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VOL. 9—NO. 9
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Thank You, Allied Campaign Workers
By ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Executive Director, Jewish Welfare Federation and Allied Jewish Campaign
Detroit says "thanks"—the United Jewish Appeal says "thanks"-1,400,000 Jews of Europe
army of workers who have brought the 1946 Allied Jewish Campaign
say "thanks"—to
to a history-making pinnacle of achievement, with $2,000,000 assured and hundreds of thousands
•more in sight if we keep working. Thanks—and keep going!
Campaigning, in any year, is a task for men and women who are strong in heart, deep in
feeling and steadfast in purpose. This year, as in no other year, it has been a sacred mission.
Every prospect slip has carried with it the fate of a weary, beaten Jew somewhere across the
ocean. Every pledge has meant renewed hope, for an orphan in France, for a desperate in-
mate of a displaced persons • camp, for a grateful immigrant to Palestine, the Promised Land.
"Every dollar has meant less death," more life.
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It is no light - responsibility. to tread the pavements from prospect to prospect with the
lives of your fellow Jews hanging upon every step and every word. I know it—the Jewish
Welfare Federation knows it—and the Jews of Detroit have shown by their unprecedented
generosity that •they know it too. Above all, your own yearnings for Jewish kinship, human
compassion, and a braver, finer world must tell you today that you have done well!
As you rejoice in a noble job, nobly performed, we ask you today to carry on to the very
end of your task, to reach every last prospect on your list, to secure every last dollar that
Iltroit's Jews, are capable of sending to the tortured remnant of our people:.
No amount of money that .we -raise can be too much—let us, at least, not raise too little.
To you it has been given to decide who shall live and who shall die. Through your devo-
tion to the campaign, to the very end you will make Detroit's decision a source of hope and
pride" for the Jews of the world.
—Photo by Robt. I. Clifton, Jewish News Staff Photographer
Now or Never ! At the Allied Jewish Campaign workers' meeting on May 9, MAJ. GEORGE
FIELDING ELIOT, guest speaker, warned the Jewish community of Detroit that unless help is
sent at once to the survivors in Europe, there may not be any one left to receive assistance. At
the speaker's table at this meeting were, left to right: ISIDORE SOBELOFF, executive director,
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and the Allied Jewish Campaign; NATE S. SHAPIRO,
chairman of the drive; Maj. Eliot; FRED M. BUTZEL, who presided; BERNARD ISAACS, chair-
man of the Allied Jewish Campaign School Project.
Allied Jewish Campaign Extends
Drive Until Every Prospect Is
Given ChanCe to Make Donation
As volunteer workers prepare to meet next week
for a final report meeting of the 1946 Emergency Allied
Jewish Campaign, there is a spirit of elation over the
certainty that the $2,000,000 minimum goal has been
exceeded.
With approximately 16,000 persons contributing to
the initial campaign goal and at least 15,000 more to
be reached by the volunteer solicitors, Nate S. Shapero,
chairman of the drive, believes that the Detroit Jewish
community can go above the $2,000,000 mark—provided
a concerted effort is made to contact all outstanding
prospects. It is believed that $500,000 more is repre-
sented by the cards yet to be covered.
The extent of the campaign's success • was evi-
denced at the report meeting on Monday, when it was
announced that 12,672 contributors had given $1,716,572.
Women's Division Nears Goal,
A total exceeding $1,900,000 was reached at the
meeting on Wednesday, at which the Women's
Division approached its goal of $300,000.
In many instances, campaign divisions raised up,
wards of 60 per cent of their goals from less than 25
per cent of their prospects—thus indicating what a
great task still lies ahead for the Detroit community
in the emergency drive to speed rescue activities in
behalf of the _ 1,250,000 survivors in Europe and the
tens of thousands who are clamoring to go to Palestine.
A similar situation exists in a number of the
trade and professional divisions.
Community Salutes Workers
A luncheon. meeting originally scheduled for today
was cancelled to permit the workers to speed their ef-
forts for total coverage and to meet next Wednesday
or Friday, upon decision of the campaign executive
committee, to make final reports.
The community slogan now is:.
GO ON WITH YOUR WORK, UNTIL EVERY
DETROIT JEW BECOMES A CONTRIBUTOR TO
THE GREAT RELIEF AND REHABILITATION
CAMPAIGN. DON'T PERMIT SOMEONE ELSE
TO CARRY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Thus, the work goes on, and the community lead-
ers are hopeful that before another week passes it
will be possible to announce that the initial triumph
of raising the minimum of $2,000,000 goal has been
supplemented by a 25 per cent oversubscription of
Detroit's quota. .
Survivors Organize for UJA:
A committee composed of survivors of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, who are now in the United States, was organized to help rescue the 10,000
Jews who remain in Belsen, through the United Jewish Appeal which derives its income in De-
troit from the $2,000,000 Allied Jewish Campaign. The committee was formed on the first an-
niversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Committee members in the photo, left to right,
are: Seated: Dr. Gizella Perl, Mrs. Alfred Spanjaard, Lt. Colonel Judah Nadich, former adviser
on Jewish Affairs to General Eisenhower in Europe. Standing: Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, National
Chairman of United Jewish Appeal, Anna Maxwell, - Dr. Louis Micheels, Victoria ZamOra and
.Mrs. Li . sette Soep. The. success of Detroit's • drive guarantees that there will be no let-down in
•rescue efforts in behalf • of the European Survivors.
A Word From the Tomh:
Mrs. Kate Singer of New
York thanks JDC representative Sonya Seidlin for bringing
first word of her cousin, Samuel Sussman, out of the Deg-
gendorf displaced persons camp in the American zone in
Germany. Miss Seidlin brought with her from Germany
185 messages to relatives in this country. Funds contributed
to the United Jewish Appeal through Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign enables the 150 JDC field workers to carry on
relief and rehabilitation work in 50 • countries. -