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Friday, June 14,
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ARRANGED FROM THE STORY OF
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Brief Histories of Members
of Visiting Polish Delegation
Dr, Sommerstein, President of Jewish Central Committee,
Heads Group, Including Chaya Grossman, Heroine of
Bialystok Ghetto, to Speak at Central High on June 23
Sommerstein Accuses
Gen. Anders' Staff
Of Aiding Terrorists
NEW YORK.—Polish reaction-
aries abroad, particularly Gen.
Wladyslaw Anders and his staff,
give organized aid and active
guidance to the terrorist bands
which murder Jews and attack
the present democratic govern-
mentin Poland, charged Dr. Emil
Sommerstein, leader of a Polish-
Jewish delegation, in a press
conference in Hotel Raleigh, on
June 6.
The delegation, which repre-
sents all Jewish parties in
Poland, came to the U. S. to en-
list financial and moral support
for the 250,000 Jews left in
Poland.
U. M. Hillel Presents Annual Awards
Closing 19th Year at Ann Arbor
Defroiters Among Students to Receive Honors; Jewish
Leaders of Ann Arbor Also Cited for Outstanding Work
in Assisting Hillel in Carrying Out Activities
Closing its 19th year on the Honor Keys for Hillel leadership
University of Michigan campus, were Helen Alpert of Watertown,
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation N. Y., Judith Chayes of Chicago,
terminates its active program for Allene Golinkin of Chicago, Ben-
the Spring semester with the an- son Jaffee of Cleveland, Barbara
nual awards and installation sup- Levin of East Chicago, Edythe
per, at which presentations were Levin of Kew Gardens, N. Y.,
made to outstanding student Frances Pearl of Newark, N. J.,
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, presi- Hebrew high school in Bialystok
dent of the Central Jewish Cam- she was to leave for Palestine
as a Chalutzah but the war
mittee of Poland, who recently
arrived in the U. S. as head of a frustrated her plans. During the
commission to enlist aid for the Nazi occupation she headed the
underground Chalutzim move-
surviving Jews of this country,
Dorothy Raskind of Worcester,
ment and organized secret fight-
leaders.
will speak at Central High School
Among the students to receive Mass., Morris Stulberg of Mar-
ing groups in the ghetto which
Sunday afternoon, June 23, under
shall and Beryle Walter of De-
brought weapons from the Aryan
the auspices of the Jewish Wel-
troit.
very
active
in
the
leftist
Poalel
Zion
side.
fare Federation.
Receive Cabinet Award
movement. Was a member of the leftist
M. MIRSKY. Now one of the
Poalei
Zion
student
organization
in
Members of the Jewish com- most prominent communal lead-
Students who received the Hil-
Warsaw. Is a graduate of University,
munity who participated in the ers in Poland. Born in Kovel,
received a degree in commerce. Was lel Cabinet Award for outstan&
one of the leaders of the Poalei Zion ing leadership were Helen Al-
recent Allied Jewish Campaign, Wolynia in 1905 in a worker's together with his groups he was Sports
organization Shten. During the
will constitute a citizens reception family. In 1920 he volunteered liberated by the Red Army. He war he remained in Warsaw, was very pert, Judith Chayes, Betty' Fried-
committee to pay tribute to Dr. in the Red Army. From '22 to was one of the organizers of the active in the Jewish underground lander, Betty Korash of Detroit,
movement. During the uprising he
Sommerstein and the other mem- '24 he attended in Warsaw the Central Committee of - Polish fought in the group led by Hirsh Ber- Katherine Sharfman of Wor-
linski. Following the uprising he suc-
bers of his delegation.
two-year courses of the Central Jewry.: He occupies the post of ceeded together with a.few of his com- chester, Mass., and Beryle Walt-
Dr. Sommerstein also will Jewish School System. Later he vice-president of the committee. rades from that group to hide in the ers.
