22 Friday, July 22, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Detroiter's Comforting Role to Survivors
Recalled in Zukunft Magazine Essay
A Detroiter's important
role in efforts to elevate the
spirit of survivors from
Nazism, in concentration
camps, is recalled in an arti-
cle in the current issue of
Zukunft, one of the leading
Yiddish-language maga-
zines.
M.B. Gutman recalls in
his essay his communal
mission in Landsberg,
Germany, where he stayed
with his younger son who
was liberated from
Buchenwald. He indicates
that he had not seen his son
in some time.
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In this essay, Gutman re-
calls in the German camp he
witnessed the meeting of
the famous Yiddish poet
and essayist H. Leivick (his
name was a pseydonym for
Leivick Halper), and Israel
Efros, the eminent Hebrew
writer. They were in the
camp to bring cheer to the
survivors.
Gutman adds that with
them as Jewish emis-
saries was Detroiter
Emma (Mrs. Morris)
Schaver, who
entertained the surviving
Jews with her songs. In
reference to Mrs.
Schaver, Gutman wrote
in his essay:
"Leivick pointed to the
man sitting next to him and
introduced him: the Hebrew
poet Israel Efros. And the
woman: the famous Ameri-
can Jewish singer, Emma
Schaver. I remembered Is-
rael Efros from the Hebrew
magazines. I didn't know
who Emma Schaver was.
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"Anyone at all familiar
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Appeals Expected to Delay
Collaborator's Deportation
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
— The prolonged legal proc-
ess of appeals may delay for
years the deportation of
Serge Kowalchuk, a 65-
year-old retired tailor of
Ukrainian origin who al-
legedly collaborated with
the Nazis in the mass mur-
der of Jews during World
War II.
Kowalchuk, who was
tried in 1981 on charges
brought by the Justice De-
partment, was found guilty
of having lied about his past
activities when he obtained
admission to the United
States as a displaced person
in 1950 and naturalization
in 1960. Federal District
Court Judge John Fullam
ruled on July 1 that Kowal-
chuk be stripped of his U.S.
citizenship.
According to Assistant
U.S. Attorney Jack Riley,
Kowalchuk is expected to
appeal Fullam's decision,
which could take "a few
months." Another appeal, to
the Supreme Court, could
follow. If both appeals fail,
the government can begin
deportation proceedings.
But, Riley said, that
would only bring Kowal-
chuk's case back to the
appeals courts. "At best,
if everything runs
smoothly and expediti-
ously, I would expect that
at least two or three years
will pass before Kowal-
chuk is deported," the
U.S. Attorney said.
At his trial two years ago,
the Justice Department's
Office of Special Investiga-
tions (OSI) presented evi-
dence that Kowalchuk as-
sisted the Nazi-controlled
Ukrainian militia in killing
5,000 Jews in a brickyard
near his home in Lyubomyl
in the Ukraine in October
1942. Kowalchuk admitted
that he had lied about his
membership in the militia
to obtain entry into the U.S.
but insisted that he never
collaborated with the Nazis
as the Justice Department
charged.
"But besides the marvel-
ous singing and the charm-
ing presence with which she
captivated the survivors in
all the DP camps in which
she appeared with her col-
leagues of the cultural dele-
gation, Emma Schaver had
undertaken another mis-
sion. This was the feeling
she conveyed to everyone of
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