CharlesGrosberg,Philanthropist,
National Leader in Israel Bond
Drives, Dies in Florida, Aged 83
Charles Grosberg who distingu-
ished himself as one of the out-
standing leaders in Israel Bond
drives in this country and whose
benefactions embraced numerous
causes in Detroit and in Israel,
died Monday in Miami Beach at
age 83. Funeral services were held
here at Kaufman Chapel on Tues-
day.
Surviving are two sons, Merwin
Grosberg and Melvin Davidson of
New York; four daughters, Mrs.
Milton (Elaine) -Sorock, Mrs. Ger-
sddine Hym a n, Mrs. Samuel
(Jeanne) Frankel and Mrs. Joseph
(Norma) Grant; four brothers, Jo-
seph, Benjamin, William and Ha-
gifts was the financing of the edu-
cation building soon to be opened
on the campus of Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity in Ramat Gan, Israel.
For his numerous gifts to the
Hebrew University, he was named
a University Fellow in 1965. He
played a leading role in efforts in
behalf of the Joint Distribution
Committee and the United Jewish
Appeal and was a generous par-
ticipant in Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaigns as well as other local
causes.
Mr. Grosberg served on the
boards of American Friends of He-
brew University, Sinai Hospital,
Home for Aged, Fresh Air Society,
Bar-flan University and Jewish
Welfare Federation.
His Israel Bond purchases an-
nually were in the amount of $100,-
000, and he served on the national
Israel Bond Board of Governors.
He was trustee chairman and Dou-
ble Golden Trustee of the state of
Israel.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Educator Calls Campus
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer-
ican campus is a "disaster area"
for Jewish youth, and Jewish col-
legians, in the United States are
showing "estrangement" from
traditional Jewish values which re-
quires a "center for Jewish sur-
vival' to offset such alienation, a
Jewish educator said here.
Addressing the commission on
Jewish affairs of the American
Jewish Congress, Rabbi Irving
Greenberg of the Riverdale Jewish
Center, who is associate professor
of history at Yeshiva University,
declared that Jewish youth on the
campus faced a clash between the
bourgeois Jewish home and the
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This conflict, he added, often leads
to "moral and emotional recoil"
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campus and could develop and
publish textbooks and college level
courses in Judaism." He called
existing college Judaica courses
"inadequate."
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CHARLES GROSBERG
two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Ma-
rion) Schwartz and Mrs. Abe
(Ruth) Gurwin; 17 grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
Mr. Grosberg was born in Rus-
sia Sept. 20, 1885—which coincided
with Rosh Hashana—and the first
24 years of his life were spent in
Troy and Schenectady, N.Y. He
came to Detroit in 1909 and was
In the cash-and-carry supermarket
business until his firm was merged
with WrigleYs 1951. In his re-
Grement since then, he devoted
himself to many 'community pro-
jects and took a deep interest in the
four synago- gues with which he
was affiliated—Shaarey Zedek,
Adas Shalom, Bnai Moshe and
Downtown.
He also was associated with
Grosberg and Reuter management
and investment counselors. Mr.
Grosberg, who divided his time be-
tween Florida and his residence
at 19120 Burlington, was a mem-
ber of Perfection Lodge (he was
a 32nd degree Mason) and of De-
troit Consistory and Moslem
Shrine.
One of Michigan's most gen-
erous contributors to major
causes, Mr. Grosberg's latest
gift was in the snm of $162,500
sold;
Authentic
Scotch dollar
(Crown) minted
between 1603-1625.
Symbol of Lauder's.
for the establishment of the
Grosberg Surgical Pavilion at
Sinai Hospital.
He took great pride in the
Charles Grosberg Religious Center
at Wayne State University, toward
which he contributed $175,000.
There is a 27,000-seat stadium
at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem bearing his name, and
he also established a high school
in Jerusalem.
Among his most recent generous
East Germans to Execute
Convicted War Criminal
BERLIN — An East Berlin Com-
munist court sentenced Kurt Wach-
holz, a former Nazi prison guard,
to die under the guillotine for war
erimes and mass murder.
Wachholz, 59, was convicted of
having killed and abetted in kill-
ing at least 500 prisoners in the
Gestapo headquarters in Prague
between 1941 and 1945, where he
served as a guard for the SS.
He also was found guilty of hav-
ing brutally assaulted and mis-
treated numerous other captives.
Most of his victims were Jews
and Czech Communists rounded up
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by the Nazis.
After confirmation of the sen-
tence, reserved for specially severe
eases of war crimes, Wachholz, a
transport worker, is expected to be
taken to Frankfurt on the Oder
In be executed.
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