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Bielfield's Communal Services
Recalled on His 65th Birthday

More than two decades of
services to the Jewish com-
munity, his involvement in
the Allied Jewish Campaign
and his leadership in House
of Shelter and the Anti-De-
famation League of Bnai
Brith inspired scores of
commendations for Jerry
Bielfield on his 65th birth-
day March 16.

JERRY BIELFIELD

In 1934, Bielfield became
a director of the Jewish
House of Shelter, the organi-
zation started by his grand-
father Nathan. He has serv-
ed as president for three
terms and is still active on
the board.
The same year Bielfield
became active with the Al-

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lied Jewish Campaign and
currently serves as head of
the automotive section.
Bielfield is a member of
the board of governors of
the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation, a member of the De-
troit Service Group and be-
came a member of the cabi-
net of ADL in 1970.
Bielfield married the for-
mer Eileen Byron Kahn in
1954. They are affiliated
with Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Temple Beth El and the
Downtown Synagogue.
Bielfield was born in New
York March 16, 1912, and
the family moved to Detroit
in 1918. After graduation
from Northwestern High
School and the University
of Michigan, Bielfield en-
tered the family's tire busi-
ness.
Following his service in
the Army Air Corps during
World War II he and his
brother Bud opened their
Ford dealership. Bielfield
has been active in automo-
bile industry affairs, serv-
ing five years as the Metrb-
politan Ford Dealers presi-
dent and one year as presi-
dent of the Detroit
Automobile Dealers Associ-
ation.
He was chairman of the
Detroit Automobile Show
from 1974-76 and has been a
member of the board of di-
rectors of the Better Busi-
ness Bureau since 1970.

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Leonard Kasle, Lillian'
Genser and Leonard Sim-
ons have joined a three-
week tour of China which
will take them to give cities
where they will visit educa-
tional and medical facil-
ities. Kasle is a former
member of the Wayne State
University board, Mrs. Gen-
ser is director of the univer-
sity's Center for the Study
of Peace and War, and Sim-
ons is a long-time member
of the WSU Press and has
participated in many univer-
sity-related activities.
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Detroit delegates to the
American Jewish Congress
National Women's Division
Convention in Baltimore
Sunday, through Tuesday
are Esther Feal, Rose
Schwartz and Marian Shif-
man. The women, members
of the Detroit Women's Divi-
sion of the AJCongress, are
members of the national
women's division board.

Men's Clubs )

BETH EL MEN'S CLUB

will hold

its 58th annual din-
ner meeting 6:30 p.m. May
2 in the temple. The meet-
ing will follow at 8:30.
Douglas A. Schubot, presi-
dent, will read the annual
report. A business section
and the election of officers
and directors will follow.
Rabbi Richard C. Hertz qill
install the new officers.

World Adventure Series' Earliest
Efforts inExposing,BattlingNazism

By GEORGE F: PIERROT
Editor's Note : Memorial-
ization of the victims of
Nazism now being con-
ducted in Jewish commu-
nities throughout the world
and the current anniversary
of the Warsaw Ghetto Up-
rising, also serve to recall
the earliest campaigns
against Nazism in which
were enrolled the leading
journalists of the 1930s and
1940s. The recent tribute to
the memory of Edgar An-
sell Mowrer in Purely Com-
mentary (March 11) point-
ed to one of the witnesses
of the emerging Nazi terror
who defied the Hitler re-
strictions and exposed the
emerging menace to man-
kind. George F. Pierrot, as
organizer and conductor of
the World Adventure
Series, was the first to
bring to Detroit the out-
standing lecturers and
world travelers who were
among the first to condemn
the German atrocities. In
the accompanying article
Pierrot recalls the early
years of anti-Nazi activities
conducted under his direc-
tion by the World Adven-
ture Series. )

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GEORGE PIERROT
The World Adventure
Series discovered the men-
ace of Nazism earlier than
did most organizations, and
because we had an audito-*
rium as a springboard, we
could make ourselves
heard. And we did.
Helen and I, in the '30s,
made a year's trip around
the world, I writing a week-
ly 2,500-word travel letter
which was then syndicated
to 2,000 schools, libraries,
etc. We drove all over Ger-
many, from Hannover to
Berlin, Leipsig, Dresden
and all over Pomerania.
Our driver-guide, Her-
bert, was a young anti-Nazi
graduate of the University
of Berlin who had been an
exchange student at our
own University of Georgia.
Through Herbert we were
able to go everywhere, and
with him as an interpreter
we could interview anyone
we wished.
We traveled the great au-
tobhanen, constructed even
though a supposedly bank-
rupt country couldn't afford
motor cars to use them.
Cars were required to use a
proportion of potato alcohol
as auto fuel in order to con-
serve oil and gasoline for
later military use. These
autobahnen, at that time
empty of traffic, led to stra-
tegic borders and were ob-
viously built for Nazi in-
vasion of neighboring coun-
tries.
We saw the "No Jews"

