Handicapped Refugee's Artificial
Flowers to Bloom Again in Israel
Arab Jewish Community `Golden Funny Book':
Migrates to Israel
Excellent Juvenile
By HAROLD TROBE
There will be flowers blooming in Israel this winter. And
Simon Stern will make—not growthem. For last month,
Simon Stern, artificial flower maker with an artificial hand,
went to Israel.
Born 35 years ago in Boesing, Czechosolovakia, Stern
was one of a large and scattered family—a family whose
traces hardly exist today. When
he finished school, young Simon
went into his father's textile
business, but soon left it to open
his own artificial-flower shop in
Bratislava, the capital of Slova-
kia. T h e business blossomed
successfully, and Stern looked
forward to a comfortable life.
But the iron heel of Nazi armies
crushed that hope.
For months, the young Czech
Jew calculated an escape into
Hungary. In the attempt, how-
ever, he was caught and con-
demned to a concentration
camp. But on the way, he
eluded his captors, and wander-
ing across Central Europe, hid- .
ing, fleeing, working as a car-
penter, decorator, or printer,
managed to reach the relative
safety of Hungary.
But what haven Hungary of-
fered was short-
lived. In 1944,
he was arrested
in Budapest and
sentenced to
death. His sen-
tence was "com-
muted," h o w-
ever, and he
was sent, for
the second 'time,
to . a German
conce ntration
camp. • Stern
In January, 1945, Stern men-
tally prepared himself for death.
Weighing less than 90 pounds,
he was barely able to drag him-
self to work—and inability to
work meant the gas-chambers.
Aware of this, Nazi guards as-
signed Stern to the most dif-
ficult task, laying railroad
tracks. Unable even to attempt
such labor, Stern protested to
the German overseer. The an-
swer: two revolver shots, and
Stern collapsed, his left arm
shattered.
Regaining consciousness in
the camp hospital, Stern found
that his hand had been am-
putated and that he was "under
arrest for sabotage." But the
doctors—themselves inmates of
the camp—managed to hide the
young Czech Jew until the Bri-
tish Army liberated Liaem a
month later.
Two months later, Simon
Stern was home in Bratislava.
His shop, ruined and pillaged,
stood like the empty shell of a
m e m or y. But conscientiously,
Stern began to rebuild, and
within four years, his artificial-
flower shop was a going affair.
In 1949, however, Czech busi-
nesses were nationalized, and
Stern, forced to close his shop,
became "e c o n o m i c ally dis-
placed." •
Stern decided - to go to Israel.
Like almost every Jewish- re-
fugee, his first thought was the
Joint Distribution Committee—
which has aided more than 90
per cent of the more than 400,-
000 Jews who have emigrated so
far to Israel since the estab-
lishment of .blie new state.
Stern's request for both an
improved artificial hand and
the machinery to continue his
vocation were carefully studied
by JDC's Vienna staff. Their
decision was not only to pro-
vide the Czechoslovakian-Jew-
ish refugee - with new tools, but
with a special machine that
would permit him to work with
one hand.
The same machine is cutting
out for Simon Stern the eco-
THE DETROIT LADIES
LECHEM ANEEIM
Extends a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
nomically and morally inde-
pendent life that has been
denied him for years. Now,
like hundreds of thousands of
Jews before him, Simon Stern
is in Israel. There, after a de-
cade of war and persecution, he
hopes to build a new life —
making flowers without fra-
grance, but sweet nevertheless.
New Brandeis Laboratory
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The entire
Jewish community of Habban,
in Hadhramaut Arabia, recent-
ly proceeded to Aden en route
to Israel. The first Habbani
Jews were recently flown here
from Aden.
The Habbani Jews claim they
are descendants of the tribe of
Dan and that they settled in
Habban prior to the destruction
of the Second Temple. Located
some 225 miles from Aden, the
Jewish community of Habban in
1944 sent a delegation to Pales-
tine to arrange for transfer of
the Jewish population • to the
Holy Land.
A total-of 18,000 Jewish immi-
grants arrived in Israel during
July. More than one-third came
from Romania.
