New Re6iird . for. :Generosity Set at • Initial -Pate Setters Allied Jewish CanipaignEvent Report of Meeting at Paul Zuckerman Home on This Page Editorial on Page 4 HE JEWISH NEWS Commentator Warns of Danger of Community — Control of r- F=2 4C)l MICI-1IGA.N .4 A Weekly Review Newspapers f Jewish Events Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—incorporating' The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XL, No. 23 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. Serious Challenges- in Year of Crisis Can Be Met by Allied Campaign Editorial Page 4 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, Feb. 2, 1962 — $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Poland Finds Auschwitz Diary Reveals Nazi Ca mp Horror Tale • . U1 Action Sought on Soviet Jewry's Emigration. Rights: -Day of Prayer Proclained UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA) — Appeals to the United Nations Subcom-mission on Prevention of Dis- crimination and Protection of Minorities, now in session here, to include reunification of families in its report on the rights of individuals to emigrate from the coun- try ' of their residence were voiced by representatives of the World Jewish Congress and the Agudath - Israel World Organizations. The appeals were aimed at secur- ing the right of Jews to leave the Soviet Union and join their families abroad. Appearing before the Subcommittee on behalf of the World Jewish Congress, Ralph Zackliri referred to two situations arising from the denial of this right, with a special humanitarian significance. These situations, he said, were: 1.. The question of divided families; 2. The question of expatriation of a. group to a country for, which they felt some binding tie for national, re- ligious or sentimental reasons. -Dr. Isaac Lewin, speaking at the Subcommission on behalf-of the World Agudah, also emphasized the need for specific mention of the right of persons to emi- grate for purpose of family reunification, In Jerusalem, Israel's Chief Rabbinate proclaimed Thursday as a special day of prayer on behalf of the Jews in the Soviet Union and called upon Jewish communities throughout the world to gather in their houses of wor- ship, prescribing a special, solemn ritual. - Mrs. Wineman to Receive 1962 Butzel Award LONDON, (JTA)—Diary - notations written by a Jew incarcerated by the Nazis in the Lodz ghetto in_ 1942 and 1943, telling the pitiful story of starva- tion, death — and the will to live and to save his daughter's life — are published in the Warsaw newspaper, Nowa Kultura, which arrived here Monday. The diary, according to Nowa Kultura, was found last summer by Polish authorities in charge of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. The author, who is identified in the manuscript only by the initials N.N., wrote in Yiddish, framing his diary in the form of letters to someone called "Dear Willy." The manuscript was found in a metal drum buried in the ground near Creamatorium III of the infamous Auschwitz camp. There were 354 sheets, of which 50 were totally disintegrated,. 174 mostly illegible except for a few words, and the remainder quite readable. The pages still readable depict life in the Lodz ghetto, where the Jewish population had risen to about 200,000. The last 70,000 Jews from Lodz were sent to Auschwitz in the summer of 19,44, and most of them were murdered by the Nazis. In his diary, N.N. gave details about the starvation in the ghetto, severely criticized Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, Jewish head of the ghetto government, who was later executed by the Nazis, and told of the writer's pathetic efforts to save the life of his daughter who may have died of starvation. Reporting the fantastically high prices of food in the ghetto, N.N. noted that the only salva- tion for his daughter would , have been food. "But," he added ; "fa go and buy something, who has money for that? Whole treasures would not be sufficient. In a word, it is practically impossible to save anyone." Despite his despair, N.N. wrote, according to Nowa Kultura: "As a former lover of the Bible, together with the whole tortured brotherhood of ghetto workers, I cry out: And, weltering in your own blood, you shall live." N. N., evidently, was killed, and his body disposed of in Crematorium III. According to the Polish Commission for Research into Nazi Crimes, word was received last summer from a former member of the special Nazi detail assigned to cremate the bodies of gassed Jews, that 20 metal drums, containing documents, had been buried near the crematorium. The N.N. manuscript was in the first of the containers discovered when the commission started excavating the area last summer. The newspaper reports that plans for further excavations are proceeding. $1,958,000 Initial Allied Campaign Gifts Marti Unofficial Open' ing of _Drive . Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign had an excellent start Tuesday evening, when the Pace Setters' group, meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zuckerman, 27651 Fairway Hills Drive, Birmingham, announced total subscriptions of $1,958,000--a sum raised from contributors who increased their last year's gifts by $350,000. The Pace Setters are members of the big givers' group that previously met annually at the home of C. William Sucher and the late Mrs. Sucher to mark the unofficial opening of the drive, and the meetings became nationally famous as the "Sucher meetings." This year, due to the recent death of Mrs. Sucher, the local of the gathering was transferred to the home of the chairman of the Allied Jewish Campaign. The most notable factor about the Tuesday meeting was the participation in it of an impressive group of younger men who are rising in the ranks of leadership and as large contributors. Some of the large increases reported Tuesday, notably those of Max M. Fisher and Max Zivian, presidents of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the United Jewish Charities; Zuckerman, Al and Tom Borman, Philip (Continued on Page 5) , MRS. HENRY WINEMAN Mrs. Henry Wineman will receive•the 1962 Fred M. Butzel Award at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion, at the Jewish Center, Tuesday evening. Fresh Air Society will be hon- ored at a dinner preceding the meeting, marking the camping group's 60th an- niversary. - • .- Story on Page 5 Editorial on Page 4 Campaign leaders and guest speakers at Zuckerman meeting: From the left, Sol Eisenberg, Al Taubman, Charles Paul Zuckerman, Al Borman, Gen. Chaim Herzog, Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman and Phillip Stollman. shenson, Ger-