Orphan Boy, 15, Pens Vivid Diary
Of Sufferings Under Nazi Regime

MONTREAL, Que.—An extra
ordinary document; the vivid au- s
tobiography of a Jewish boy, -:15,
who. has gone through a number

PAUL HODESS

of the worst of the German con=
centration camps and has lost his
parents and his brother at the
hands of the Germans, has been
made public here by the Cana-
dian JeWish Congress.
The original document which
is handwritten by Paul Hodess of
Lodz, Poland, on cheap German
bookkeeping forms, reached the
Canadian Jewish Congress
through one of its relief workers
in Germany, Philip Stuchen. of
Ottawa.
"I was born in Poland in the
city of Lodz. I am 15. At the .age
of 9 I was locked in the ghetto
with my family. In 1943 the.Ger-

Mans grabbed all children of 10
years of , age. I had a younger
brother,. 1. We lay with him in
the attic without. food or water.
"In one week the situation
changed and the German S.S. be-
gan to search out the weak and
the thin people in the houses. I
lay in hiding with my family and
counted the shots. You can
imagine how great was our joy
when we saw our father return
with the sad news that the Ger-
mans had taken away more chil-
dren and had shot their mothers.
"In the summer of 1944 we
were sent to Oswiecim. How ter-
rible that moment in my life
when the Germans tore apart the
women from their husbands and
children from their mothers as we
got off the train.
After two days in Oswiecim my
father and I were sent to the
labor camp at Kaufbaurn, where
he died several days later of
pneumonia.
"Sent to Dachau, I must have
looked like a corpse _because I
was taken to the hospital. Being
young, they gave me a little more
to eat and after two weeks I was
well aghin. The doctor, a French-
man, risked his on life as well
as mine to keep me safe in the
hospital.
"On April 28th the Americans
entered.
"I looked at myself • and
couldn't recognize myself. There
were times when I regretted re-
maining among the living, among
the very few surviving . Jews.
Thus two months passed in.
Dachau. Many died and Many re-
covered. From Dachau I went to
a camp of Jews, Feldafing."

Arno Cahn • Awarded Peace, Justice. League
Is Exposed as Front
Queens `IY Honors
For Arab Institute
Siegfried Cahn, 4108 Clements,

has received word that his son,
Arno, was awarded his Bachelor
of Science degree with honors
and received a special medal in
chemistry at the recent convoca-
tion at Queens University, King-
ston, Ont.
Arno, who came to the United
States in 1941 from Cologne,
where he was a leader in the
Jewish Welfare association,' was
interned for 18 months in Can-
ada. Since his release he has
been awarded seven scholarships,
as follows:
1942—special three-year schol-
arship for refugee students.
1943 — University scholarship
and the Dr. William Moffat
scholarship.
1944—Association of Profes-
sional Engineers scholarship Nr.
2, and University scholarship.
1945—Susan Near Scholarship
Course B and D, and Association
of Professional Engineer scholar-
ship.
He now has been granted his
Canadian citizenship and paid a
visit to his • parents recently aft-
er being separated from them
since May, 1939.

Fire. Hits Tel Aviv Offices
Of Government Bureaus

Friday, May 31, 1946

THE JEWISH NEW

Page 5;x+een

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
"League for Peace with Justice
in Palestine," which has been
placing full page advertisements
in the newspapers opposing the
recommendation of the Anglo-
American inquiry committee that
100,000 Jews be admitted to
Palestine, was exposed by the
American 'Jewish Committee as
a front for the Institute of Arab
American Affairs.
Committee investigators uncov-
ered the fact that Benjamin H.
Freedman, so-called • representa-
tive of persons of the Jewish
faith in the League, was a "one
man organization,". representing
no one but himself. The repre-
sentative of "persons of the
Christian faith," P. M. Schoen-
dorf, is Freedman's mother-in-
law, while the representative of
the Arabs, Habib I. Katibah, is
connected with the Institute of
Arab American Affairs and has
colloborated with anti-Semitic
groups.
The Committee says that Freed-
man has admitted he is working
with the Arab Institute and with
the Arab Office in Washington.

