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THE JEWISH NEWS
Rescue 'Work Embraces the Globe
Facts and Figures Regarding Activities of Joint
Distribution Committee, United Palestine
Appeal and National Refugee Service
Palestine's Vast
Reconstruction
The United Palestine Appeal,
the medium through which
American Jewry provides the
funds for financing the programs
in Palestine of the Jewish Agen-
cy, the Palestine Foundation
Fund, the Jewish National Fund
and the Mizrachi Palestine Fund,
reports that during the six-month
period from Oct. 1, 1943, to April
1, 1944, the sum of $9,824,000 was
spent in Palestine for develop-
ment purposes, as compared with
$6,122,064 for the corresponding
period of the fiscal year 1942-43.
$1,299,661 for Immigration
and Relief to Refugees
The main increase was for the
rescue of and relief to refugees,
with a rise in expenditure from
$177,382 during the first six
months of 5703, to $1,299,661 dur-
ing the same period in 5704.
There are two outstanding rea-
sons for the growth in expendi-
ture: One is the fact that the
influx of refugees has consider-
ably gone up in numbers during
the first six months of the cur-
rent fiscal year. Many hundreds
of Polish refugees reached Pal-
estine from Russia via Teheran.
Others came from the liberated
territories of North Africa and
Southern I t a 1 y. T h e Nyassa
brought 754 who had found tem-
porary refuge in Spain and Por-
tugal, and thanks to the ener-
getic efforts of the Jewish Agen-
cy and its, representatives in
Turkey it was possible to rescue
several thousand from Nazi-oc-
cupied Europe by making pos-
sible their escape from the Bal-
kan countries. From October 1,
1943, to date, some .12,000 refu-
gees and immigrants reached the
shores of Palestine, bringing to
approximaely 55,000 the total
number of newcomers since the
outbreak of the war. About 8,507
came during the current calendar
year.
The other reason for the in-
crease in expenditure for this
budgetary item is the fact that
the refugees arrive today, almost
without exception, without means
of their own, and that owing to
the complete lack of any hous-
ing reserve in Palestine the pro-
vision_ of accommodation for
newcomers • has become a -serious
problem, which makes it neces-
sary for the Jewish Agency to
increase considerably the amount
which must be spent for initial
assistance to newcomers.
Agricultural Settlement
Allocation of $1,540,665
The Jewish Agency spent dur-
ing the first six months of 5703
$1,053,025 for agricultural settle-
ment. The expenditure of $1,540,-
665 during the corresponding
period in 5704 means an increase
of about 50 per cent. The Jewish
Agency is now completing four
new settlements to be added to
the 40 that have been created
since the beginning of the war.
In addition, 11 agricultural co-
operatives are now in the plan-
ning stage, and it is expected
that announcement will shortly
be made of their actual comple-
tion and their readiness to re-
ceive refugees. The four settle-
ments recently opened include
two for Kurdish Jews and one
for Yemenite Jews. Thousands
of Yemenite Jews have lately
been streaming toward Palestine
in escape from the intolerable
conditions in Yemenite Arabia.
The following sums are in-
cluded in the six month expendi-
ture for agricultural settlement:
$720,313 for establishment and
equipment of cooperative settle-
ments; $225,739 for smallholders'
settlements; $184,093 for invest-
ments in various companies for
land development; $138,113 for
agricultural machinery and irri-
gation.
Trade and Industry
The expenditure of $242,882
through the Jewish Agency's De-
partment of Trade and Industry
marks an. increase of 50 per cent
over the expenditure of $165,743.
NRS Activities in
First Half of 1944
In response to the growing
need to help inquiring persons
in the United States ascertain
the whereabouts of relatives and
friends overseas, the National
Refugee Service has cooperated
with six other major agencies in
establishing a service to be
known as the Central Location
Index, Inc. The newly-created
index will service not individuals
but member agencies only and
will have at its disposal the co-
ordinated facilities of these agen-
cies, of the International Red
Cross a n d other resources
abroad.
During the first six months of
1944, the National Refugee Serv-
ice expended a total of $533,905
for the successful maintenance
of its varied services. Relief al-
lotments to needy and aged per-
sons incapable of supporting
themselves made up the major
part of the agency's expenditures,
with $183,872 used for this pur-
pose. A total of 1,280 individuals
were rendered financial assist-
ance from January through June
30, 1944.
A number of refugee families
were resettled in scattered parts
of the country during this same
period. A total of 626 persons
were placed in a variety of jobs,
many of which are directly con-
nected with the prosecution of
the war effort. Positions in their
own fields were also found for
100 physicians, musicians and a
rabbi.
The Central Loan Trust grant-
ed 112 loans amounting to $50,-
033; many of these loans to assist
refugee physicians in establish-
ing private practices.
