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Maria Ann Beaver Swope rollicks in Dead Sea mud.

Memories

Arnold Michlin of Farmington Hills:
It was 1946, and they were building
a new country, a Jewish country, after
almost 2,000 years. I was 26, and as
a new member of the Marshall B'nai
B'rith Chapter, I suggested we do
something to help. With the war over
in the United States, a lot of govern-
ment surplus military supplies were
readily available, and they would be
needed in Palestine.
Ruby Allender, who worked in
the remanufacturing of domestic
surplus items, donated a railcar load
of U.S. government surplus ban-
dages and paid their way to New
York, where a national Jewish orga-
nization coordinated shipping and
distribution.
My brother Norman and I were
also in the surplus business and had
access to every surplus dealer in the
Midwest. Whatever we needed, all we
had to do was ask: Jew or Christian,
they all gave. Some dealers tried to
get their cost out, but we convinced
them this was a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to help make a refugee
homeland.
Another B'nai B'rith member,
Harry Cohen, heard we needed a
new kind of radio communication
two-way receiver and sender. He con-
tacted a manufacturer who made
them up especially for all the kib-
butzim on the hilltops on the
perimeter of the future state. They
proved invaluable when the attacks
came in 1948.
Sally Fields (the mother of my
friend, Artie) quit her job to volun-
teer full-time, coordinating all the

local activities, and we had hundreds
of people involved.
Jimmy Laker drove the lead truck
on one of the caravans delivering the
donated material. Jules Fayne, our
photographer, was everywhere. He
knew everyone - and brought in peo-
ple who had no other affiliation with
Jewish organizations.
In 1948, Harry Weinsaft, a young
European Jew who had been on
board the Exodus, came to us look-
ing for guns and ammunition, which
were illegal for us to send to Pales-
tine. Although we couldn't help him,
we helped him find people that
would. An eloquent speaker who
eventually settled in Detroit (and still
lives here), Harry traveled all over the
United States, making people aware
of what was going on in Palestine
and arousing them to action.
For thousands of years, Jews have
prayed for the return to Zion. We are
indeed fortunate to have lived during
this time of fulfillment and have
actually been able to make a differ-
ence.

Mary Ann Hansen of West Bloom-
field: Hansen and her husband,
Hans, accompanied their daughter,
Jacqulyne, and granddaughter, Maria
Ann Beaver Swope, a docent at the
Holocaust Memorial Center, to Israel
last March.
Maria, wrote Hansen, is of
Chippewa-Ottawa heritage, "an Indi-
an princess in the Chippewa Nation,
and very close to the land.
"Never has she been as close to the
earth as she was when she covered
herself with the mud of the Dead

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