WORLD WAR II HEROINETO BE UJWF SPEAKER

Jeanne Daman, non-Jew-ish Belgian undergroundheroine of World War 11,who was prominently fea-tured on the NBC televisionnetwork in a dramatic pro-gram entitled, “The Righte-ous/' willspeak on behalf ofthe United Jewish Appealat the Women’s Special GiftsLuncheon at the Executive Housein Scottsdale, at noon, Feb. 20.

Miss Daman’s heroic deeds inher efforts to rescue Jewish chil-dren from the Hitler holocaust

have been chronicled in a book,“Their Brothers’ Keepers,” byPhilip Freedman.

SHORTLY after Hitler occupiedBelgium, Miss Daman, then ateacher, was informed by theNazis that her schoolwork did notconform to the spirit of “NewGermany.” Miss Daman, a Catho-lic, showed her defiance of the au-

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I thorities by accepting an invitationto teach at “No Pet.ts,” an all-Jowish school.

When German brutality forcedthe closing of the school, the brave

I headmistress joined the Jewishunderground in its dangerousstruggle against the invader.

Upon Belgium’s liberation, sheresumed her work in education,

helping in the rehabilitation ofJewish youngsters who had sur-vived the concentration camps andhad returned to Brussels.

SINCE THE end of World War11. Miss Daman has frequentlyvisited Israel to meet with themany “children” she helped torescue, many of whom are nowparents themselves in the freeState of Israel.

United Jewish Welfare Fund isthe annual campaign which isconducted among the Jewish resi-dents of Maricopa County on behalfof 65 national, local and overseasbeneficiaries, including the Unit-ed Jewish Appeal.

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SECTION LEADERS—SpeciaI Gifts section leaders are shownplanning fashion show-luncheon scheduled Feb. 20. Left to rightare Mrs. Harold Schnurer, luncheon committee chairman; Mrs.

Warren Silver, women’s division co-chairman and liaison to SpecialGifts, and Mrs. Jerry Dreiseszun, Special Gifts chairman.

Gerry McNamara will presentan exciting collection of fashionsfrom Saks Fifth Avenue at theWomen’s Special Gifts Luncheonat the Executive House in Scotts-dale on Feb. 20. Guests will be wo-men contributors of the minimum$25 gift to the 1963 United JewishWelfare Fund Campaign.

MR. McNAMARA,local owner ofa ladies apparel shop, will do

the commentary. He describesthis group of fashions as “a gayand colorful collection of resortand spring fashions.” The easedsilhouette, from shift to skimmer,

will be included. New fabrics willbe introduced for this Phoenixshowing. Printed linens and newsilk-blend fabrics which are per-fect for travel will also be fea-tured in this outstanding collec-tion.

The guest speaker will be theBelgian underground heroine,Jeanne Daman.

Mrs. Warren Silver, Women’sDivision co-chairman, is liaison tothe Special Gifts Section. Mrs. Jer-ry Dreiseszun is chairman of Spe-cial Gifts. Luncheon committeechairman is Mrs. Harold Schnurerand co-chairman is Mrs. MiltonSaper.

THE DECORATIONS committeeis headed by Mrs. Louis Mann andher committee includes Mrs. Har-old Berg, Mrs. Jerome Froim-son, Mrs. Albert Plotkin, Mrs. EliSchlossberg and Mrs. Harold To-back.

Mrs. Mel Myland is in charge oftable prizes, and Mrs. RichardWilks is* in charge of publicity.

Buffet DinnerIs ScheduledA buffet dinner will be served

at Beth El auditorium Sunday eve-ning, Feb. 24, starting at 5:30 p. m.Following dinner, Beth El Sister-hood is sponsoring the award win-ning play, “A Raisin in the Sun,”at the Phoenix Little Theater. Cur-tain time is 8:30 p. m.

Dinner tickets are $3.75 each,

and theater tickets are $2 each.For dinner reservations, call chair-man, Mrs. Robert Schubert at AM6-5163; Mrs. Sy Heller at CR 9-0427; or the, Beth El office, AL 4-

4739. Theater tickets may be ob-tained from Mrs. Meyer Wilkof,chairman, AM 6-4183; Sy Heller,membership vice president, or theBeth El Office.

Funds raised from this eventwill go to the building campaignfor the new Hebrew School of BethEl Synagogue at 13th Ave. and W.Myrtle.