Transfer of Certain
Cases in New York
NRS has already started the
transfer of certain refugee cases
in New York to local family
agencies. Transfer cases involve
persons who are here on per-
manent visas and who have lived
in New York for at least four
years. In these cases the Na-
tional Refugee Service will con-
tinue to defray the expense in-
volved in direct service, relief
and additional administrative
costs until the families concerned
will have resided here a total of
five years. Those refugees who
are here on permanent visas hav-
ing five or more years' residence
will become the full responsibil-
ity of the local agencies.
NRS will continue to provide
relief and other family services
for persons here on temporary
visas and for special cases which
cannot be considered local New
York City residents.
Emergency Refugee Shelter
Opened at Fort Ontario
The Emergency Refugee Shel- ,
ter established at Fort Ontario,
N. Y., for 1,000 refugees for the
duration of the war, has evoked
great interest among refugee aid-
ing organizations. The Emer-
gency Refugee Shelter will be
under the operation of the War
Relocation Authority of which
Dillon Myer is the director. NRS
was in constant consultation with
John W. Pehle and the War Ref-
ugee Board until the actual proj-
ect was confirmed. Since then
NRS has consulted with Mr.
Myer and other representatives
of the WRA.. The primary re-
sponsibility for the operation of
the camp rests with the govern-
ment. NRS is making available
its knowledge and experience in
working with refugees and has
offered to consider providing
such services as the government
finds itself unable to supply.
Jewish Industrialist
Arrested in Hungary.
ZURICH, (JTA)—Baron An-
dreas Hatvany, "a big Jewish in-
dustrialist" has been arrested by
the Germans in Hungary and
sent to a concentration camp, the
Nazi Transkontinent Press re-
ports.
Expanding Field
Of JDC Activities
Concurrent with accelerated
Allied military operations on
three fronts, J.D.C.'s activities in
the fields of rescue, relief and
rehabilitation continue at a
heightened tempo. In the first
six months of 1944, J.D.C. allo-
cated $10,459,472, a sum greater
than was appropriated for the
entire year of 1943. Over 70 per
cent of this sum went into the
work of rescue from and relief
in war-torn areas, while the re-
mainder was allotted for relief
and rehabilitation aid to thou-
sands of needy Jews in Allied
and neutral lands. Still greater
demands on J.D.C. resources are
being made as new governmental
and intergovernmental agencies
open to J.D.C. channels for spe-
cial services. To meet these in-
creased requirements and to pre-
pare for reconstruction work in
liberated territories, J.D.C. is
rapidly expanding its overseas
staff.
J. D. C. aides are now sta-
tioned in London, Lisbon, Bar-
celona, Madrid, Bari, Rome, Jeru-
salem, Teheran, Istanbul, Algiers,
Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
1944 Rescue Allocations
To Date
—
$4,985,000
In recent months Turkey has
served as a transit station for
about 3,000 refugees rescued
from the Balkans and migrated
to Palestine. The J.D.C., the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine and the
War Refugee Board cooperated
in the rescue program. Trans-
portation costs were paid by the
J.D.C. Three hundred and 50
Turkish Jews, who had been liv-
ing in France, were repatriated
to their homeland. Most of them
are being assisted by the J.D.C.
Three hundred fifty-two refu-
gees have already been immi-
grated into Canada from Spain
and Portugal, while additional
refugees from Spain and Tangier
are expected to sail shortly. A
special repre,;entative of the Ca-
nadian Government worked with
J.D.C. personnel overseas to ef-
fect the rescue of these refugees,
whose transportation was paid
by the J.D.C. Spain and Portugal
have accepted some 700 Sephar-
dic Jews from the Balkans and
France. The J.D.C. guaranteed
their maintenance to insure their
entry. An additional 300 Sephar-
dim in France await entry.
The first transport of Jews
from liberated Italy — 570 refu-
gees from Yugoslavia, Greece
and other Balkan countries —
reached Palestine, with trans-
portation arranged by the J.D.C.
Early this year 750 refugees ar-
rived in Palestine from Spain
and Portugal, the largest single
group to enter Palestine since
the war began. J.D.C. paid a
transportaion cost of $347,000.
Another 75 refugees recently
came to Western Hemisphere
havens.
For the prospective emigration
of children from occupied Eu-
rope to havens of safety the
J.D.C. has allocated $2,000,000;
while for additional rescue work
there have been further alloca-
tions totaling $1,120,000.
$1,760,000 Aid Victims
of Occupied Countries
In enemy occupied countries,
the 1944 allocations to date
amount to $1,760,000.