Officers Are Chosen
By Local ORT Group

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A fire broke
out May 21 in the offices here of
. the . Palestine Government's Im-
The Women's American Ort's
migration and Labor Department
destroying many files and some Detroit chapter elected the fol-
furniture. Authorities said the lowing. officers May 20:
Honorary president, Mrs. Mor 7
origin of the fire was. "suspic-
itz Kahn; president, Mrs. William
ious."
Grahm; vice presidents, Mrs.
Harry Becker, Mrs. Nathan Sim-
Ampal Reveals Issue
ons, Mrs. A. J. -Copeland; corres-
Of 400,000 New Shares
ponding secretary, Mrs. Henry
Stark; recording secretary, Mrs.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A new Baer Keidan; financial secretary,
issue of 400,000 shares, with par Mrs ; Irving Rainii; treasurer, Mrs.
value of $2,200,000, was launch- Morse Goldman; member of ex-
ed here by the American Pales- ecutive committee, Mrs. Charles
tine Trading Corp. at its annual C. Simons. Members of boavd,
meeting held under the chair- Mesdames Coscar Blumberg, Sam-
manship of Edmund I. Kaufmann. uel Danto, Joseph- Fenton; . Fred
Approximately $75,000 wprth • ottfurcht, Benjamin, Goldstein,
Barney . Israel, Harry Keidan,
were sold at the meeting.
Abraham Dickenstein, manager, Shmarya Kleinman, Maxwell
said that the: 'corporation has Katzen, Clarence Enggass, Ben-
loaned $500,000 for the develop- jamin Lambert, David Rugoff,
ment of Palestine projects, • has David Ruby, Oliver- Ruby, Mit-
facilitated shipments to Palestine chell Robinson, Henry Meyers,
valued at $1,000,000 for Palestin- Charles Smith, Benjamin Sch-
ian purchasers and has imported lain, . Lew Tendler, Jack Wain-
from Palestine to this country ger, Leonard Weiner and Miss
Emma Butzel.
goods worth, $600,000. •

Seichnan Given
Famine Aid
Collection Post

I Mrs. Lewin-Epstein, Mother
of Mrs. Hershman, Dies at 84

Named Foreign Language
Press Chairman for Emer-
gency Food Drive

NEW YORK.—Nathan H. Seid-
man, president of the Inter-Racial
Press of America, has , been
named chairman of the Foreign
Language Press for the Emer-

Mrs. Judith Lewin - Epstein,
mother of Mrs. A. M. Hershman,
died Sunday afternoon in Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.
- Funeral services ,were held
Tuesday in New York. The body
will be taken for burial to Pal-
estine where her husband, the
world famous Zionist leader,
Elisha Lewiri-Epstein, is' buried.
Mrs. Lewin-Epstein, who was
84, leaves, besides Mrs. Hersh-
man, two sons, Dr. Samuel of
Jerusalem and Hyman of Brook-
lyn. Another son, Rehaviah, died
in Cairo in November, 1942, en
route to Palestine. There are four
grandchildren, and a fifth, Capt.
Noah Lewin-Epstein, died in ser-
vice with the U. S. army air force.
She also is survived by one
great-grandchild.
Mrs. Lewin-Epstein for more
than half a century cooperated
with her late husband in all his
activities in behalf of the up-

building of Palestine. Born in
Germany, she went with her hush
band, after their marriage, "to
Warsaw, Poland. They later set-
tled in Palestine where her hus-
band was one of the founders of
the Rishon Le-Zion Wine" Cellars.
Eventually he was chief super-
visor of worldwide distribution
of the famOus Carmel wines.
They. made their homes in Rishon
LeZion and New York and did
considerable traveling between
the United States and Palestine.
Mr. Lewin-Epstein at one
time served as treasurer .nf the
American Zionist Federation. He
was one of the heads of the
American Medical Unit to Pales-
tine during World War I and
helped supervise this activity
which became one of the major
functions of Hadassah.
An interesting tribute to Mr.
Lewin-Epstein appears in Nahum
Sokolow's "History of Zionism."

JNWA Branch 114 Plans
Jr. A.J.C. Division
To Meet on Monday Shevuoth Celebration

NATHAN H. SEIDMAN

gency Food Collection to aid fam-
ine
victims, Secretary of, Com-
.
merce Wallace, national chairman
of the drive, announced.
Mr. Seidman said, "Millions of
our fellow human beings over-
seas are desperately hungry.
Food was very scarce in every
war-ravaged land. even before
the drought . and crop failures
througholit Europe and Asia. But
no wthe shortages are far' worse."
The Food Collection, now un-
derway throughout the nation, is
on behalf of UNRRA, - of which
F. H. LaGuardia is director-gen-
eral. It is an appeal to the Amer-
ican people to give money to buy
food, or gifts of food canned in
tin, for shipment to famine swept
Europe and Asia.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Herbert H. Lehman, former direc-
tor generall of UNRRA, are hon-
orary chairmen. •
Among the prominent leaders
in American life serving on the
national committee are Mrs. Har-
ry S. Truman, Mrs. Moses P. Ep
stein, president of National Ha-
dassah; Rabbi Herbert S. Gold- -
stein, president of Synagogue
Council of America; Adolph Held,
chairman, Jewish Labor commit-
tee; Harper Sibley, chairman,
Church Committee on Overseas
Relief and Reconstruction; Spy-
ros P. Skouras, national presi-
dent, Greek War Relief associa-
tion; Cardinal Spellman, of New
York; Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, na-
tional president of the National
Council of Jewish Women; and
Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, president,
Women's D i v i s i o n, American
Jewish Congress.

