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Friday, Mairh 22, 1963
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pip Ntaw
ATLANTA JEWISH WELFARE FUND
Campaign
Joy Howard IJla Zimmerman
WOMEN’S DIVISION
Chairman Vice Chairman
Dimension
Bernard Howard Ben Maasell Jr.
GENERAL DIVI8ION
General Chairman Vice Chairman
The annual dinner of the Pace
Setters group of tne Men’s Di
vision of the 1963 Atlanta Jew
ish Welfare Fund Campaign
will be held at
the Stand arc
Town and Coun
try Club
day, March 31
it was an
nounced t hi
week by Meye
Balser, P a c
Setter ch a i r
man.
The dinner Meyer Balser
promises to be a
brilliant occasion, featuring both
an address by Ambassador Mich
ael Comay, Permanent Repres
entative of Israel to the United
Nations, and special awards to
Author Klein to Talk to Women's
Division Special Gifts Function
IVce Setters Annual Dinner
At Standard Club March 31
Youth Division Names Leadership;
Meets With Member Groups
Womens Advance Gifts
To Hold Brunch Monday
Noted author, Mrs. Gerda
Weissman Klein will be the hon
ored guest and featured speaker
at two functions sponsored by the
Special Gifts group of the Wom
en’s Division of the 1963 Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund campaign,
it was announced this week by
Mrs. Harold Levin and Mrs. Ja
cob Levitt, Special Gifts chair
men. Date for the functions will
be Friday, March 29.
One, a dessert luncheon, will
be held at 1:15 p. m. at the home
of Mrs. Morton L. Weiss, 1982 W.
Pace* Ferry Rd., N. W.
The other, a tea, will be held at
3 pjn. at the home of Mrs. Mendel
Romm Jr., 511 Valley Rd., N. W.
The functions will mark the cul
mination of weeks of effort on
the part of Special Gifts volun
teers.
Mrs. Klein, honored guest at
both functions, is the author of
a moving autobiography, “All But
My Life,” published recently. The
book is based on her experiences
in Nazi-occupied Europe. She was
born in Bielitz (Bielska) Poland,
in 1924, where she lived with her
parents and her younger brother
at the time the German armies
occupied Poland in 1939. After
spending three years in the Bie
litz ghetto—a period marked by
the deaths of her parents and
brother—she was deported, first
to a transit camp and then to a
succession of concentration camps
as a slave laborer.
In midwinter of 1945, as the
Nazi empire began to crumble be
fore the advancing Allied forces,
the 4,000 women inmates of her
camp in Silesia were driven 1,000
miles eastward toward Czecho
slovakia by the Gestapo. When
the march came to a halt in a
small village in that country,
there were less than 200 survi
vors.
However, fate intervened for
Mrs. Klein in the form of an ad
vance contingent of the U. S.
Infantry, commanded by a Lt.
Kurt Klein, which entered the
village as liberators. She married
MICHAEL COMAY
all living past general chairmen
of Welfare Fund Campaigns by
the United Jewish Appeal in com
memoration of UJA’s 25th anni
versary.
Ambassador Comay, featured
speaker of the evening, was bom
in Cape Town, South Africa. He
received BA and LLB Degrees
from the University of Cape
Town and subsequently was a
barrister of the Supreme Court
(Cape Provincial Division). Dur
ing the Second World War, Mr.
Comay served with the South
African Armed Forces in the
Middle East Theatre and in the
United Kingdom, with the rank
of major.
In 1936, Mr. Comay settled in
Palestine and served there as a
special representative of the
South African Federation. He was
also attached to the Political De
partment of the Jewish Agency,
carrying out special missions to
South Africa, Australia and New
Zealand. He served as a staff ad
viser to the Jewish Agency Del
egation to the United Nations in
1947-48 and became a member
of the first Israel Delegation to
the United Nations in 1948.
Upon the establishment of the
State of Israel, Mr. Comay was
appointed director of the Com
monwealth Division at the Min
istry for Foreign Affairs. In 1951
he was promoted to the post of
Assistant Director-General. From
1953 to 1957 he represented Is
rael in Canada, first with rank
of Minister, and subsequently as
Ambassador.
In 1957, Mr. Comay resumed
his position as Assistant Director-
General of the Ministry for For
eign Affairs, a position he held
until assuming his present ap
pointment. He was a member of
the Israel delegation to the 3rd,
4th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 14th ses
sions of the General Assembly.
He was chairman of the Israel
Delegation to the International
Civil Aviation Conference in
Montreal in 1955 and to the In
ternational Conference on the
Law of the Sea in Geneva in
Genea in 1958, and deputy-
chairman of the Israel delegation
to the International Atomic En
ergy Conference in Vienna in
1957.
Serving with Mr. Balser on
arrangements for the dinner are
associate chairmen Isidore Alter-
man, Dan Garson, Max L. Kun-
iansky, Max Rittenbaum, Milton
Weinstein, Erwin Zaban, and
committee members M. William
Breman, Max M. Cuba, Sidney
Feldman, Edward N. Glaser, Abe
Goldstein, Dr. Irving H. Gold-
—turn to page 13
Alan Metz and Renee Michael
have been named chairmen of
the Youth Division of the 1963
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund
Campaign, it was announced this
week. Also named as associate
chairmen were Renie Isenberg,
Michael Weinberg and Steve Al-
terman. Advisors for the group
are Mrs. Hilfred Bossak, Mrs
James E. Pittman and Alvin
Walter.