Via neutral countries and in-
ternational relief agencies, when-
ever the belligerent governments
permit, food and clothing pack-
ages are shipped to specified
areas in occupied Europe. Cur-
rently, Jews in Theresienstadt,
Czechoslovakia, some parts of
Poland and Transnistria, receive
F4clait; July 18, 1944
such supplies. J.D.C. aid in occu-
pied countries is also continuing
under an arrangement whereby
committees borrow locally for
repayment after the war by the
J.D.C. Most recent proof of the
efficacy of this arrangement was
provided by a J.D.C. aide who
escaped from France into Spain,
reporting the work of assistance
goes on. He revealed also that
the J.D.C. is- pledged to repay
almost $2,000,000 which had been
borrowed in its name. There is
evidence that work is going on
today even in Poland. In Japan-
ese-occupied Shanghai, too, J.D.C.
funds provide daily meals for
the needy among the 21,000 Jew-
ish refugees there.
force. Refugees in Portugal con-
tinue to receive aid at the
monthly rate of $35,000, and
since Jan. 1, $939,000 has been
allocated.
Local Jewish Groups
Assist JDC in Africa
From Tangier on the west,
through French Morocco, Alge-
ria, Tunisia and Libya, J.D.C. is
working with local Jewish groups
to provide aid to needy refugees
and to rehabilitate the war-
ruined native Jewish population.
In Tunisia, the J.D.C. program
seeks to revive the economic and
cultural life of the Axis-looted
Jewish communities. The J.D.C.
has arranged for repatriation of
18,000 Refugees Get
750 Jews from Tunisia to Libya.
Aid in Switzerland
The North African costs since
Eighteen thousand of the 25,000 Jan. 1 amount to $239,450.
Jewish refugees in Switzerland Latin America
receive partial or complete sup-
The J.D.C.'s program of reha-
port through J.D.C. funds. Each
month J.D.C. allots $300,000 for bilitation affecting 125,000 Jew-
assistance in Switzerland and for ish immigrants in Central and
emergency aid and rescue in oc- South America aids the refugees
cupied countries routed through to fit themselves into their new
life . and provides emergency re-
Switzerland.
lief when necessary. Emphasis is
JDC Steps Up Aid
laid on credit cooperatives, loan
In Liberated Italy
The liberation of two-thirds- of funds for constructive purposes,
the Italian peninsula has enabled resettling immigrants and re-
J.D.C. to step up its relief work training facilities. Child care,
for native and refugee Jews health, welfare and cultural in-
here. A J.D.C. office has been set stitutions are maintained in com-
up in Bari. A second office will munities where the proportion of
soon be opened at Rome to facil- refugees is large. The Latin
itate relief and rehabilitation American allocations since Jan. 1
work. For refugees in Southern have reached the sum of $210,000.
Italy, J.D.C. has arranged for the
distribution of $40,000 worth of Story of Chinese
Boy
clothing. A J.D.C. grant will
make possible the reopening and on WWJ, July 31
continuance of Jewish schools
"Precious Gold," the eighth in
and institutions. J.D.C. funds
have equipped hostels in Naples a 13-week series of War Town
and have made possible the re- radio programs of dramatic
opening of schools and syna- stories built around community
gogues and the purchase of med- and war service agencies, will
ical supplies. An emergency be heard over WWJ Monday,
grant of 2,000,000 lira was made July 31, at 1:45 p.m.
to the Rome Jewish community
Anna May Wong, Victor Jory,
shortly after its liberation. To Harold Huber, Hester Sonder-
mate, during 1944, $140,000 was gaard and Michael Artist of the
allocated for work in Italy.
stage, screen and radio will star
Jewish Refugees -in Russia
in this program. The story tells
Get Monthly Packages
of a Chinese boy, 7, orphaned
Each month 10,000 packages of by Jap bombs which destroyed
food and clothing cross the Sov- his home city, who seeks refuge
iet-Iranian border addressed to and care for his baby sister.
Jewish refugees from Eastern
Detroit War Chest funds help
Europe who have found havens such Chinese children through
in Soviet Asia. In the first six United China Relief, one of the
months of 1944 the J.D.C. allot- 19 war relief agencies included
ted $300,000 for this program. in the National War Fund.
Additional aid will be supplied
refugees in the Soviet Union un-
der an agreement whereby the BUY MORE WAR BONDS
J.D.C. will ship $500,000 worth
of food and other relief supplies
from the United States to speci-
fied regions in the U.S.S.R. where
there is a predominantly Jewish
population.
Spain and Portugal
By order of
PUBLIC
AUCTION
Maintenance High
Despite evacuation of relative-
ly , large numbers of refugees
from Spain and Portugal, costs
for maintenance of those refu-
gees who remain is very high,
and the J.D.C. monthly allotment
of $100,000 for Spain remains in
Mark T. Barnett, trustee
We will on
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Commencing at I- p.m.
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