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Friday, May 30, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS.

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WEEK: THE STORY OF MO5E5

L t thil arum Sisters Reach U.S.
Through Efforts of Detroit GI

Refugees From Czenstochow

learned: "And all the people are

Birnholtz Twins' Story Reflects
Jewish People's Will to Live

Born in Czenstochow, the Birn-
holtz twins have a sister who has
lived in Palestine for 15 years.
"She is a great idealist," they
By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE
said of her. A brother is in Italy
Jewish News Staff Writer
and another brother remains in
Freyda and Bella Fivosk, formerly of Slobodka-Kovna,
Germany. Their parents and two
other brothers were murdered Lithuania, and points south and west. are at home with their
by the Nazis.
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shapiro of 2451 Tyler,
They were in the Czenstochow now, thanks to the efforts of a Detroit GI who was known to
ghetto for a year, then were hundreds of DPs in Bad-Gastein. Germarty, as the "Christian
forced into hard labor in the Angel."
Czenstochow concentration camp,
The GI is Victor Ayoub,
..- an the telephone directory, contact•
from
1942 to 1945.
by American of Syrian extraction,
the
Russians,
they Liberated
went to the
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so good to us!"

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—Photo by Paul Kirsch. Jewish News Photographer

YOSEK AND DORA BIRNHOLTZ

Liberated by Russians
The privations of this life
Among their saddest recollec- Weakened all of them. Bella, the
tions is the treatment Jews re- younger sister, (she is 18 now)
ceived at the hands of Poles and and,_ her mother fell desperately -
Ukrainians. They told of the ill. Mrs. Fivosk died shortly after
anti-Semitism of these two peo- the Russians liberated them in
ples, and of the many murders March, 1945, but, through the
they committed.
unselfish devotion and constant
"Many people would have re- nursing of her older sister
mained in Poland, but that has (Freyda is 22), Bella survived.
been made impossible by the
The girls wanted to return to
horrible . Polish anti-Semites," their home in Lithuania, but re-
both said. They reaffirmed that ports seeping back through Eur-
all of the survivors desire to go ope told them that there was no
to Palestine, that many attempts home, and no future for them
are made to take the underground there, so they continued their

A people's will to live, which is defeating the monstrous Stuttgart camp.

plans of the Naiis to destroy an entire people, is reflected
in the story related to The Jewish News by Yosek and Dora
Birnholtz, twin brother and sister, who arrived here last week
from Stuttgart.
Brought to Detroit by their uncle, Abraham Birnholtz of

3310 Clements, Yosek and Dora
related their experiences as in
ternees in the Czenstochow con-
centration camp and later in
Stuttgart with mixed emotions.
They punctuated every story
they related with an expression
of gratitude to the Joint Distri-
bution Committee for having en-
abled them to come to the Unit-
ed States: to the United Service
for New Americans for the royal
welcome given them upon their
arrival in New York on the Mar-
ine Marlin on May 9; to their
uncle and aunt for the love and
kindness they are showing them
and providing them with a home.
Also—they are full of praise
for the deep interest that is be-
ing shown them by Tom Borman
who is among the Detroiters for
whom they brought regards from
surviving relatives overseas. Bor-
man, who introduced Yosek at
an Allied Jewish Campaign
luncheon meeting on May 22, is
taking a deep interest in the
pair, and is especially concerned
that Yosek should be given a

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talents and his ability as an ar-
tist—skills which he learned in

Stuttgart.
Complimerts Borman

In his broken English which
he already has learned, Yosek
said of Borman: "He is a scarce
man." It was the best compli-
ment he could coin for the man
who takes so deep an interest in
him and in his sister.

