When Louis Berry Helped Honor Dr. Hershman
Friday, May 5, 1967-27
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Canada Bars Religious Reference
on Applications for Immigration
The honor to be accorded to Louis Berry at
the annual dinner of the Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit May 10 at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek serves to review the communal activities
of Louis Berry. A former Allied Jewish
Campaign chairman, a leader in efforts to assist
the Israel defense forces when Israel rose to
statehood, a leader in Shaarey Zedek from the
presidency of which he retired last month, Berry
was active in many other communal services. This
historic photo, taken at the Hanuka dinner of
Shaarey Zedek in 1955, shows Berry at the presen-
tation of the portrait of Dr. Abraham M. Hershman
to the congregation. Berry, on the right, was chair-
man of the committee which planned the honor
for Rabbi Hershman (extreme left). In the photo
also is Samuel Benavie, who was chairman of the
public relations committee for Shaarey Zedek.
'Father-Child' Relationship Between Guards,
Inmates of Nazi Camps Revealed by Elkins
By MALCOLM ABRAMS
In his "Slavery: A Problem in
American Institutional and Intel-
lectual Life," (Grosset's Universal
Library, NY) Stanley M. Elkins
draws a startling analogy between
slavery in the Southern United
States and the Nazi concentration
camp.
Elkins quotes from the writings
of inmates to expose similarities
in personality between the Negro
slave and the concentration camp
prisoner. lie deals with the in- i
mates who were in the camps for
a considerable length of time and
disregards those put immediately
to their deaths on arrival or short-
ly thereafter.
In the concentration camp, all
social bonds were broken. Every
role that the individual was accus-
tomed to disappeared. His society
and culture were totally removed.
He found himself in the horrible
situation of being dependent on
only one man, his SS guard. He
was not only dependent for food.
shelter, warmth, the right to de-
fecate and safety from torture.
but for his very existence. At any
time, and for the most minute rea-
son he could be murdered.
The result was, as Elkins calls
it, a "perverted patriarchy" which
cannot be considered too dissimi-
lar from the attitude of the slave.
who came to look on his master as
his "white father." Numerous ex-
amples are put forward by Elkins
to substantiate the claim of the
development of a father-child re-
lationship in the camps. Some of
these illustrations have been un-
heard of and are quite grotesque.
Direct from the text are examples
of this childish and dependent per-
sonality:
"The inmates' sexual impo-
tence brought about a disap-
pearance of sexuality in their
talk; instead excretory functions
occupied them endlessly. They
lost many of the customary inhi-
bitions as to soiling their beds
and their persons. Their humor
was shot with silliness and they
giggled like children when one
of them would expel wind."
"Many old prisoners actually
imitated the SS: they would sew
and mend their uniforms in such
a way as to make them look like
those of the SS—even though they
risked punishment for it. When
asked why they did it, they ad-
mitted that they loved to look like
. . . the guards."
Further, Elkins points out that
the Kapo, the prisoner placed in a
superVisory position over his fel-
low inmates "Not only behaved
with slavish servility io the SS . .
but often outdid the SS in sheer
brutality . . ."
Of course, the concentration
camp was an extremely more
severe experience than Southern
slavery and as a result the chang-
ed personality which took decades
to develop in America-was success-
fully produced in camp inmates in
a matter of months. Thus it seems I
evident that there is a justification
for comparison between these two
perverted institutions.
Elkins proceeds in his examina-
tion by drawing on three theories
lions will be taken. In addition,
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MONTREAL — Changes in the
Canadian government's immigra- immigrant should be admitted.
tion policies, including the out- : One was the personal assessment
right elimination of any reference Canadian
of the would-be
immigrant
by
immigration
experts.
to a prospective immigrant's reli- , rhe second was the availability of
gion, were announced here by the ! jobs in Canada in the category for
ministry of manpower and immi- which the potential immigrant was
gration.
suited."
Tom Kent, deputy minister of
Marchand also announced li-
immigration and manpower, noti- heralization
of the rules regard-
n
fied the Canadian Jewish Congress in g sponsorship of immigrants.
