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Friday, September 10, 1943

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Report to American Jewry on Overseas Relief
Work of United Appeal Since Outbreak of War

Urges Refugees'
Talents Be Used
Against Hitler

New Yorkers Win
Croix de Guerre

of the Jews in the U. S. that
during this period of gravest
travail and tragedy, they acted
to bring hope and rescue to large
numbers of the victims of Hit-
NEW YORK, (JPS)—Two New
lerism through the instrumen-
Yorkers serving with the United
tality of the agencies of the
U. S. Jewry's Contribution of $15,000,000 Annually Aids United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
States forces in North Africa
gees, Overseas Needs and Pal- Survey Reveals Specialists have been awarded the Croix de
Joint Distribution Committee, Palestine Appeal,
estine, the Joint Distribution
Available Among Recent Guerre, it is reported by the
NRS to Assist 1,800,000 Persons
Jewish Welfare Board's Bureau
Committee, United Palestine Ap-
Arrivals to U. S.
of War Records. They are: Lt.
NEW YORK—In the four years since the outbreak of peal and National Refugee Serv-
Joseph
Fink, 28, wounded in ac-
ice,
which
have
accomplished
World War II, a period in which the Jews are estimated to
Evidence of an important tion in the Tunisian fighting,
tasks in human sal-
have suffered 3,000,000 civilian casualties in Nazi-held Eu- herculean
source
of
untapped
manpower
vage and reconstruction.
who is the recipient of the Sil-
available to America through the ver Star, as well as the Croix
rope, American Jewry, through contributions to the United
"The
liberation
of
North
Af-
talents of refugees in this coun- de Guerre with Gold Star, and
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine,
brought relief, rehabilitation and resettlement assistance to rica and the forward march of try is revealed in the pamphlet, Sgt. Herbert Friedwald, 26, who
the Allied armies toward recon- "They Can Aid America," a sur-
1,800,000 homeless Jews and ref-:›
quest of the European continent vey of alien specialized personnel also holds the Silver Star.
ugees in Europe, Palestine and
PFC Heyman S. Cohen, 24, of
3—Establishment of 28 new have placed new responsibilities
issued by the National Refugee New York City, Lt. Jerome L.
the Western Hemisphere, it was agricultural settlements in the
upon
the
agencies
of
the
UJA
Service.
announced by William Rosen- Jewish homeland to provide for
Foreman, 21, of Los Angeles, a
which now must broaden the
wald, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver the absorption of newcomers.
The publication is based on an fighter pilot, and Sgt. Robert
scope
of
their
programs
to
help
and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, na-
analysis of the abilities, of 2,250 R. Israel, 28, of Brooklyn, have
4—Purchase of 160,233 dunams those who have now won 'the of America's newest arrivals, all
tional chairmen of the United
been killed in action
freedom
to
be
helped.'
"
of land to expand food produc-
Jewish Appeal.
specialists in the fields of sci-
tion for the Middle East and en-
The American Jewish Joint ence, social science, medicine and
The largest rescue campaign large settlement possibilities.
Distribution Committee, Inc. has commerce, and was compiled
ever organized by U. S. Jewry,
5—Establishment of 300 new allotted a total, of $27,857,000 with a grant from the agency
the United Jewish Appeal has
raised approximately $15,000,000 factories producing large quan- from September 1939 to Septem- by an emigre, Dr. Fausto R.
annually since Sept. 1, 1939, for tities of war goods and repairing ber 1943. Since Pearl Harbor Pitigliani.
the overseas war relief and re- tanks and other war material for the JDC has allotted $13,625,000,
William Allen White, noted
most of which was dispatched
habilitation activities of the Joint the Allied Armies.
Kansas editor, in a foreword to
overseas
under
license
from
the
Distribution Committee; for sup-
Vocational Retraining
the booklet suggests that fuller
U. S. Treasury.
port of the war effort and re-
The Shaarey Zedek Religious
The National Refugee Service
use can be made of the talents
building of the Jewish homeland furnished aid:
of these people in the war effort. School will open its 1943-1944
Helped 68,000 Escape
