I LOCAL NEWS I THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF GREATER DETROIT '"m§ Invites you to attend the Keter Shem Toy Award Dinner honoring 1942 Promise Guides Work For Soviet Jews ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor I JACK AND MIRIAM SHENKMAN In recognition of their leadership, many services and contributions to the Community, the State of Michigan, the Nation and the State of Israel. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1989 Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road, Southfield Cocktails: 6 p.m. Dinner: 7 p.m. Couvert $180 General Chairman: DAVID B. HERMELIN Associate Chairrmen: LAWRENCE S. JACKIER D. DAN KAHN Dinner Vice Chairpersons: Norman Allan Elaine J. Beresh Louis Berry Harold Beznos Paul Borman Morris and Tillie Brandwine Allen Charlupski Gloria and Martin Cohen Henry Dorfman Ann Y Eisenberg Marcy Feldman Martin R. Goldman Erwin and Sylvia Harvith David B. Holtzman Richard Kughn Irving Laker Eric Yale Lutz Michael Maddin David Montry Ann Newman Irving Nusbaum Michael Perlman Jack Robinson Richard Rosenhaus Emma Schaver Arnold and Devorah Shenkman Martin and Shelly Shenkman I. William Sherr Robert Sosnick Bernard Stollman Max Stollman Phillip Stollman Lawrence Wolfe Jack Zwick For further information and reservations, please call JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (313) 557-7016 or (313) 557-7059 14 FRIDAY, MAY 26, n 1942, Paula Borenstein made a promise that still guides her life. "When I saw my family — my mother and my father and my brother and sister being taken away (to the death camps) and I myself was very close to go through this chimney, I said to them that if I survive I will awake the consciousness of the world." Borenstein, who spent two years in a Nazi concentration camp, is public relations representative in the French office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Commit- tee. The JDC sponsors pro- grams of relief and rescue to Jews throughout the world. Borenstein came to Southfield last week to speak on the JDC's work onbehalf of Soviet Jews at a meeting of the breakfast club, hosted by the Young Leadership Cabinet of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the United Jewish Appeal. Thousands of Jewish men, women and children are still in the Communist country, she said. Those granted per- mission to emigrate often must wait for months in Ladispoli, Italy, to hear if they will be able to come to the West. In Italy, they have little money or access to medical help. While some argue that Soviet Jews should settle in Israel, not the United States, the JDC's priority is to help the refuseniks, not tell them in which country they must settle, Borenstein said. "We are not political. We help Jews. And it's not because I have the possibility to help them that I have the right to say, 'I want you to do what I want you to do: " Borenstein said she is thankful to the Jewish people who assisted her after the Holocaust. "You were the ones who brought to me the first help, the first love, the first friendship," she said. "I was sent to you by Jews on the other side of the ocean to come to tell you the story and to bring the greetings of so many of thousands of Jews — our people — who are waiting for that smile." Borenstein recalled the "very, very bitter years" of World War II, when "no coun- try raised a finger to help us." She said no one held rallies like they did in December 1987, when thousands march- ed in Washington, D.C., for Soviet Jewry. Jews must be responsible for helping each other, she said. "We must pick up our heads and with great pride say that we and only we will take care of our people. "lb the last day of my life I will remind you," of those Jews who died and of those who can still be saved, she said. "I will say: we have given a promise." 111 Klein To Chair Endowment Unit Thomas I. Klein has been appointed chairman of the Federated Endowment Fund of United Jewish Charities, succeeding George M. Zeltzer. Previously a vice chairman of the Endowment Fund, Klein is a member of the Jewish Welfare Federation's Executive Committee and the Tom Klein UJC board. He has also serves as Federation vice president. Lester J. Morris will join Stanley M. Weingarden as vice chairmen of the Endow- ment Fund. Arthur A. Weiss has been named chairman of the En- dowment Fund's Professional Advisory Committee. His vice chairmen are Jerrold Bigelman and Donald M. Lansky. Morris Rochlin will chair the Endowment Fund's Let- ter of Intent Committee, suc- ceeding Lester A. Burton. The Federated Endowment Fund was launched in 1984 by United Jewish Charities, the . Jewish Welfare Federa- tion and its member agencies. Since then, the fund has grown to nearly $90 million with some 600 donors in the Detroit Jewish community.