32—Friday, December 6, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Feinbergs Visit
JNF Mile of Trees
During Israel Visit
Dedicate Zuckerman Forest
Israeli Emissary Chaim Lazar
Seeks Documents and Partisan
Data Here for Tel Aviv Museum
An appeal was addressed here
this week by a distinguished Israeli
author, Chaim Lazar, for available
documents relating to the Holo-
caust and underground move-
ments, to be perpetuated in the
Museum of Combatants and Par-
tisans located at 38 King George
St., Tel Aviv.
Lazar expressed the hope that
former partisans and survivors
from the Nazi Holocaust may
possess certificates, photographs,
letters and other material rele-
vant to the documentary collec-
tion sought for the new museum.
Himself a former partisan,
w'ho fought with the underground
forces against the Nazis through-
out the war in Lithuania, Lazar
now makes the museum his ma-
jor voluntary activity, supple-
mentary to his activities as an
author.
He lost an arm in one of the
battles, and managed to settle in
Israel in 1947. Since then he had
written a number of books, includ-
ing one about the Warsaw Ghetto
revolt.
Until recently he was a director
of Kupat Holim Leumit, the sec-
ond-largest health fund in Israel.
He was associated on the editorial
staffs of Mashkif, Maariv and
Yediot Ahronot.
Prior to his arrival in the
United States on his present
mission, he was one of the 150
partisans who were awarded
medals by President Zalman
Shazar of Israel. The new medal
is the ALE11, the initials of the
Itur Lohame Hamedina fighters.
Lazar explained that the Mu-
seum of Combatants and Partisans
in Tel Aviv aims to commemorate
"the deeds of heroism displayed
by Jews in the underground anti-
Nazi forces and in the ranks of
the Allied Forces during the bat-
tles against the murderous Ger-
mans. He asserted that Jews re-
sisted the Nazi terror in many
areas, not in the Warsew Ghetto
alone, and declared:
"In all occupied Europe, Jewish
underground movements and units
of partisans organised themselves
to fight the most cruel of enemies
at the risk of their own lives. They
acted within ghettos, in towns and
villages, in the mountains and the
forests, and even in the depth of
Hell—in the death camps of Ausch-
witz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Penari,
the Covno 9th Fort and others.
The uprising of the Warsaw
Ghetto, which has become the
symbol of the desperate fight of
a handful of people against a giant
and powerful enemy, has not been
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MISS JOYCE MEHLER
unique in its kind.
"Jewish partisans fought in
Vilna's forests and throughout
White Russia and Ukraine. They
organised resistance movements
in Belgium, France, Italy, Yugo-
slavia. Romania, Bulgaria, Greece
and Albania to carry out acts of
sabotage against the German
enemy, either by hit-and-run or
face-to-face warfare.
"More than a million and half
Jewish soldiers fought in the ranks
of the Allied armies: about half
a million in the U.S. Army, half
a million in the Red USSR
army, about 90,000 in the
British army and among them the
Palestinian Brigade, about 50,000 in
the Canadian, New Zealand, Aus
tralian and South African Corps
and tens of thousands in the Free
French army. All along the huge
front spread over continents and
oceans, Jewish soldiers fought
against humanity's enemy—Nazi
Germany. Hundreds of thousands
fell on battlefields and hundreds
of thousands were decorated with
medals for outstanding acts of
bravery.
"Today, after three military
campaigns to defend its indepen-
dence on the land of her fore-
fathers, Israel has become the
symbol of courage and valor
among the nations of the world.
Israel and heroism 'have become
synonyms. But in fact, Jewish
courage has formed an uninter-
rupted chain from the time our
forefathers settled in Israel, the
land promised them and their de-
scendants by God Almighty, over
the long and bitter years of exile
and dispersion, the Holocaust, to
ohs very day.
"The symbols of Jewish courage
and heroism during World War II
are commemorated by the Museum
of the Combatants and Parti-
sans."
Lazar was the guest here of Dr.
and Mrs. Eugene I. Pious of Custis
Ave., Southfield. Additional infor-
mation regarding Lazar's mission
are obtainable from Dr. Pious.
Lazar plans another visit in De-
troit on Dec. 14.
Alpha Omega
to Feature TV
Exec Robert Lurie
Robert Lurfe, St. Louis television
director, will be a special guest at
the champagne dinner-dance spon-
sored by the Detroit Alumni Chap-
ter of Alpha Omega Fraternity
Dec. 14 at Cobo Hall.
