Detroit Mobilizes for $2,000,000 Campaign

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Zero Hour Near for Jews in Europe!

Judge Rifkind Reveals Plight;
Warns Situation Is Explosive

(Special to The Jewish News.)

NEW YORK.—The zero hour is approaching for the Jews of Europe
and unless a permanent haven is provided soon for the 300,000 survivors
in the countries of occupation it may be impossible to avert an explosive
situation.

Touring Poland

DR. JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ, JDC
European director, third from left, front, shown with
DR. SOLOMON HIRSCHENNORN (standing at left) of the
Polish Central Committee, and other Polish Jewish leaders,
in Silesia. Standing tiiird from left is the late DAVID GUZIK,
JDC aide recently killed in an air crash in Prague.

This is the warning of Judge Simon H. Rifkind of the U. S. District Court who has
just, returned from a five-month study of conditions in Europe where he served for
five months as adviser on Jewish affairs to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney.
Judge Rifkind's report is a hair-raising revelation of conditions among the sur-
vivors and his warnings are a challenge to the Jews of America to exert all their
efforts to guarantee the means for relief of the needy and for their transportation
as speedily as possible to new homes.
The 300,000, whose tragic plight is described by Judge Rifkind, are centered in
Poland, western Russia, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Declaring that there is no hope left for these unfortunates, Judge Rifkind reports
that most of them want to go to Palestine and that, strangely enough, no considerable
number want to come to the United States, even if given the opportunity.
The tragic facts reported by Judge Rifkind include the following revelations:

"There is not a single Jewish academy left in central or eastern Europe. In all
of Germany I have been able to find only one surviving German Jewish rabbi.
There are very few Jewish children left in central or eastern Europe. The age group
between one and six is almost.. nominal. In the town of Mannheim, that had had a
considerable Jewish population, we found but two Jewish children., In Heidel-
berg there were but seven."
Judge Rifkind said that the 35,000 displaced Jews in the American zone of oc-
cupation were receiving adequate treatment, but that their morale was low and
"today are dependent wholly on, the hope of early- resettlement in a community
in which they feel safe, secure and which they can call home," and not just an-
other stopping-off place.

Calendar of Week's AJC Events

Enrollment of all elements in the Detroit
Jewish community in support of the $2,000,-
000 Allied Jewish Campaign for the three
agencies of the United Jewish Appeal—
Joint Distribution Committee, United Pal-
estine Appeal and National Refugee Service
—points to unprecedented action by Detroit
Jewry in support of the national $100,000,-
000 drive.

Dedication of Torah :

Members of the New Light
Synagogue of New York contributed one of the 100 Sifre
Torah shipped last month by the JDC to Europe. Left to
right, ALBERT B. MARK, president of the congregation,
the REV. DR. GEORGE LANYI, MEYER SELTZER, of the
JDC, and RABBI JOSEPH GELBERMAN.

Meetings scheduled in behalf of the De-
troit drive include:

City-Wide Rally of ORGANIZATIONS
DIVISION, 2 p. m. Sunday, March 24, at
Central High School, Linwood and Tuxedo.
Speakers: Rabbi Joseph Lookstein and
Louis Sobel. (Story on Page 5).

City-Wide Rally of WOMEN'S DIVISION
of Jewish Welfare Federation, 2 p. m.
Wednesday, March 27, in the Brown Me-
morial Chapel of Temple Beth El. Speaker:
Cecil Brown, famous radio commentator
and foreign correspondent. (Story on
Page 8).

JUNIOR DIVISION Campaign Rally —
Thursday, March 28, 8 p. m., in the audi-
torium of Jewish Community Center.
(Story on Page 7).
Numerous TRADE and PROFESSIONAL
Division Meetings. (Story on Page 9).
Radio Broadcasts in behalf of the cam-
paign will be heard four times a week over
Station WJLB. (Story on Page 10).

Why You Should Give to the $100,000,000 UJA Campaign

Three Great UJA Agencies : The Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine

Appeal and the National Refugee Service—a gencies of the United Jewish Appeal which
is seeking $100,000.000 this year, are represented in the accompanying pictures.
Left: JOSEPH FAJZLBERG, who spent 18 months with his wife at Oswego through
the NRS, holding his American-born son, ALBERT. Center: Two orphans who felt the
lash of Nazism are safe at last in a JDC haven in France. Right: A former internee of
Oswiecim at work in a 'citrus grove in Palestine, thanks to the UPA.

