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Boris Smolar's

'Between You
and Me'

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(Copyright 1970, JTA Inc.)

COMMUNAL AFFAIRS: Jewish communities in various parts of
the country are beginning to take note of the demands of Jewishly-
concerned youth groups to include their representatives in communal
policy-making bodies. Boston was the first to do so. Others are now
following. This is being done in accordance with a resolution adopted
by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds to invite
college youth and faculty members on boards and committees of the
Federations and their agencies.

In Canada, too, the trend to give representation to college youth
on communal bodies determining policies, programs and priorities
is gaining momentum. The Allied Jewish Community Services in
Montreal has decided to give such representation in its own structure
and called on its 19 constituent agencies to do the same.

Simultaneously Jewish communities throughout the country are
organizing commissions on manpower for Jewish service with an eye
on bringing in able young men and women in such careers. Leadership
in setting up such commissions has been taken by the Jewish Commu-
nity Council of Essex County (New Jersey), the Jewish Federation of
Youngstown, and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. The commissions
will help to make possible the professional education of the youths
where necessary. In Columbus, the United Jewish Fund and Council
has established a Jewish teaching program at the Ohio State University
School for Social Work which involves 34 students.

ROLL OF HONOR: The unlimited devotion of Philip Slomovitz,
editor and publisher of the Detroit Jewish News, to the Jewish National
Fund is well known. It has always been admired by Zionist leadership
in this country and in Israel.

Martyred Dr. Janusz Korczak
Honored With Street in Skokie

SKOKIE, Ill. (JTA)—When the
Dr. Korczak Terrace is dedicated
here Sunday, it will mark the first
time that any community will have
named a street in honor of one of
the Jewish martyrs killed by the
Nazis during their reign of power,
officials said here.
Dr. Janusz Korczak, a decorated
hero of Poland who headed an or-
phanage for Jewish children in
Warsaw, went to his death with
292 orphans, after refusing an of-
fer to have his life spared. The
event occurred in 1942, and the
German officer who offered to
spare Dr. Korczak's life did so be-
cause when he was a child, he
himself had been a ward of Dr.
Korczak in that same orphanage.
The story of Dr. Korczak, his life
and his death, will be recounted
when the street is dedicated in his
memory.
Senator Ralph Smith will be
among the speakers at the cere-
mony, as well as representatives
of Israel and the Jewish commu-
nity in Chicago. Dr. Paul Hurwitz,
associate general chairman of the
Israel Bond campaign in Chicago.
is chairman of the committee plan-
ning the dedication.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 26, 1970-9

Mayor Albert Smith of Skokie,
who was instrumental in having
the street named in memory of
Dr. Korczak, is honorary chair-
man. The 300 families, all victims
of the Nazi concentration camps,
I who now reside here and neighbor-
1 ing communites, organized the
Janusz Korczak Lodge of Bnai
Brith several years ago. It was
through their petitioning that the
village of Skokie made the deci-
sion to dedicate the street in honor
of the Polish-Jewish martyr.

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Fifty years ago, as a young man active in the Young Judea move-
ment, Slomovitz distinguished himself as founder and first president of
the Jewish National Fund in Detroit. Since then, he has distinguished
himself also in many other fields of Jewish endeavor—communal,
Zionist and journalistic—but the JNF has remained a cause most dear
to his heart and to the heart of his wife Anna, who is a moving spirit
in Hadassah.

In very few Jewish homes in this country have I seen so many
citations from the JNF and Hadassah as I was privileged to see in the
home of the Slomovitzes in Detroit. A man of wide interests and busily
engaged in producing one of the best English-Jewish newspapers in the
country, Phil—as Slomovitz is affectionately called by his friends—has
never subdued his loyalty to the JNF to other causes in which he
is active. He is a generous giver to the local Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and to other worthy causes. His contributions to the JNF are
outstanding.