JEWISH CALENDAR1963 (5723)

Fast of Esther March 7Purim March 10Passover April 9Shevuous May 29Rosh Hashonah Sept. 19Yom Kippur Sept. 28Succoth Oct. 3Simchas Torah Oct. I IChanukah Dec. 11Unless otherwise indicated, allholidays begin the previouseve.

Matzoth Is OfferedNEW YORK The New York

Board of Rabbis, comprised of 800Orthodox, Conservative and Re-form spiritual leaders in the met-ropolitan area, offered to sendmatzoth to Russian Jewry in timefor the next Passover.

BrotherhoodWeek SlatedFeb. 17-24For the 30th straight year, the

National Conference of Christiansand Jews is sponsoring Brother-hood Week from Feb. 17-24.

G. Homer Durham, phoenix AreaBrotherhood Week chairman, stat-ed, “The observance of NationalBrotherhood Week affords oppor-tunity to further the quest for lib-erty, justice, and our other greatAmerican ideals. Such a week mayserve as a time of rededicationto these basic principles.”

Frank J. Magrath, 624 LuhrdBuilding, is director of the Phoenixoffice.

French Veto AgainstBritain Affects IsraelPARIS France’s veto against

admission of Britain to member-ship in the European CommonMarket has upset FEC’s time-table so as to affect Israel’s con-tinuing effort to establish a linkwith the six-nation European Mar-ket, it was ascertained here.

A special EEC committee whichwas to have reported to the EEC’sCouncil of Ministers, on February9, regarding the negotiations withIsrael, will not report as sched-uled, and the Israel topic will beheld over until March at the earli-est.

Israel’s ambassador here, WalterEytan, met with Foreign MinisterMaurice Couve de Murville, andwas reportedly advised that Israelshould trim some of its demandsfor the Euromart link.

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LONDON—A street in Biorbidjan,

the Soviet Union’s former Jewishrepublic in Siberia, has beennamed after the late Jewish writer,Emanuel Kazakievitch, accordingto a dispatch in Die Folkstimme,

the Yiddish newspaper published inWarsaw. The writer lived andproduced literary work in Biro-bidjan for three years prior tohis death.

JERUSALEM—IsraeI exporteda total of $280,000,000 worth ofgoods during 1902, a 13 per centincrease over the previous year’stotal, Pinhas Sapir, Minister ofCommerce and Industry, an-nounced here. Exports for 1963are estimated to reach $341,000,-000, a 22 per cent increase over1962, he said.

DUSSELDORF German tradeunion youth leaders announce theyhave collected 9,200 Duetschmarks($2,250) for the purchase of taperecorders to be given to the youthdepartment of Histadrut, the IsraelFederation of Labor.

BRUSSELS—The United Statesand Great Britain were listedthis week among the most activecenters of neo-Nazism by a com-mittee of the International Unionof Resistance Fighters and Peo-ple Deported by the Nazis.

CINCINNATI—A goal of $1,207,-000—approximately $150,000 or 14.1per cent more than was raised in1962—was adopted by the board ofdirectors of Cincinnati’s JewishWelfare Fund for its 1963 cam-paign. This amount was set fol-lowing review of the operatingbudgets of 13 local and 26 nationaloverseas beneficiaries—not includ-ing the United Jewish Appeal—bythe JWF’s Allocations Committee.

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GOVERNOR Paul Fannin adds his signature to a joint UJA proclamation which will carry the signaturesof governors of 13 western states. Witnessing the ceremony are, left to right, Harold Alpert, PhilipTaxman, Mrs. Dasha Todd, Jerome H. Courtney (CJA general chairman of Tucson), Charles Korrickand Newton Rosenzweig.

GovernorFannin Signs JointProclamation Citing UJAA joint proclamation which will

carry the signatures of governorsof 18 western states was signedFeb. 4 at 3 p.m. by Governor PaulFannin, who affixed the ArizonaState Seal. This proclamation cel-

ebrates the 25th anniversary of theUnited Jewish Appeal, one of the

beneficiaries of the United JewishWelfare campaign currently goingon in Maricopa County through theJewish Community Council, 1718W. Maryland.

GOVERNOR Fannin became the

second of the 13 governors to addhis signature and State seal to the

proclamation. This is believed tobe the first time that a proclama-tion honoring a major charitableorganization was honored by thejoint signing of governors in anyarea of the United States.

The ceremony, held in the Gov-ernor’s office in the Capitol, wasattended by civic leaders fromPhoenix and Tucson, headed byHarold Alpert of Phoenix.

