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Pledge for Survival
Of European Jewry

Complete Text of Pledge on Behalf of
American Jewry to Raise $100,000,000
For The I 9 4 6 United Jewish Appeal

Following is the complete text of the pledge
on behalf of American. Jewry to raise $100,000,000
during 1946 for the United Jewish Appeal, adopt-
ed unanimously by the 800 delegates at the
historical national conference at Atlantic City
last week-end:

"We mourn the millions of Jews who were
slain because they were Jews. Their terrible fate
demonstrated once again to the world that bigotry
is a shield behind which crouch the destructive
forces aimed at the freedom and well-being of
all men. Their fate also was a solemn warning
to the living Jews that one destiny bids them all.

Unparalleled Destruction
"We resolve that, insofar as it lies within the
range of our moral support and our material
resources, Jews who have survived this time of
unparalleled destruction shall be enabled to live
again as free equal human beings. In lands in
which they live they must be granted the civil
and religious status of all other citizens.

"As men and women, whatever their present
citizenship status, they should have equal access
to all facilities provided by governmental and
intergovernmental bodies for relief, rehabilitation
and resettlement of the victims of war and op-
pression.
"These Jews must receive aid commensurate
with their abnormal misery and their exceptional
hardships.
"This conference, summoned by , the United
Jewish Appeal at Atlantic City, Dec. 15 to 17,
1945, attended by representatives of Jewish com-
munities throughout the United States, having
heard the full statements of the Jewish situation
in Europe and in Palestine, as well as the cur-
rent status of newcomers to the United States,
resolves that:
Extraordinary Tasks
"In consideration of the extraordinary tasks
that will have to be faced in 1946 by the Joint
Distribution Committee in its responsibility to
labor for the survival of hundreds of thousands
of Jews in Europe who either do not come with-
in the scope of intergovernmental assistance or
for whom supplementary aid must be provided;
"In recognition of the fact that the lives of
great numbers of Jews will be lost unless relief,
rehabilitation and resettlement measures are
undertaken by the Joint Distribution Committee
promptly and on an unprecedented scale;
"In view of the expressed determination of the
great masses of Jews in Europe to settle in Pales-
tine as one means of solving their problem of
homelessness and of attaining dignity and free-
dom, a determination accentuated by the re-
newal of brutal anti-Semitism in countries where
it was hoped that the end of the war would
diminish hatred, persecution and discrimination;
Freedom And Opportunity
"In view of the necessity faced by agencies
of the United Palestine Appeal of strengthening
and broadening the foundations of Jewish life
so that Palestine, the Jewish National Home, may
be enabled to give freedom and opportunity to
every Jew who seeks sanctuary there;
"In view of the obligations undertaken by
the National Refugee Service to assist those who
aim to reach or have already reached these
shores to become an integral part of our Ameri-
can Jewish community;
"Therefore this pledge is taken in behalf of
American Jewry:
"In 1946 we shall place the problem of the
survival of European Jewry at the forefront of
all Jewish communal responsibilities, subordinat-
ing all other activities to one central aim of
preventing the further destruction and of assur-
ing the survival of the Jewish people, whether
they choose to stay in Europe, to build a new
life in Palestine or to begin life anew elsewhere.
"To that end we pledge to the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
tine our unreserved effort to help in raising dur-
ing 1946 the sum of $100,000,000 in token of the
understanding of the primacy of the United Jew-
ish Appeal as the agent of American Jewry to
extend aid to our stricken people. We further
pledge that as individuals and as communities
we shall take all steps necessary to reach this goal."

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United Jewish Appeal
eeks $100,000,000

U.S. Jewry to Launch Greatest Campaign in History
For Relief and Rehabilitation of European Jewry

By MEYER F. STEINGLASS

(Special Telegraphic Coverage for The Jewish News)

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Aroused by reports presented by Euro-
pean Jewish leaders of the appalling conditions and the tragic plight of the
survivors of Nazi oppression, the national conference of the United Jewish
Appeal voted unanimously on Sunday night to embark on the greatest
peacetime campaign in American history and to raise $100,000,000 for the
large-scale relief and rehabilitation in Europe, for expanded building and
settlement work in Palestine and for the adjustment of refugees in the
United States.

The 800 delegates representing every element in the American
Jewish population pledged themselves to support the record campaign as-
suring the survival of the Jewish people.

Earl Harrison, who characterized as "poignantly disappointing" the
reaction to his report on the shocking condition of displaced Jews, scored
the indifference of many Americans to the barbaric persecution of Jews.
He stated that despite reassurances of better conditions following the pub-
lication of his report, "it remains a fact that the saddest picture on the con-

tinent today continues to be that persecuted minority."

Mr.-Harrison called the 1946 United Jewish Appeal campaign "the
greatest humanitataff campaign in the history of the World." He empha-
sized that the conviction of the Nazi ringleaders "does not discharge our
responsibilities toward their victims," adding that America "must take the
aggressive leadership in the long task that will be involved in replacing
hate and destruction with friendship and real help toward rehabilitation."
He lauded the activities of the Joint Distribution Committee, United Pales-
tine Appeal and National Refugee Service on behalf of shattered European
Jewry.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
and of the World Zionist Organization, charged British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin with attempts to prejudice the findings of the Anglo-Ameri-
can commission on Palestine. He accused certain British and American
statesmen of trying to drive a wedge between "Jews and Zionists," but he
added that the UJA conference gave concrete evidence of strong unity
among American Jews which could not be broken by efforts to create
disunity.

Dr. Weizmann assailed the Be vin statement that Palestine could not
solve the problem of Jewish homelessness, declaring that this statement
was designed to prejudice the Anglo-American commission.

(Continued on Page 20)

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© 1945—The Joint Distribution Committee

This chart of the surviving Jewish population of Europe, based on surveys conducted by the
Joint Distribution Committee, indicates that less than 1,500,000 Jews remain alive on the con-
tinent out of a pre-Hitler population of over 6,000,000 (exclusive of the Soviet Union). The great-
est number of Jews live in Romania, Hungary and France, scene of extensive relief and re-
habilitation activities, provided by the JDC for distressed Jew&

