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hat Stands for Unity on A ll Fronts

Allied Jewish Campaign

yr $8,490,3 3 6 to be Conducted by Corn/flunky Agencies
31; Overseas, National and Local Causes Included

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ign Included for $870,543 for National and Overseas
$259,970 for the Local Agencies and Services

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Community Fund offer the
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'hese -services include case
es to help families- work
ters of finance, health, en-
lationships.
•endent or neglected, there
.utions or in foster- homes.
ervice are made available
all health. These are hos-
vice and nursing service.
n clinics or hgspital out-
ses in the home—work in
ysicians of the city, who
e to the needy.
-settlements and commun-
en may spend-their leisure
make it entertaining or

• ity Information Service
rral agency. It helps De-
vice agencies, both private
rted services, the agency
ices are at 51 W. Warren

The USO in Detroit -
The Metropolitah Detroit USO, Inc., opeirates six clubs and
lounges: the-Downtown Club -at 401 Lafayette boulevard west the _
John l Club at 2600 John R, the Grosse Ile . Club, the USO-YWCA
Servicewomen's Club at 2230 Witherell, the USO-Travelers Aid
Lounges at both the MCRR depot and the Greyhound Bus
Terminal.
The Jewish Welfare Board and its Detroit Army and Navy
Committee are among the agencies rendering major supplemental
services in the USO program. The JWB-USO Lounge at the
Jewish- Community. Center is being utilized for special programs
for' servicemen who are also given use of all other facilities at
the Jewish Center.
The JWB program also includes special events arranged by
the Great Lakes Club, Standard Club and more than 100 cooperat-
ing Jewish organizations. Religious programs are arranged regu-
larly for servicemen at Romulus Air Base, Selfridge Field; Fort
Custer, Fort Brady, and holiday programs and entertainments are
regular features of the JWB program.
In Detroit every USO service is free—including games,
sports, theaters, rides, legal services, arrangements for service-
men's weddings, etc.

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The Allied Jewish Carnpaign is the central body for 55 Jewish
Welfare Federation agencies, at home and abroad, in the fields of
relief, social welfare, education ; and reconstruction that have
served through war, persecution, dispersion, and now--.-liberation.
The major beneficiary of the Allied Jewish Campaign is the
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Nee& and Palestine.,
the combined fund-raising agency of American Jews for the relief,
rehabilitation and Palestine resettlement of the Jewish survivors
of the ravages Of war and Nazi persecution. The funds contributed
to the United Jewish Appeal support the activities of the • Joint
Distribution Committee in providing emergency relief and re-
habilitation assistance to hundreds of thousands of men, women
and children in devastate5:1 Europe; the program of the United
Palestine Appeal in the upbuilding.of Palestine and its develop7
meat- asa - homeland for great masses of Jews uprooted by oppres-
sion and wholesale' destruction; and the program of 'the National
_ Refugee Service which is helping newcomers in the United States
make a maximum contribution to total victory.
The widespread distress and mass homelessness uncovered
following victory in Europe 'have greatly enlarged the responsi-
bilities of the organizations represented in the United Jewish
Appeal. The agencies of the United Jewish Appeal are working

ces the fields of 80 Corn-
, Jewish, Protestant and
helps support the follow-
meeds:
ildren of working mothers.
ade necessary by the war
for servicemen.
t of nurses for military

Help for Wounded:

ng and placement of the

At this studio cor-
ner of a USO Club financed by the . War
Chest, wounded veterans find many craft and
hobby interests to speed convalescence.
fin close cooperation with governmental and intergovernmental
bodies. They are supplementing the relief and rehabilitation ac-
tivities of- UNRRA and have supplied trained personnel for its
program.

volunteers available for

11 use of manpower in

nt of health among in-

advice to newcomers in

Joint Distribution Committee

I and psychiatric, to re-
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'Address Unknown:

Wandering aimless-
ly over the face of war-torn Europe, women
and children continue to bear the full burden
of the war. War Chest agencies provide relief
for civilian war victims and refugees.

United Seamen's Service

0: This tired soldier,
needs -the entertainment
the USO, the Jewish
other service agencies
ar Chest.-

med Forces

rganizations

which the people of the
tional, cultural and spir-
this nation in the Fight-
nes.
ix great welfare agencies
ce: ol'he YMCA, YWCA,
Jewish Welfare Board,
the Salvation Army—
Navy Departments, the'
President's War Relief

rgest theatrical circuit in
oviding professional en-
er . American troops are
-Camp Shows involving
es and overseas bases in
Britain, Iceland, India,
Twenty other units tour

vet 100,000 performances
vember; 1941.

