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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, Deconiiier /8,1945

Shall Not Die!

Detroit's A ffirmation .of UJA Principles
In Behalf of $100,000,000 Campaign in 1946

er The following declaration has been issued in behalf of the
.Allied Jewish Campaign by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit,
as an affirmation of this community's adherence to the principles
established on behalf of American Jewry by the historic conference
of the United Jewish Appeal, held last week in Atlantic City. Detroit
was represented at this conference by William Friedman, president
of the Jewish Welfare Federation; Fred M. Butzel, chairman of the
Federation executive committee; Theodore Levin, president of the
Unitd Jewish Charities; Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, member of the Feder-
ation board and national president of the Council of Jewish Women,
and. Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Federation, who
presided at one of the UJA. conference sessions.

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HE Jews of Detroit have been asked to
ratify a statement of principles for 1946 to help
American Jewry in its aim to assure the survival
of European Jewry.
In the struggle for the survival of the rem-
nant of European Jewry, the coming year is
crucial. A decimated remnant of a people, lack-
ing adequate food or shelter, home or hope, these
Jews must be given the assurance that their
fellow-Jews want them to live, that they are
desperately eager to make their life secure, toler-
able and hopeful. That task must be undertaken
and performed primarily by the Jews of America.
We can succeed in sustaining their will to
live until they can find secure homes, until their
feet can be set in the pathway of a new life, if
we American Jews have the vision and the gen-
erosity.

Detroit's Quota to Be $2,000,000

The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine has been asked to
undertake a historic campaign for $100,000,000
to meet the inescapable needs of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal
and National Refugees Service. (Detroit's quota
for the United Jewish Appeal would be $2,000,-
000.) The life of a people depends upon the
success of this enterprise.
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 the hundreds of thou-
sands of Jews in Europe who either do not come
within the scope of governmental or intergovern-
mental 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;

of all men. Their fate was also a
solemn warnina to living Jews
that one destiny b binds them.
We are resolved that, insofar
as lies within the range of our
moral support and our material
resources, the Jews who have sur-
vived this time of unparalleled
destruction shall be enabled to
live again as free and equal human
beings. In the lands in which they
live 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 pro-
vided by governmental and intergovernmental
bodies for the' relief, rehabilitation and resettle-
ment of the victims of war and oppression. 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, December 15-17,
1945, attended by representatives of Jewish com-
munities throughout the United States, having
heard full statements of the Jewish situation in
Europe and in Palestine, as well as of the current
status of newcomers to the United States,
resolves that:

The Program for U. S. Jewry

Therefore, this Conference, attended at At-
lantic City on December 15th-17th by the rep-
resentatives of Jewish communities in the United
States, urges upon every community the adoption
of a program which shall be based upon the fol-
lowing principles, calculated to give centrality
and priority to the campaign for the survival of
European Jewry:
1. Because the duty to save life takes prece-
dence over all material things and because we
must be prepared to postpone less essential,
longer-term needs in a time of grave crisis, we
urge that in 1946 every community should give
first priority to the overwhelming needs of the
remnants of Jewry overseas.

$600,000 Available from War Chest,

2. There are some cities which have devoted
all the funds raised to the purpose of the United
Jewish Appeal. Other communities, which in-
clude in their appeals various additional meritori-
ous causes, are urged, in consideration of the
unique needs of 1946, to pledge themselves to
vote the United Jewish Appeal all increases ob-
tained from contributors. (From the 1945 De-
troit War Chest Campaign, about $600,000 is avail-
able for 1946 United Jewish Appeal needs.)
3. To assure the unprecedented generosity
which alone will make possible the attainment of
a goal of $100,000,000, we urge that each contribu- -
for be informed that his gift in 1946 will not be

used as a basis for comparison in any succeeding
year.
4. Inasmuch as the focus of American Jewry's
effort will be centered upon the responsibilities
assumed by the United Jewish Appeal, it is urged
that each community determine in advance of
its campaign the measure of support which it
proposes to give to the $100,000,000 drive on be-
half of the United Jewish Appeal, so that con-
tributors may respond with appropriate gener-
osity. (With the dissolution of the Detroit War
Chest as of December 1, 1945, we are free to re-
vert to the independent Allied Jewish Campaign.)

Jewry's One Central Aim

In 1946 we shall place the problem of the sur-
vival of European Jewry at the forefront of all
our Jewish communal responsibilities, subordin-
ating all other activities to the one central aim
of preventing the further destruction and of as-
suring the survival of the Jewish people, whether
they choose to stay in Europe, to build a new
life in Palestine, or to begin anew elsewhere.
To that we pledge to the United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine
our unreserved effort to' help in raising during
1946 the sum of $100,000,000 in token of our
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. -

Gigantic Task of Raising $2,000,000

Translated into action on the local scene, the
gigantic task of raising a $2,000,000 emergency
fund is being inaugurated through a plan of re-
organization.
Here is your invitation:

You are cordially invited
to take part in the
Community
Re-Dedication Service
and to lend your assistance in the
1—Re-establishment of the Allied Jewish Cam-

paign,

2—Re-organization of the Detroit Service Group,

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and the
Extension of Representation in the Jewish
Welfare Federation"
in order that

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a. your financial support as a contributor
b. your service as a campaign worker
c. your activity in the local, national and
overseas agencies you support
d. your affiliation as a member of the com-
munity may be expressed and strengthen-
ed through your direct, personal partici-
pation to the end that, with your help,
Detroit may take its proper place, along
with the other Jewish communities of
America, in assuring the survival of
European Jewry. Only a strong, con-
secrated American community can make
this possible.

Responsibilities in Palestine, U. S.

In view of the expressed determination of
great masses of Jews in Europe to settle in Pal-
estine as the one means of solving their prob-
lem of homelessneSs and of attaining dignity and
freedom, 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;
In view of the necessity faced by the neces-
sity faced by the agencies of the United Pales-
tine Appeal, of strengthening and broadening the
foundations of the 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 necessity faced by the agencies
of the United Palestine Appeal, of strengthening
and broadening the foundations of the Jewish life
so that Palestine, the Jewish National Home, may
be enabled to fiive freedom and opportunity to
every Jew who seeks sanctuary there;
Therefore, this pledge is taken on behalf of
American Jewry:

Pledge by American Jewry

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 destruc-
tive forces aimed at the freedom and well-being

The most representative assembly of American Jews in many years met at Atlantic City under the auspices of
the United Jewish Appeal, the national fund-raising body for the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Pal-
estine Appeal, and the National Refugee Service. Speakers who addressed the confernce included, (insert above,
1. to r.) Capt. Robert Gamzon of Paris, leader of the Jewish Maquis; Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European director
of the J. D. C.; Paul Philippson, Belgian Jewish leader; Leo Herrmann, secretary-general of the Keren Hayesod
in Jerusalem; Dr. Renzo Levi, vice-chairman of the Italian Jewish Community; William Rosenwald, National
Chairman of the UJA; Dr. Salo Kleerekoper, Leader of Dutch Jewry; Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish
Agency; Rabbi James G. Heller, chairman of the UJA; Josef Rosenzaft 'of Bergen-Belsen, who represents all of
the surviving Jews in Germany; -Abraham Granvosky, board chairman of the Keren KaYemeth in Jerusalem;
and Maj. Judah Nadich, Senior. Chaplain in Europe.

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