THE

Friday, July 27, 1945

200,000 War-Disabled Jews
Get JDC's $5,000,000 Relief

ip,000 Monthly Food Packages Furnished Polish-Jewish

Refugees in Soviet Union Through the Joint
Distribution Committee's Program

NEW YORK—In two years relief supplies valued at
$5,000,000 have been furnished in the form of food parcels to
more than 200,000 war-displaced Jews from Poland and
Baltic Europe now in Asiatic Russia, it was announced this
week by Charles Passman, director of the Middle East
prograni of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.

The food parcel program was S
made possible after Mr. Pass- to individuals in the Baltic area,
man concluded arrangements in 'Bessarabia, Bukovina and other
behalf of the Joint Distribution areas.
• Committee with Soviet and other
He also disclosed that in 1944
government authorities in 1943. the J.D.C., cooperating closely
Despite wartime supply difficul- with the Jewish Agency for Pal-
ties he established commodity estine and the former War Re-
stockpiles in Teheran from which fugee Board, was instrumental in
10,000 food parcels monthly have bringing some 6,000 Jews out of
gone into the Soviet Union for the then Nazi-held Balkans to
delivery to individuals and fam- Palestine. The J.D.C, paid for
ilies. A J.D.C. service unit of 90 percent of all costs involved.
70 persons is stationed in Teheran Russia. '
to handle the shipment of the Need for ParcelS
parcels.
Greater Next Year-
Mr. Passman, an American citi-
Mr. PaSsman said that the need
zen whose visit to this country for the J.D.C. parcel program
terminates an absence of 17 promises to be as great next year
years, arrived in New York last as this. .
week from Palestine. He- des-
Mr. PasS.than, froth offides:
cribed the parcel program at a Jerusalem and Istanbul, also di-
press conference held at J.D.C. rected the furnishing of large-
offices, 270 Madison, New York. scale shipments of J.D.C. sup-
Form Largest Group oZ
plies to destitute Jews in many
Polish Jewish Survivors
Balkan. areas and in the Middle
About 200,000 Polish Jews in East.
Asiatic Russia, Mr. Passman said,
The Middle: East program of
make up the largest group of sur- the Joint Distribution :,Corrimit-
vivors anywhere of Poland's pre- tee constitutes but a pail of the
war Jewish population. In Po- organizatiOn'.s., operations today.
land itself, only an estimated 75,- The agenOk, the Major • one in the
000. Jews _survived the German world providing relief for dis-
occupation and the terrible death tressed Jews overseas, has relief
camps- which the Nazis establish- and rehabilitation programs in
ed there. The Polish Jews in operation in ahnost every coun-
Asiatic Russia were brought try in Europe, in countries in La-
there after they escaped with tin America, and in the liberated
hundreds of thousands of other Philippines, and Japanese-held
Poles in the face of Nazi military Shanghai. Funds for the J.D.C.'s
advances. In addition other Jews operations are provided in this
fled the German-occupied Baltic country through the United Jew:-
areas of Europe, and the total ish Appeal; a beneficiary of the
group of Jewish refugees in Asia- Allied Jewish Campaign of the
tic Russia, according to Mr. Pass- Jewish Welfare Federation of
man's estimate, numbers 225,000. Detroit.
The Jewish refugees have been
permitted to take employment in Shipment Of Tiosher Meat
the 'Soviet Union, but fetv have Received On Mauritius Island
achieved self-support. The J.D.C.
NEW YORK—Fifty-two hun-
parcel program has• provided dred poundS. of kosher meat sup-
most of them with desperately plied by the Joint Distribution
needed food, and also with cloth- Committee, the first shipment of
ing and medicines.
its kind to . reach 1,300 Jewish
Items Stockpiled. in
refugees detained on- the island
Teheran . for Shipment
of Mauritius, has been received
Clothing and shoes purchased by the adults and children there
in Palestine, tea and cotton goods with "great delight" according t( -;
bought in India, foodstuffs, soap L. Gradmann, a representative of
and shoes purchased in South the refugee group.
Africa and Australia are some of
A letter acknowledging the re-
the- items that were stockpiled ceipt of the meat was made pub-
in Teheran and later shipped in lic by Dr. JoSeph C. Hyman, ex-
parcel form. The purchase of ecutive vice-chairman of the
goods in Palestine has given sub- Joint Distribution Committee.
stantial support to industrial pro- The request for kosher meat came
duction there. The Iranian gov- to J.D.C. from the orthodox Jews
ernment permitted the J.D.C. to detained by British authorities
establish a branch post office in on Mauritius, a small island east
its Teheran warehouses to expe- of Madagascar, off the southeast
dite the forwarding of packages. coast of Africa since 1940.
The cost of about a third of the
food parcels was defrayed by in-
dividuals 'seeking to .aid rela-
tives. J:D.C. provided money or
goods for the other two-thirds.
That Vitamins Are
Mr. Passman disclosed That the
of Assured Quality
South African Jewish War Ap-
peal had participated fully in the
is Most Important
work of aiding the Polish Jewish
and other refugees cooperating
Vitamin Products are
closely with the J.D.C. He point-
of two general class-
ed out that the S.A.J.W.A. had
es; the potent cura-
furnished substantial supplies for
tive dose to arrest a
the parcel service in Teheran
specific deficiency
and also for bulk shipment to
Poland. In addition special al-
That your doctor
locations, including 125,000 for
the
prescribes; and
the Jewish community in Hun-
supplementary diet
gary, were made available to the
from which most
J.D.C.
everyone can enjoy
Bulk Supplies Furnished
benefits.
Surviving Jews in Poland
Mr. Passman also revealed that
In any case, consult
Teheran has been used as the
your
physician about
base for furnishing bulk supplies
the vitamins most
for the surviving Jews in Poland.
beneficial to you. And
Recently the J.D.C. shipped hun-
dreds of tons of urgently-needed
get Vitamins of prov-
supplies into Lublin, Warsaw and
en quality from our
other Polish centers. Receipt of
complete stocks.
these packages has been acknow-
ledged with deep gratitude, Mr.
Passman said, by Dr. Emil Som-
merstein, head of the Lublin
Jewish Committee.
Mr. Passman announced that
.–Jrztr-I G. Co re sv
'0
the J.D.C. is now making ar-
rangements to ship relief parcels

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8904 Woodward Avenue
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