THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 11, 1966-15 Yank's Memory of Paris Liberation: a Synagogue With No Young People Louis Berry Honored With Seminary s Anniversary Medal Louis Berry, who is prominently associated with many community and philanthropic endeavors, has been designated to receive the 80th anniversary medal of the Jewish was little to eat, but the old man and his wife had a little Theological Seminary of America. schnapps and told interesting The medal, in recognition of his stories. "They revealed hardships "exceptional contributions to the that we never before realized ex- well-being of the Jewish commun- isted under Nazi tyranny. The ity and his fellow man," will be Nazis had stripped his furniture conferred upon him at the semin- shop, taken his son away." ary's founders day dinner Sunday "We didn't know about the ex- evening, at the New York Hilton tent of the atrocities until we got Hotel. Principal speakers will be to Germany," Kahn recalls. "My wife back home knew more of what was going on against the Beth Moses Slates Jews than we in the army did." Youth Info Program That evening, the synagogue was The youth commission of Cong. to reopen for Friday night serv- Beth Moses will sponsor an orien- ices for the first time since the occupation by the Germans in June tation meeting 8 p.m. Sunday to 1940. acquaint parents with opportuni- Kahn doesn't know the name of ties available to their children the synagogue, but it was prob- through the synagogue's youth ably the Rothschild Synagogue, in program. the heart of the Jewish ghetto. Featured in the program will "By the time we arrived there, be Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper; the congregation, which numbered Sam Burnstein, youth commission approximately 100, was seated and chairman; Stan and Don Skupsky, the services had gotten under way. advisers for the Senior and Junior "As we walked down the center United Synagogue Youth; Jean aisle of the huge building with its Papo, past USY president; Nancye two balconies on either side, we Farkus, Senior USY president; and GIs with our steel helmets, rifles Sharon Freedman, Junior USY slung over our shoulders and hob- president. Besides discussing USY nailed army shoes, created a sen- and junior congregation, they also will deal with the scholarship pro- sation among the congregation." Their bewilderment gave away gram and youth opportunities for leadership. A filmstrip, "This Is to elation, however, when they Your in USY," will be pre- learned that these young Ameri- sented, Life and refreshments will be can soldiers were of Jewish par- served. All parents entSge. "They completely forgot munity are invited. of the com- services were being conducted and rushed from their pews to greet us." By CHARLOTTE HYAMS They called it the City of Light,1 but when Pvt. Wellington S. Kahn saw Paris at the close of August 1944, it was just emerging from four years of darkness. In some ways—counting the num- ber of Jews carried away by the Nazis to their death — it would never be light again. Kahn — "Bill" to the folks in Mikado, Mich., who do business with Bill Kahn Real Estate—dug up some old memories In a pile of letters. They're about all that's left from his service with the HQ and HQ Battery of the 49th AAA Brigade attached to the First Army. Kahn is a veteran of five cam- paigns during the European Theater of Operations — Nor- mandy, Northern France, Arden- nes, Rhineland and Central Eu- rope. The Liberation of Paris is one of the "happier" moments. His memory was jogged when Paramount Pictures sent out an ap- peal for veterans of the liberation forces in connection with its film, "Is Paris Burning?," to premiere Thursday night at the Music Hall Theater. Paris, for those with a foggy memory for history, was pinpointed for destruction by a power-mad Hitler. Although the city remained intact through the intervention of a German general, the Nazi occupa- tion left its horrible mark. Kahn and another Michigan man in his outfit, Stuart Goldfarb of Jackson, walked through Paris soon after the liberation by Allied forces Aug. 25, 1944. They took in the He added: "No young people sights like tourists and accepted were to be seen. They had long the embr ac es of the liberated ago been taken custody by the French. They could see no Jews. Germans." Stopping at a large street map Kahn also noticed there was no to figure out their location. Kahn Tora in the bare synagogue. and Goldfarb were approached by After the hour-long service, an elderly, bearded man who en- gaged them in conversation. "He Kahn recalls, he and Pvt. Goldfarb was so startled and happy to see were invited to dine at a Jewish a soldier of Jewish descent after restaurant. "People who were still all these years under Nazi rule," afraid to attend synagogue heard Kahn wrote to his wife, "that we were there, and while we were he became momentarily speech- escorted from the synagogue they less. Tears of happiness filled his came out of their homes into the eyes as he grasped our hands narrow street to literally mob us. vigorously and expressed gratitude Many an aged grandmother would for our coming." He, too, was a beg us for a happy greeting and cheek kiss." Jew. When they arrived at the restau- In a surge of good will, the old man took his liberators captive and rant they were again met by small begged them to go home with him. groups, "wined and dined beyond His apartment was at the top belief." of a six-story building. There Kahn later met a well-to-do Jew- ish man who had saved his five sons by paying off the Germans. "For one son alone, he paid them CONGRATULATIONS $1,700." These same German occupation forces circulated counterfeit dol- lar bills—Kahn has one in his pos- session—that bore, inside, a pic- ture of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and the inscription: "Jewish money financed the war." Edward H. Friedman, C.L.U. of Colman-Friedman Agency, Inc. 18141 James Conzens Detroit, Michigan 48235 Sun Life of America is ex- tremely proud to announce that Mr. Edward H. Friedman has been granted the Char- tered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.) Degree by the Ameri- can College of Life Under- writers. Mr. Friedman received his diploma on September 28th in New Orleans at the annual conferment dinner of The American College of Life Underwriters held in conjunc- tion with the National Associ- ation of Life Underwriters' Annual Meeting. SUN 2i3 LIFE SURAACt COWAN+ Of •blECCA SUN 1.. , C IPALT.1075 ■00 HOME OFFICE BALTIMORE, MD. 21201 Arthur J. Goldberg, United States ambassador to the United Nations, and Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Institute of Science and the Amer- ican ORT Federation. In Detroit, he has served on the boards of the Jewish Welfare Federation, Sinai Hospital, North End Clinic and the Berry has been active in the Jewish Social Service Bureau. leadership councils of the seminary A devoted supporter of Seminary for many years. He is a member programs, he received that organi- of its board of overseers, past zation's Louis Marshall Award in chairman of the national planning 1964 for his dedication to the high committee and a founder of the principles of Judaism and his greater seminary. He is president leadership in endeavors that enrich of Congregation Shaarey Zedek. the life of the community. One of America's leading hotel CHRISTMAS IN ISRAEL DEC. 22 TO JAN. 1 $5 9900 LAS VEGAS SAN FRANCISCO HONOLULU magnates, builders and philan- thropists, Berry is president of In- ternational Hotels, Inc., which op- erates a chain of more than 10 hotels nationally. Michigan's Great Lakes seacoast, served by the St. Lawrence Sea- way, stretches out longer than the distance from the top of Maine to Florida's tip. 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