• 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. • 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 r 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. Iliiliii1111111111111f1111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111111111911111111111111111111111H1111111111 111110 1114111111t11111110111U11M141111101111111413101111111M40111111111144111MHIMIIIMIIIMINIIIIIIIIIHIIIIMIMMIMMIMIMIll DPs Face Another -Dreary Winter By ROBERT GARY (Copyright. 1946. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.1 — 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.