Another document has been
The description of the tor-
added to the mass of evidence tures in• Ravensbruck is hor-
against the Nazi crimes. It is a rifying. The reader is left chill-
personal account, the story of ed by the description of the
the sufferings in the Matthaus - "ice room" where the impris-
.en and Ravensbruck concentra - , oiled were compelled to stand
tion camps by the sister of the 1 on ice barefooted for hours for
late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia minor offenses.
of New York.
Because she was the sister of
It is told in a deeply moving Fiorello LaGuardia, the Mayor
account entitled "My Story,' of New York, she was given
by. Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, as special consideration and her
told to and edited by the well life may have been saved out
known Jewish writer, S. L. of fear of repercussions against
Shneiderman, who is on the Germans in the Unite'd States.
staff of the Jewish Daily For-
Mrs. Gluck, who recently cel-
ward. It was published by Dav- ebrated he 80th birthday, was
id Mc Kay Co. (119 W. 40th, brought to New York with her
N. Y. 18)
daughter and grandson by her
Mrs. Gluck's story is well brother, Mayor La Guardia,
told and well edited. She re- shortly before his death in
lates about her birth in New 1946. They now reside in New
York, of an Italian father York.
and a Jewish mother (Irene
Relating her experiences
Coen), her father's service
after liberation and referring
in the U. S. Army as a band-
to an anti-fascist rally in Ber-
master, the • family's return
lin, Sept.9, 1945, Mrs. Gluck,
to Europe, Fiokello's re-em-
describing the program and
igration to the United States
the
sad memories that were
and her own eventual mar-
aroused by the gathering of
riage to a Hungarian Jew,
60,000 former concentration
Herman Gluck.
Mrs. Gluck, her husband, her camp inmates, states "A
daughter Yolanda Denes and wonderful poem written by a
the latter's husband and five- former prisoner was recited.
month-old son Richard were It was such a sad verse that
sent to Raevensbruck. It was not no ' one who heard it could
until many months after their have dry eyes. It was called

'The Childrens Shoes from
Lublin.' This poem was about
an actual happening. Thous-
ands of Jewish children had
been gathered together in
the Lublin Concentration
camp known as Majdanek.
One day the children were
told that they would be taken
to see a football game. The
poor innocent children re-
joiced and went away with
smiles on their faces and
laughter. Where they were
taken to? Nobody knew. All
trace of them was last until
one day there came back to
Lublin, not the children, but
thousands of pairs of shoes,
all sizes. The shoes came
back, but the children had
been taken to the gas chamb-
er."
In this form, new proof of
the vastness of the tragedy
under Hitlerism, of the im-
mensity of the crime, continues
to be gathered, keeping alive
the memory of the brutalities.
Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, by
relating her story in Matthau-
sen and Ravensbruck, keeps
open the darkest pages in his-
tory, retaining the hope that
anything akin to the Nazi crime
should never be repeated.
P. S.

its fund-raising rangements committee.
Champagne
Arthur Howard, president of
Supper" 5 p.m.
Detroit Chapter of Brandeis Uni-
Sunday at the
versify Associates, stated this
Sheraton - Cad
week that the response to this
iliac Hotel.
year's dinner
Honor e d
matches the
guests at the
enthusiasm
affair will be
that has been
Dr. Abram L.
evident in be-
Sachar, Bran-
half of Bran-
deis University
deis University
president; and
Sachar
among Detroit-
Wien International S c h o l a r s ers for many
Frederique Apffel of Strasbourg, years.
France, and Kamal Datta of New
Other offi-
Delhi, India.
cers of De-
The Wien International Schol- troit's B r a n-
arship program, established in deis Universi-
1958 by a Brandeis trustee, Law- ty Associates
rence A. Wien of New York, of- are: Alan E.
fers an educational opportunity Schwartz, Mil-
to foreign students to work at ton J. Miller
Brandeis and absorb the flavor of and Bud A.
America. They, in turn, stimulate R o s en t h a 1,
the university's student body and vice - pr e si-
exchange cultural values.
dents; Harold
A. Howard
Brandeis University of Wal- Victor, treasurer; L a w r en c e
tham, Mass., is largely supported Block, Richard Sloan and Wil-
by funds raised through the ef- liam J. Poplack, secretaries.
forts of its numerous associate
Harry Modell is chairman of
chapters throughout the United the ticket committee for the
States. Proceeds from the "Cham- dinner and Lawrence Block is
pagne Supper" will be turned 'tice-chairman.
over to the university.
Harold Modell is ticket chair-
Coast-to-coast bus trips (New
man. He is assisted by Abraham York to Los Angeles) have \been
Shiffman and Mrs. Saul G. Dun- cut to 66 hours, 40 minutes.

