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German Advisory Body to Advance Anti-Nazi Studies
Left to right, at a special gifts committee rally: Mesdames
Leon Kay, Philip Slomovitz, Milton Maddin, Samuel Cohl, Mil-
ton Sorock, Bert Coleman, Sam Shekter, Frank Wetsman, Max
Zivian and Herman August.
Detroit Hadassah Gets Into Action
for New Year's Honor Roll Campaign
On Aug. 16, at a meeting in
the home of Mrs. Leon Kay,
19221 Strathcona, the special
gifts committee of Detroit Chap-
ter of Hadassah commenced its
activities for the annual Honor
Roll solicitations.
Inspirational messages were
delivered by Mrs. I. Jerome
Hauser, president: Mrs. Milton
Sorock, Honor Roll vice presi-
dent; and Mrs. Sam Shekter,
special gifts chairman.
A report on the recent tour
of Israel by a Detroit delegation
that attended the dedication of
the Hadassah-Hebrew Univer-
sity Medical Center, which took
place Aug. 3, was given by Mrs.
Shekter, who was one of the De-
troit guests at the dedication.
The opening meeting of the
1960-61 Honor Roll drive will
be held Tuesday, Sept. 27, at
Temple Israel, Mrs. Hauser
announced.
Mrs. Hauser said that in ad-
dition to the job ahead—of com-
pleting, furnishing and equip-
ping the Medical Center and the
Henrietta Szold School of Nurs-
ing--"Hadassah must continue
its high standard of other serv-
ices, including its medical acti-
vities, Youth Aliyah child res-
cue and rehabilitation, vocation-
al education, community health
services, land reclamation
through the Jewish National
Fund and its American affairs
program."
Mrs. Shekter, in her report of
the Israel pilgrimage by the Ha-
dassah delegation, described im-
pressive dedication ceremonies
and told of the progress that
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developing medical services in
Israel. She referred to the Ha-
dassah-Hebrew University Medi-
cal Center as "one of the most
powerful weapons of defense—
not against man. but against the
destructive forces of disease."
Ignore Arab Prying
into Jewish Trade,
Hamburg Firms Told
HAMBURG, (JTA) — The
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
has instructed all of its mem-
bers to refuse to fill out ques-
itionnaires submitted by the
Arab League boycott office
requesting written evidence
that certain German export
firms were not Jewish owned.
In a circular letter to its
'membership, the Chamber
I pointed out that, while consid-
erable importance was to be at-
tached to the development of
Arab-West German trade, the
requests for information were
contrary to accepted interna-
tional trade practices.
The action by the Chamber
of Commerce here. represented
a departure from the previous
German attitude, according to
which, in the past, German
trade associations simply trans-
mitted the Arab demands to
their members without com-
ment. This, together with the
fact that the Bonn Government
never intervened against such
practices, gave the impression
that West Germany tacitly con-
doned the boycott.
Belzer Hassidim Name
Youth as Their Rebbe
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
Twelve-year-old Issacher D o v
"B e r el e" Rokeach will be
named the new Belzer Rebbe
when he reaches the age of 18,
it was decided here at a meet-
ing of 2,000 Belzer Hassidim,
including 100 delegates from
overseas.
The meeting was convened
to coincide with the third anni-
versary of the death of Rabbi
Aaron Rokeach, the late Belzer
Rebbe. The Belzer dynasty
dates back four centuries and
was named for Belz, the town
in Poland where the rabbinic
family lived.
The hassidim also decided to
raise $250,000 to enlarge the
Belzer Yeshiva in Jerusalem
and to construct a new syna-
gogue building here to honor
the late Rebbe. The speakers,
all of whom stressed the need
for strengthening the Belzer
influence throughout world
Jewry, included Rabbi Moses
Shapiro, head of the American
Belzer Hassidhn.
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BONN, (JTA) — A 12-man
commission of scholars and
educators was established by
the West German Government
to advise the states in the Fed-
eral Republic about increasing
and improving civic education,
so that the pupils in the Ger-
man schools may know more
about the anti-democratic and
anti-Semitic policies and prac-
tees of the Nazi regime.
