THE–DETRUIVJEMSIUNEWS 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- 40 — BUSINESS CARDS 40 LICENSED ELECTRICIAN:. 557-8981 or 557-5775. 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. 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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. *** 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. 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Kaufman, Dan- HANDYMAN iel M. LeVine, Saul LeVine, HOME REPAIRS Judge Joseph J. Pernick NO JOB TOO SMALL and Rabbi M. Robert Syme. REASONABLE The featured speaker for 353-3336 the evening will be Herman Nadler, chief of the foreign 53 ENTERTAINMENT intelligence office. Nadler served with all three BAND branches of the military Excellent Music services: the U.S. Marine For All Social Corps, U,S. Navy and the Occasibns U.S. Army, prior to his re- 731 6081 tirement in 1957, when he took a position with the fed- Professional Flute & Guitar Duo. eral government. His topic Wedding ceremonies -House will be "Intelligence Today parties. All occasions. Reason- and Soviet vs. U.S. Military able rates. Strength." 543-1063 Insured 549-5116 288-4055 — - Friday, April 22, 1977 53 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. *** 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 1 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. *** 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. . 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.