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THE CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
JANUARY 14, 1966
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"YOU SEE, IN THE NEGRO COMMUNITY, IT'S THE EDUCATED PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP SOCIETY"
GHETTO MASSACRE SURVIVORS
SEARCHED OUT BY WORLD
JEWISH CONGRESS
Twenty-four debutantes were presented to 2,000 guests at the Girl Friends' Cotillion, Hie outstanding Negro social event in "Washington, given in the ball-room of the Statlcr-Hilton Hotel, writes Frances I.ana-ban, in the New York '1'iines. There were more physicians, teachers, and doctors of philosophy present than can usually be found outside a national conference on science and education.
The fathers of ten of the 2-J were doctors of various disciplines; one \\.is Dr. Hildrus Poindexter, a pioneer in tropical diseases. Aiming the other distinguished fathers were the Ri^ht Rev. Dillard Huston Biowu, a Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Judge William B. Bryant of the District Court; and Arthur Christopher Jr., trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board. �
The ninth annual white-lie event was .put on by the A\'ashington chapter of the Girl Friends, a women's social and charitable orgaui/ation .with headquarters in New York and chapters in twenty.five cities, from Newport News, to Louisville, Chicago, and Boston.
Nationally, the Girl Friends supports the legal defense fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with yearly assessments from each member group. The chapters have their own social and fund-raising events. Four of them give debutante balls, whose proceeds go to the charity of their designation.
la recent years, proceeds of the cotillion in Washington have been donated to the Family and Child Services Summer Outings Committee, which runs an integrated camp program for poor children. This year, the money will go to Drew Pearson's Conscience Fund, a project, named for the columnist, that helps victims of civil-rights disorders in the South.
Each guest paid S10 for dinner and dancing to the music of Herb De-berry's .twenty-piece orchestra, and not one debutante's family was allowed to contribute a further cent.
"We want to keep it the way we want it," said Mrs. Orelia Lcdbcttcr, cotillion chairman, who teaches at the
First Woman Vice-President Named By Store Chain
Ralph Lnzarus, president of the Federated Department Stores, Inc., of New York, announced the appointment of Miss Rose Wells as a vice-president of the department-store chain. She is the first woman to hold the title in Federated, reports the New York Times. For the last year, Miss Wells has been a consultant to the company, advising executives on the new trends and ideas in the fashion centers of the world. She will continue that role as an operating vice-president.
Miss AVells, who in private life is Mrs. Jerome Ring, retired in May, 1964, as a vice president of Ohrbach's after thirty-two years with the New York store.
She joined Ohrbach's shortly after graduation from Washington Irving High School in New York, and in 1959 was elected a vice president, the first woman to hold such an office in the store.
While directing one of Ohrbach's semi-annual import fashion shows, she coined the phrase "total look," describing a concept that seeks to impart a coordinated appearance of approval and accessories to fit the wearer's figure and personality-Miss Wells pbycd an integral role in the Oh roach fashion shows featuring linc-foi-linc copies of French couturiers' designs, which produced a high volume of fashion business for the store. The bming operation for the imported designs is directed by Sidney Gittler, another vice-president.
The Bings live in Manhattan. They have a son, Richard, aged twenty-one years, *ho attends the graduate school of Tufts University, says the New York Times. Mr. Bing is a merchandise man at Montgomery Ward & Co., lac.
District Hc;illli School for the' Thy. sieiilly 11,indie.ippnl and is the wife of a Congregational minister and local political figure.
"We have so many pressures on ns," she said, "that we could have sold the ballroom three times over, so we had to make ri^id rules, such as that there will nem be more than 2-4 debutantes, all of whom will have a satisfactory scholastic record and, as far as one can indue these things, moral iiitcg-iih."
Four of the girls this year arc winners of National Merit Scholarships.
Mrs. Ma/aliiic Haitd, chapter chairman, trim, articulate, and typical of �the 'women responsible for the party, is a counselor in the District clcmcn-jaiy school system, says the^cw York 'I:imes, and the wife of a budget anal-l\st for the Public Health Service.
"Although we are in no sense a professional organi/ation," Mrs. Baird said, "we haven't a single 'just plain housewife'' among our 21 members. One of ns is an anatomy professor at Howard University; another is a statistician for the State Department;' and most arc tenders in the area's school v stem.-You sec, in the Negro community, it's the educated people who make up society; we have no power or money to speak of."
