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VOLUME 18—No. 21
Allied Jewish
Editorial, Page 4
708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, February 2, 1951
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Israel To Take In 30,000 in 60
Days; Shazar Rejected by USS
Underground to Freedom!
How Jewish Secret Agents
Rescue Stalin's Victims
By JOE HARRISON FRIED
Abe Kasle Selected
Campaign Leader;
'51 Aim: $6 000 000
(Copyright, 1951, American Jewish Press. All rights reserved).
Second in a Series of Three Articles
Mrs. B is a short, stocky little woman blessed with ten
talented fingers and two healthy children. As a child in
Europe, Mrs. B yearned for a .career tickling the keyboard
of a grand piano.
Her dream never quite came true. Instead, like many Jewish
newcomers to America, she went to work in New York City's
teeming garment center in order to obtain the necessities of life_
Her talented fingers have operated a sewing machine this past
score of years.
- Then there is Mr. Z, a fine old man known to the kids around
the block as just plain "Zada." For years he operated a neigh-
borhood grocery store and watched the young ones grow up,
marry, and rear children. Relying heavily upon the effectiveness
of his trusted cane, the 87-year-old Zada edges his way through
crowded streets of the Lower East Side three times daily for
Services at the synagogue.
_ Mrs. B, Mr. Z, and others like them, differ little in outward
appearance from the more than seven million human beings who
cram the subways and pack the automats in the world's largest
community. And therein lies their great worth to the Jewish
underground operating inside the Iron Curtain countries, and
which to date has facilitated the rescue of more than 1,000 Jews
Which the Soviet Union-ddminated regimes have refused to allow
to migrate to a safe haven in Israel.
Mrs. B and Mr. Z are links in the vital comm unication chain
established by Mr. "Aleph" and thR Jewish Labor Committee to
rescue active Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Through
Mrs. B. and Mr. Z, agents of the Jewish underground in Poland
and 4omania are able to scribble coded messages—seemingly
innocent to the censor, but packed full of vital data once de-
ciphered—to Mr. "Aleph" in the United States.
To address the letters directly to Mr. "Aleph" at his Ameri-
can headquarters would mean certain death for Jewish agents
inside the Iron Curtain. Instead they address the letters to Mrs.
B and Mr. Z who in turn rush the data to Mr. "Aleph."
One such letter arrived this week. It read in part: "Thirty-
two members of the `mishpacha' (family) attended the wedding
. Chaim wants to know if Belka, thanked you for the gifts . . ."
Three weeks before a member of the U. B. Polish secret police
or a Communist censor carefully scrutinized this same letter be-
fore allowing the words to leave Poland's prison-like borders for
the free outside world. He checked to make certain there would
be no leak; that "untruths" about treatment of Jews in. Poland
would not be spread to -the "capitalistic" world. Apparently, he
found nothing wrong.
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Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
NEW YORK—Thirty thousand home-
less Jews in Eastern Europe and Moslem
lands mnst be moved to Israel in the next
60 days if the United Jewish Appeal's ern-. -
ergency program for the mass transfer
of 200,000 Jews to Israel is to be carried
out before the expiration of emigration
deadlines in some of these countries, Ed.
ward M. M. Warburg, general chairman
of the UJA campaign, Tuesday told worn-
en delegates from all parts of the country,
at the opening meeting at Hotel Plaza of
a two-day conference to launch the 1951
drive of the National UJA Women's
Division.
Russia Rejects Shazar
As Envoy from Israel
It became known this week that Soviet
Russia had rejected Israel's nomination of
Zalman Shazar (Rubashov) as her envoy to
the USSR. Shazar, former Israel Minister
of Education, was a Zionist leader in Czar-
ist Russia. His rejection is attributed to
the anti-Zionist policies of the Russian
government. It now is believed that Dr.
Shmuel Elyashiv, Israel Minister to Czecho-
slovakia, will be named to the Moscow post.
4BE • WASLE
Abe Kasle, prominent community lead-
er, for the past five years president of the
United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, has
been named chairman of the 1951 Allied
Jewish Campaign.
Under his leadership, the campaign or-
ganization hopes to raise $6,000,000 this
year—the aim being to secure an all-time
high in fund-raising in Detroit.
Story and biographical sketch of
Mr. Kasle, Page 2; Editorial, Page 4
Mr. Warburg told the delegates that the
UJA in the last 30 days had made possible the
movement to Israel of 15,000 Jews from Ro-
mania, Iraq, and Iran but that only if neces-
sary funds are on hand can the emigration
program for the months of February and
March be carried out. He urged the women
delegates from 40 leading cities to spare no
time in launching the Women's Division on.
their return home.
"The UJA," he declared, "is faced with one
of the greatest emergencies in its 12-year his-
tory. It must hasten the resettlement of 200,-
000 men, women, and children who must be
moved to Israel in the shortest possible time.*
He related this crisis to mounting world ten-
sions, asserting that "any breakdown of the
world's peace on a large scale will make im-
possible the transfer to safety and freedom of
Jews who live in lands of fear and hate."
(Continued on Page 20)
Israel Symphony Here Sunday:
The famous Israel Phil-
appearance
in
Detroit
Sunday afternoon, at
harmonic Orchestra will make. its long-awaited
the Masonic Auditorium, under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky. Every seat is ex-
pected to be filled for the occasion. Last week, DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN accepted, at a
ceremony in his home in Princeton, N. J., the score of "Symphony No. 2—David" a new
—AJP Photo
Border Inspection:
Border patrols; such
as those shown in action above, carefully check the creden-
tials of Jews seeking escape from the dungeon-like bleakness
the Soviet-dominated countries in Europe. The anti-Com-
munist Jewish underground has assisted more than 1,000
such Jews to escape Poland and other Soviet-controlled states
a
in the past year.
Israeli musical composition dedicated to him by its composer Menahem Avidom, secretary
general of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, on the occasion of the 40-city American tour
of the Orchestra presented by the American Fund for Israel Institutions under the manage-
ment of S. Hurok. The work tells of the legend of King David and was written while Israel's
war of independence reached its peak—a war that has been compared to David's fight
against Goliath, and was victorious for the same qualities that helped the boy David to over-
whelm his mighty adversary. From the left in the photo OSCAR M. LAZRUS, fund direc-
tor; Mrs. JEAN NORMAN, co-chairman of fund's Israel Advisory Board: Mr. AVIDOM,
HERBERT KATZMAN, fund director, Dr. Einstein, HARRY C. OPPENHEIMER, fund direc-
tor, and ERICH TOEPLITZ, flutist in the Orchestra.
Welcome to Detroit, Israel Philharmonic Symphony