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Irwin and Gloria Klein
Dr. Harvey and Hermine Raimi
Pearl Olshonsky
Maxine Frankel
Aaron Wallis
Larry Sherman
Jeff Sherman
Dr. Norman andSandie Weiss
Elyse Cash
Arnold Weiss
Glenn Ceresnie
Lynn Ellias
Lois Fisher
Victoria Weston
Yetta Weiss
Dr. Marvin and Betty Hyman
Dr. Karen Colby Weiner
Dr. Robin Stone
Leon and Maxine Feig
Harriet Rotter
Judith Holtz
Dr. Sheldon and Sybil Mintz
Rabbi Daniel Schwartz
Norman Zucker
Dr. Fred and Millie Minkow
Barbara Schiff
Dr. A. and Nancy John-Hodari
Hadar and Lois Granader
Marilyn Harwood
Sylvia Stoller
Beverly Dreyfus
Ava Pollock
Susan Rosin
Marlene Hundler
DE Linda Zuckerman Klein
Dr. Sheldon and Phyllis
Schwartz
Bryce and Harriet Alpem
Sid and Phebe Goldstein
Pamela Sorock
Carol Sue Coden
Judy Cantor
Dr. Richard Kamil
Larry and Maxine Snider
Robert and Wally Klein
Ina Kirkstein
Barbara Vorenberg
Norma and Phillip Layne
Dr Joel and Mindy
Layne-Young
Laura Well
Lillian Burg
Iry and Harriet Leider
Dody Well
Arlene Victor
Ron and Cindy Granader
Phyllis Friedman
Harvey and Judy Rosenberg
Aviva Robinson
Henry and Linda Ross
Ben and Sondra Nathan
Robert and Marjorie Alpem
Rosalie Butzel
Susan Citrin
Diana Feuer
Herman Frankel
Delores Trupp
Susan Rogin
Dr. Steven Rosen
Howard and Nancy Shapiro
Robert and Linda Finkel
Jerome and Barbara Fanger
Nina Dodge Abrams
Eleanor Bluhm
Henrietta Weinberg
Esther Sherman
Isadore Weiner
Larry Creasy
Dr Sanford and Beatrice
Breiner
Sharon Bader-Lipton
Les and Fenei Greenwald
Michelle Simon
DE Bernard and Mary-Kay
Green
Janis Wetsman
Thomas Klein
Morris Milmet
Dr. Alan and Susan Bolton
Three well-known pro choice leaders:
Judy Miller, former Michigan First Lady Helen Milliken,
Democratic State Representative Maxine Berman.
A.D. Otto Schoenfeldt the
Dusseldorf Citizens Com-
mittee succeeded in its ef-
forts to have the West Ger-
man Post Office issue a
stamp honoring Heine.
Federal Minister for Postal
Services Georg Leber
dropped his opposition,
and it was decided that a
Heine stamp be issued on
Dec. 13, 1972.
The extent of newly ac-
cumulating revelations about
the Nazi crimes relating to
anti-Semitism are horrifying.
An article in the Washington
Post, July 9, by Marc Fisher
from West Berlin, deals with
an underground Berlin
documents center, once the
headquarters of the Gestapo
phone-tapping operations. It
is now American property,
and as Marc Fisher states
"probably the world's largest
and most valuable collection
of materials documenting the
Third Reich." The Berlin
center contains about 100
million pieces of paper in 30
million files.
The Fisher article contains
these revealing paragraphs
about the Nazi anti-Semitic
insanities:
Files of the Nazi Party's
courts describe cases of
party members charged
with uttering defeatist
slogans, listening to British
radio or failing to reveal an
acquaintanceship with a
Jew.
A room filled with 10.7
million Nazi Party cards in
their original cabinets also
contains a file of people
who were refused member-
ship. Each rejection bears
a reason: homosexuality,
thievery, masturbation, or,
in the case of a man who
was refused in 1936,
"treated by Jewish physi-
cian!'
In the Nazi crime list are
not only fabrications but also
thefts and multiple cheatings.
