division Campaign

700 Crowd Shaarey Zedek Hall for Rally of Allied
Jewish Campaign's Youth Group; More Captains
Added to Round Out Organizations

More than a hundred additional volunteers were recruited
by the Junior Division of the Allied Jewish Campaign at a
workers' rally held last week in the social hall of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek. The meeting was open to volunteers
only and 700 persons crowded the hall and foyer. Numerous
persons responded to a plea made by Sol J. Schwartz, presi-
dent of the Junior Service Group,

for volunteer clerical workers and
typists to help out at Campaign
Headquarters, Hotel Tuller.
Division JA, headed by Harold
N. Rosemont and Bluma Nagler,
met Thursday at the latter's
home and made final plans for the
campaign. Gertrude Wilson join-
ed the list of captains for the
division.
Add More Captains
Division JB, headed by William
Shapiro and Diana Rosenblatt,
completed its job of organization
and is ready to start soliciting for
the campaign. The co-chairmen
announced that Ann Escoff, Irene
Girtow, Max Rothschild, Sam
Bankler, Esther Schuman, Ben
Gallob, Seymour Matenky and
Florence Kohn have been added
to the list of captains for the
division.
Division JC, headed by Norman
Naimark and Sylvia Collins, also
completed its organizational plans
and oversubscribed its quote of
volunteers. Bernard Zack, Harold
Weisman, Ann Lewis, Asher Moss
and Richard Deutch were added
to the list of captains for the
division.
Division JD, headed by Aaron

Sumetz and Carol Greenhouse,
announced that the following ad-
ditional volunteers agreed to
serve as captains during the
drive: Max Rottenberg, Doris
Barahal, Jeanette Cohen, Shirley
Cohen, Ruth Lefkowitz, Mimi
Shapiro, Blanche Ermine, Eleanor
Ogoroskin, Ann Schwartz and
Ruth Magid.
Ready to Function
Division JE, headed by William
B. Katz and Elaine Shiffman,
rounded out its campaign organ-
ization and is ready to function.
Joe Yanich was added to the list
of captains for the division.
Division JF, headed by Edward
A. Simon and Ann Brooks, is
is busy completing its roster and
is adding volunteers to its ranks.
Division JG, headed by Morton
Margolis and Corinne Perlis, an-
nounced that Billy Jacobson has
been added to its list of captains
for the division. A number of ad-
ditional volunteers were recruit-
ed as workers.
Division JH, headed by Theo-
dore Leibowitz and Elise Zeme,
met during the week and discuss-
ed campaign strategy. Many ad-
ditional volunteers have been
added to the list of workers.

Memories of Nazi Cruelty in Series of
Drawings Made After Escape to Palestine

A 15-YEAR-OLD
survivor from a concentration camp, posess-
ing an artist's genius, has described his ex-
periences, from memory, in a series of draw-
ings which The Jewish News has secured
through the Hadassah Women's Zionist
Organization.

The wash drawings reproduced here were

to offer food and shelter to the survivors in
Europe—through the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
We shall make it possible for tens of
thousands of children to join Avigdor in
Palestine—through the United Palestine
Appeal.
The National Refugee Service will help
those who will come to this country.
The Allied Jewish Campaign is our great
obligation—and young and
old must help the drive.
The quotas of the Junior
Service Group and the School
Project of the Allied Jewish
Campaign should be material-
ly oversubscribed after a
study of these photos.

We believe that our people
will oversubscribe the orig-
inal goal- when they recog-
nize that the official objective
will cover merely our minimal
obligations. •
We are confident of this

made from memory by Avig-
dor Dlugacz.
This 15-year-old Romanian
Jewish boy is now in Pales-
tine. His drawings show
scenes in the dreaded Trans-
nisti:ian Concentration Camp.
He lived in that camp for
two years. During that time
he saw his parents, his broth-
ers and his sisters murdered.
Avigdor's scenes show Jews
praying behind barbed wires.
They show the Nazi beasts in
action. They show, in the
drawing labeled "Limnu-
chath Olam"—"To Eternal Rest"—how the
wagons are piled high with the Jewish dead
who could not withstand the Nazi whips.
Avigdor Dlugacz says that painting scenes
like these helps him to work out his salva-
tion.
Talented and eager to adjust himself to
his new life, this lad is one of 17,000 fortun-
ate Jewish children who are being rehabil-
itated in Palestine through the Youth Aliyah
movement of which Hadassah is the official
American representative. There are at least
42,000 orphaned Jewish children who eager-
ly await the right to remake
their lives in Eretz Israel.
There are 150,000 more boys
and girls like him, of all ages,
who have survived the Nazi
whips and who crave for the
opportunity to settle in Pales-
tine.
In Detroit, the opportunity
to help them is provided by
the $2,000,000 Emergency Al-
lied Jewish Campaign.
With funds to be raised in
this drive we shall be enabled

because we hold to the view that our people
are determined to heal the wounds of the
sufferers and to do everything that is
possible to prevent recurrence of the
miseries which were inflicted upon Israel by
the Nazis.
The call for action goes forth to all Jews,
everywhere, but the responsibility lies, in the
main, upon the Jews in the democratic coun-
tries, in the United States, Canada, the Brit-
ish Isles and South Africa.

The response will, it MUST
be generous!
Each one of us must pledge
NOW to work for the success
of the $2,000,000 Allied Cam-
paign and to contribute more
generously than we had been
expected to in the past.
WORK AND GIVE!
Make these YOUR mottos
—until the drive is reported
a total success.

