Page Twelve

Friday, September 19, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Detroiter Tells of DPs'
Dependence on U.S. Jewry

WWJ Broadcasts
Holiday Message

Council Acts to Stem
Twelfth Street Rumors

Cong. Bnai David Engages
Property Owners, Synagogue' Officials and Social Agency
Rabbi Eric Greenbaum
Few American Jews are cognizant of the close relation-
Representatives Concur in Effort to Check Panic-
To Direct School
ship between the problems of the displaced persons and their
Selling of Property

By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE

own security, Sheldon Lutz, Jewish Agency worker in Ger-
This Sunday at 11 a.m. station
many, is emphasizing to Detroiters this week.
Property owners, business peo- ily, officers of the congregations
The ardent young volunteer is visiting his parents, Mr. WWJ will broadcast a Yom Kip- ple, synagogue officials and social in question were able to state
and Mrs. Al Lutz of Pennington Dr., for the first time since pur message. Rabbi Joshua Sper- agency representatives agreed that the rumors were false. On

he left for overseas over a year
ago, as a corporal in the Army.
Air Corps. Although he had al-
ways been interested in Jewish
life, and had served as president
of the Junior Congregation at
Shaarey Zedek, Lutz admits that
he had little appreciation for the
problems of European Jewry un-
til he was stationed in Germany
with the Army of Occupation.
A chance visit with a Jewish
chaplain, to the DP camp at
Landsberg, brought him face-to-
face with the survivors' situation.
"It was quite a shock!" he recalls
grimly. Deeply moved by the
plight of the fellow-Jews, Lutz
managed a transfer to a base near
Landsberg, where he served as
chaplain's assistant grid, when off
duty, worked with the UNRRA
team at the nearby DP camp.
The lack of understanding, on
. the part of the GI's, of the dis-
placed Jews' hardships, inspired
him to begin a one-man pro-
gram of indoctrination. He or-
ganized a sports club at the
Landsberg- camp, and arranged
volleyball, ping-pong and base-
ball matches between the sol-
diers and the residents. "They
found a common ground," he
said, "through the international
language of sportsmanship."
Later, he organized symposiums
for groups - of GI's, at which
UNRRA workers and representa-
tives of the DP's discussed the
problem.
While at Landsberg he met De-
troit's Mrs. Emma Schaver, who
gave a concert for the DP's ar-
ranged by the World Jewish Con-
gress and the Jewish Agency,
through one of his Army friends,
Leo Friedman, Mrs. Schaver's
nephew.
Lutz was determined to con-
tinue his work with the DP's as a
civilian, and, after being dis-
charged in Heidelberg in Decem-
ber, 1946, he volunteered his ser-
vices to the Munich headquarters
of the Jewish Agency. He is one
of two Americans working for the
Agency in Germany.
He has served as a general
liason and administrative officer
between the American Military
Government, the IRO, the Agency
and the DP's. Recently, he was
chief documentation and liason
officer at the Bocholt camp, near
Bergen-Belsen in the British
Zone. It is from this camp that
the immigrants to Palestine are
drawn for the monthly quota.
Lutz has prepared immigration
doCuments for over 700 people
who left for Palestine on two
transports.
Although he is younger than
the majority of the social and re-

Norman Grantz' Jazz_
Orchestra Here Oct. 4

Norman Grantz' Jazz at the
Philharmonic will take its only
Detroit concert appearance of the
season on Oct. 4, at the Masonic
Temple at 8:30 pm.
Now in its fifth national tour,
Jazz at the Philarmonic will fea-
ture Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax-
ophone; Bill Harris, trombone;
Flip Phillips, tenor; Howard Mc-
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SHELDON LUTZ
lief workers who are seeking to
aid the displaced Jews in their
struggle back to normal living,
Lutz shows deep sincerity and
mature observation in his discus-
sion of their problems.
"The Jews in the displaced per-
sons camps of Europe are psycho-
logically peculiar—they are just
sick and tired of waiting. They
have given up the thought of help
from the outside world, and are
determined, now, to help them-
selves to regain their self-re-
spect," he declares.
"Their aim is Palestine, where
they, or their children, can live
in a normal, fearless society,"
he continues. "They don't want
to return to their former homes,
they don't want their confiscat-
ed money or property — they
simply want to rebuild their
lives and live like human be-
ings."
The European Jew is grateful
to American Jewry, Lutz reports,
knowing that without American
funds their plight would be much
more severe. They recognize that
they have the sympathy of their
American brethren, but are dis-
turbed at the Americans' appar-
ent lethargy when it comes to
political support.
"The fight for Palestine is of
extreme world-wide significance,",
Lutz emphasizes. "If it is lost,
Jews throughout the world, even
in America, will lose their se-
curity." With Britain dependent
upon America for economic back-
ing, the fate of Palestine may
well rest with the United States,
he said, urging Detroit Jews not
only to keep themselves well in-
formed on the situation, but to
make themselves heard, through
organizations and as individuals,
to exert pressure on Washington.
America's loans to Britain
might not be necessary if Britain
were to reduce the size of her
armies in Palestine, Lutz com-
mented. "We must make sure that
our money isn't being used to
keep Jews out of the Homeland,"
he reiterated.
A graduate of Central High
School and Shaarey Zedek High
School, Lutz attended Wayne
University before entering the
Air Corps.
His enthusiasm for his work
seems boundless. He will return
to Germany at the end of the
month, hoping that his friends in
Detroit will not fail in their
financial and, above all, political
obligations to the displaced per-
sons and to themselves.

