Factory Sealed • IBM • TYPEWRITERS $348.88 342-7800 399-8333 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 3, 1974—n Pius Knew Jews Were Being Sent to Camps, Wartime Documents Show ROME With the release classified documents, it was by the Vatican of formerly reported here that Pope Pius II knew Jews were being de- ported to Poland and possi- ble death as early as 1941. Detailed information on mass deportations was sent regularly from papal envoys in other countries from early 1942, the documents reveal. in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM If you like what we're doing for someone else's lawn... you'll love what we do for yours! No two lawns are exactly the same. That's why your Lawn Doctor specialist gives you customized service, tailored to your lawn's own unique needs Because what's right for your neigh- bor's may not be right for yours. Your neighbor may have a chickweed problem. Or army- worms. 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It also keeps incoming planes at pre- scribed altitudes and at a safe .distance from each other. The new system, greatly increasing the safety of op- erations at Israel's interna- tional airport, was ordered after a series of near acci- dents climaxed by one in 1970 involving a plane carry- ing Premier Golda Meir to that United States. At that time, traffic was controlled mainly by visual reports. The new radar system has a range of 150 kilometers. Most of its components were manufactured' by the Elta Electronics Co. of Israel. The rest were purchased in England an Canada. To Mark Memorial NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Geza Seifert, president of the Central Board of Hungarian Jews, will be the main speaker at a memorial meet- ing May 19 commemorating the 30th anniversary of the murder of Hungary's 600,000 Jews. However, defenders of the Vatican insist that the Pope had no real evidence the de- portations were part of a mass extermination policy. A team of Jesuits who have been editing wartime docu- ments in the Vatican archives issued the 806-page volume, entitled "The Holy See and the War Victims." It is the eighth in a continuing series and covers the years 1941 and 1942. A preface asserts that while Pius didn't condemn by name, he did say in a 1942 Christmas message that it was deplorable that hun- dreds of thousands were facing "death or progressive elimination" because of their nationality or race. 1 ' The preface adds that Pius couid not say anything- more. One of the first to alert Pope Pius to the fate of the Jews was the then arch- bishop of Vienna, the late Theodor Cardinal Innitzer. Others informed the Vatican of the genocide and atroci- ties against the Jews. According to the docu- ments, an Orthodox Jewish group sent a message from London to the Pope in De- cember 1942 begging him to intervene on the Jews' be- half. An attached note from Msgr. Giovanni Batista Mon- tini—now Pope Paul VI, then a close aide to Pius—record- ed an instruction from Pius to "give 'possibly some ver- bal reply to the senders of this and similar telegrams: "The Holy See will do what it can." Jewish converts to Catholi- cism fared little better than the Jews. When the Vatican envoy to Berlin tried to in- tervene with German offi- cials on behalf of the con- verts, he was told by the Germans: "Baptismal water does not c h a n -g e Jewish blood." RESERVE THIS DATE ?Worth and Thalia grandwine GUESTS OF HONOR at the ewi34 national Juni _Annual Anner CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 27375 BELL ROAD SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 22100 Greenfield Road Oak Park, Michigan 48237 Phone (313) 968-0820 MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1974 EMMA SCHAVER ISAAC STERN Friends of Chabad Pay Tribute Luncheon Honors Mrs. Schaver on Departure for Home in Israel One hundred friends of tinue working on behalf of Emma Schaver and admirers the movement in Israel. She of the Chabad Lubavitch said she believes that the movement gathered last Fri- love of Torah, which Chabad day afternoon to pay tribute represents, will strengthen to both, on the eve of Mrs. the Jewish people. "If we Schaver's departure for Is- know who we are and what rael and her new home in we are," she said, "nothing and no one can destroy us or Jerusalem. Mrs. Schaver, who will Israel." Focusing on the importance leave Detroit May 15, was a founder of the local Patrons of youth to the future of the of Chabad Lubavitch, which Jewish people, Isaac Stern sponsored the luncheon at said Israel's young people "can do more for Israel's the Standard Club. A special guest was violin- future than can any other ist Isaac Stern, here for an sector in a military way — appearance with the Detroit as long as they are permitted Symphony Orchestra; Be- to live." He urged his listen- cause of his professional ers, many of them active in commitment, he could not Israel's behalf, to further play at the luncheon, but he strengthen the bonds. "It is spoke briefly about Mrs. a time," he said, "when we Schaver's work with the have to be closer with them America Israel Cultural than ever before." Culture, Foundation, of which Stern he added, will help keep the People Israel alive. is past president. The theme was followed by As a sponsor of AICF, Mrs. Schaver has hosted musical Dr. Mandelbaum, who noted functions in her Israel home, that the latest population which she has kept simul- figures of the American Jew- taneously with her home in ish community are 6,000,000 Southfield. Her son Isaac, — a figure that haunts the his wife and two daughters Jewish people. "It challenges us to recognize that we must live in Israel. create that which the Six The new president of the Million would have created Amer ica Israel Cultural Foundation, Dr. Bernard had they been alive. "What better illustration of Mandelbaum, also flew in from New York for the the power of the individual," gathering. Former chancel- he said, than this `eyshis lor of the Jewish Theological hayil' (woman of valor) and Seminary, he was back in the power of her persona _ l Detroit two days after a example?" Dr. Mandelbaum also paid speaking engagement at tribute to the Lubavitcher Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Irwin I. Cohn, who co- movement and its work with hosted the event with Mrs. college students, adding that Sam Hamburger, announced "There is nothing on the that Mrs. Schaver would be American campus today to back in the fall in connec- compare with the Chabad tion with the establishment houses." He described their of a Morris Schaver Patrons work as vital to combat the Fund in memory of her hus- effects of the "Jesus freaks" band. The fund will be used and different forms of the for expansion of the Bais counter-culture. Chabad Student Center in Farmington, which hosts Trepper Becomes college students from cam- puses throughout Michigan, Citizen of Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is- . Ohio and Ontario. Proceeds from Friday's luncheon, raeli citizenship was con- some $50,000, will go toward ferred on former master spy Leopold Trepper in ceremo- the fund. Detroit Ma y o r Coleman nies at the interior ministry. Young appeared briefly be- Citizenship papers were also fore the gathering to extend presented to his wife, Elisa- his own best wishes to Mrs. beth, who arrived in Israel Schaver and Chabad. Rabbi earlier this month. Trepper, who headed the Aaron Kazarnovsky, a rep- resentative of the Lubavit- "Red Orchestra," the Soviet cher Rebbe, also brought espionage network in Nazi- "prayerful wishes" for the occupied Europe during World War II, said he would honoree. Mrs. Schaver, who traces settle in Israel after a so- her interest in Chabad to her journ in Europe to complete late parents, plans to con-his autobiography.