TH ^ JEWISH NEWS.
Friday, Sepfember 15, 1944 .
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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
Africa, and served in the British
Large - Scale War Rescue Operations in Europe and Eighth Army, which drove the
Nazis out of Tunisia. More re-
Palestine, and Refugee Aid in U. S. Finariced
cently, Palestinian Jewish soldiers
have taken part in the liberation
Through United Jewish Appeal
of most of Italy.
U.S. Jewry dives _82 Million
To Aid Victims of Nazism
In the five-year period since the outbreak of World • War
II, Jews in- 4,200 Communities. throughout the U. S. contrib-
uted $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 annihilation
by the Nazis.
The report on the war . rescue4;
operations since Sept. 1, 1-939, Greece was invaded by Germany,
was made public by Rabbi James the Greek passenger vessels were
G. Heller, William • Rosenwald' withdrawn from service. .
and 'Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, na-
Use Portuguese Boats
tional chairman of the UJA,
JDC purchased additional space
which is the unified fund-raising . on Portuguese boats and when
instrument for the three foremost in July of the same year the
American agencies: Joint Distri- U. S. closed its consulates in
bution Committee, United Pales- Germany, Italy and the occupied
tine Appeal and National Refugee countries, there was an accelera-
Service.
tion of applications for Cuban
During the past five years, the visas and other refugees appear-
JDC appropriated $47,530,900 for ed before the American consuls
rescue and relief programs dur- in Madrid and' Budapest.
ing which it helped 79,000 Jewish
During 1944, in order to save
men, women, and children escape the Hungarian Jews—the JDC in-
from Europe to the Western tensified its rescue operations in
Hemisphere and Palestine..
Turkey. In cooperation with the
War Refugee Board, JDC arrang-
Active Three Decades
. The JDC which has been en- ed and financed water transpor-
gaged in aid to Jews overseas tation from the Romanian port
for the past three decades, is at of Constanza across ' the Black
the present time carrying on an Sea to Istanbul and overland by
expanded_ program of rescue, re- rail from Istanbul to Palestine
lief, and rehabilitation in Allied, for several thotAand Romanian
and Hungarian Jews.
neutral and occupied countries.
In Sweden about-7,000 refugees
As the major haven for refu-
gees fleeing from hate-ridden have been assisted: in Switzer-
lands, the Jewish homeland has land about 19,000. There are also
absorbed more than 55,000 Jews about 20,00 refugees in Shanghai,
with the aid of the UPA . during China, for most of whoin the
the five years of war. A total JDC has been granting continu-
of $48,102,000 was spent in Pale- ous relief. During the various
stine by the agencies receiving periods when most of them were
their American support through in transit, the JDC has given as-
the UPA for the establishment sistance to about 24,000 refugees
of 39 agricultural settlements, the in Portugal and about 12,000 in
adjustment of new immigrants, Spain.
Palestine Rebuilding
the development of 400 war in-
dustries, the acquisition of 228,-
As the Nazis launched their
102 dunams of land, and for aid conquest of Europe, Jews-in many
in the enrollment of more than countries found themselves over-
50,000 Jewish men and women in taken by the oppressor and in-
the British armed forces and creasing numbers sought to es-
Palestine Home Guard.
cape to Palestine. In the total of
55,000 who succeeded in reaching
215,000 Rescued
For the program of adjustment Palestine during the past five
and integration aid • for large years were men, women and
numbers of the . 215,000 Jewish children who came via Spain,
refugees who have found a haven Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Iran,
in the U. S. since the beginning Yemen, Italy, and North Africa.
With the coming of the war,
of the Nazi regime, the NRS
spent $11,837,200 in the past five the Jews in Palestine were con-
years. With the entry of the U. S. fronted with new problems which
into the war, this agency devoted required added support from the
its energies to retraining -the UPA. The Jewish homeland's eco-
newcomers to share in the war nomy was placed on a total war
effort both on the production and footing and 400 industries were
battle fronts. Hundreds of refu- established- to help supply the
gees were placed in war indust- armies of the United Nations in
ries which required additional the Middle East.
Shortly after the Nazis invad-
manpower, and many members
of the younger generation join- ed Poland, the Jewish Agency
ed the armed forces. Recently the for Palestine -instituted an in-
NRS offered extended supple- tensive recruitment pr o gram,
mentary needs of the 982 refu- which resulted in the enrollment
gees who will be maintained at of 50,000 Jewish men and women
the Emergency Refugee Shelter in various branches of the British
at Fort Ontario for the -duration. 'army and in • the Home Guard.
In outlining -the rescue activi-
ties of the United Jewish Appeal,
Rabbi Heller, Mr. Rosewald, and
Rabbi Wise pointed out that the
rapid progress of the Allied
armies is speeding -the beginning
of the era of reconstruction and
the end of the eras of destruc-
tion for Jews and other peoples
on the European continent.
