14 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle AID Continued from page 3 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- F illoror tholodseor reitfl uc;g ca ittviesto. o tpeeascit a At h e do 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 131 (Ci ed fo" par PF Had f are ew on er pal est t t e p gab li o r a n e l w e y o l rd : 1 1 f sk o i r ll p e l d r1 1 5 e. should future fore also acf dy so eo n rt re d i l e a ° Yit r( p o tit,riti i c u alebaoo l e a w mp m t .a i m cation a io o r: plicats eat acquit ni h u el c r si C se e t p D partic t h a it a° tvn e es n a s s l i d nnoggu citie s coul d social tso hoirtuecgi rn right W. 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These services include assistance in pre- paring for naturalization, re- uniting families which have been separated by the war, and acting as liaison between Washington and the refugee community here in matters pertaining to wartime regulations for refugee aliens. 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 file of 750,000 names of refugees here, the largest depository of such information available. 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