JCRS Awards Medal to Jessel

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 24, 1950

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GEORGE JESSEL (right), is shown receiving the first
Humanitarian Service Medal awarded by the Jewish Con-
sumptives' Relief Society, which maintains the Denver Sana-
torium where men and women of every faith, suffering from
tuberculosis, are provided with free care and treatment. DR.
LEWIS I. MILLER (left) , JCRS president, is presenting the
award, while _DR. BENJAMIN GOLDBERG (center), chair-
man of the west coast division of the JCRS, looks on. The
presentation was made at the 46th anniversary dinner of
the society held in Los Angeles March 11.

Former U. of M. Hillel Rabbi Tells Story
Of Nazis' Jewish Cultural Looting

There are about 10,000 Jews in
Germany, Austria and Italy who
end of the war, the great ma- are eligible to immigrate to the
jority of this Nazi loot fell into United States under the DP Act
Russian hands.
of 1948.
Treasures • in the American
zone are being repatriated to
Jews or their institutional heirs.
MAE WEISS
Some of the Russian loot, such
Strictly Kosher Catering
as books and paintings, has
Established 1915
mysteriously appeared for sale
WEDDINGS
BAR MITZVAHS
on the international market. But
RECEPTIONS
the great bulk of it lies behind
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the iron curtain.
Rabbi Heller wonders, "Will
they be destroyed, or will they
become objects of display in
For a Happy
some anti-religious museum in
Moscow, Leningrad or Kiev."
& Kosher Passover

Rabbi Bernard Heller, former
director at the University
of Michigan, returned from
eight months in Europe recently,
where he worked for The Jewish
Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., in
the reclamation of thousands of
articles looted by the Nazis from
Jewish institutions a n d indi-
viduals.
Talking of his w o r k, Rabbi
Heller r eve a,l s that Hitler
stopped the wanton devastation
of Jewish institutions and cul-
tural treasures in 1939. T h e
notorious Alfred Rosenberg was
then placed in. charge of an
agency designed to loot Europe
of all cultural material and to
First British Settlement
assemble it within the Reich.
Rabbi H e 11 e r believes the Established in Israel
Nazis were motivated by three
TEL AVIV (ISI)—The first
considerations; the wish to pla- collective settlement of British
cate the civiliZed world's
Jews is being established near a
sion at their rapine destruction former Arab village.
of Jewish culture; they visual-
Formerly tadlor s, furriers,
ized the great monetary worth shopkeepers, the settlers are
of these cultural treasures, busy putting up pre-fabricated
which might be turned into houses and a water tower while
ready cash; and lastly, they their families are accommodat-
turned them into weapons for ed at Bat Galim transit camp.
the propagation of anti-Semi-
Instructors will help them
tism. Jewish writings were prepare their 3,000 dunanis , for
scanned for material which cultivation and. teach them how
Jew-baiters could twist into to handle cows and poultry.
seeds of hate. Special agencies
were set up for this .work.
As the tempo of war mounted
BRIDAL DOLLS
and was carried to the Germans,
I have one of the most unique
the treasured articles were han-
centerpie'ces for showers, spinster
dled carelessly. Rabbi Heller
and wedding dinners.
found that secret repositories
It consists of the bride and her
had been unearthed in aban-
attendants. The dolls are seven
doned mines, vacant lots, half-
and one half inches tall, very
demolished buildings'.
life-like in appearances and are
beautifully
dressed.
In eastern Europe alone, col-
lecting squads under Alfred Ro-
BRIDAL DOLL CO.
senberg plundered hundreds of
archival centers, museums, li-
509 Empire Bldg.-107 Clifford
braries, and such, in their hunt
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for cultural treasures. At the

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Current topics are slated for
discussion at t h e March 28,
study group meetings, sponsored
by the commission on com-
munity interrelations of t h e
Women's Division of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, • of which
Mrs. William Cohen is chairman.
The meetings will all be des-
sert luncheons at 12:45 p.m.,
Tuesday, with the following pro-
grams:
South, recording, "The Out-
cast"; discussion leader: Frank
Wurtsmith, Round table of
Catholics, Protestants and Jews.
Home of Mrs. David Vogel, 2025
Glynn Court.
Central, recording, Fredrick
March in "Building Bridges";
discussion l e a d e r, Mrs. Alma
Polk, Mayor's Interracial Com-
mittee. Home of Mrs. Harry
Bright, 4071 Glendale.
Northeast, recording, Helen
Hayes in "Face to Face"; dis-
cussion leader, Mrs. Olive Beas-
ley, Mich. Committee on Civil
Rights. Home of Mrs. Harold
Nelson, 20236 Wakefield.
Northwest, second session on
clinical research: "How Jewish
Are Our Children"—the parent's
position as Jews. Home offices,
Archie Goldberg, 17388 Monica.

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