0 n - CLOSE-UP EUROPEAN MOTORS HAS ONE UNDERLYING PURPOSE...TO HELP MEN AND WOMEN ACHIEVE MORE, WHILE DRIVING. Progress Continued from Preceding Page We have set goals country. and priorities, and there is no fuzziness regarding our mis- sion, but it's a good business principle to have a mission statement and strategic plan to help us set up parameters and I'd like to see us move along those lines," says Giles. It is for those same reasons that he hopes to commission a demographic study. Giles acknowledges that the new tax laws may "make philanthropy more expen- sive," but he is confident that the Allied Jewish Campaign, which has always managed to • raise more money each suc- cessive year, will continue to do so because people recog- nize the needs. "I don't plan out of reaction or pessimism," he said. "We are capable of giving more." His ongoing project will be human resource development because "we will live or die not just by raising money but by attracting the best lay leadership." He is well aware that volunteerism is decreas- ing — "it's still alive and well but skinnier" — and says Federation will have to be "more planful" in attract- ing young people because "if we don't get them when they're young, we won't get them." ❑ To Our Advertisers There will be early deadlines for our November 28 edition. All display advertising reservations must be made by Friday, November 21 at 4:30 p.m. Classified advertising reservations must be made by Monday, November 24 at 3 p.m. The Jewish News offices will be closed November 27-28 in ob- servance of Thanksgiving. • -• =4, eg:' :,44" viSk• . , wz t•kw••w 4•-•..- w•to 'IMMitM 841 IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE MERCEDES WE EITHER HAVE IT OR CAN FIND IT. LEASING & FINANCING SERVICE & COLLISION EUROPEAN AUTO SERVICE, LTD. 21425 Woodward, Ferndale 399 3130/31 - 16 Friday, November 14, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Yad Vashem Honors Righteous Gentiles New York — Delegates to the American Jewish Con- gress 1986 Biennial Conven- tion in Israel recently dedi- cated a tree-planning site at Yad Vashem, to honor a German woman who, with her husband, a German army major, helped save the lives of hundreds of Jews from the Nazis. The woman, the late Donata Helmrich, has just been added to the list of Righteous Gentiles. Later this year, a tree will be planted in her name on the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles adjacent to the memorial. Her husband, the late Maj. Eberhard Helmrich, was honored at Yad Vashem in 1968. Among those who attended the dedication ceremony were Susi Bezalel and Moshe Zamir who were saved by the Helmrichs. Both now live in Israel. Before World War II, the Helmriches were instrumen- tal in hiding Jews when the Nazis rampaged through the streets of Germany, attacking Jews and destroying their property. They also aided Jewish families in fleeing the country. When war broke out, Maj. Helmrich, an agricultural ex- pert, was commissioned a major in the quartermaster corps in Galicia, Poland where he is credited with saving at least 300 Jews in 1942 and 1943. Maj. Helmrich was placed in charge of a farm, produc- ing food for German troops. The farm employed 250 to 300 Jewish prisoners as laborers. Using a variety of ruses, the officer, then in his 40s, managed to protect his workers during periodic ak- tions when the SS demanded that he turn over quotas of Jews for extermination. Maj. Helmrich's response to each request was to persuade the SS that the loss of work- ers would seriously impair the farm's operation and lead to a severe shortage of food for German troops. He also bribed Gestapo agents to keep them quiet. At the same time, Mrs. Helmrich, who remained in Berlin, helped her husband set up an "underground rail- road" for Polish Jewish women. The German officer saved the lives of at least 100 Jewish girls by having papers forged identifying them as Polish Christians. He also ar- ranged for transit documents, enabling them to travel to Berlin where Mrs. Helmrich secured positions for them as domestics in German house- holds. Coexistence Promoted New York — Religious ex- tremism in Israel, and the peaceful coexistence of widely differing ideological groups will be analyzed at a three day seminary in Jerusalem, March 10-12.