A STATEMENT PROM HERBERT H. LEHMAN,

HONORARY CENERA-L CHAIRMAN, UNITED JEW -ISIS APPEAL

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100,000 lives must he saved

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A MESSAGE ABOUT THE $100,000,000 UJA EMERGENCY RESCUE FUND

IN THE MONTHS AHEAD the world may see more than

You can bring many of them to free Western lands. Above,
all, you can help bring the new refugees to Israel—because
this time, there is an Israel.

100,000 new Jewish refugees in flight from persecution and
inhumanity.

In two months 11,000 Jewish men, women and children
have been forced from Egypt by Colonel Nasser. Most of
Egypt's Jews =some 50,000--may be driven out by summer.

This Time We Can Save Them

In the 1930's Hitler's reign of terror against innocent
people because they were Jews — sickened. the civilized
world.-

They Flee Nasserism and Communism

Now Nasserism is following in Nazism's footsteps.
Now Nasser's police knock on doors at midnight, confis-
cate private businesses, imprison men without trial and
hand-expulsion orders to terrified families.

In Austria, meanwhile, there are thousands of new refu-
gees from another totalitarian oppression—Communism.

When revolution and massacre swept Hungary, more
than 17,000 of those who braved Soviet guns to reach
Austrian freedom were Jews.
The refugees from Egypt and Hungary are not all. From
lands that must remain nameless—where exit doors have
opened momentarily—thousands are coming out every week.
They flee from renewed anti-Semitism and the sheer
threat of extinction. They are coming out now, because
tomorrow may be too late.

All these new refugees are searchirig for safety and free-
dom. Their lives depend on us—on what each of us does.

Once the world stood by helplessly while Hitler put
6,000,000 Jews to death. This time the refugees must not
die. This time they must be saved and you can help save them.

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Now no Jewish refugee need die for lack of a place to go
because Israel's -free people stand ready to welcome every
one who comes.
But you must help. In a critical hour Israel's people will
keep their doors open. But their slender resources must go
for other urgent problems.
To save a single refugee costs $1,000. That is the aver-
age amount needed to see him through his first year—to
resettle him, house' him and start him on the road to .self-
support—in Israel or any free land. •
It will cost $100,000,000 to save 100,000 lives.
In eighteen years, UJA has rescued or aided more than
2,250,000 oppressed persons, despite Nazi terror, Corn-'
munist terror and Arab terror.

What Each of Us Must Do

Now in 1957, to save 100,000 lives more, UJA will conduct
a great Emergency Rescue Fund for $100,000,000.
This sum must be raised "over and above" the regular
1957 United Jewish Appeal—whose funds must continue'
the aid now going to more than half a million immigrants
already in Israel and distressed Jews in other areas.

To reach this great rescue fund objective each of us must
add a great "over and above" gift to his regular 1957 UJA
contribution—one in keeping with the needs.

Only if Americans will it—can inhumanity be answered
with humanity. Only if you will it—can lives be. saved—
not lost—in 1957.

United Jewish Appeal

$100,000,000 UJA EMERGENCY RESCUE FUND for Freedom and Survival
"Over and Above" THE 1957 REGULAR CAMPAIGN

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Formal Opening

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