Friday, June 21, 1957 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-1 0
McGill Study Traces Prejudice in Children
Urge Jews to Speak
Social Work Troubleshooter Helps
(JTA) —A report creasing dislike for Jews at age
in Public Places of, TORONTO
a McGill University study of nine" but that Jewish children
Rehabilitate Families All over World Turkish
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Acting prejudice among Jewish and expressed no dislike for Protes-
.
Some ten years ago, a young
Portuguese language teacher
named Deborah Levy came to
America on a National Council
of Jewish Women scholarship
to learn to be a medical social
worker. Her purpose: to help
lead back to normalcy the Jew-
ish survivors of Hitlerism.
This month, Deborah is back
in New York again, on her way
to work_ with
Egyptian a n
Hungarian ref-'.•
ugees in Brazil.
The last Ger-
m a n displaced
persons camp
for Jewish vic-
tims of the
Na zis, Foeh- .
renwald, w a s
closed this year
— she had
helped prepare
its inmates to
return to the
Miss Levy
outside world.
At the end of the war, Deb-
orah was leading an uncompli-
cated life as a Latin and. French
teacher at a Lisbon high school.
When Jewish refugee children
began pouring into the city, she
volunteered to help.
Seeing the shocking extent of
physical and emotional disturb-
ances among them, she decided
to seek special training offered
by NCJW, which sent her to
graduate school at McGill 'Uni-
versity in Moritreal.
Upon graduation, she was
promptly - hired by the Joint
Distribution C o m m i t t e_e for
work with refugees who had
tuberculosis—a widespread dis-
ease among survivors. She be-
came a troubleshooter in hospi-
tals and sanitoria in Germany
and Switzerland.
By the time she was sent to
Camp. Foehrenwald, most ref-
ugees were making their way-
- again in the outside world.
Foehrenwald held
eld 2,00Q - people
who' were 'afraid to 'leave .its
protective walls. Deeply maimed
in spirit, known as the "hard
core" cases they included men
and women unwilling to be-
lieve that they were cured of
illness, and young people who
had known nothing except the
camps since they were children.
A team- of highly-trained ex-.
perts, including Deborah, set
about a last-ditch effort to re-
deem- them. It took four years
of intensive work to persuade
the Foehrenwald residents that
normal life, work, responsibil-
ity, are interesting and worth-
while; and within their reach.
When finally the last of Foeh-
renWald's residents were pre-
paring to leave, in November,
1956, Deborah was sent to Vi-
enna, where 17,000 Hungarian
Jewish refugees waited for visas
to other lands.
She stayed until most of them
had emigrated, and then ac-
cepted the job with the United
HIAS Service which is taking
her to Sao Paulo. She will su-
pervise a resettlement program
for newcomers.
Deborah feels that her career
reached a certain climax when
she walked through the United
HIAS office in New York re-
cently. For there, waiting for
papers, sat one of the most dif-
ficult of her former "hard core"
families at Foehrenwald, now
eager to work, learn and take
part in the excitement of living.
Since Deborah began the
studies which launched this ca-
reer, Council has granted 129
overseas scholarships. More
than half of the former stu-
dents are now in Israel, their
work concerned with the myri-
ad human problems of immi-
grants from all over the world.
$700 Million Sent
to Israel Since End
of World War II
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pri-
vate gifts by Americans to
Israel accounted for about
$700,000,000 since the end of the
war, it is indicated in a report
on American post-war private
aid published by the U. S. De-
partment of Commerce. -
The report said that Israel
received the largest amount of
private aid given to any indi-
vidual country.
Most of the gifts to Israel
were made through institutions
rather than through individuals.
The .report states that 80 per
cent of the institutional remit-
tances are made by organiza-
tions connected with religious
groups.
Report Attempts Made
:for B,G, -Ike Meeting
LoNDON (JTA) The Israel
government is attempting to se-
cure an invitation from Wash-
ington for a visit by Premier
David Ben-Gurion to the White
House, the Sunday Observer re-
ported in a copyrighted story
from Tel Aviv.