Aryan section of Warsaw. There he
The Milford Stern Forensics
bring greetings to the Jews of De- became a teacher in those
JOSEPH ZACK. Born in Przemysl worked together with the late Dr.
troit from the Jews of Poland, schools. In 1927 he joined the in 1899. Already during the first World Emanuel Ringelbloom in the under- Award was presented to Sam
War in 1915 he was a leader of the ground historical committee. During
Rosen of Waukegan, Ill., and Mor-
and will express his apprecia- Communist party, was arrested a Poalei Zion Youth Organization. Later the
general uprising in Warsaw by the
tion for the contributions which number of times for his revolu- he became a member of the Polish end of 1944 he fought against the Nazi ris Stulberg. The Arnold Schiff
Zion Student Organization "Heirut" Germans and was taken prisoner. He
the Jews of America have made tionary work. In 1936 to 1937 he (Freedom). In the last years before was sent to a concentration camp in Hillel Cultural Prize was award-
through the local Allied Jewish spent 13 months in concen- the outbreak of World War II he was Prushkov. He succeeded to escape and ed to Benson Jaffee and Morris
member of the Central Committee of to establish contact with a Progressive
Campaign and the national Unit- tration camp of Kartus-Bereza. a
the Party. From 1925 to 1934 Zack Polish underground organization. Vas- Stulberg.
ed Jewish Appeal, to alleviate the .Mirsky, now editor - in - chief was a teacher in the Jewish gymna- ser is now vice-president of the Jewish
A Hillel Service Award also
of Czenstochowa. In 1935 he came Committee of Warsaw. Following the
plight of the surviving Jews over- of Dos Neie Lebn published in sium
to Warsaw as leader of the Hechalutz liberation of Warsaw he became a was presented to townspeople,
seas. Following are brief his- Lodz, was already before the wax (Pioneer movement). From 1937 he member of the City administration as faculty members and Hillel
a prominent leader of the society representative of the Leftist Poalei.
engaged in writing. He translat- was
tories of the visiting delegation:
friends throughout this area for
"Judiastishe Bibliotek" in Warsaw.
vice-president of the Central Com-
DR. EMIL SOMMERSTEIN, ed into Yiddish the works of During the German occupation he was Is
mittee of the P.Z. party in Poland and their special services to the Foun-
member of the Jewish underground president of the Warsaw Committee of dation. Recipients included Sam-
president of to Jewish Central Hegel and Engels. From Sept. a
national council in Warsaw ghetto as
Comittee of Poland, was born in 1939 on he became a member of well as a leading member of the secret the party.
uel Bothman, Dr. Saul Cohen, Dr,
ITZHAK GERSON. Is the represen-
fighting organization as repre-
William Haber, .Dr. Hirsch Hoot-
Lemberg in 1884. He is one of the council. In 1944 he joined Jewish
sentative of Poalei-Zion. As such he tative of the Ichud (United organiza-
the most prominent jurists of the first Polish Army in Soviet was in close contact with the Polish tion of the General Zionist and Miz- kins, Mrs. Reuben Kahn, Abe
in the central committee of Po-
Poland, and was a representa- Russia and served in a number underground labor mvement. He was rachl)
Muchnick, Herbert Schlager and
a teacher in the undercover Jewish land. He is active in the Zionist move-
tive of Polish Jewry in the Sejm of divisions as lecturer. Now he gymnasium in the ghetto of which the ment and was delegate in London of Ozias Zwe4dling, all of Ann Ar-
general Zionists in Poland to the
(Parliament) for years between is chairman of the Jewish Com- martyr Itzhak Katzenelson was the di- the
bor. Service Awards were also
He participated in the uprising first World's Zionist Conference after
the two World Wars. A Zionist mittee in Lodz and Jewish rep- rector.
of the Warsaw ghetto as one of its the war, which took place in July last presented to Fred Butzel, Irwin
year.
Was
also
member
of
the
delega-
for many years, Dr. Sommer- resentative in the Lodz city ad- organizers. Since the liberation he is tion of the Jewish Central Committee Cohn, Aaron Droock, Abe Kasle,
a member of the Central Committee of
stein heads the Democratic Zion- ministration.
Jews and leader of the Polish in Poland to the conference of the Alfred Keats, Herman Osnos,
MARK BITTER. Born Dec. 5, Polish
ist Party, which is the General
Zion Movement. He was a member of World Jewish Conference in London Louis Schostak and Mrs. Leonard
the delegation of the Central Commit- held last week. Devoted himself to the Sims, all of Detroit.