in Palestine maintained through
school year on Sunday, Sept. 19.
1—By means of vocational re-
"Nazism and Fascism have As in previous years, there will
Joseph C. Hyman, - executive
the United Palestine Appeal and
training
to
more
than
2,000
new-
presented
this
country
with
at
vice - chairman of the organiza-
for assistance to newcomers in
be two sessions, 9:30 to 11 and
the U. S. carried on by the Na- comers in the United States; by tion, declared that the agency least eight Nobel prize winners, 11. to 12:30. There will be no
professional placement of 6,000 had enabled 68,000 Jewish refu- plus thousands of the best brains
tional Refugee Service.
physicians, scientist s, rabbis, gees, or 60 per cent of the total Europe has produced. National pre-kindergarten class this year,
JDC Aided 900,000
scholars, etc., and by placements who fled Europe and other interest and our American sense but all other classes, from kind-
Mr. Rosenwald and Rabbis in other jobs aiding the war ef- areas, to escape to the Western of justice dictate that we turn ergarten through 12th grade, will
Silver and Wise estimated that fort, of more than 22,000 persons. Hemisphere and Palestine; that these brains into fighting weap- be offered as usual.
Children who have attended
during the past four years the
2—By 306,251 migration serv- in the 27 months preceding Pearl ons against the • Axis," Mr. White in previous years need not reg-
JDC, whose war relief experi- ices for refugees and American Harbor it made available $4,400,- writes'.
ister, as they are being enrolled
ence dates back to World War I, relatives and friends of refu- 000 for the relief of Jews in
through ' the mail. Members'
provided various forms of assis- gees.
Germany, A u s t r i a, Czechoslo- the JDC empowered them prior children who desire to enroll
tance from emergency relief to
3—By resettlement of 14,500 vakia, Poland, Luxembourg, to the entrance of America in for the first time may register
emigration aid to an average of
refugees in various inland com- Danzig and Yugoslavia, "without the war to borrow funds, food, any afternoon, next Monday
more than 900,000 persons in
munities where they can adjust actually sending dollars or any clothing and medicines from lo- through Thursday, 2-5 p. m., in
more than 52 countries scattered
other currency into Axis terri- cal sources. The JDC pledged to the school office. No registra-
quickly to American life.
over five continents.
repay these loans after the war. tions will be accepted on Sun-
4—By 5,000 small loans to help tory."
In the past four years the war
This procedure follows a pattern day, Sept. 19. Registration must
refugees establish themselves in
"The
record
of
the
JDC
during
mobilization program of the
professions, trades, business and the past four years," he said, laid down during World War I. be made in person.
584,000 Jews in Palestine and farming.
Non-members of the congre-
"reflects faithfully the shifting
During the past year the JDC gation whose children are not
their activities in providing for
scenes
of
conflict
and
need.
In
5—By
temporary
financial
as-
has
had
to
intensify
operations
the settlement and rehabilitation
enrolled may make application
of refugees from war-shattered sistance to 32,745 individuals 1941 and first half of 1942 we on all its relief fronts abroad. for admittance any afternoon
had
to
assist
relatively
small
during
the
first
period
of
adjust-
Additional representatives, who
Europe were supported by the
ment to life in this country.
numbers of refugees .in Spain. are trained American welfare from Monday through Thursday
United Palestine Appeal.
in the school office. Classes
The national chairmen pointed Then in August, 1942, the Laval executives, have been dispatched above the third grade are closed
The achievements of the con-
regime
in
unoccupied
France
be-
stituent organizations of the out that the JDC had dispatched gan to deport Jews to Poland. to Europe, North Africa, the at present, but applications will
United Jewish Appeal for Refu- representatives to North Africa, Thousands escaped across the Middle East and Latin America. be taken for all grades and con-
gees, Overseas Needs and Pal- Lisbon and the Middle East to Pyrenees to Spain. Today the
For non-sectarian aid through sidered in chronological order as
