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Friday- , January 24, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Six
Detroit Prepares to Finance
Local, U. S., Overseas Needs
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign is currently preparing for this community's great
drive which will include the objectives of the United Jewish Appeal—the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the United Service for New
Americans. The local quota also will include appropriations for all local agencies as
well as for the civic-protective causes and national institutions. The photographs and
articles on this page deal with the activities of the three UJA agencies.
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Happy Ending to a Dramatic
Story
Resettlement Service
Assists Refugees Here
NINE hundred twenty-eight refugees enter U. S. aboard
S.S. Marine Marlin; six hundred Jews enter U. S. from
Shanghai; S.S. Ernie Pyle brings -sixty-one stateless Jews to
U. S. ; JDC helps 27 refugees to U. S. aboard S.S. General Meigs.
Those headlines represent the happy ending of a dramatic
story, but unlike those of fiction, these stories have equally
dramatic aftermaths—the long process of readjustment ex-
perienced by these people in becoming integrated into their
new environment.
The men and women of De-
troit's Resettlement Service have
played an important role in this
progress, and it is in a great
measure due to the work of this
agency of the Jewish Welfare
Federation that the "what-comes-
after" has had a happy ending,
also.
150 Come to Detroit
Founded in 1937, the Resettle-
ment Service, with Harold Silver
as director, has devoted its re;
cent efforts to the victims of the
war who have been able to come
to this country and then to De-
troit.
In 1946 approximately 150 refu-
gees arrived in Detroit. Most of
THIS IS AMERICA—A few months ago, this 14-
year-old boy arrived aboard a "mercy ship" with
his family. Today, resettled with his family in a
midwes+ community under the program of Ow
United Service for New Americans, he is growing
up as a normal and happy American boy.
Health in Zion
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NOW THEY CAN PLAY—These two refugee sis-
ters who recently immigrated to the United States
with their family are joyful at the possession of
their first playthings in America. For years, dur-
ing the Nazi terror, the sisters hid out in a damp
cellar in Bernal - until they were rescued.
IMMIGRANT children, on
the left, have grown strong as
they combine work and play in
Nathania, Palestine, since their
arrival from Europe. The United
Palestine Appeal assists all new
arrivals in Zion-. Nathania is
now a thriving community.
Under JDC Care
IP
MALVINA, age 13, on the
right, escaped from a Nazi con-
centration camp train in 1943.
After years in hiding she is
now ready to begin her child-
hood under the warm, loving
care of the. Joint Distribution
Committee. She is wearing ti+e
uniform of her "kibbutz." She
is in France temporarily.
them came to join relatives but
42 came here by special arrange-
ments with USNA (United Serv-
ice for New Americans), the na-
tional migration agency responsi-
ble for the distribution of refu-
gees throughout the country.
While the Resettlement Service
extends any necessary aid to those
coming here to join relatives, the
greatest effort is devoted to those
who were settled here under the
USNA dispersal program, de-
signed to distribute these new
Americans throughout the coun-
try and to avoid their concen-
trating in a single area.
Sixteen-year-old Jascha is a re-
cent immigrant who -came here
under an affidavit issued by the
JDC and who will be the res-
ponsibility of the Resettlement
Service until he is 21.
Family Pnt- to Death
Jascha survived the Warsaw
Ghetto and was taken to a con-
centration camp when he was 9.
His family had been put to death.
Jascha has been placed in a
foster home here in a family
where there is another boy his
age. As soon as he has completed
the special courses for teaching
him English. he will enter public
school. The Resettlement Service
spends a great deal of care in
selecting the proper foster home
for these boys and girls.
Foster Parents Paid
Foster parents are paid enough
to cover the expenses of these
young people. Since these new
Americans are the responsibility
of the whole community, it was
felt that one family should not
be asked to provide for any of
A DREAM COME TRUE—To this
refugee mother . "America is like
a dream come true." While her
husband was forced to do slave
labor in Germany, she dug pota-
toes in order to feed her family.
Now she is happy at the oppor-
tunity of providing a good meal
for her family in free America.
them. As Jascha becomes more
used to his home and school, the
Resettlement Service will intro-
duce him to activities enjoyed by
American boys. The facilities of
the Jewish Center help to teach
boys like Jascha American sports.
The Resettlement Service pro-
vides for meeting each new
American who arrives, finds
housing for him, investigates
proper schooling and provides for
medical care. If necessary. living
expenses are advanced, until these
people can secure employment.
That these new. Detroiters are
grateful for the assistance they
have •received was illustrated
when more than $10,000 was paid
back, voluntarily, to Resettlement
Service by people who had come
here in the early years of Hitler.
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DPs Face Another -Dreary Winter
By ROBERT GARY
(Copyright. 1946. Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.1
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MUNICH
Winter has come to Germany
in much the same manner it
comes to all countries in the
temperate climes. It is windy,
overcast and cold.
To the approximately 140.000
Jews in the American zone of
Get - many it means misery with
even greater misery approach-
ing.
It means their meager ra-
tions of 2,000 daily calories
will appear even more meager.
Their drab diet c , in,isting as
it does mostly of stArches and
little fat will provide little nat-
ural heat. Their clothes. which
never were really wearable,
have become threadbare and
. will not be able to supply touch
w,iimth.
Camps Always Cold
Furthermore. the Jews in
Germany will not even find
;.anith in their shelter. Their
camps always appeared cold '-
and drab even during sunny
and warm spring and summer.
Nost of the camps consist of
former Wehrmacht barracks
which never were designed for
comfort.
They sleep on old-fashioned
American army cots, which
most often are shoved close
to one another, with just an
army blanket or two for cover.
It is more than depressing to
see groups of adults from a
few different families or groups
of married couples huddled
together in a room. But when,
as in- so many instances, chil-
dren and infants also are
crowded in, the scene becomes
unbearable and one wonders
how they manage to live.
Confined for Winter
Winter also will deprive the
Jew in Germany of even the
feeblest of "luxuries" he en-
joyed in the spring and sum-
mer. No longer will he be able
to keep his windows wide
open because of the lack of
heating equipment and fuel
which will turn the barracks
into cold storage ice boxes. No
longer will he be able to take
walks in the city streets or
country. which was the Jewl
chief form of entertainment.
The degree of discomfort,
naturally, will vary somewhat
from camp to camp. In gen-
eral, the more recently opened
camp is the less comfortable
because the Army has found
it difficult to provide adequate
housing. Jewish leaders in
Germany are convinced the
Army is sincerely doing all in
its power to find comfortable
accommodations or to improve
and recondition the bad ones.
Army to Cooperate
Measures have also been
taken in anticipation of the
cold months. Rabbi Philip
Bernstein recently made a
three-week tour of many of
the camps, especially the new-
er ones, to determine the win-
ter requirements for the in-
stallations. The voluntary agen-
cies are taking steps to dis-
tribute warm clothing. The
Army promises to make avail-
able all necessary supplies.
But if past experience can
be used as an index, most of
these measures will only be
fulfilled partially and the dis-
comfort and suffering are
bound to be great.
Two spindly-legged children
•HUNGRY AND COLD:
wrapped in makeshift garments search refuse cans for food.
Hunger, and disease threaten 140,000 surviving Jewish children
in Europe. The $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal must meet with the most generous response of Amer-
ican Jewry so the Joint Distribution Committee may haire
the funds to save thousands of parentless children.