Rescue Operations
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More than 150,000 Jewish men,
women and children have been
brought out of "Festune-Europa"
79,00 of them with the assist-
ance of the JDC—and were pro-
vided with partial or total relief
in areas of comparative safety in
Here's the Whaling "Ben-
the last five years. For this rescue
ton" . . . a new Fall hat
and relief program- the JDC ap-
that has everything you
propriations in the five-year-war
associate with a winner ...
period- reached $47,530,900, of
perfect form, staying
which allocations for emigration
power, dependability. Ex-
reached $8,371,900.
tra fine quality fur felt ...
Despite the fact that war block-
tapered crown, bound
ed practically every normal emi-
edge . . . becoming shades
gration channel, between, Sept. 1,
1939, and Pearl 114thor, the JDC
for Fall.
using Portuguese, Sbanish, Greek,
japaneseand American passeng-
$10
er boati, .brOught 56,000 Jewish
refugees to safety in the U. S.,
Palestine ;and Latin America.
When.Italy's entry into the war
in 1940 closed the Mediterranean,
Men's Wear
JDC developed a new emigration
route from Germany across the
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Pacific to the Western • Hemis-.
phere.: In April, 1941, when-
WHALING'S
Page Eleven
Jewish News Has More Lists
Of Survivors from Lublin
The Jewish News has received additional- lists of names of
hundreds of JeWs who have survived the Nazi- terror in Ltiblin.
These lists may he studied in the office of The Jewish News.
It is advisable that arrangements to study these names
be made by appointment, in view of the large influx of
Detroiters who have been flocking to the office of The
Jewish News to examine these lists.
In 'addition to the list of Lublin Jews, The Jewish News has
lists of surviving refugees in this country, in Palestine and in
Europe. --
These lists have been supplied to us, .as a result of special-.
services we have set up, by the JTA, World Jewish Congress,
Ariierican JeWish - Committee, American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee,. American Federation, of Polish Jews and other
agencies.
In order to furnish larger quan-
tities of food for the military
and civilian populatiOn-, the 290
agricultural setlements in Pales-
tine greatly increased their out-
put. A total of 39 new settlements
were founded during the past
five years with the aid of the
UPA. At the same time the Jew-
1943 Greenwood Prize for Poetry _
ish National Fund, which togeth-
and England's National Poetry ,
er with the Palestine Foundation
Prize. The radio dramatization-
Fund constitutes the United Pale-
has been written by Milton _
stine Appeal, acquired a total of
Geiger.
288,102 dunams o_f 'land to speed
Published recently in this
The prize-winning poem, "Be-
the program of refugee settle-
hold the Jew," will be the basis country by - Macmillan, the Ada
ment and food production.
of a radio dramatization to be Jackson poem is a deeply emo-
Adjustment Program
presented by the American tional expression of sympathy
The, majority of the 296,000 Jewish Committee over NBC. on for the tortured Jews of Europe.
refugees who have come to the Sunday, Sept. 17, from 2 to It tells the story of Jewish con-
tributions to civilization down
U. S. since the rise of Hitler 2:30 p. m. (EWT).
The poem, written by Ada through the ages to the present
have been aided by the National
Refugee Service. Notwithstanding Jackson, has been the recipient time.
"Behold the Jew' was the
the difficulties of shipping space, of two famed poetry awards, the
subject of a lengthy review in
12,500 refugees have entered the
U. S. since Pearl Harbor.
iting families which have been the Aug. 25 issue of The
Jewish News.
The NRS maintains a network separated by the war, and acting
of services designed to speed the as liaison between Washington $200,000 Gift for Research
adjustment and Americanization and the refugee community here At Boston Jewish Hospital
in matters pertaining to wartime
of the refugee in the U. S.
regulations for refugee aliens.
BOSTON (JPS) — A $200,000 -
As its name implies, the Em- Through its placement and re- fund for the erection of a re-
ergency Refugee Shelter at Fort training divisions, the NRS has, search and clinical laboratory
Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., repre- since 1939, made close to 30,000 unit at the Beth Israel Hospital
sented an emergency project for job and professional placements here was established by Mr. and
National Refugee Service. But and has retrained over 2,000 per- Mrs. Nathan Yamons on their
the NRS was prepared and ready sons in new and more productive twenty - fifth wedding anniver- -
to serve. The agency immediately fields of endeavor.
sary.
placed its total facilities and re-
sources at the disposal of the
authorities operating the dura-
We Extend Our
tion of-the-war shelter. Simul-
taneously, the NRS succeeded in
Best Wishes for A
mobilizing and coordinating the
Happy
and Victorious
efforts of the American Jewish
community to render maximum
New Year to All Our Friends
assistance to the refugees.
NBC to Broadcast
`Behold the Jew'
One of the chief divisions of
the National Refugee Service, the
migration department has rend-
ered nearly 330,000 services to
refugees in this country.. These
services Include assistance An pre-
paring for naturaliaztion, reun-
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