The proclamation Is now beingsigned by the governors of the 13western states in appropriate cere-monies in the various state capi-tals. It will then be presented tothe hundreds of delegates through-out the western states who are ex-pected to attend the Western Re-gion Leadership Conference of theUnited Jewish Appeal at the Riv-iera Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif.,from Feb. 22-24.

AMONG THE national and inter-national leaders expected to ad-dress the Conference are JosephMeyerhoff, general chairman ofthe United Jewish Appeal; RabbiHerbert A. Friedman, executivevice-chairman of the United Jew-ish Appeal; and Senator Hubert H.Humphrey of Minnesota. JosephN. Mitchell of Los Angeles ischairman, and Benjamin H. Swigof San Francisco is co-chairmanfor the anniversary conference.

Synagogue DedicatedFor MidshipmenANNAPOLIS, Md.—Colorful cere-

monies marked the dedication hereof the new $500,000 edifice ofKnesseth Israel Congregation. Thebuilding contains, in addition to asanctuary, a center and a religiousschool.

Since its inception 60 years ago,Knesseth Israel has been officiallythe “chapel” for Jewish midship-men at the United States NavalAcademy here. Rabbi Morris D.Rosenblatt, spiritual leader of thecongregation since 1945, is alsochaplain for the midshipmen, andconducts services for the Jewishpersonnel at the Academy regu-larly.

Catholic Serves JewryJeanne Daman speaks to the hearts of her audience.That is what THE ARIZONA POST had to say about the Catho-

lic girl who saved thousands of Jews during World War IIand whocontinues to devote her time as an unpaid volunteer to aid worldJewry, following her Tucson appearance.

Twenty years ago, she knew little about Jews in her nativeBelgium and had no special interest in then! Then the boots ofNazis were heard and she was given the job of teaching Jewishstudents herded into a ghetto-like school. When the school closedand tite Nazis began the concentration death marches, she wentunderground to help the Jewish youngsters escape the twisted Nazis.

Now, she is still aiding Jews.Jeanne Daman is no ordinary speaker; die speaks into the

hearts of her audience.

22 Contestants Will VieFor Purim Ball Queen TitleTwenty-two lovely young girls

will vie to be chosen Queen Estherat the forthcoming Purim Ball,March 2, Thunderbird Room, West-ward Ho Hotel. In addition to ahandsome trophy, the queen willreceive a 3-day vacation at Show-boat Motel, Las Vegas, Nev.

EACH GIRL will be allowed oneminute to speak on any subjectshe chooses.

Yoel Sharr, Israeli singer-dancer-impersonator, is being added tothe colorful merrymaking plannedfor the 20th Annual Queen EstherPurim Ball sponsored by Beth ElCongregation’s Education Commit-tee for the benefit of its religiousschool.

Refreshments will be served and

music will be furnished by BillWells and Orchestra. Dancing willfollow.

Tickets may be obtained at BethEl office, through the sponsoringorganizations, or at the door. Spe-cial low rates are available to

students.QUEEN candidates and their

sponsoring organizations are:Marilynn Beechen, Brandeis Un-

iversity National Woman’s Com-mittee; Toby M. Blaivas, TempleBeth Sholom of Mesa; Sally Blau,Beth Hebrew Congregation; GayJoanne Buros, National Council ofJewish Women Phoenix Section;Sandra L. Desman, Beth El PTO;Gloria Eisenstein, Temple Emanu-El of Scottsdale.

Also Marsha Fuchs, Beth ElMen’s Club; Ellen Grodzinsky,Beth El Sisterhood; Marleen Has-kes, Herman Lewkowitz LodgeB’nal B’rith; Diane Lynn Haus--man, B’nai B’rith Women; JanetMarkovitz, City of Hope, Chapter

245; Vickie Milder, Phoenix Jew-

ish Free Loan Society; KarenNathanson, Temple Beth Israel;Susan Nystad, Phoenix Chapter ofHadassah; Diana Ramras, PioneerWomen.

Also Stefanie Ramras, PhoenixChapter of Hadassah; Andrea RaeRolnick, Phoenix Chapter of Ha-dassah; Shelly Rosenbaum, Valleyof the Sun Post and Ladies Auxili-ary No. 194 of JWV; Dena BethSheinbein, Phoenix Chapter ofHadassah; Sandra Silverman, HarZion Congregation Sisterhood;Francene Turken, Children’s Asth-ma Research Institute and Hospi-tal (JNHAC); Janice Lee Wein-stein, Phoenix Brandeis DistrictZOA.

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