The Junior- Division of the
Allied Jewish Campaign will hold
its final report meeting on Mon-
day,. at 8 p. m., in the social hall
of Shaarey' Zedek; Chicago at
Lawton._
.
. An informal dance, held Tues-
day evening at Masonic Temple,
Celebrated the achievement of
the Junior Division in raising
nearly three -times as much
money for the United Jewish
Appeal as was ever raised before
by the group: .• HoweVer, the
nearly 1,000 volunteers resolved
not to 'let a single prospect go
uncovered and have continued
solicitation. The final report
meeting is expected to swell the
total amount raised by the group
to an unprecedently high figure.

A director who called on Eddie
Cantor at RKO the other day
couldn't find his way off the
studio lot. • He returned to Can-
tor and asked, "Say,.. how . do-
you get out of here?" "Just make
two bad pictures," Eddie replied.

A Shevuoth festival will be
sponsored by Sholem Aleichem
Branch 114 of Jewish National
Workers Alliance at 8:30 p. m.
next Wednesday at the Farband
Shule, 1912 Taylor.
A literary program has been
prepared and refreshnients will
be served..
The government movie, "This
Is Germany," will be shown.
Admission -will be free to all
members and their friends.

Britain Studies Method
To Fight Anti-Semitism

LONDON (JTA) — A memor-
andum suggesting means of coin-
batting anti-Semitism in Great
Britain was presented to Home
Secretary James Chuter Ede by
a delegation of the Board of Dep-
uties of British Jews headed by
Gordon Liverman. Mr. Ede prom-
ised he would give . the memor-
andum. careful consideration.

-

Youth Education League
Installation on June 4

Youth Education League, at a
beautiful candlelight ceremony,
to be followed by a luncheon at
t h e Book-Cadillac Hotel, o n
June 4, with Mrs. M. Sussman,
as the presiding officer, will in-
stall the following officers for
1946-47: Mrs. James V. Browne,
president; Mrs. Louis Fried, Mrs.
Sidney Kalt, Mrs. Douglas Pur-
ther, Mrs. Jack M. Edelstein,
vice presidents; M r s. Arthur
Campbell, case chairman; Mrs.
Benjamin Gelman, recording sec-
retary; Mrs. Philip Kollin, cor-
responding s e c tary; Mrs.
Albert Kane, treasurer; Mrs. Phil-
ip Olender, Harold Briskman,
memorial and remembrance fund.

GOLDEN JUBILEE

n Beautiful, Air-Cooled, Air-Conditioned MUSIC HALL

60-PIECE ORCHESTRA

PLAYING "POP" MUSIC ONLY

Conducted by Valter Poole

JUBILEE WEEK'S FINEST SHOW

WED., JUNE 5—GOLDEN JUBILEE NIGHT

Violin Solos
"The Wolverines" March
"Clear Track" Polka
Overture, "Ruslan & Ludmila"
"Oklahoma" Selections
Slavonic Dances
"Artist's Life" Waltz
Espana Rhapsody
Finale, Tschaikovsky's 4th
Dances from "Gayane"
Guest—Golden Jubilee Queen on Stage in Person

THURS., JUNE 6—POPULAR FAVORITES NIGHT

Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"
Overture, "William Tell"
Scherzo, "i'athetique" Symphony
Victor Herbert Favorites
Ballet Music from "Faust"

Songs by* Celeste Cole
"Blue Danube Waltz"
Spirituals by Celeste Cole
"Showboat" Selections
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

_
FRI., JUNE 7—ALL-AMERICAN NIGHT
American Fantasy
"Rhapsody in Blue" and
"Incredible Flutist" Selections
Piano Solos by George Haddad
"Carousel" Waltzes
Waltz and Holiday for Strings
"When Johnny Comes Marching
"Porgy and Bess"
Home"
John Philip Sou,sa's "Stars and Stripes"

WED., JUNE 12—INTERNATIONAL NIGHT

"Dance of the Hours"
knight's Bridge March ' •
Choral Selections
Romanian Folk . Dances
- Russian Sailor's Dance
"The Emperor Waltz"
"Song. of Norway" Selections
•
Bolero
Sibelius' "Finlandia"

THURS., JUNE 13—VIENNESE NIGHT

Radetzkay March
Overture, "Die Fledermaus"
Ave Maria (Schubert)
"Rosenkavalier Waltz"
Overture, "Morning, Noon and
Night in Vienna"

Two Polkas
(Pizzato and Chit-Chat)
Viennese. Songs
Jane Gardner,. Soloist
"Chocolate Soldier"? Selections
Tales from the Vienna Woods

FRI., JUNE 14—ALL-REQUEST NIGHT
On this occasion, Mr, Poole and his 60-piece concert orchestra
will play the musical works and numbers which receive the
greatest number of "votes" on the nights of the five preceding
"Pop-Music concerts.
ludingTax): First 6 rows of balcony, $2.40; Main floor
PRICES and r ema i n d e r of balcony, $1.80; Family Circle, $1.20.
sale at Music Hall
TICKETS: Oa
box office (Cherry

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