Warburg Asks Gifts to Implement'Homecoming'

iDC Chairman Addresses
Advance Donor Sessions

In a stirring address to Detroit's Allied
Jewish Campaign workers, at the initial
fund-raising event at the Book Cadillac Hotel
on Tuesday evening, to both the men's and
women's advance gifts division, Edward M.
M. Warburg appealed for increased efforts
and for the expansion of the United Jewish
Appears facilities for reconstruction work
overseas.
Warburg, national chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee and a leader for
many years in the UJA, stated in part:

"The American .Jewish community and the
agencies of the United Jewish Appeal are making
possible an historic homecoming which has no
counterpart in modern times.
"In the first quarter of 1949, the Joint Distri- .
bution Committee and the Jewish Agency work-
ing together will have brought 75,000 Jews to
Israel.
"In three short months we will have helped
more than half as many people to reach Israel
as we did in the twelve months of 1948, when
13Q000 persons entered the new state.
"If we can keep up anything like the present
flow of immigration we shall in a year bring some
300,000 people out of the sorrows and tragedies
of the past and the miseries of the present, into
a free and bright future.
"The 75.000 who will have reached Israel by
the end of this month includes approximately
0,000 from the DP camps of Germany and Aus-
tria; 34,000 from other areas of Europe and North
Africa, 11,000 from Cyprus, 5,000 from Aden,
and 2,500 from Shanghai.
"In addition, some 4;000 displaced Jews will
have been brought from the DP areas and Shang-
hai to the United States and other havens.
On .Danger Signals
"I warn you, however, that all our plans and
all our hopes in connection with emigration are
hanging in the balance. Every day, new danger
signals appear, new warnings are received that
Unless full and immediate support is forthcoming
frOm the American Jewish community, we will
not be able to go through with our program.
"At this moment. nearly 9.000 Jews are Wait-
ing in the 20 emigration --camps the JDC main-
tains in Marseille. France, for the opportunity
to leave. Normally, only 3,000 to 4,000 people
should be in the camps, Jews who have been
brought out of the DP areas of Germany, or who
have reached Marseille from North Africa. But
the Marseille camp population has backed up be-
cause at this moment we are desperately short of
shipping and funds with which to speed those
who wait on their way.

"Meanwhile, in other areas of Europe we are
engaged in a race against time.
• "Tens of thousands of Jews must be helped to
leave in the next few months.
The Closing of DP 'Camps
"We have been saying that we must empty
the DP camps in 1949.
"I can report to you that , since the closing
months of 1948, about ten Jewish DP camps in the
United States zone of. Germany have closed their
gates, let us hope forever. Most of their former
inhabitants are now in Israel or on their way to
Israel. At the same time, the great detention camps
on Cyprus are now closed, and the great DP camp
in the British zone of Germany, Belsen, is in the
process of closing.

UN Delegate Spurs Campaign Workers

HENRY WINE-

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veteran Detroit

campaigner, con-

fers with Israel's

UN del egate

ABBA EBAN,

during his visit

here to address

the Allied Jewish

Campaign work-

ers.

New Campaign Division Set Up
As Auxiliary to Trade Sections

A new division of the Allied Jewish Campaign which will serve
as an agent of the trade and professional groups and handle entire
categories of prospects previously uncovered has been formed as the
Auxiliary Trade and Professional Division. Irving W. Blumberg, presi-
dent of the Detroit Service Group, predicted that an additional $100,-
000 can be raised for the Campaign by this group. Among founding
members of the new Division are (left to right) GOLDIE LEVINSTEIN,
ELAINE PRUSSIAN, MANDEL L. BERMAN; (back row) SOL J.
SCHWARTZ, MAX CHOMSKY, JACOB KEIDAN, BUD SHULMAN,
ROBERT WARREN (rear) and NORMAN NAIMARK. Men and women
not already absorbed into the Trade and Professional Division of the
Campaign will be recruited as workers for the Auxiliary Division.

Women's Special Gifts Campaigners

"For the orphaned, the sick and the aged, the
people known as the "hard core" of the relief
problem. JDC must continue to maintain homes
and hospitals and feeding stations, must continue
to provide the shelter they cannot provide for
themselves. Five hundred and sixty thousand
Jews in Europe—"The irreducible minimum" —
still depend on JDC for relief assistance.
"And for 900,000 Jews in North Africa and the
Moslem lands, a people who eke out their harsh
and bitter lives under conditions as wretched as
any on the face of the earth, JDC must expand
its programs of education, medical care and voca-
tional training that will literally save a whole
generation."