estine since September 1, 1939, enlarge its rescue and rehabilita- JDC is spending in Spain alone American r e l i e f organizations applicants can be accommodated.
tion
activities
and
that
recently
were outlined as follows:
and foreign governments the The tuition fee per child for
the sum of 4,250,000 francs was $100,000 a month to aid these JDC has spent approximately children of non-members is $15
The Joint Distribution Com- contributed by the JDC for aid people."
$500,000 in the four years of war. per year.
mittee provided for:
to economically uprooted Jews
Another program which de-
1 — Emigration assistance to in Tunisia.
veloped during the last year was
approximately 7 0 , 0 0 0 refugees
JDC aid to hundreds of thou-
Large-Scale Plans
from Europe to the Western
sands who had fled to Asiatic
Large
-
scale
plans
are
being
Hemisphere and Palestine.
Russia and Iran from Eastern
completed
at
the
present
time
Twenty
2—Medical aid and relief for
Poland before and after the out-
several hundred thousand Jew- for the immigration of thousands break of the Russo-German con-
Compiled From the Records of the
of refugee children from the Bal-
ish refugees in Asiatic Russia.
kans to Palestine. The JDC will flict. This involved shipping
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
3—Support of more than 14,- provide the transportation, while medical supplies, hospital equip-
000 refugees who fled to Spain the United Palestine Appeal will ment, serums and linens from
MUNICH—The Voelkischer Beobachter, organ of
and Switzerland when Hitler prepare for their settlement and the U. S. on Russian ships, and
the Bavarian fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, is now
seized unoccupied France.
at the same time sending food
demanding a boycott of all Jewish enterprises.
absorption.
Meanwhile, Hitler has emerged victor in a 6,000,000
and clothing from the Middle
4—Rehabilitation help to Jews
In summarizing the far - flung
marks libel suit he brought against the Berlin
in North Africa in close co-op- rescue effort supported with East.
Socialist daily Vorwaerts, which charged that his
eration with the Office of For- funds raised by the United Jew-
Gave Daily Relief
movement was financed by "American Jews and
eign Relief and Rehabilitation ish Appeal, the national chair-
Henry Ford."
"The
story
of
JDC
efforts
in
Operations (OFRRO).
men said:
WARSAW—All copies of the New York Yiddish
Nazi Poland," Mr. Hyman said,
5—Adjustment of 125,000 refu-
daily, The Day, coming into Poland have been con-
"No survey of the past four "would require a chapter for it-
gees who found a haven in 20 years can overlook the unparal- self. There the JDC brought life-
fiscated by the government, it has been learned
here. An order has been issued barring it from
Latin American countries.
leled martyrdom of our fellow- saving aid to 630,000 persons, of
entering the country by mail. No reason has been
40,000 to Palestine
Jews under fascism. The civil- whom half a million received
given for the government ban.
The United Palestine Appeal ized world has recognized that daily relief."
LONDON—Reports reaching here from Shanghai
the Jews have suffered greater
supported:
After Pearl Harbor, the JDC's
express grave fears for the safety of many Jewish
1—Immigration and settlement civilian casualties than any oth- clearance arrangement which
families who were living in Tokio and Yokohama,
which have been virtually destroyed by earthquakes.
of more than 40,000 refugees in er people in this war. More than made this aid possible automati-
3,000,000 have perished as a re- cally lapsed. As an American
An appeal from forty Jewish families who have
Palestine.
been rendered destitute has also been received here.
2—Enrollment of more than sult of brutal attack and whole- agency, the JDC could have no
NEW YORK—The American Jewish Congress,
50,000 Jewish men and women sale massacre.
contact with enemy lands. To
which is to reconvene on October 14, will assemble
Praise U. S. Jews
in the British armed forces and
enable local committees in these
in New York, it was announced here. It had original-
home defense organizations.
"It is to the everlasting credit countries to carry on their work
ly been planned to hold the sessions in Boston.

UJA Summarizes 4 Years
of Refugee, Rescue Work

Shaarey Zedek's
Religious School
To Open Sept. 19

Years Ago This Week