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THE JEWISH NEWS

Babies Play in the Sand
In- New-Found Homeland

Friday, September 28, 1945

A Palestinian Maritipte
Member Performing A Task

A Sleepy Little Girl
And All Her Possessions

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Waiting for Papa

_David, a little 'boy from Poland, spent
three years in a concentration camp. When
JDC workers came in he refused to leaver
"I am waiting for papa", he said.
How does one tell a nine year old boy
that his father has been murdered?. Other
children left for temporary shelter.
David was finally persuaded to leave on
the promise that the JDC would tell his fa-
ther where he was. In a home for Jewish
children in France he sees other happy
children leaving for Palestine, and he thinks
he would like to go, too, with the help of
JDC and UPA.

- A hungry boy waiting for a cup of hot soup

H

_
AVING escaped thefury of Hitler-
ism and the - ravages of war, the surviving Jews of
Europe now stand at a great turning ,point, with
American Jews cast in the role, of architects of their
future. In the midst of the chaos of a Europe rising
from the ruins of war, the surviving JeWs can find
no easy road to survival or rehabilitatiorl:
The reslonsibility of lifting a Jewry, cut down
and shattered by long years of bitter attack and war,
out of despair and need, calls for the widest support
of the nationwide campaign of the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine.
In Detroit the UJA receives its funds from the
Allied Jewish Campaign, affiliated with the War Chest.
The desperately needy 1,250,000 surviving Jews in
continental Europe must be helped to sustain them-
selves and rebuild a Jewish way of life.
Time is a vital factor. The programs
of the JDC, the UPA and the NRS must be
_ speedily carried out if the liberated JewS
of Europe are to share in the benefits of
the new world.

,Boatloads of Refugees

The Future of the
Surviving Jews of
Europe Depends on
The Success of the
War Chest Drive

Boatloads of refugees from liberated
Europe reach • Palestine almost every week.
Recently the S. S. Mataroa brought 1,164
Jewish survivdrs , from Europe to Haifa.
The arrival of this large number of refugees,
was the culmination of the combined efforts
of the JDC and the UPA.
Five hundred of th4'passengers had been
rescued from Germany's death camps and
some of them were still wearing their strip-
ed German concentration camp uniforms
with their serial nu.mbers tattooed on their
foreheads when they set foot on the soil of
the Jewish homeland.
The refugees on that vessel were a cross-
section of the hundreds of thousands . of.
Jews in war-ravaged Europe who look to
the UJA for the means of reestablishing
themselves in Europe or abroad and for
the opportunity of finding a new home in
Palestine.
This rescue achievement was made pos-
sible by the Jewish Agency for Palestine
and the JDC. The Jewish Agency (which
receives its funds from the UPA) assembled
the refugees and provided them with im-
migration certificates, and the JDC furnish-
ed $80,000 for their transportation and
maintenance en route.

Tr

0 the enormous tasks of postwar re-
construction the agencies of the United Jewish Appeal
bring many years of achievement and valuable ex-
perience.

For three decades the JDC has been mir•istering
to the needs of distressed Jews in 'almost every corner
of the globe. Established during the first World War,
the JDCe met, the great crisis in the wake of that
conflict. It sustained millions of Jews in economic
distress, helped rebuild shattered Jewish communi-
ties and gave vital assistance which made possible
the emigration of thou§ands to Palestine and other
havens.

With the rise of Hitler, JDC's relief, rescue and
rehabilitation activities spelled the difference be-
tween life and death for tens of thousands of Europe's
persecuted Jews. Nov, having spanned the period
of suffering and misery between the two wars, the
JDC must cope with the greatest responsibility in
its history—it _must reestablish the 1,250,000 Jews of
continental Europe, aiding them through the difficult
transition months following World War II and re-
building their lives for the future.

Six decades of pioneering, sacrifice and creative
endeavor have developed the Jewish National Home
into the major hope of the Jews of Europe for their
revival and freedom.

From a mere handful of less than 50,000 Jews liv-
ing in squalor and poverty, a thriving and progressive
Jewish community of more than 600,000 men, women
and children . was built through the United Palestine
Appeal. With the aid of the agencies constituting the
UPA, more than 300 agricultural settlements were es-
tablished, knew cities and towns were built, neglected
land was made to bear fruit, new industries were de-
veloped, modern schools and communities were erected.
Some 350,000 Jews from lands of oppression found a
new home in the Jewish homeland during the Hitler re-
gime. Today, Palestine stands ready to end the honie-
lessness and misery for all- time of the surviving Jews
of the world cataclysm. •

During the past decade the NRS has helped make
possible the adjustment acid integration of the 290,000
refugees who found a haven in the U. S. since the be-
ginning of the Nazi regime.

The aftermath of the great upheaval has placed
many dangers and problems in the path of the Jewish
survivors.. The many thousands who do not have a road
back and who yearn for settlement tin Palestine must be
given every opportunity to share in the reconstruction
of the Jewish people through the generosity of
American Jewry.

The old folks, those
who survived, make
a pitiful picture-
they need your
help, NOW!

Faur little children
show their -happi-
ness on way to a
new home; your
gifts help all.

Give Liberally

GIVE HIM HOPE!

Help the Community -
WAR. CHEST

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Did You Know
That-4

1. In one month a total of 3,500 Jew-
ish refugees, many of whom had been
interned in Nazi concentration camps,
reached the Jewish National Home in
Palestine with the aid of funds provided
by the UJA. JDC arranged for and fi-
nanced transportation and maintenance
en route. UPA provided housing, medi-
cal care and retraining for the new im-
migrants in Palestine.
2. JDC relief teams, 10 in all and
each consisting of five to seven trained
workers, have been sent, or are going,
into former German concentration camps,
with the approval of Gen. Eisenhower.
These teams are bringing assistance to
some 130,000 Jews, who have remained
in the camps because they are stateless
or non-repatriable.
3. Of the 35,000 Jewish men and wo-
men of Palestine who served in the Jew-
ish Brigade and other branches of the
British army, 10,000 have registered for
settlement on the land. It is the respon-
sibility of the UPA to help them find a
new life in the Jewish homeland.

Halutzim learn how to handle a team of horses

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL IS A PARTICIPATING AGENCY IN DETROIT'S WAR CHEST DRIVE