signs on park benches, and
how Jewish children were
abused and physically as-
saulted if they resented mis-
treatment by Nazi children.
Another time we drove
boldly past the guards and
into the barbed wire-en-
circled concentration camp
at Oranienburg, near Pot-
sdam. Here were political
dissenters. They wore work
clothes, and were herded
and pushed around by
armed guards. Some prison-
ers bore red-pigmented
marks on their foreheads.
On everyone's back was a
circular target, perhaps a
warning to him of what
would happen if he tried to
escape.
Men were harnessed to
huge soil' rollers, such as
are normally pulled by big
tractors. There was agony
in the faces of some, and ex-
treme fatigue in all of
them. I tried to talk to a
couple of prisoners, but the
guards hurried toward me
with guns leveled.
At international hotels,
English-speaking waiters
tried to spy on us to see if
we were anti-Hitler. We
said we were tourists and
pleaded ignorance. Every-
where we saw the deep and
ominous interest in uni-
formed troops on parade.
The measured goose-step-
ping aroused wildest en-
thusiasm.
We talked frankly only to
certain people identified for
us in advance, that we
could trust. At customs I
concealed a copy of John
Gunther's "Inside -Europe,"
which was proscribed in
Germany. • I observed the
swastika propaganda in
schools. I visited a Nazi
hangout, where my guide
gave startling translations
of what he heard.
In Czechoslovakia the
Sudeten was Hitler's major
target, and the Czechs
seemed ready, willing and
able to fight until they
learned that they were
shamefully let down by
"their English and French
allies. We were greatly im-
pressed with Czech effi-
ciency as we inspected sev-
eral of their major facto-
ries.
We spent Armistice Day
in Cracow, and watched a
Polish military parade
down the main street. Po-
land seemed to us deter-
mined and confident, but
most inadequately equip-
ped.
Austria was tense and dis-
turbed. In Vienna, I lunch-
ed with the president of the
Austrian American Society
and he was nervous and ap-
prehensive. -Twice we
changed tables when sus-
picious-looking individuals
sat down close to us.
Two days after our ship
sailed from Basra, Iraq, for
Karachi, (then a part of
India), the Nazis marched
into Austria. To all of us
that meant war. The only
question was how soon.
In the beginning of 1934
the World Adventure Series
had presented a long, vocif-
erous parade of anti-Nazi
speakers, and during it we
received many phone calls
and threats.
We brought many anti-
Hitler speakers to Detroit,

notably Julien Bryan, with
his heart-rendering pictures
of the "Siege of Warsaw,"
and later, his devastating,
"Inside Nazi Germany."
We also hosted John Gun-
ther, Vincent Sheehan,
Erika Mann, Maurice
Hindus, Norman Thomas,
and others. We really
poured it on ! But I think
Edgar Ansel Mowrer and
Julian Bryant's color movie
shows were the swords that
struck our mightiest blows.
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Series to Screen
Don Cooper Films

The World Adventure
Series will present Don
Cooper, the Alaska lumber-
jack, with two humorous
films on his northern trav-
els, in the auditorium of the
Detroit Institute of -Arts.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, Cooper
will show "Klondike Adven-
ture--Alaska Highway to
the Yukon," and at 3 p.m.
May 1, "Eastern Canada—
Ontario and Quebec" will
be screened.
For information, call the
World Adventure Series,
832-7676, 9:30 a.m.-5:30
daily.

Singles
'Events

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CRITERION CLUB will
attend "Womensrites" to be
performed by The Festival
Dancers, directed by Har-
riet Bert, 8 p.m. Sunday at
the Little Theater in Oak
Park High School. For infor-
mation, call Betty Wein-
berg, 559-5175.

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JEWISH COMMUNITY
CENTER young adult de-
partment will hold a bon-
fire 9 p.m. Tuesday on the
main Center grounds.
There will be refreshments
and entertainment. Nomi-
nal charge. For information
call Jay Silverman at the
Center, 661-1000, ext. 219.
MICHIGAN JEWISH SIN-
GLES COUNCIL will have
an oneg Shabat at 8:30 p.m.,
today in the Cong. Shaarey
Zedek youth lounge. Cantor
Jacob Barkin of Shaarey
Zedek will speak on "Jew-
ish Music." Refreshments
will be served. The MJSC is
seeking Jewish singles age
25-35 who are interested in
getting on the MJSC mail-
ing list and planning activi-
ties._ To get on the mailing
list or for information, call
JMSC secretary, Heidi
Press, 643-7672, evenings.

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N. African Jews
Get Israel Posts

- JERUSALEM (ZINS)—

North African Jews are
starting to assume central
positions in Israeli society,
although they had been con-
sidered backward until re-
cently. In March, the Chief
Rabbi of the Israel Army,
Rabbi Gad Navon, was ap-
pointed. Rabbi Navon was
born in Morocco and is the
first North African Jew to
assume such a position. In
Bat Yam, the election of
Yosef Messica as chairman
of the city council, brought
protest. Messica was born
in Libya.