Among the most currently
detected is in a story that was
featured by the New York
Times on page one of Section
B in its issue of July 9. It was
headlined "Degenerate Art
Survives Nazi Purge," by
Grace Glueck. The first
paragraphs speak for
themselves:
An exhibition that was
staged by the Nazis to vilify
artists like Picasso, Wassi-
ly Kandinsky and Paul
Klee will be presented in
Los Angeles next year, but
under very different
auspices.
The exhibition, called
"Entartete Kunst," or
"Degenerate Art;' was first
shown in Munich in 1937,
with the aim of
demonstrating the "im-
moral" influence of the
avant-garde on German
culture. Besides denounc-
ing the great artists of the
avant-garde, it disparaged
hundreds of others whose
work was considered "un-
German:' The show's
restaging by the Los
Angeles County Museum
of Art will pay homage to
those artists while fully
documenting the Nazis' at-
tempt to degrade them.
"lb me, it was a show just
begging to be done," said
Ms. Barron.
The Theyleg documentary
discovery can be best
understood and appreciated
with the text of my original
article:
As the State of Michigan
plans for the great celebra-
tion of the Golden Jubilee
of the automobile, historic
justice demands that we
turn back the pages of time
to 1864 and 1875, when a
Jewish mechanic in Vien-
na invented and then im-
proved the benzine-driven
motor vehicle.
While the beginning of
the automobile industry in
Michigan is credited to
March 7, 1896, when
Charles King frightened
pedestrians by appearing
on our streets with the first
horseless carriage, the in-
vention of the automobile
by the Viennese Jewish
mechanic preceded this
event by at least 21 years.
Siegfried Marcus is the
mechanical genius who in-
troduced the great inven-
tion which revolutionized
science and industry in the
world.
His first benzine-driven
car was patented in 1864.
His second and improved
car was completed in 1875
when he drove it on Vien-
na's streets.
His auto patents were
registered in Germany and
the town council of
Mecklenburg honored the
inventor by affixing a
tablet to the house in
which he was born.
His first automobile was
in the possession of the
Vienna Automobile Club,
but there is no way of
knowing what has happen-
ed to it since the advent of
Nazism, the Nazis having
gone out of the way to ig-
nore any mention of the
Jew Siegfried Marcus'
great gifts. Some of the
available records state that
his 1875 automobile was
preserved in the Vienna In-
dustrial Museum.
To Frank Theyleg, the
special expression of
gratitude for another indict-
ment of Nazi falsifications
and for recognition of the
achievements of his great-
uncle who is the "Jew Who
Gave the Automobile to the
World." ❑
Kate Shoenfield,
Local Journalist
ate Shoenfield, who
died July 25 at the
age of 93, had such an
interesting career that these
personal notes are valuable
as additions to her obituary.
As Kate Friedman, several
years before her marriage to
Alan Shoenfield, who became
science editor of the Detroit
News, she was society editor
of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle.
Kate also was the Chroni-
cle's star reporter. It was in
the years 1917 to 1920 when
Jewish news sources were
limited, before the emergence
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Therefore reporting
the Sunday morning sermons
of Dr. Franklin at the then
Temple Beth El on Woodward
and Temple was a major
responsibility for this young
reporter.
Kate became the favorite of
Dr. Franklin. She often had to
take down his sermons in
shorthand. For that genera-
tion of Reform Jews her
multiple activities in 'Ample
Beth El as well were notewor-
thy in the community.
With her marriage to Allen
Shoenfield she became an ac-
tivist in Ann Arbor where she
lived until 1985.
The years at the Universi-
ty of Michigan were a con-
tinuation of communal devo-
tions for Kate. She shared the
interests of her husband who
was editor of the Michigan
Gargoyle, later as the expert
whose articles on science in
the Detroit News gained ac-
claim and national
circulation.
K
She enrolled and studied in
the U-M College of Medicine.
From 1942 to 1962 she was
secretary to the heads of the
school's surgical department.
She assisted in medical tasks
during World War II.
She joined her daughters,
Connecticut Superior Court
Judge Frederica S. Brennen-
man and Beryl Hines, and
five grandchildren in
Glastonbury, Conn., in 1985.
Her entire life, except for
the concluding years in Con-
necticut were Michigan
triumphs. Her life story ex-
cites renewed interest in one
of our state's most remark-
able personalities. ❑
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