A group of 790 Jews from Po-
land landed in Haifa froth Ven-
ice. The group is said to be the
last immigrant contingent which
will make the trip to Israel by
way of Italy. Henceforth, Israel-
bound Polish Jews will board
vessels sailing for Haifa at
Polish ports.
ISRAEL'S RATIONS
Israel's meat ration will be re-
duced from 300 grams (10.58
ounces) to 200 grams (7.05
ounces a week. Sugar will be cut
from 375 grams (13.12 ounces)
to 310 (10.85 ounces).
As compensation, fish, vegetables
and eggs will be available in in-
creased quantities in the next
few months. Potato imports from
the U. S. are expected to keep
the country supplied until the
local crop is harvested next
month.
Heartiest Good Wishes on
the New Year to
Our Relatives and
Brandeis University has an-
Friends
nounced the construction of a
new building on the university's
Waltham campus, the Science
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Hall Annex, to house the Breit-
man Family Physics Laboratory
Handleman
and other science facilities.
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Laboratory has been contributed
by the family of Samuel Breit-
man of Lynn, Mass., prominent
shoe manufacturer.
"None shall injure, none shall destroy any-
A formal dedication ceremony
"A Slow Boat to China" Is
where on my holy mountain, for the land
in the fall will mark the open- Okay—But for Fast Action It's a
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as
ing of the laboratory.
Want Ad.
the waters over the sea."—Isaiah 11.9.
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
Best wishes on the New Year to the officers and mem-
bers of the Northwest Hebrew Congregation, Men's Club,
the Sisterhood and -to the Jewish Community of Detroit.
On this Rosh Hashanah, 5711 we pray that a well-in-
formed Jewish people steeped in "the knowledge of the
Lord," shall be granted the blessings of justice and peace,
and that all markind shall have the joy of amity and pros-
perity.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
MR. and MRS. ABE KASLE
MR. and MRS. MORRIS HADRICH and SON
17542 Santa Rosa Drive
With Every Good Wish for a Happy
New Year to the Officers, Members,
Their Families and Friends.
MRS. ALBERT KURZMAN
a e aryant
JEWISH EUROPEAN WELFARE
NO. WOODWARD BRANCH
GREETINGS
the store for
to the leaders of the Government of Israel, the leaders
of her armed forces, and the heroic men and women con-
stituting them.
May you be given the infinite wisdom and strength
by the Almighty, to continue your leadership of the coun-
try of Israel.
discriminating women
extends
May this year fulfil our obligations to Jews all over the
world, and peace and happiness reign in the newly es-
tablished land of Israel and all over the world.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Kaplan
3263 Elmhurst Avenue
Traditional Greetings
and Best Wishes for
ntrizr ritim
Rosh Hashanah
7i:v5
1950 - 5711
May the New Year Awaken
A Keener Interest in the
Cultural Aspects of Jewish Life
Heartiest good wishes for a Happy
New Year to all Hebrew and Yiddish
Writers and to all readers of Jewish
literature. Jewry's highest goals are
rooted in our culture and our literature.
We pray that these high ideals may always
find encouragement from Jews everywhere.
to our Friends, Members
LOUIS LaMED FOUNDATION
and their Families, and
For the Advancement of Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
to the Jewish Community
To thp
artistic children's
Golden BOok selections of Simon
and Schuster (1230 6th Ave.,
New York 20) has been added
another attractive work: "The
Golden Funny Book" by Gert-
rude Crampton, with pictures by
J. P. Miller.
This book, in typical Simon-
Schuster style, is replete with
stories, poems, adventures, sug-
gestions for drawings, guessing
rhymes.
Then there a r e novelties:
scrambled rhymes and upside-
down nursery rhymes which add
style to a full volume of 76
pages which is full of fun, en-
tertainment, opportunity f o r
drawing.
This is, in its totality, among
the excellent Simon-Schuster
works. It will enchant the
young reader and will provide
an unusually fine choice for
gifts.
THE JEWISH NEWS-65
Friday, September 8, 1950
S. NIGER, President
RABBI MORRIS ADLER, Chairman of the Board
S. BERCOVICH, LOUIS LaMED, I. ROSENSHINE,
and MARY DOMBEY
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