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THE JEWISH NEWS

Hachsharoth in Action

elDC Supports Farm Projects
For Future Settlers in Zion

'Ann Liepah, Detroit, Reports on Progress Made on Training
Grounds Established on Former Streicher Estate in the
American Zone of Occupation in Bavaria

former teachers or men and wo-
men with special capabilities.
In Italy, there are some fifty
projects. UNRRA defines these
Hachsharoth as "camps operated
by the J. D. C. in behalf of
UNRRA." UNRRA supplies food
and clothing to the training pro-
jects while the J.D.C. provides
the necessary buildings, repairs
and machinery.
But in spite of Army and
UNRRA cooperation, the training
program is costly. Proliiding
workshops, materials, machines,
books and necessary equipment
entails vast expenditures.
$23 Each Per Month
In countries where , UNRRA
does not operate and where there
is no Army to assume responsi-
bility, the financial burden of
maintaining training programs
falls on the J.D.C. In France, by
the end of 1945, 3,800 Jews were
receiving training. at a per Cap-
ita cost of $58 per month. In Ro-
mania J.D.C. Hachsharoth pro-
vides agricultural training for
2,000 repatriated youths at a
monthly cost of $23 per person.
In Poland, an estimated 8,000
young people between the ages
of 14 and 21 years, benefit by

Friday, May 24, 1946

Hashofar Presents
Annual Program
At Center Tuesday

The annual meeting of Hasho-
far, society for advancement of
Jewish music, will be held next
Ttr4sday, at 8:30 p. m., in the

training programs which the J.
D.C. helps support.

auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The musical program will fea-
ture Morris and Sylvia Hoch-
berg, violinist and pianist, in a
performance of the entire "Ball-
Shem Suite" by Ernest Bloch;
Rhoda Zahavie, soprano, will
sing selections by Arthur Wolf,
A. W. Binder and Leib Glantz,
accompanied at the piano by
Lillian Robbins.
Election of board members, will
be held. .
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the meeting. There
will be no admission charge, Jul-
ius Chajes, chairman of Hasho-
far, announces.

Other lands where J.D.C. main-
tains Hachsharoth and training
projects include Belgium, Greece,
Czechoslovakia, Holland, Italy
and Sweden. Thus, in nearly
every country in Europe the J.
D.C. is furnishing training for a
45,000 volunteers were recruit-
future of self-support and self- ed for service to the armed forces -
respect, education for a new and by 626 local JWB Army•and Navy
better life.
Committees in 'the' United States.

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A Jewish Girl in a J.D.C.-Supported Hachsharah Camp in Turin.

Across the green acres of Ba-
varia the warm evening air ech-
oes with the plaintive strains of
Jewish and Hebrew folk songs.
The melodies emanate from the
former estate of Jew-baiter Jul-
ius Streicher, where 100 Jewish
youths are learning to till the
soil and tend the cattle in prepar-

ANN LIEPAH

trades are given. Another estate
has been turned into a convales-
cent home where victims of per-
secution are steadily regaining
lost health. One of Mussolini's
own villa's is today a J.D.C. aided
Yeshiva.
The Streicher estate and the
Mussolini villa are but two of
the more unusual sites utilized
as part of an extensive program
of fitting Jewish youths to make
, useful contributions to the lands
they will eventually call home.
Throughout all Europe, the J.D.C.
supports more than 100 such pro-
jects which provide educational
and vocational training for some
17,000 young- people.
Students Between 14 and 25
The students are for the most
part young displaced Jaws, 14
to 25, who have been cut off
sitice 1939 from all educational
opportunities and from all wage-
earning experiences.
In nearly all the J.D.C. train-
ing projects in Germany, Austria
and Italy, the teaching staff comes
from the ranks of displked Jews,

ation for a new life in Palestine.
The Streicher estate has been
a Joint Distribution Committee
Hachsharah (farm training cent-
er) ever since the day last De-
cember when Ann Liepah, of
Detroit, one of the J.D.C. repre-
sentatives in the . American zone
in Bavaria, first noticed the farms
and had an inspiration.
Plan Wins Approval
"These lovely acres would be
an ideal place for those kids
from the concentration camps to
live and regain their health," she
thought. "And we could turn
those fine concrete barns into
dormitories." With this plan, Miss
Liepah approached. the Army.
authorities, pointing out the just-
ice of. her cause and the need for
such a center. A few days later,
she was able to help organize
a Hachsharah.
The young students, all of them
under 23 years of age, divide
their time between working in
the fields and studying, in the
classroom, preparing for life in
Palestine. These young Jews, who
little more than a year ago were
tortured prisoners in the concen-
tration campt, work hard and
play hard. Above. all, they enjoy
freedom and the satisfactions
which come from useful work.
Mussolini's Villa Now Yeshivah
But Julius Streicher is not the.
only Fascist who has made an
unwilling contribution to Jewish
education and Jewish rehabilita-
tion. In an Italian resort near
Rome, villas which once belonged
to Mussolini and other top-rank-
ing fascists have been transform-
ed with J.D.C. funds, provided
in the U. S. by contributions to
the $100,000 campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal, into a
training school, a health resort
and a Yeshiva. In one villa, re-
equipped and refurnished by the
J.D.A., courses in tailiring, car-
pentry, shoemaking and other

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