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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

October 4, 1940

Can We Help Jews Under Fire Today?

By MICHAEL FREEMAN

EDITOR'S NOTE: In an hour when millions of Jews are in the
direct path of the catastrophe of war, this question is upper-
most in the minds of Jews throughout the United States. The
following article presents the answers to questions of what
is being done to help Jews in distress, and how American
Jewry is making possible the continuation of the programs of
rescue, resettlement and relief through the instrumentality
of the United Jewish Appeal.

manner in which the work of
the United Jewish Appeal agen-
cies is carried on and the man-
ner in which its funds are spent,
deserve the utmost consideration
and it is the purpose of this ar-
ticle to answer the doubts and
questions that may be in the
reader's mind.
Have the agencies of the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal been able to
continue their work in the face
of the war? How do we man-
age to avoid helping Nazi eco-
nomy and at the same time con-
tinue with our relief work? Does
the Red Cross duplicate the work
of the United Jewish Appeal?
The Joint Distribution Commit-

In a world torn by earth-shak-
ing conflict, we naturally shrink
from the reports of horror and
suffering that fill the daily press.
We have read so much of the
suffering of the Jews in Poland,
or the Jews in Greater Germany,
that our emotions are either
completely numb or shattered by
an uncontrollable though unwar-
ranted fear that all is lost and

there is not much left to do but
to pronouncb solemn words of
lamentation on the passing of
European Jewry.
This is an entirely erroneous
impression born out of the pe-
culiar instinct of human nature
unconsciously to seek out mis-
fortune and embrace it as the
only reality. Certainly the facts
do not in any way support the
view that there is no future for
the Jews in Europe, or that we
are not in a position to help as-
sure the survival of the Jewish
communities which have had a

Happy New Year to All!

distinguished role in the develop-
ment of Western civilization. The
ordeal of fire and the sword which
they are enduring at this mo-
ment cannot be minimized by
any undue spirit of optimism.
Nevertheless, there is a great
deal of encouragement to be de-
rived from the fact that despite
the overwhelming difficulties cre-
ated by the war the work of
bringing to European Jews re-
lief assistance. aiding them to
emigrate to Palestine and other
overseas countries and providing
help to refugees in the Ameri-
cas is being carried on without
interruption. The problem is not
one of how this help can be giv-
en. Our chief problem is rather
one of obtaining sufficient funds
with which to meet the respon-
sibilities which the war has plac-
ed upon us.

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Up to the present the great
community of American Jewry
has made possible through its
generosity the saving of many
lives. The existence of an in-
strument such as the United Jew-
ish Appeal which through its con-
stituent agencies, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, the United
Palestine Appeal and the Nation-
al Refugee Service, operates over
a vast field, is in itself evidence
of this generosity. Since the out-
break of war in September, 1939,
our American Jewish community
has heroically responded to the
appeal for help that comes to
us from a Europe in chains. But

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as the engulfing war spreads, the
number of persons requiring as-

sistance mounted with appalling
rapidity. The United Jewish Ap-
peal was constrained to augment
its appropriations, extend its
sphere of activity, and its con-
stituent bodies were compelled
to speed up their work on all
fronts and enlarge their pro-
grams. Throughout the first year
of the war these agencies have
continued uninterruptedly to
evacuate refugees, reestablish
them in lands of temporary and
permanent refuge, find new
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homes for them in Palestine and
in the Americas. What is perhaps
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even more significant, we have
been able to carry on relief. emi-
gration and retraining operations
in countries immediately affected
by the war or in countries un-
der German domination. The only
factor that has hampered us is
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lack of sufficient funds and our
paramount concern is how to
obtain these funds.
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funds that do not reach Jews in
need are the funds that are not
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whom it is intended. Contribu-
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gry, house the homeless, clothe
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future for refugees arriving in
Palestine. They tide over immi-
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their new way of life and can
support themselves.

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HOW FUNDS ARE SPENT
IN EUROPE TODAY

While the dollar that is con-
tributed does all of these things,
it is not sent into Germany or
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objections some people have
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against contributing to overseas
relief, formulated on the false
theory that they are indirectly
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helping Nazi economy, have no
basis in fact. Nevertheless the
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doubts and the questions which
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