No wonder that the Detroit Jewish community and the Jewish
National Fund have jointly honored him at a testimonial dinner June 17
which marked the Golden Jubilee of the JNF in Detroit. No wonder
too that as a token of appreciation for his untiring efforts on behalf
of the JNF a Philip and Anna Slomovitz Forest will be established in
Israel.

To be the guest of honor at a public function is nothing new to Phil.
He has long established for himself a commendable reputation in the
Zionist movement, in the field of Jewish culture, and as one of the best
editors in English-Jewish journalism. He was not only the first president
of the JNF in Detroit but also the first president of the American
Association of English-Jewish newspapers. His interest in many phases
of Jewish life, local, national and international is deep. His knowledge
on matters Jewish is profound. His dedication to causes strengthening
Jewish life and traditions is limitless.

JEWISH COUNTERACTION: Jewish action against the determina-
tion of the governments of the Soviet Union and Poland to make the
world forget the Nazi annihilation of Jews is now being planned on a
worldwide scale.
It is well known that the Soviets do not permit the erection of a
Jewish monument at the notorious ravine of Babi Yar as well as at
any other place of mass-killing of Jews by the Nazis during the occu-
pation period. The Soviet intention is to erase from history the fact
that Jews were the major victims of the Nazis.

Now Poland is following suit by not permitting the erection of a
Jewish monument at the notorious camp of Oswiecim where millions
of Jews were brought by the Nazis in cattle-trains and put to their
deaths in gas ovens. The Polish move was made despite the fact that
ever since the end of the war groups of foreigners—and also of Polish
military units and of school children—were brought to Oswiecim to
show them on the spot the brutal methods by the Nazis in their mass-
killing of the Jews.
The policy of Russia and Poland to deliberately eliminate any
reference to Jewish victims of Nazi brutalities and to falsify history
by presenting the millions of killed Jews merely as Soviet or Polish
citizens—without mentioning the fact that they were Jews—is now going
to be strongly combatted by the surviving Jewish underground fighters
of tilt.- Nazi years who are scattered in many countries in the free
world. Under the leadership of Yad Vashem in Israel, they held a world
Conference and established their own world organization. Members of
their world executive includa Soviet Jews who participated in partisan
units in the Ukraine and Byelorussia.

The material now deposited in the archives of Yad Vashem include
interesting documents by a Soviet military correspondent who was with
the Red Army on the front and witnessed the role played by Jewish
partisans and fighters in liberating Eastern Europe from the Nazis.
The documentation also includes hundreds of original photos of the
destruction of Jews by the Nazis in a number of Soviet cities. Simul-
taneously the Yad Vashem now published the first volume of a bio-
graphical dictionary of Jewish partisans and underground fighters in
Western Soviet territory, proving the role played by Jews in fighting
the Nazis behind the battlefront.

You could
be the one
to give Israel its

100 000,000th
TREE

Trees are of immeasurable importance to
Israel ... for economic reasons, for aesthetic
reasons, for all-important reasons of de-
fense. security, if not survival. From a
modest beginning of 4,998,000 trees planted
in 1947...sometime this year the
100.000,000th tree will be planted in Israel.
Just think of the personal satisfaction of
knowing that it might be your tree that
will finally reach this great milestone.

Better yet, you could be the one to start
Israel on the second hundred million!

Plant trees in Israel on all occasions; millions
more are needed! Plant trees for Birthdays,
Bar Mitzvahs. Mother's Day, In Memoriams,
Anniversaries. Weddings, Father's Day, and
other family occasions. Use the coupon.

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
22100 Greenfield, Suite 102
Oak Park, Michigan 48237

Please find • enclosed $

for the planting of

trees ($2.50 each) in Israel.

In honor of

or in memory of

Planted by

Address

Please send tree certificate to:

Name

Address

JEWISH MITIDRIR FUND

22100 Greenfield Rd .
Oak Park. Mich 48237-399-0820