Dr. Samuel Krohn, immediate
past president of
the Jewish Com-
munity Council,
will be toastmas-
ter. George Jes-
sel,"toastmaster-
general of the
USA," will be
guest star, and
Eric Rosenow and
his Continentals
will play for danc-
ing. Dr. John J.
Mames is dinner-
dance chairman,
and Dr. Eric Bil-
Dr. Krohn
les is associate chairman. The
affair is on behalf of Israel Bonds.
Lurie has serve _ d • as Missouri
state chairman of the Israel Bond
Organization and is a member of
its Midwest Board of Directors.
He originated the American Jewish
Radio Hour and won the Billboard
Magazine Award for outstanding
radio production. He has served as
a member of the National Speakers
Bureau of the W.A.
Detrbit Women of Alpha Omega
is handling the reservations and
seating arrangements. For infor-
mation, call Israel Bonds, DI 1-
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Mehler of
Lauder Ave. announce the engage-
ment of their daughter Joyce Ellen
to Joel Dennis Watnick, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Watnick of Alta
Vista Dr., Southfield.
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their honor by the Jewish National Fund during their recent visit in
Israel. The forest was planted in honor of the Zuckermans at the
annual JNF dinner in Detroit last June.
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A 'Brush With Death ' in Jerusalem
Brings Rabbi Donin's Reactions
Rabbi Hayim Donin, who is now
residing in Jerusalem with his
family, and during his sabbatical
from Detroit's Bnai David syna-
gogue is doing re-
search work at
the Herzog World
Academy, in a
communication to
The Jewish News
described the
"grief and som-
ber mourning
that descended
upon Jerusalem"
on Nov. 22, when
12 were killed in
an Arab bombing. Rabbi Donin
Giving the details of the reac-
tions to the outrage among Israelis,
Dr. Donin stated in his descriptive
message:
"What did the murderers hope to
accomplish? If it was simply to
commit an act of mass murder, to
indiscriminately kill as many Jews
as possible, then their mission this
time was successful, the most suc-
cessful since the Six-Day War. But
if their purpose was to throw fear
into the hearts of the Jewish popu-
lation, or to create chaos, confu-
sion and panic, then they were
eminently as unsuccessful as be-
fore. If their purpose was to insti-
gate Jewish mob violence against
the more peaceful and law-abiding
Arabs in East Jerusalem, or to
disrupt the hitherto harmonious
relationship between Arab and
Jew in Jerusalem, then they also
miserably failed. Arab leaders in
Jerusalem also denounced the act
of terror, declaring they were
ashamed of it, and pleaded that not
all Arabs be condemned for the
crimes of the few.
"But this act of violence did
serve to make the average-man-
on-the-street question the govern-
Savannah Jewish Schools
See Upgraded Programs
SAVANNAH (JTA)—The Bureau
of Jewish Education has reported
substantial progress in expansion
of the bureau and in upgrading of
Jewish school programs, including
major changes in the Savannah
Hebrew Community School.
Representation on the bureau
board was broadened to reflect its
expanded functions as the citywide
educational agency.
A grant of $22,000 from the Sa-
vannah Jewish Council, an in-
crease of 110 per cent over the
previous year, made is possible for
the bureau to allocate funds to all
Jewish schools in Savannah for the
first time.
An edUcators council made up of
rabbis and heads of schools was
organized, and several meetings
have been held. At the initiative of
the bureau, and with its help,
Mickve Israel religious school in-
troduced Hebrew, in its curriculum
in September 1967, and Hebrew is
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During their visit in Israel last
month, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Feinberg dedicated the Mile of
Trees they planted through the
Jewish National Fund.
FOR THE BEST IN
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
ment's policy of providing so many
privileges and rights especially for
the Arabs of the West Bank, to
enjoy a freedom of movement and
travel in all parts of Israel and a
freedom of the press that they
didn't even have when they were
under Jordanian rule. For con-
trary to Arab accusations at the
UN, never in history has a military
victory been followed by an occu-
pation of so much leniency and
benevolence.
"The memory of this day will
not fade away. For every Jerusa-
lemite, even those who were not at
the marketplace that particular
day or that particular time, felt it
as a 'brush with death,' he could
very well have done without."
The only way to speak the truth
is to speak lovingly.
—Henry David Thoreau.
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