At the first group meeting held
at the Atlanta Jewish Commun
ity Center, 7:30 p. m., March 19,
an assembly consisting of the
chairmen, associate chairmen, ad
visors and representatives of
youth groups organized to date,
heard Chairman Renee Michael
recount her experiences during
her trip to Israel where she had
an opportunity to actually see the
UJA in action.
In his address to the group,
Chairman Alan Metz, using the
theme, “Why a Youth Division?,”
spoke of the importance of
youth's idealism. Through this
activity youth helps youth, he
pointed out, because youth all
Rente Michael Alan Meta
over the world benefits from our
campaign.
Definitely impressed with the
caliber of the participants and
with their sense of zeal was Ber
nard Howard, General Chairman
of the 1963 Campaign. Mr. How
ard told the group how pleased
he was at seeing the youth of
our community accept their share
of responsibility. He said it was
especially gratifying to see these
young people following in the
footsteps of their parents In
caring for their fellow Jews.
The group also witnessed a
showing of the film, "The Long,
Hard Days,” produced by an
agency of the United Jewish Ap
peal and depicting the great
problem of Algerian refugee* in
France. The picture told the story
of some of the more than 100,-
000 Jews who fled to France for
safety and showed the Welfare
Fund dollars which were chan
neled through the UJA were
helping to feed, house and clothe
people during the transitional
period when they were trying to
make a new start in life.
Groups organized to date whose
representatives were present at
the meeting included:
Center groups: CAB’s, DOC,
LTC, SOI, SOZ.
Synagogues and Temple
groups: Temple Youth Group.
BBG groups: No. 178, BOS,
DBB, DJG, DOT, JAG, JOJ, JOY,
SOC, Deborah, Devotion, Laura
Wise.
Independent Girl’a Group
DOZ, STP.
AZA groups: NEW, 184, 887.
518, 1324, FDR. Frank Canon,
Sholom Aleicheim, YIO, JOJ.
Young Judaa: D6I.
Chairmen and committee mem
bers of the Advance Gifts Group
of the Women’s Division of the
1963 Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund Campaign
will meet
brunch Monday
at 11 a.m. at
home of
David Saul, 1001
West Paces Fer
ry Rd., for
purpose of
ning the 1963 *
campaign in the
Advance Gifts Mr.. D. Alttrm.n
category. Co-Chairman
The group will witness a per
formance “Where Were You in
1939” saluting the 25th anniver
sary of the United Jewish Ap
peal. Also, a presentation of a 25-
year leadership award will be
made to two Atlanta women
leaders who have been selected
by the National United Jewish
Appeal Women’s Division.
Mrs. Dave Alterman and Mrs.
David Saul are chairmen of the
Advance Gifts Group. Members
of the Advance Gifts committee
include, Mrs. George Alterman,
Mrs. Sam Alterman, Mrs. B. W.
Cohen, Mrs. Leon Frohsin, Mrs.
H. I. Goodman, Mrs. Charles
Held, Mrs. Sam Hirsh, Mrs. Eu
gene Howard, Mrs. Leslie Jacobs,
Mrs. Seymour Krugman, Mrs.
Edward Kessler, Mrs. Sidney
Kogan, Mrs. Kurt Holland, Mrs.
Nathan Lipton, Mrs. Jack Ranen,
Mrs. Harley Ross, Mrs. Harry
Lane Seigel, Mrs. Ben Schwartz-
berg, Mrs. Marvin Sugarman,
Mrs. Edmund Saul, Mrs. Robert
Weinstein, Mrs. Israel, Mrs. Sol
Yudelson.
Mrs. J. Levitt Mrs. H. IyCvin
SPECIAL GIFTS CHAIRMEN
him soon thereafter and came to
the United States.
“All But My Life,” Mr. Klein’s
book, has been hailed by critics
in the United States, England and
Holland as “one of the most
moving and beautifully written
books of Jewish suffering and
survival." It has also been placed
in the British War Museum as a
reference work on European His
tory.
Chairman of the Women’s
Special Gifts group are Mrs. Har
old l,evin and Mrs. Jacob Leviit
Vice-chairmen are Mrs. Gerald
Blonder, Mrs. Bernard W. Cohen,
Mrs. Bernard Elly, Mrs. Ely
Freedman, Mrs. Jack Freedman,
Mrs. Beryl Koplin, Mrs. Nathan
Lipton and Mrs. Seymour Wein
berg. Mrs. Sidney Janus is co
ordinator.
Workers in the group are Mrs.
‘Alfred Agrin, Mrs. Cecil A.
Alexander Jr., Mrs. Irving Adair,
Mrs. David Beeber, Mrs. Joseph
Benamy, Mrs. Elliott Berman,
Mrs. Leonard Bock, Mrs. Petty
Bregman, Mrs. Gilbert Cohen,
* Mrs. Morris Cohen, Mrs. S. A.
Cooper, Mrs. Leonard Diamond
—turn to page 13
GERDA KLEIN