Often described as the "USO of the Merchant Marine," United
Seamen's Service now provides for merchant seamen 22:9 different
services in 65 ports, 47 overseas and 18 in this country.
To conserve the strength and spirit of our merchant seamen,
the War Shipping Administration 'created the United Seamen's
Service.
The USS operates seven rest centers in the United States,
where since September, 1942, treatment and care 'have been given
to more than 6,000 wounded or ailing seamen, suffering from "con-
voy fatigue" or wounds received in enemy action.

American Field Service

The American Field Service is an overseas ambulance corps,
serving at the front. It is manned by volunteer drivers who are
ineligible for active service in the American Armed Forces.'
The AFS originated in- France in - 1914 when a group of Amer-
ican college students came to the aid of understaffed medical units
of the French Army. More than 2,500 men- served as ambulance
drivers in the last war. Up to the present time, more than 2,000
AFS men have served overseas in World War II.
. During the interim between wars, the AFS maintained a
fellowship fund which enabled 120 American and French ex-
change stadents to study at universities in. France and this country.

Helping Our Allies

Throughout the world millions of our. Allies =more than 4,000,-
000 victims of total war—are looking to the generosity of the
American people for vitally-needed emergency aid. Without our
help many thousands of these people would die.
In addition to humanitarian reasons for helping our Allies, it
is vital to the success of our own war effort and to the success of
peace negotiations to develop the utmost good-will among the
people of other countries.
In liberated areas Community War Chest agencies work with
the military to meet' emergency needs. Funds are also made avail-
able in many areas fpr supporting self-help work programs and for-
assisting educational and technical institutions retain and reha-
bilitate their people.

With UJA funds, aid` is reaching - almost every country of
-Europe, North. Africa; and the Near East in answer to urgent
calls for emergency help. Refugees are also being aided in
Shanghai and in. America.
4 Under permission' granted by SHAEF, relief teams of medi-
, cal and social workers have been sent into Germany to help in
the rehabilitation of an estimated 200,000 Jews who were lib-
erated from concentration camps. Maximuni assistance is also
being extended to the greater part of some 650,000 Jews sur-
viving in . Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
More than . fifty tons of supplies are being sent every week
to Jewish survivors in Poland, and 10,000 food packages are
being shipped every month from Teheran to aid Polish Jewish
refugees in Asiatic Russia.
Jewish commUnities .shattered by war must be rebuilt and
temporary havens must be found for tens of thousands of state-
less persons who cannot be repatriated. Special care must also
be proVided for many, thousands of children whose parents died
in Nazi concentration camps. In addition, continued aid must be
"-vett to refugees in Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden and
ly, and many of them must be helped to emigrate to Palestine
and other !countries.

United Palestine Appeal

Hundreds of thousands in war-ravaged Europe who do not ,
want to or cannot go back to the scenes of their tragic suffering
look to the Jewish ,homeland in Palestine as their one hope for
a life of freedoin and security.
Large-stale housing activities must be carried on in Palestine
to make possible the absorption of great masses of newcomers.
Medical care, retraining and physical rehabilitation must be pro-
Vided for tens of thousands of impoverished Jews who entered
Palestine in' the past two years.
Many of the 35,000 Jewish men and women from Palestine
who served with the Jewish Brigade and other British units are
being given demobilization and resettlement assistance.
- Large, areas of land are being acquired by the Jewish Na.. -
tional Fund for housing developments to provide living quarters
for new arrivals and to make possible, the establishment of new
agricultural settlements in Palestine.
New industries are -being expanded and the conversion s-a
Palestine's economy is being speeded to widen employment
possibilities of new immigrants.

National Refugee Service

A program of adjUstment for refugees who have found a
haven in the United States is being carried on to help new
comers make a maximum contribution to final victory. Aid is
-being provided for the reunion of refugee _families 'scattered
by war with the aid of the National Refugee Service.

Other Overseas Relief Causes

Other overseas relief causes included in the War Chest are:
American Relief 'for Czechoslovakia .
American Relief for France
, American Relief for Holland
American Relief for Italy
American Relief for Norway
Belgian War Relief Society
• Friends of Luxembourg
Greek War' Relief Association
Philippine War Relief
Polish War. Relief
Refugee Relief Trustees
United China Relief
- United Lithuanian Relief Fund
U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children
United Yugoslav Relief Fund.

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