Rohliks' $100,000 Gift Provides
for New Hebrew Schools' Building
A contribution of $100,000 for a
new Southfield building of the
United Hebrew Schools was an-
nounced this week by Louis Tab-
ashnik, president of United Jewish
Charities, and Hyman Safran,
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
The gift was made by Mr. and
Mrs. Sigmund Rohlik on the oc-
casion of the 78th birthday of Mr.
Rohlik, a Detroit philanthropist
and businessman.
The funds will be used toward
the construction of the Sigmund
and Sophie Rohlik School, which
will be part of a community cam-
pus of the United Hebrew Schools
on a five acre site on West 12 Mile
P! load and Murray Crescent, South-
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A Joyous Passover
SPITZER'S
BONN (JTA) — A survivor
of the wartime liquidation of the
Grodno ghetto in occupied Poland,
who is now a resident of New
York, testified in a trial in Cologne
of two former Nazi participants
in the destruction of the ghetto.
Max Dolub told the court that
he had watched from a hiding
place the activities of the Nazi
execution squad which killed 20
Jews in March 1943, but that he
could not say whether Kurt Wiese
and Heinz Errelis, the defendants,
had taken part in the shootings.
The court later rejected a de-
mand by the defense attorney that
the presiding judge be removed for
alleged prejudice. The demand
arose from the dismissal by Judge
Von Mallinckrodt of Dolub, who
collapsed from exhaustion while
undergoing c r o s s examination.
Dolub made s e r i o u s charges
against one of the defendants in
connection with the massacre.
The defense objected at the
time because Dolub had announc-
ed prior to the trial that April 4
was the only day he would be
available to give testimony. The
judge released him from further
appearance in court.
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The school will be one of sev-
eral buildings within a complex
of an auditorium, elementary
school, Hebrew High School and
Midrasha College of Jewish
Studies. This will be Detroit's
first Jewish community campus
MR. AND MRS. SIGMUND ROHLIK
in the metropolitan area.
functions. Parent-Teacher•meet- in 1938 where he obtained Ameri-
"Our present enrollment in the ings and general community meet- can citizenship with the help of
Southfield elementary branch, now ings.
Judge Theodore Levin; Nate Gold-
meeting in Birney public school,
Plans for the campus complex stick, former corporation counsel
is 330 children. It is expected that have been reviewed by the educa- of the City of Detroit; and the
the new building will accommodate tion division of Federation under late Fred M. Butzel.
children from Southfield. Bloom- the chairmanship of Mandell L.
Shortly after arriving in this
field Hills, Birmingham and Frank- Berman, the capital needs com- country, he founded a leather
lin," said George Zeltzer, president mittee, chaired by Irving Rose, go o d s manufacturing company,
of the United Hebrew Schools, and and the Federation board .
Rohlik, Inc., producing camera
Albert Elazar, superintendent of i
The Sigmund and Sophie Roh- cases and other specialized items.
the schools.
lik Foundation demonstrated its Founded on initiative, hard work,
Hebrew High School facilities concern for encouraging higher and meager capital, the company
will be available to young people education in 1965 by setting up has grown into one of the largest
from all parts of the Detrot metro- • a $100,000 Wayne State Univer- and most successful companies of
politan area.
sity scholarship fund for needy its kind. A few years ago, Rohlik
retired from his business, but after
The spacious auditorium will be ; entering freshman.
used for school lecture programs,' Born in Magdeburg, Germany, one year he returned to run the
adult activities, Woman's Auxiliary Rohlik migrated to this country company.
An Amerian republic has an ob-
servant Jew as its president—Max
Delvalle of Panama.
President Delvalle's elevation to
his office has not been without
controversy. A civil war of sorts
is now going on as to who Pan-
ama's legitimate president is. Until
March 24, the president was Marco
Aurelio Robles, but the National
Assembly deposed him for alleg-
edly participating in unconstitu-
tional partisan politics and then
swore in the first vice president,
Max Delvalle.
Actually Delvalle had already
seen brief service as acting presi-
dent when Robles was out of the
country. But now, officially at
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services in English. Some of its
original records have been de-
posited in the American Jewish
Archives on the Cincinnati campus
of the Hebrew Union College-Jew-
ish Institute of Religion. The di-
rector of the Archives is Prof.
Jacob R. Marcus, of Hebrew Union a
Many years ago a writer by the College faculty.
name of Frank Copley wrote "The
Impeachment of President Israel," THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
a novel about a Jew, who was the
Friday, April 12, 1968-7
first of his faith to become Pres-
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"President Israel" also had a hard
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seemed possible.
least, he is the president, although
the military have not allowed him
to assume office. Robles insists he
has been wrongly deposed, refuses
to step down, and is being sup-
ported by government troops. So.
Panama now has two presidents!
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Max Delvalle, a member of
Panama City's Congregation Kol
Shearith Israel, is probably de-
scended from a well-known Seph-
ardic family which moved from
the Iberian Peninsula to Amster-
dam in the 17th C e n t u r y
and ultimately settled on Curacao.
From that island, some of the Del-
valles moved on to St. Thomas and
from there to Panama. There have
been Delvalles in the Panama con-
gregation since the 1880's.
Kol Shearith Israel is a member
of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and conducts its
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