The commission was set up
in accordance with plans pro-
posed in Parliament by Dr. Ger-
hard Schroeder, Federal Min-
ister of Education, as a result
of the outbreak of swastika-
s m e a r i n g s and anti-Semitic
sloganeering that spread
throughout the country last
winter. Prof. Max Horkheimer,
prominent Jewish - German
social scientist, is• a member of
the commission.
The plan is for the commis
sion to advise the states on
methods of teaching pupils in
civics and history courses in
such a way that they would
understand the unsocial nature
of Nazism. The Federal Gov-
ernment itself does not control
the educational systems in the
states, jurisdiction in that re-
spect being reserved, constitu-
tionally, to the state govern-
ments.
Germany's Entertainment
Mobilized Against Nazism
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
West German entertainment
industry has been mobilized
to carry to the German people
the truth about the Third
Reich, the newspaper Variety
reported. It said show business
was "playing a major role via
television, films, traveling ex-
hibits and shows in intensify-
ing the examination of the
Third Reich."
The paper reported that at
the recent Mannheim document-
ary film fest, "thousands of
students saw films dealing with
the Nazi era." It said the West
German Government had
bought prints of the French
documentary, "Night and Fog,"
dealing with the Nazi regime,
and was showing the film to
students and organized groups.
In Frankfurt, "10,000 shocked
Germans" attended the first
week of an exhibit, "Night De-
scended Over Germany," de-
picting the crimes of the Hitler
regime, the paper stated. In
Dortmund, an exhibit of news-
paper clippings and documents
on National Socialism was
Court Orders Return
of Jewish Property
Bought Under Nazis
BONN, (JTA)—A test case
which may ultimately involve
about • 250,000 Germans with
claims totaling 1,500,000,000
Deutschemarks (nearly $400,000,.
000) was decided against a
claimant who sought government
repayment for losses incurred be-
cause he bought a Jew's property
"in good faith" during the Nazi
regime.
The case, which will be ap-
pealed to Superior Court, was a
test on behalf of a farmer at
Frankenthal. In 1938, the farmer
had bought the property of a
Jewish neighbor. After the war,
he was ordered to return to the
original owner not only the
property but an additional 25,-
500 Deutschemarks (about $6,-
500).
The Union of Loyal Persons
Injured by Restitution, which is
advancing the cause of "loyal
purchasers," contends that Ger-
mans who bought Jewish property
under the Nazi regime had ac-
tually "saved Jewish lives, free-
ing persons from concentration
camps by enabling them to emi-
grate."
Dr. A. Seger, president of the
Union, says there are 350,000
"loyal purchasers" in the country,
with claims totaling approximate-
ly a billion and a half Deutsche-
marks. -
opened for schools by the
Westphalian-Lower Rhenish In-
stitute for Newspaper Research,
it reported.
The West German television
network recently carried a pro-
gram dealing with the Jews
who survived the concentration
camps and now live in Ger-
many. Another TV program
dealt with the torture of the
Jews under the Hitler regime.
This fall, the paper reported,
the West German network will
carry a series of programs spon-
sored by the Cologne station
and the South German network
called "the road into the Abyss,
1933 to 1945."
On the stage, the paper said,
Berthold Brecht's play, "Sch-
weik in the Second World
War," has been a sensation. The
story is of a Czech soldier who
defies the Nazis in an attempt
to protect his Jewish friends.
The paper noted that "the film
industry in Germany has yet to
meet the problems of the Nazi
era head-on with a true examina-
tion of Hitler and his hench-
men." It criticized a number of
recently produced films on the
Nazi era which, it said, made the
Nazis "the traditional tad men'
and the non-Nazi Germans the
`good brave soldiers' playing out
their roles in a •war not of their
making."
ATTENTION
DETROIT JEWS
I collect old, torn sacred books
and old religious articles, and
bring them to their eternal rest.
PLEASE CALL
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located at: 13925 LINWOOD, cor. Oakman Ct.
announces that tickets for seats for the High Holidays
are now available at the synagogue.
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8 a.m. - 12 noon - 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Also Saturday Night after Mariv.
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will be for members, members' children and
members' parents only.
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officiating
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Chanting the Liturgy
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