Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 3 American Jews Contributed $82,000,000 to Aid Victims of Nazism In the five-year period since the outbreak of World War II, communities i n 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. Allied Victories Clearing Road for Large-Scale Rehabilitation Rosh Hashanah Greetings! GOLUB BROS. 8837 TWELFTH ST. TY. 4.9162 Buy More War Bonds 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 1 I 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. - ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS AND BEST Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu! NATE'S Grocery FS Dairy 8547 TWELFTH ST. TY. 4.9484 Buy More War Bonds A Happy New Year to All WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND E. 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