Zionist group. With the forma- 1903 in Gritza near Warsaw. In tee
which participated in the European renewed Zionist work in Poland and
1924
was
graduated
from
a
tech-
tion of the Provisional Polish
conference of the World Jewish Con- cultural activities. Is one of the lead,
Given Scholarship
ers in the Kibutzln In the general Zion-
Government, he was appointed nical school, electrical dept., gress in August last year.
ist youth movement. Represents the
Stuart
Goldfarb was presented
DR. SHLOME HERSCHENHORN. Zionist party, in the general Jewish
Minister for Indemnites. Today, worked in Warsaw. From 1926 One
of the best known workers in the
with the Reconstructionist Schol-
he occupies the position of Vice- until dissolution of Communist Jewish Bund in Poland. Before the organizations of liberated Poland.
WERTHHEIM. Born 1909 arship offered by the Student Re-
party was active in the Polish war was a member of the Central Com- in ANATOLE
Minister in the Polish Cabinet.
Mlave. In 1934 he graduated from
mittee of the Jewish Bund (labor or-
ligious Association which enables
Communist
party.
During
the
MISS CHAYA GROSSMAN be-
ganization). Lived in Lublin where he law school of the Warsaw University ;
after outburst of the war he went to the recipient to attend the Youth
came famous as the heroine of war from 1939 to 1941, lived in was Jewish representative in city gov- White Russia where he remained until
ernment and a leader in the Kehillah
Leader Seminar conducted by the
the uprising of the Bialystok Lemberg. When the Nazi oc- (community). He participated actively 1941 working as a teacher in the Soviet
schools. In 1942 he organized the first Reconstructionist Foun d a t i o n.
Ghetto. Received many awards cupied Lemberg he failed to in work of the Jewish labor cultural or- Jewish
partisan division. In 1943 he Carol Lieberman was awarded a
in Poland and devoted great
from the Polish and Soviet Army evacuate, was forced to flee to ganization
deal of his time to Taz (health society) was nominated by the chief of staff•of scholarship to the Hillel Summer
the
Warsaw
ghetto.
He
parti-
the
White
Russian partisan movement
for her heroism. Following the
and Ort. Before the war he was active.
most of the communal and social or- as staff representative of the Jewish Institute in Brodhead, N. Y.
uprising in Bialystok ghetto she cipated in organizing the upris- in
national
partisan
group. Received
ganizations and institutions of Lublin.
The Fraternity-Sorority Hillel
joined a Jewish partisan group ing and remained in the ghetto During the war he was in Soviet Russia medal of the partisan's first class and
was
recommended
for the order of
where she fought until the liber- untli the very last, until May where he participated in the organiza- "red star." Was decorated for hiS Cooperation Cup was presented
tion and work of the council of Polish
ation. Chaya Grossman, 26, 1943. On that day the Nazis dis- Jews in Moscow. Immediately after partisan work. Upon his return to Po- to Sigma Delta Tau Sorority. Phi
he became a member of the Jew- Sigma Delta
Fraternity wad
personified the Chalutzah. At the covered the underground strong- the liberation of a part of Poland he land
came to Lublin where he became one ish Central Committee in Poland and
age of 9 she was active in Hash- hold in Maidanek near Lublin. of the organizers of the Provisional chairman of the Jewish partisan asso- awarded second prize.
Entertainment for the evening
• in Lodz.
omer Hatzair (Zionist youth From there he was sent to the Jewish Committee. At present is vice- ciation
HALINA GERTNER. Secretary of
president
of
the
Jewish
Central
Com-
concentration
camp
in
Zamosc
was
presented by Eugene Malitz
group). She lived in a Hach-
delegation and to the president,
mittee and also at the head of the the
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, and manages and Sheldon Sandweiss, both of
sharah-Kibutz (a training farm from where he fled on Feb. 1, renewed Taz.
HIRSCH VASSER. 39 years old. the bureau of the Jewish Central Com- Detroit.
for pioneers) near Bialystok. 1944. He joined a partisan group
Born ia. Warsaw. Like his father, was mittee is Poland.
When she Was graduated from the operating in the woods. July 10