liberation that .Mrs. Gluck and
Yolanda learned that their hus-
bands were murdered in con-
centration camps by the Nazis.
Describing the inhuman ton .
tures of their victims by the
Nazis, Mrs. Gluck declared:
"It seems to me that the
pleasure the Nazis took in
tormenting innocent people
should have merited punish-
ment of the same kind. The
S. S. should have been put
into these camps for at least
a year, and they should have
been made to go through _
what the poor prisoners went
through. After that, they
should have been tried."
Describing her family back-
ground, Mrs. Gluck states that
both Christianity and Judaism
played important roles in her
early life; that her father show-
ed great understanding of her
mother's faith and insisted that
the children recite at bedtime
the "Shma Yisrael"; that her
mother took pride in her rich
Jewish heritage; that their grand-
mother Fiorina was a Luzzati and
that Fiorello was named after
her. •

8 Nazi Saboteurs

Exposed in Rachlis'
They Came to Kill'

Eugene Rachlis, co-author of
"Peter Stuyvesant and His New
York," has two books on the
Random House list this fall.
"They Came to Kill, the Story
of Eight Nazi Saboteurs in
America," will be published
Oct. 27. In the same month,
Rachlis' new Landmark book
for young people, "The Story
of the U.S. Coast Guard," will
reach the bookstores.
"They Came to. Kill" tells the
full story of the unique Nazi
spy ring for the first time. Ran-
dom House has already had an
enthusiastic comment from
Theodore H. White, author of
"The Making of the President,"
who had this to say about the
book: "One of the most excit-
ing untold stories of World War
Two—superbly written."
Rachlis is already at work on
a new book, "The Land Lords,"
to be written with John Mar-
qusee, president of United Im-
provement and Investment Cor-
poration, as the story of the
great builders and buyers of
American real estate during the
past century. Random House
says the book goes from A to Z,
ranging from John Jacob Astor
to William Zeckendorf.

-

e Journah

•

P

lorinord Co.

ought kr fieedom

Isodor Bush began
. • ult life fighting - for the immediate em cipation f the
for freedom in
ria-Hungary. And slaves
M• ouri,
-in in one speech,
though•he emi
ed to America, e never "S
ry I
rr
tiler against
ceased fighti
for human freed dkl.
b ther, son
st
er. has destroyed
Arriving
New York in 1 9,
• 's ftpb
ork—a Ire people."
began pu shing Israel's Hera , the fir
is significant in me
ring the char-
Jewish
ekly in America. I ter, B
ac er of Isodor Bush t
affer the Civil
joined r tives in Missouri
d b
ire War was over, whe
erne radicals were
promine in the affairs of th rowing
ate, he continued to
o f St. Lo . He became a m mber of the in control of t
fight for
reedom as he saw it. As a
City Coun and the Board of Education.
the constitutional convention,
Missouri
• een a slave sta
is man, who had fought so hard for the
the famous 90. freedosm of the slaves, refused to sign a
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the constitution for the state which would
slave -owners of Missouri attempted to
have restricted the citizenship rights of
take the state into the Confederacy. -A Southern sympathizers and former Con- -
convention was called and the loyal ele- federate soldiers.
ments formed a Union Party to preserve
It was an unpopular, dangerous stand
the state for the Federal Government.
to take, but Isodor Bush remained staunch
Isodor Bush was one of the candidates on
in his principle. In the end his faith in
the slate elected at this Convention.
American freedom was vindicated and all
When President Lincoln delivered his citizens;North and South, were united
in
Emancipation Proclamation, ;Rush fought full citizenship under one flag. -

P. LORILLARD COMPANY

;

SPRING

First with the Finest Cigarettes

through Lorillard research

11 — THE DETROIT JEWI SH NEWS Frid ay, Novembe r 17, 1961

LaGuardia's Sister Relates Tragedy in Brandeis U. Associates Will Hold
Cocentration Camp; Would Accord Nazis 'Champagne Supper' Fund-raising
Detroit Chapter of Brandeis itz, chairman and vice chairman,
Same Treatment They Gave Their Victims University
Associates will hold respectively, of the food and ar-