"All questions relating to race and Representatives
epresentatives of the Canadian
religion have been eliminated from Jewish Congress and -the Jewish
documentation to
of Canada
applications
immigration
as- for
Immigration Aid Service had ap-
not per- peared before that joint committee,
selection.'
t inent to the immigrants
Kent told
the submitting the views of Canada's
"The reason, -
im-
Jewish
meiw
grah community relating to iM-
CJC, "is that the department is J
engaged in a program to remove
from its administrative procedures
Israel's Diamond Exports
every appearance or implication of
Israel's exports of gem diamonds
racial or other discrimination.
year totaled $190,000,000, rep-
Heretofore the department had re- last
resenting a 23 percent increase
quired applicants to state their
over the $155,000,000 worth export-
ethnic origin altogether to avoid
in the previous year.
the suspicion that race or religion ed
has a bearing on whether the im-
migrant is to be admitted."
Music the Stein-Way
Jean Marchand, minister of im-
migration and manpower, an-
nounced at the same time that
& ORCHESTRA
other changes were being made
regarding immigration to Canada.
ap-
lie said: "A mono
proach to educational qualifica-
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gression took place, the theory
claims. "to a previous condition of
childlike dependency in which par- !
ental prohibitions once more be I
came powerful:. .." In this way a I See Morris Watnick
new father-image, personified in i
!
the SS guard, came into being.
Harry Stack Sullivan's "interper- I
sonal theory" is presented, and I
shows the inmate conforming his i
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WHO HAS THE WIDEST ASSORTMENT OF AREA
tions. the accepting of new values, the guard, whom he regards with
RUGS IN THIS OR ANY OTHER AREA?
of the superego in the concentra- parental reverence.
tion camp milieu. "Infantile re-
The final personality theory ex- g
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amined is that of "role psychology" If
which concentrates on the indivi-
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dual's cultural and institutional '
Hears Charges of Bias
environment rather than upon the
for an Introduction to
"self."
In
the
concentration
camp
Against Jews in Georgia
the
individual
instead
of
playing
ATLANTA (JTA) — A charge
that housing discrimination against several roles, i.e. husband, lawyer,
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Atlanta and other major cities of play only one, that of a child. And
Georgia has been presented to the as Elkins describes it, "The role
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role
and
smashed
all
prior
ones.
the United States. Civil Rights
Commmission at a hearing here. Role clarity was blinding . . . its
The charge was presented by rewards were brutally simple —
Mrs. Marshall J. Mantler. chair- life rather than death . .
._
Elkins offers the suggestion
man of the Atlanta chapter of the
that the overpowering effective-
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American Jewish Committee. She
ness with which the Germans
i.
told the commission that the basis
perfected
the
system
of
father-
.
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of the charge was data collected by
child relationship may be seen
the chapter and "information made
in the fact that there was little
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available to us by the Atlanta
rebellion, few suicides and that
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Jewish Community Council and
upon liberation almost no re•
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the Anti-Defamation League of
taliation against the guards.
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Bnai Brith."
Thus.
Elkins,
in
this
informative
She declared that there were
book, not only presents an interest-
six subdivisions in northwest
ing analogy concerning American
Atlanta that completely exclude
slavery, but also adds some reve-
Jews and that there were more
lations to the literature on the
than 900 homes in those six
Nazi concentration camp exper-
sections. In addition, she told
ience.
the commission, "there are oth-
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Day
is May 14th
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ers which have been developed
in recent years on an exclusion-
ary basis but which have now
partially opened up to Jewish
purchasers through resale."
"Many more subdivisions have
been developed on a quota basis,"
MADRID—(JTA)—A sharp con-
she asserted. "In these it is cus-
tomary to allow only 10 per cent troversy broke out Sunday in the
of the homes to be purchased by 2,500-member Madrid Jewish com-
Jews. although the formula may munity over the widely reported
vary. A similar pattern prevails service in Madrid's Catholic
in the northeast section of Atlanta Church of Santa Rita in February
and in other major cities of the in which Jews joined with Catho-
lics in a special prayer.
state."
Jo Lasry, vice president of the
Mrs. Mantler urged that the
commission, "together with the community, resigned during the
Atlanta Real Estate Board, the dispute. Elections for a new com-
Georgia Real Estate Commission, munity leadership will take place
the Atlanta Community Relations on May 17. Lasry has announced
Commission and the American he will contest the presidency with
Jewish Committee,"-jointly act on Max Mazin, who participated in the
service.
the problem.
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