Lou Tendler to Speak
At Center Group Oct. 1

The Wednesday Evening Dis-
cussion Group announces that
Lou Tendler, noted authority on
veteran problems, will address
the meeting on Oct. 1. Tendler is
a staff member of the Detroit
News.
The Jewish Community Center,
a Red Feather ages fly, is still of-
fering veterans a six month's
free membershcr • h includes
all privileges ol‘

ka of Cong. Bnai David will de-
liver a sermon on "The Message
of Atonement."
Cantor Hyman Adler and the
Bnai David choir, under the di-
rection. of Dan Frohman, will
render the central theme of the
Yom Kippur liturgy.
Bnai David's Kol Nidre seryices
will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 23. Rabbi Sperka will preach
on "A Generation Without Sin."
Yom Kippur services Wednesday
morning will begin at 8 a.m.
Rabbi Sperka will deliver the ser-
mon at 11 a.m. on the subject,
"Penitence, Prayer and Righte-
ousness." Memoral services will
be held at 11:30 a.m. Cantor Adler
and his choir will officiate.
Rabbi Eric Greenbaum has been
engaged as educational director
of the Bnai David religious school
and will assist Rabbi Sperka in
the supervision of the school.
Following his studies in the
fields of religion and education,
Rabbi Greenbaum has been teach-
ing on the staff of the Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah.
Classes will open Sunday, Sept.
21, at Central High School. Re-
gistrations are taken at the Syna-
gogue office every weekday dur-
ing office hours and on Sunday,
Sept. 21, at Central.

.Bnai Moshe Services
Planned for Yom Kippur

Cantor David Katzman will be
assisted by a choir under the
leadership of Nathan Turbow at
the Bnai Moshe Yam Kippur
services in the main synagogue.
In the social hall services will
be directed by Cantor Samual
Glantz, assisted by his son, Leo.
Rabbi Moses Fischer and Rabbi
Norman Frimer, of Minneapolis,
the guest speaker, will alternate
in the pulpit in the main audi-
torium and at the supplementary
services.

Congress Women Plan
Education Discussions

The Women's Division of the
American Jewish Congress has
arranged for four monthly educa-
tion discussion groups to be held
simultaneously in each area
chapter. Guests are cordially in-
vited.
The first of these meetings will
be held at 1:30 next Monday, at
the following area homes.
South, Mrs. Samuel Barr, 2277
Glynn Court; northeast, Mrs.
Jacob Bonin, 19181 Berkley Rd.;
central, Mrs. Marion Shubow,
3046 Collingwood; northwest,
Mrs. Arnold Frank, 18039 Wood-
ingham.

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upon preliminary action to meet
some of the problems arising out
of the changing character of the
12th St. area, at a meeting called
under the auspices of the internal
relations committee of the Jewish
Community Council on Sept. 9,
at Congregation Beth Tefilo
Emanuel. Rabbi Max J. Wohlgel-
ernter presided.
The Community Council is seek-
ing to assure the community that
there is no need for panic selling
of property.
The rabbis of Detroit are being
asked to use their pulpits during
the holiday season to bring this
message to their congregations.
Jews should realize that prejudice
and discrimination against any
minority group hurts all minority
groups.
Another task is the war against
rumors. During the meeting it
was rather excitedly reported
that two synagogues in the area
had been sold to Negroes. Luck-

the other hand, the Jewish Com-
munity Center is spending a great
deal of money to improve the fa-
cilities of its Twelfth Street
Branch, Harold Weiss, director of
the branch, reported. The Cen-
ter, like the Council and others,
has faith in the area as a center
of Jewish life for many years to
come.
Also interested in the situation
are the Mayor's Interracial Com-
mittee and the Council of Social
Agencies. Tentative plans are un-
der way for the formation of a
council of residents of the area
in which Negroes and white s,
gentiles and Jews can sit down
to discuss their common neigh-
borhood problems.
The next action contemplated
is a meeting of Jewish property
owners in the area to be held
after the holidays.

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