The debutantes, who rehearse with their escorts two hours every Sunday from mid October, must step through a precision waltz that would sow-panic in the.hearts.of a skilled ballet troupe; Unsure of' themselves at first
� most of them are high-school seniors, and their escorts freshmen at Howard, George .Washington,-Georgetown,'or the American Universities
� they \\crc coached cxactingly by Mrs. Helen Nida, the manager and owner of the Fiesta Dance Club, formerly the Fred Astairc Dance Studio.
Fach girl was selected by a different local club, according to Mrs. Thclma Baltimore, the director of clc-mcntaiy education for the District of Columbia schools, whose husband is principal of the Bell Vocational High School and who serves as narrator for Ihc evening's ceremony.
"We chose the clubs, and they chose one girl, each/' she said. "The worst problem we ever had is when one club proposed twins. Their parents had to run around until they found another sponsoring club, because if we broke the rule, there would be no end to it."
Sonic of the clubs arc known nationally, such as the Links And Hands Across The Sea, which sends food, clothing, and toys to impoverished i Jamaicans and other Caribbean islan-j ders. says the New York Times. "The j key." says Mrs. Baltimore, '*is whether j they're really friends of ours. That] was the whole point of our club when ! it was started in 193-1 � to bring I women together who had something I in common." . I
AH Girl Friends members .who; worked on the ball, such as Mrs. Ali-; cia Webb,-who teaches French and Spanish in a Maryland High School j and serves as debutante co-chairman,: agree that it serves'.a function more important than just giving 24 young ladies every year the thrill of their li\cs in their long white ball dresses.
"We hear so much about crime and slumps and backwardness," said Mrs. Webb. "This is a chance to show'the! �.other-side, the fact that we have a! decent and civili/cd, and attractive Negro community here in the capital."
Action by the World Jewish Congress in finding witnesses for more than two hundred and fifty investigations into Na/i crimes has brought to light survivors of a bloody ghetto episode from which no one was thought to have escaped, according to Samuel Bronfman, of Montreal, chairman of the North American Executive of the World Jewish Congress. This is the story of the grim episode:
Na/i troopers descended upon the ghetto of Pawliniki and systematically, ruthlessly rounded up the inmates. Into the night they disappeared; into the slaughterhouse from which there had l>een no return. They knew their fate and they crumpled together as the weaponry of their bestial wardens ripped into their shabby ranks. None, it seemed, survived.
But, hours later, a stealthy movement revealed the stubbornness of life. In incredible pain, driven by desperation,, a woman erawled from amongst the bodies of her fellow-Jews and stumbled into an adjacent wood. The. little daughter beside her had slipped, dead, from her arms. There the woman lay until, hours later, another
phantom figure, bloodied, and almost nude, sank down beside her.
They gave each other some comfort and whatever care was possible to salvage their battered bodies. Stealthily, slowly, they crawled away from the scene of diabolical death. Miraculously, those two women escaped the Nazi death penalty. And lived. Later, when liberation came to Europe they left forever, desiring only to sever themselves from the scene of their grim escape.
Twenty years later, in justice's slow progress, the government of West Germany began an investigation into the crimes at Pawliniki. But how, asked the investigating attorneys, could they proceed, if no one had survived that merciless massacre?
The case came to the attention of the .World Jewish Congress in New York, whose Institute of Jewish Affairs is involved in a tireless search for men and women, victims of Nazism, willing to come forward and testify against their Nazi persecutors in dozens and dozens of cases.
But the case of Pawliniki seemed impossible until minute research
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revealed that two persons were reported to have escaped. No one knew their names, no one knew whether they had indeed survived or where they were today. Mobil-i/iug its global organization, the World Jewish Congress set in motion a world-wide search. From its New York offices the appeal went out. Within a matter of days the two women who had miraculously survived Pawliniki were located: one in Israel, ajid the other right in the heart of New York itself. Once again the World Jewish
Congress was able to perform a unique feat and in so doing, and continue its dedicated task of helping to bring to justice the men responsible for the massacre of six million. This is but one phase of the work of the World Jewish Congress on behalf of the Jewish people throughout the world.
The women .must remain unidentified until the ' investigation into the crimes is completed. Similarly, Pawliniki is a fictitious name for a ghetto shattered by Na/i brutal it v.
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