6—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 1, 1949

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DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER - (left) of Temple Beth

El, where Eban addressed the Women's

Division,

and MRS. JOHN C. HOPP had a private talk with

Israel's UN. spokesman.

Editorial

History's Big Moment

Now we can empty the- DP camps. Now 250,-
000 homeless Jews can go home — home to Israel.
But we have to get them there, feed them, shelter
them—put them back- on their feet. We must
see to it that they do not have to live in Israel like
DP's. We must also help those who come to the
United States. This is the order to fill—the biggest
order in history:

"But at the same time, I have to point out to
you that in the American zone of Germany there
were approximately fifty Jewish DP.camps.

Emigration Not Only Job:
"Emigration has been given top priority in
this "Year of Homecoming." But emigration is
not the only job JDC faces.
•
"For those men and women who through choice
or circumstance will remain in Europe, there is
still the job of putting them back to - work, of help-
ingi'them become self-supporting citizens. To do
this, JDC must continue its support of loan funds
and ORT-operated vocational training and pro-
ducers' cooperatives..

right, EBAN, MRS. MAX FRANK, MRS. HENRY

WINEMAN and MRS. HYMAN C. BRODER.

We have very little time to fill the biggest
order in history—the order that comes to us na-
tionally through the United Jewish Appeal and
locally through the Allied Jewish Campaign.

"These are heartening and encouraging de-
velopments. -

"Thus — we have forty camps to go — forty
'camps with a population running into the many
thOusands, which we must try to close before the
end of the year!

Leaders of the Women's Division of the cam-
paign enjoyed speaking with Mr. Eban. Left to

60,000 FROM THE DP CAMPS

Members of the special gifts committee of the Women's Division
of the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign distributed slips in special gifts
Wednesday, March 30, at the home of Mrs. David Wilkus, 2435 W.
Boston Blvd.
Committee members attending a planning meeting for kit dis-
tribution were, left to right, seated, Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, chairman,
and Mesdames Saul H. Glueckman, Samuel S. Aaron, Theodore Levin,
Ben Mossman; standing, Mesdames Carl Wois, Philip R. Marcuse,
Harry Barnett, Leo Mellen, Ivor J. Kahn. Other members of the Com-
mittee, not in the pictures, are Mesdames Herman August, Louis
Glasier, Lillian Lewis, Emil T. Rothman and William W. Sharpe.

20,000 FROM FRANCE AND OTHER

11.1 A Caravan to Stop in Detroit

45,000 FROM NORTH AFRICA AND
VOCPN1TY

Seven Israeli war heroes will arrive in New York next
week to make a nationwide tour of the United States aboard
special trains which will barnstorm the country for three weeks
on behalf of the $250,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal.
The Israeli soldiers will act as guards of honor aboard
seven "Caravans of Hope," special trains which will visit 41
states to bring the story of the United Jewish Appeal and its
constituent agencies to more than 150 cities.
The "Caravan of Hope" will arrive in Detroit April 17.
Coincident with the departure of the trains, a national
broadcast over the network of the Mutual Broadcasting 'Sys-
tem will be presented by the United Jewish Appeal at 9 p.m.
Sunday, April 3. Stage and screen stars John Garfield and
Lilli Palmer will play the featured roles. The broadcast, en-
titled "Homecoming 1949," will tell the story of a young refugee
couple on the homeward trek from Europe to Israel.

COUNTRIES

15,000 FROM BULGARIA

5,000 FROM YUGOSLAVIA

20,000 FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA

10,000 FROM POLAND

20,000 FROM ROMANIA

20,000 FROM HUNGARY

25,000 FROM SHANGHAI, ADEN AND

OTHER LANDS

This is the hope that kept them alive. This is
what they waited for. This .is what WE worked
for. We must not cut the life-line. We can't quit
until the job is done. THIS is the hour!

Enlist as a worker in. the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign by calling the Detroit office, in the Owen
Building, WO. 5-3939. And GIVE liberally in this,
the greatest year of reconstruction in our entire
history.

