Friday, September 15, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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American Jews Contributed $82,000,000 to Aid Victims of Nazism
In the five-year period since
the outbreak of World War II,
communities
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4,200
Jews
throughout the United States
contributed a total of $82,000,-
000 to the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine in a concerted effort
to save large numbers of Jews
in European lands from annihi-
lation by the Nazi regime. The
report on the war rescue opera-
tions since Sept. 1, 1939, was
made public by Rabbi James G.
Heller, William Rosenwald, and
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national
chairmen of the United Jewish
Appeal, which is the unified fund-
raising instrument for three fore-
most American agencies: The
Joint Distribution Committee, the
United Palestine Appeal, and the
National Refugee Service.
During the past five years, the
Joint Distribution Commitee ap-
propriated the sum of $47,530,-
900 for a world-wide rescue and
relief program during which it
helped 79,000 Jewish men, wom-
en, and children escape from
Europe to havens of safety in
the Western Hemisphere and
Palestine. The JDC, which has
been engaged in aid to Jews
overseas for the past three dec-
ades, is at the present time carry-
ing on an expanded program of
rescue, relief, and rehabilitation
in Allied, neutral and occupied
countries intended not only to
snatch from death those who are
still in the grip of Nazi oppres-
sion in the Balkans and Poland,
but also to lay the groundwork
for the restoration of Jews in
liberated territories such as
North Africa, Italy, and France.
As the major haven for refu-
gees fleeing from hate-ridden
lands, the Jewish homeland in
Palestine has absorbed more than
55,000 Jews with the aid of the
United Palestine Appeal during
the five years of war. A total of
$48,102,000 was spent in Pales-
tine for the establishment of 39
agricultural settlements, the ad-
justment of new immigrants, the
development of 400 war indus-
tries, the acquisition of 228,102
dunams of land, and for aid in
the enrollment of more than 50,-
000 Jewish men and women in
the British armed forces and Pal-
estine Home Guard.
For the program of adjust-
ment and integration aid for
large numbers of the 215,000
Jewish refugees who have found
a haven in the United States
since the beginning of the Nazi
regime, the National Refugee
Service spent a total of $11,837,-
000 in the past five years. With
the entry of the United States
into the war, this agency devoted
its energies to retraining the
newcomers to share in the war
effort both on the production
and battle fronts. Hundreds of
refugees were placed in war in-
dustries which required addition-
al manpower, and many mem-
bers of the younger generation
joined the armed forces. Recent-
ly the National Refugee Service
extended its cooperation to our
government in providing for the
supplementary needs of the 982
refugees who will be maintained
at the Emergency Refugee Shel-
ter at Fort Ontario for the dura-
tion of the war.
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Rescue Operations in
Europe Summarized
More than 150,000 Jewish men,
women and children have been
brought out of "Festung Eur-
opa"-79,000 of them with the
assistance of the JDC—and were
provided with partial or total re-
lief in areas of comparative safe-
ty in the last five years. For
this rescue and relief program
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee's total appropriations in the
five-year war period reached the
sum of $47,530,900, of which al-
locations for emigration alone
reached $8,371,900. In addition,
for those Jews who could not es-
cape from occupied Europe, the
JDC has provided relief through
a system of local borrowings and
food, clothing and medicine pack-
ages.
Despite the fact that war
blocked practically every normal
emigration channel, between Sept.
1, 1939 and Pearl Harbor, the
JDC, using Portugese, Spanish,
Greek, Japanese and American
passenger boats, brought 56,000
Jewish refugees to safety in the
In outlining the rescue activi-
ties of the agencies of the United
Jewish Appeal, Rabbi Heller, Mr.
Rosenwald, and Rabbi Wise point-
ed out that the rapid progress
of the Allied armies is speeding
the beginning of the era of re I
construction and the end of the
ero of destruction for Jews and
other peoples on the European
continent. They pointed out that
as the prison walls set up by the
Nazis are torn down by the ad-
vancing forces of the United Na-
tions, the road is being cleared
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for large-scale rehabilitation ef-
fort which will tremendously in-
crease the needs of the United
Jewish Appeal and its constituent
agencies, which have been the
foremost instruments for the sur-
vival of the victims of mass Nazi
brutality.
"T h e horrifying revelations
concerning the mass death fac-
tories at Lublin where 2,000,000
men, women and children were
massacred and buried in mass
graves is a challenge to all of
us to bring a speedy end to the
suffering and sorrow of those
who have survived more than 11
long and bitter years of ruthless
persecution," the National chair-
men added.
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in America. When Italy's entry
into the war in 1940 closed the
Mediterranean, JDC developed a
new emigration route from Ger-
many across the Pacific to the
Western Hemisphere. In April,
1941, when Greece was invaded
by Germany, the Greek passen-
ger vessels were withdrawn from
service. JDC purchased addition-
al space on Portugese boats and
when in July of the same year
the United States closed its con-
sulates in Germany, Italy and the
occupied countries, there was an
acceleration of applications for
Cuban visas and other refugees
appeared before the American
consuls in Madrid and Budapest.
Following Dec. 7, 1941, when
the United States became a bel-
ligerent, Portugal, Spain and Tur-
key became the escape hatches of
Europe. To keep emigration
lanes open, it was necessary to
buy up all or most of the pas-
senger space on a small fleet of
neutral Portugese vessels and
keep them plying back and forth
across the Atlantic. But despite
the closis ;. of borders and the
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shortage of shipping space, JDC
was able to emigrate 23,000 refu-
gees.
During 1944, in order to save
the Hungarian Jews—the latest
group to be threatened by Hitler's
extermination policy—the JDC in-
tensified its rescue operations in
Turkey. In cooperation with the
War Refugee Board, JDC ar-
ranged and financed water trans-
portation from the Rumanian
port of Sonstanza across the
Black Sea to Istanbul and over-
land by rail from Istanbul to
Palestine for several thousand
Romanian and Hungarian Jews.
In Sweden about 7,000 refugees
have been assisted; in Switzer-
land about 19,000. There are also
about 20,000 refugees in Shang-
hai, China, for most of whom
the JDC has been granting con-
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