The Order of the British Empire medal for outstanding bravery was awarded today to a Salford first-aid section leader, Nathan Dantzig. During an air raid he cleared away wreckage with his bare hands and saved four persons. Afterwards, during the same raid, he volunteered to enter a burning building and rescued an injured woman a few minutes before the house collapsed.
At a recent investiture in Buckingham Palace, a Jewish air-raid warden named Shonner received the OBE medal. He is the only Stepney warden to have been personally presented with the decoration by the King.
Among the sheriffs appointed by the King is Str Edward William Meyerstein for Kent.
Dr. Joseph Myoffey, former vice-president of the British Zionist Federation, has been appointed to the chair of anatomy at Bristol University. He went to the United States in 1937 as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow and spent nearly two years in research at Harvard.
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