every Shapiro in the book,

camp at Backnag. There, a the son of Mrs. Agnes Ayoub of until she finally reached tht
Jewish Joint Distribution Corn-' 7234 Tuxedo. He became a factor ,
mittee worker, Renee Weinberg, i in the lives of the Fivosk sisters ' girls' aunt.
Landed March 14
took a deep interest in them, pro- after they had followed the pain- i
fully familiar path of the Euro- , From that point, arrangements
vided for theii- transportation
and made possible their departure pean Jew from ghetto to con- went smoothly. With the assist.
for the U. S. "The young lady centration camp to labor battalion ance of HIAS, the Shapiros, to•
was like a mother to us," the new to DP camp.
sister
With their mother, Freyda and gether with Mrs. Shapiro's
Detroiters said.
Bella had been taken in June, and brother-in-law, Rabbi and
Learns Music, Drawing
1944, from the Kovno ghetto to Mrs. Meir Levi of Brooklyn, pros,
Birnholtz twins speak He-
The
brew, German and Polish. They the Stuthof concentration camp vided affidavits and secured pas.
_East Prussia. They stayed sage for the girls. They landed
learned the former two Ian- in
there three weeks, and were sent
guages while in the camps. Yosek on into Germany where they in New York March 14, and have
has learned
play
the
piano well.
and were placed at hard labor, for been in Detroit for four weeks.
sings
well. to
He
also
draws
the most part in the German Their visas, they note, were
He has taught singing and draw- trenches.
the first 'ranted by the Lithuan•
ing to Jewish children in the

- minister to Austria from the
ian
meagre quota assigned to him.
Today, Fredya and Bella Fi•
vosk, are first, learning to forget
t he- past; second, learning to
speak English and adapting them-
selves to the American way of
life. and always, grateful to Vic-
tor Ayoub, the "Christian Angel,"
whose unselfish efforts brought

them to freedom-.

Women's League Cites
Rovetch, Elaine Krohn
As Outstanding Youths

routes to the Jewish Homeland European wanderings until they
but that many have been brought reached the American zone of Two Wlyne University stu-
back from Italy. '
occupation, where they were dents were presented with the

Their praise for the JDC is
boundless. "Whatever the
Joint can do, it does, and it
does it well," they said. "That
is not only our own experi-
ence, but that of all remaining
Jews."

• After the May 22 campaign
meeting, Yosek sang a Yiddish
song for Miss Molly Picon, at
Hotel Statler, several leaders
forming the audience. • It was
When they told of their ex-
his first formal introduction to periences in Czenstochow they
American life, which enchants were asked if they knew Sarah
him. As he sat in the offices of Wien, a cousin of Harry Schu-
The Jewish News, relating his mer of Pennirtton Drive, who
was on a visit here in March
experiences, he looked out of anti whose experiences were re-
the 21st floor Penobscot Bldg. lated in The Jewish News on
window admiring the scene and March 31. Yes, they not only
repeating: "America! Ameri- know Sarah and her brother, but
ca! What a great land!"
• they had spent four years to-
And his sister chimed in, also gether' with her in the Czensto-
chance to develop his musical in broken English she has chow concentration camp.

sheltered in the DP camp at Bad
Gastein.
Wanted to Aid DP's
Here they attracted the atten-
tion of Sgt. Ayoub, an American
soldier who, unlike the majority
of his comrades, deliberately
chose service at the Jewish DP
camps, because Ire felt their
plight so keenly- and wanted to
give them whatever aid possible.
The girls had only vague in-
formation about their American
relatives. They were sure of the
name Shapiro, but only guessed
at the location, Detroit. Their
benefactor, however, determined
to find a home for them,. wrote to
his mother.
Mrs. Ayoub went to work with

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Mildred Simons Rosenberg Mem-
orial Awards as the outstanding
young, man and woman in the
community at the annual meet.
ing of the League of Jewish
Women's Organizations.
Elaine Schiffman Krohn of
3265 Boston Blvd. and Warren,
Rovetch of 2737 Oakman Ct.
are this year's recipients of the
annual awards.
At the same meeting, the
League reelected Mrs. Samuel B.
Danto president for the coming
year. She will be assisted by
Mrs. H. J. Millman and Mrs.
Carl Schiller, vice presidents;
Mrs. David Kliger and Mrs.
Louis Glasier, secretaries, and

Mrs. T. E. Goodman, treasurer.

