Sam Goldbergs Mark
Golden Anniversary
Realtor Starts New Life — Again
Detroiter's Long Trek 'Home'
Henry Opperman, at 71, is a
MR. AND MRS. SAM GOLDBERG
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Goldberg,
17126 Pennington, celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary recently.
A family dinner was given by
their children, Mr. and Mrs. Mau-
rice Stren of Brautford, Ont., and
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Zusman of
Lafayette Circle, Southfield.
The Goldbergs, married in Aug-
ust 1914, came to Detroit from
Kiev, Russia. Mr. Goldberg has
been retired for 18 years. His wife,
who taught school in Odessa be-
fore her marriage, is active in
Hadassah. They have four grand-
children.
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education through,.
the fourth grade..
("every chance
had to get holdi.':
of a book, I react
it and tried
get more educa-
tion"), his first
joined the army. In November,
1918, he returned with the defeated
Austrians from the Russian-
Romanian front.
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CARMIEL, Israel — This new
town received its first 20 families
ployment, Opperman found work
of settlers last week, with an-
to help support his family, and
other 20 families due by the end
within five years, he had worked
Of September. Carmiel is on the
his way up to the managership
Acre-Safed road, cut out of the
of a luxury resort in the Austrian
mountains in the Galilee.
Alps.
All of the arrivals are veteran Is-
In 1926, he financed and took raelis, but in October, the first
over a credit department store. 20 immigrant families will move
Two years later, his success led to in straight from the port of Haifa.
Until bigger apartments are
the purchase of a 31-apartment
building, which he owns to this completed, the settlers are living
in a block of fiats. A temporary
day.
Peace came to the Oppermans. general store is being opened, and
Henry took a wife, and they had so is a clinic. Classrooms are
temporary; and older students
two daughters.
In March, 1938, the Nazis over- must attend school in Acre.
ran Austria. "One day after the
occupation, the Gestapo came with
big trucks and picked up all the
merchandise from my business.
One week later they came again
and put me in a concentration
camp. They looked through my
whole house, and took away all
job in a general
money, jewels and valuables they
could find.
store at age 12.
A year later he Opperman
"Four and a half months later
was giving a "substantial" part of they forced me to sign over 'vol-
his $2-$3 earnings to help keep untarily' my apartment building to
his family alive.
the German government. In 1938,
When the Russian armies over- they still tried after stealing Jew-
ran the city, the Oppermans fled, ish properties to make it look
leaving all their possessions behind legal."
The Oppermans were among
and walking over 30 miles across
the "lucky" ones. In September
the Carpatian Mountains. A train
of that year, they managed to
took them to Vienna, capital of
leave their homeland, leaving
Austria, where young Opperman
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respected member of his commun-
ity, a leading real estate salesman,
founder of his synagogue, active
Zionist — a long way from the
small town in Austria, where he
was born in 1893, one of seven
children of poor Jewish parents.
Opperman was honored recently
by Gross Realty as one of its top
salesmen. "Senior citizen" at the
firm, he has been with Gross nine
years.
But Oppermans memory,' even
for a senior citizen, is vivid. He
recalls his
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everything behind and settling
in Havana, Cuba.
With no money and lacking
knowledge of the Spanish language,
Opperman faced another crisis in
his life. The Joint Distribution
Committee came to his aid. Soon,
the undaunted Austrian had
learned enough Spanish to set him-
self up in real estate: apartment
rentals to immigrants like him-
self.
In June, 1940, the U.S i.mmigra-
tion papers came through. The
Oppermans joined his three.
brothers in South Bend. Ind.,
where he was taught the dry clean-
ing business. He then bought a
similar business in Detroit, and
the Oppermans, at last, settled
down in the home where they still
live.
Another start for Henry Opper-
man? Yes. 12 years later, he had
his eye on the field he'd always
been interested in: real estate. To
acquire a salesman's license, he
took evening courses at Rackham,
then prepared himself for the ex-
aminations. "As I never went to
English school, nor did I. have time
to go to evening courses, the study
of the 'red book' was to me very
difficult. especially the legal ex-
pressions.
"I studied very_ hard, and on
my 30th day
study I went
downtown for my exam. I was
of
Miss Shirley Richardson
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fortunate to pass on the first
try."
But Opperman was determined
to "get ahead": Three years ago
he took a University of Michigan
extension course for appraisal.
Working during the day. he would
study nights until 2 or 3 a.m.
Finally, with a B plus on the
exam and an appraisal certificate
under his arm, he had crossed
"another border."
Opperman has been active in the
World Zionist Organization for
over 50 years. He helped organize
Adas Shalom Synagogue soon after
he moved to Detroit and still is an
active member, s e r v i n g on its
board of directors, the News Club
board and the Northwest Hebrew
Memorial Park Board. He also is
chairman of several synagogue
committees.
A charter member of the Tik-
vah Lodge, Bnai Brith, he has
served over 10 years on the Emer-
gency Police Reserve and State
Civil Defense Corps.
The Oppermans live at 17320
Indiana.
"The really efficient laborer will
not crowd his day with work . . .
Those who work much do not
work hard."—Henry David Thor-
eau.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 18, 1964-25
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