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tinuous relief. During the a•-
ious periods when most of them
were in transit, the JDC has
given assistance to about 24,000
refugees in Portugal and about
12,000 in Spain. For this group
the JDC has provided, in whole
or in part, food, shelter, clothing
and medical care. Through a sys-
tem of local 'borrowings as well
as by means of its package pro-
gram and through other channels,
the JDC also has provided relief
in Poland, Holland, France, Hun-
gary, Romania, Yugoslavia and
Italy throughout the five years
of war.
As soon as the United Nations
forces had made their way into
to extend relief to Jewish com-
North Africa, the JDC followed
munities. JDC, which was the
first American agency offering
relief to needy Jews in Africa,
is today operating in liberated
Italy. It has allocated $240,000
for relief in the northern area
as well as various sums for use
in the former concentration
camps in southern Italy, among
them a $40,000 grant for cloth-
ing.
Palestine Rebuildin g and
Settlement i n Wartime
As the Nazis launched their
conquest of Europe, Jews in many
countries found themselves over-
taken by the oppressor and in-
creasing numbers sought to es-
cape to the Jewish homeland in
Palestine. In the total of 55,000
who succeeded in reaching Pal-
estine during the past five years
were men, women and children
who came via Spain, Portugal,
Russia, Turkey, Iran, Yemen,
Italy, and North Africa. In rec-
ent months the influx of large
numbers of refugees from the
Balkans and Western Europe has
taxed the resources of the Unit-
ed Palestine Appeal, which is re-
quired to assist in providing re-
lief and adjustment for the new
arrivals. Since Jan. 1, 1944, more
than 11,000 Jews have reached
the shores of Palestine.
With the coming of the war,
the Jews in Palestine were con-
fronted with new problems which
required added support from the
United Palestine Appeal. The
Jewish homeland's economy was
promptly placed on a total war
footing and 400 industries were
established to help supply the
the Middle East. Shortly after
armies of the United Nations in
the Nazis invaded Poland, the
Jewish Agency for Palestine,
which receives its American sup-
port through the United Pales-
tine Appeal, instituted an inten-
sive recruitment program, which
resulted in the enrollment of
50,000 Jewish men and women
in various branches of the Brit-
ish army and in the Home Guard.
Many of these soldiers, who were
former refugees, fought with dis-
tinction in the crucial battle of
El Alamein, which turned the
tide for the Allies in North Af-
rica, and served in the British
Eighth Army, which drove the
Nazis out of Tunisia. More re-
cently, Palestinian Jewish sol-
diers have taken part in the lib-
eration of Italy.
In order to furnish larger quan-
tities of wood for the military
and civilian population, the 290
agricultural settlements in Pales-
tine greatly increased their yield
of vegetables, eggs, and other
dairy products. A total of 39
new settlements were founded
during the past five years with
the aid of the United Palestine
Appeal. At the same time the
Jewish National Fund, which to-
gether with the Palestine Foun-
dation Fund constitutes the Unit-
ed Palestine Appeal, acquired a
total of 288,102 dunams of land
to speed the program of refugee
settlement and food production.
The support which the United
Palestine Appeal provided for
the development of war industries
made it possible for Palestine to
produce a variety of products in-
cluding armored cars, uniforms,
pharmaceutical supplies, mines,
ammunition, and other instru-
ments of war. Palestine's war
production effort made it possi-
ble for the United Nations to
supply the armies of the Middle
East without using shipping
which was urgently needed on
other fronts.
In recent months, the United
Palestine Appeal has helped fi-
nance the support of dependent
families of Jewish soldiers, and
initiate a plan for the readjust-
ment of returning servicemen
through a program of settlement
on the land and vocational train-
ing. Indicative of the role which
Palestine will play in the re-
habilitation of the Jews of Eur-
ope when victory comes is the
fact that more than 700 Jewish
refugees from liberated Italy
were brought to Palestine several
months ago. The United Pales-
tine Appeal will be required to
make available the resources for
the settlement in the Jewish home-
land of the thousands of uproot-
ed Jews who will not be able to
return to their former homes
after the war.
Adjustment Program for
Refugees in U.S.
The majority of the 296,000
refugees who have come to the
United States since the rise of
Hitler have been aided by the
National Refugee Service. Not-
withstanding the difficulties of
shipping space, 12,500 refugees
have entered the United States
since Pearl Harbor. Recognized
as the principal refugee-serving
agency in this country, the NRS
maintains a network of services
designed to speed the adjustment
and Americanization of the refu-
gee in the United States.
As its name implies, the Emer-
gency Refugee Shelter at Fort
Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., repre-
sented an emergency project kti
the National Refugee Service.
But the NRS was prepared and
ready to serve. The agency im-
mediately placed its total facili-
ties and resources at the disposal
of the authorities operating the
duration-of-the-war shelter. Sim-
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to care for themselves, the Na.
tional Refugee Service provides
relief and family services, which
include food, clothing and shelter,
as well as medical care. Ov er
33,000 persons have been rendered
this assistance since 1939. Other
services which the NRS has ex-
tended to the refugees in this
country include: Clearing away
obstacles for the hiring of ran-
gees in war production; provid-
ing classes in English, citizen-
ship, American history, et c. ;
granting of loans to enable refu-
gee immigrants to establish them-
selves on farms, in business or in
professional practice; sponsoring
the European-Jewish Children's
Aid, which places in foster homes
refugee children under 16 years
of age who have arrived here
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refugees in this country. These
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paring for naturalization, re-
uniting families which have been
separated by the war, and acting
as liaison between Washington
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in matters pertaining to wartime
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Through its placement and re-
training divisions, the National
Refugee Service has, since 1939,
made close to 30,000 job and
professional placements and has
retrained over 2,000 persons in
new and more productive fields
of endeavor. With the approach
of victory in Europe not far off,
the location tasks of the National
Refugee Service will be greatly
expanded. The agency has al-
ready established a location unit
whose task will be to facilitate
the location overseas of relatives
and friends of persons in the
United States. The National Ref-
ugee Service maintains a central
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