"The current realignment
among the Middle East coun-
tries is not developing as had
been anticipated in Tel Aviv,"
the Sunday Observer said. -
The Israelis believe that the
policy of "cautious silence" has
produced no similarly moderate
attitude on the part of the Arab
states, the newspaper declared,
and Israeli officials "think this
makes the need for Ben-Gur-
ion's Washington talks more
pressing than • ever."
,
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German Songs Allowed
at Concert in Israel.
under pressure of recent criti-
cism in official quarters of
minority groups, Istanbul Jewish
communal leaders have em-
barked on a campaign designed
to make Jews speak Turkish in
public places.
The campaign, carried on in
synagogues and the Jewish
press, urges Jews not to "shout"
in French or Ladino, the lan-
guage spoken by . Sephardic
Jews, in buses, restaurants,
hotels, night clubs or at the
beach.
Although recent remarks in
public by important Turkish
leaders about the use • of foreign
languages by minority groups
were aimed chiefly at the Greek
minorities the Turkish people
have generalized these remarks
to include all minorities.
The Jewish community was
the first to react to the "speak
Turkish" campaign and, a spe-
cial commission was organized
to impliment it within the com-
munity. Most Turkish Jews over
30 years of age still speak La-
dino or French as their major
language.
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six years" was found, although
"both Protestants and Jews pre-
ferred those of their own reli-
gious group."
The report noted that the
Protestant children "showed in-
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PELHAM, N.Y. (JTA) — A
Westchester Jewish congregation
opened a fight against zoning
regulations which bar it from
using a residential property as a
synagogue.
The Pelham. Jewish Center
filed a petition with the Pel-
ham Board of Trustees asking
changes in the zoning ordinance,
charging that the law . violates
federal and station constitu-
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Jewish Center of• its property
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house of worship without due
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The petitiong • held that the
ordinance was illegal in barring
any place of worship from any
residential area in the village.
The congregation is the first in
Pelham's history.
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These changes in effect exclude
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War Claims Against Italy
Must Be Filed by June 28
American citizens who have
claims against Italy for losses
or damage to property suffered
during World War II, on the
basis of Article 78 of the Peace
Treaty with Italy, must file ap-
plications not later than June 28,
1957, the World Jewish Con-
gress in New York reports.
Claims should be filed di-
rectly with the Minister° del
Tesoro, Raggionerie dello Stato
Ufficio Beni Alleati e Nemici,
Via Tor Fiorenza, 35, Rome,
Italy.
The WJC said that applica-
tions may also be filed by Nazi
persecutees who fled to the
United States and had their
possessions in transit, such as
lift vans, impounded by the
Italians and then seized by the
Nazis at such ports as Trieste
and Naples.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)
o r
the first time since the estab-
lishment of Israel, German
songs were accepted by Israelis
at a concert given by Jennie
Tourel, star singer of the Met-
ropolitan Opera in New York.
She sang four numbers dur-
ing a concert presented by the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
She was not interrupted by the
audience. A previous attempt to
present songs by Schubert some
time ago drew boos and catcalls
from the audience.
The first public lecture by a
German speaker in Israel took
place here this week when H.
Kuerstermeyer, correspondent
for a German news agency, par-
ticipated in a symposium on Is-
rael's foreign relations.
German Province Bars
UN Forces In Gaza, Sinai
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)--
The UN released a breakdown
of UN units serving in the Em-
ergency Force in Sinai and
Gaza. The individual strength
of the 10 countries providing
troops is as follows: Brazil, 530;
Canada, 1,180; Colombia„ 520;
Denmark, 380; Finland, 250;, In-
dia, 970; Indonesia, 580; Nor-
way, 470; Sweden 330 and Yu-
Protestant school children aged tants at any of the ages cov-
5 to 10 in a Montreal school was ered.
presented here at a meeting of
The study was apparently
the Canadian Psychological As- restricted to Jewish and Protes-
sociation.
tant children becauuse in Mont-
An "almost total lack of pre- real the Catholics attend paro-
judice between Protestant and chial schools.
Films on Nazi Death Camps
NEW YORK (AJP)—A report
from Stuttgart, Germany, re-
veals that the State Motion Pic-
ture Censorship Board of Baden-
Wuertemberg has barred school
showings of a newsreel docu-
me•tary on Israel titled "Israel
—Land of Hope."
The board also barred a
French film, "Night and Fog,"
depicting life in a concentration
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