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In 1900, he was ap- pointed - on a committee whose work resulted in the creation of the Ford Republic, a correctional, self-governing boy's farm colony in Farmington. After his appointment to the Board of Charities, he wrote and labored for the passage of Michigan's first juvenile court bill. Butzel was a membeer of the Board of the Detroit House of Correction under four consecutive administra- tions and served as its commissioner from 1918 to 1925. Returning from a brief visit to Canada, where he had witnessed the func- tioning of the boy scout organization, he started a similar movement in Detroit in 1910. During the World War he was chair- man of the Detroit War Camp Committee, chair- man of the Jewish Welfare Board, president of the Detroit Board of Com- merce and was instrumen- tal in organizing the Americanization Commit- tee, which supplied infor- mation regarding service, food and fuel control, and other wartime necessities. A member of the volunteer committee which operated the first public playground in Detroit, he was active in effecting the adoption of the city's adequate recrea- tion program. The Michigan Daily brings to light an exciting recollec- tion about Jewish journalistic pioneering — even though Henry Butzel turned to law rather than journalism. Many thanks, Leonard N. Simons, for uncovering something that otherwise might have been completely forgotten. You are a real historian and archivist, Leonard! ❑ Responses Continued from Page 2 1393 S. WOODWARD AVE., BIRM., MI 48009 To Sell a Watch Phone: (313) 644-8565 Metro Dealer 30 Years Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 36 FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1990 aftermath of World War II, only 28,000 remained. To- day 250 Jews live in East Berlin, the smallest Jewish community of any major city in Europe. But still this community is strong and vital, and there is excite- ment in the air as the possibility of reunification becomes more and more of a reality. Here is the East Berlin . interview: Claudia Lindenberg, 10 years old, lives with her parents and younger brother in an apartment in East Berlin. Claudia spends much of her free time studying ballet. When I will have children I think they should learn about their history. I will teach them about the Jews and how the Jews tried to improve their lives. With my family I would like to visit the Weissensee Jewish cemetery and show them the symbolic grave of my great-grandparents. They were killed in the concen- tration camp and were not buried. There are many names there, and this is sad. I really don't understand why the Nazis caused such Unusual recollections are certain to be recorded for the celebration proceedings including a rich array of journalists. pain for the Jews. Sometimes I think because the Jews had religious beliefs and thoughts dif- ferent from Hitler, [the Nazis] couldn't accept them. The Jews wanted a different world, and Hitler didn't like this so he plundered their businesses and deported them to con- centration camps. Their children were killed too. I don't think these terrible times will happen again because I read in the newspapers that Gor- bachev and Bush work well together. And the capitalistic countries will become socialistic some- day. I went to the wall the night everyone was danc- ing, drinking, and chipp- ing the stone away with hammers. But my family and I are going to stay in East Germany because it is exciting and maybe soon we will be all one country. I have a friend in my class who walked across the border from Hungary to Austria in September. I will miss her, but now I can travel to West Germany and visit her. The excerpts symbolize the realism of the title for this col- lection of children's views on their Jewish legacies. Where a tree still stands there stands the Jew who survived the Holocaust. The children provide substance for this heritage. The explanations of the way they live invite studies and self-testing in the treatment of human relations and the continuity of Jewish peoplehood. The opinions, activities and experiences in the post-World War II era can well serve as guides for social, community, religious and inter-faith studies. What we learn raises the Strom book to high stan- dards. ❑ Fred Shochet: Journalist F red and Suzanne Sho- chet are no longer among the activists in Jewish journalism. They wrote the traditional "30" to the June 29, 1990, issue of the Jewish Floridian of Miami; after 30 years of joint management of the newspaper, which had ac- quired leadership On a na- tional scale. Fred began his interest as a youth in the paper which his father J. Louis Schochet founded as editor and publisher in 1928. Fred assumed the editorship in 1939. For me the association with both began in the founding years of the Floridan filled with admiration for the idealist J. Louis Shochet, whose aim was to serve his community and his people. The admiration continued with the deep friendship for Fred Shochet, who continued the ideal of his father, always to keep raising the standards of Jewish journalism. He suc- ceeded me as president of the American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers — the American Jewish Press Association — and his in- fluential leadership was always on the highest local and national scales. He was a dedicated Zionist whom Israel counted among its most ardent supporters. The Miami Jewish Federa- tion and related movements gave him the respect his devoted services merited. The cessation of his activi- ty as a journalist invites a note of sorrow that we can no longer address each other as co-workers. There is, however, the certainty that whatever he undertakes to continue in his devotion to Jewry, Israel and America will always be on the highest level. Fred and his Suzanne will always be blessed by their associates. ❑