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Overseas ORT Conference Hears Report
on Heirless Jewish Property Distribution
GENEVA, (JTA) — A total ofHe reported that more than ported.
$75 million has been received up I two-thirds of the total - funds re-
The establishment of a Joint
to 1960 for heirless Jewish prop- ceived had been distributed to
Distribution Committee - ORT
erty in the British, American and the Joint Distribution Committee, program in India early this year,
French zones of Germany for the the Jewish Agency, the Central
to 26 the number of coun-
benefit of Jewish victims of the British Fund and the Council of raised
tries
in
which the joint services
Hitler holocaust, it was disclosed Jews of Germany to be used ex-
available, the conference was
at a dinner marking the closing clusively for the benefit of Jew- are
told.
of the 16th annual Joint Distri- ish survivors of the Hitler holo-
The new program in India is
bution Committee Overseas Con- caust.
centered in Bombay, having an
ference.
A total of $80 million in repa- estimated Jewish population of
The figures were reported by
Sir Henry d' Avigdor Goldsmid, rations from the West German 20,000. The program was organ-
chairman of , the Jewish Trust government has been distributed ized at the request of Bombay
Corporation. The Jewish Trust since 1954 by the Conference on Jews because the community has
Corporation was set up in Britain Jewish Material Claims Against found itself unable to meet the
in 1950 to claim heirless and un- Germany to more than 150,000 welfare problems created by a
claimed propert and property of victims of the Nazi era now re- growing impoverishment of large
former Jewishmmunities and siding in 30 countries, it was re- sections of the Jewish population.
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organizations in the British zone
of Germany and in the British
sector of Berlin. "
Goldsmid said the Jewish Trust
Corporation received 140 million
marks
illio
r such
FT PHIA, (JTA)—Dr. convention of the Women's
PHI
propert
B"
or and
that a si
lia ab 'resident of the American ORT, Haber added he
on in the
Atherican zo ,
ederation, dis- doubted that the new school "and
tution Su
rld ORT Union all the rest we have done to inte-
an tion,
received e.
school in Mar- grate North African Jews in
He sal
sim
large as the old France "would be adequate prep-
up in th
in p tion of an antici- aration "for the kind of mass im-
French
e rec
about $4.5
d substantial immigration of migration that we may soon face
million r an overall total of
more th $75 million, with more A gerian Jews to France. in France." .
funds still cOming:
Speaking at the 16th national
He told the delegates that ORT
schools in France would continue
to grow both because of the
North African. influx and because
"of the population explosion of
a new generation of Jewish
youth."
He told the conference that
whatever the future may hold
for the Jews of Morocco and
Tunis, - he felt that the work
performed by ORT in the past
"has transformed these com-
munities so that they can face
the future."
(Prof. Haber was hospitalized
upon his return to his home in
Ann Arbor. He is reported to
be recuperating satisfactorily).
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Bulgaria's Chief Rabbi Reported Arrested
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Bulgaria's
Chief Rabbi, Dr. Asher Hanna-
nel, was arrested by Bulgarian
authorities several weeks ago,
according to reports just reach-
ing here.
The Bulgarian embassy here
refused to confirm or deny the
reports of the arrest.
The Chief Rabbi's arrest was
confirmed indirectly at Sofia
when the Bulgarian undersecre-
tary for religious affairs attended
services at the Synago
the High Holy Days.
He was asked about Rabbi
nanel's absence fro
and replied: "I d
the charges agai
e, but
you may rely on
justice of
the Bulgarian courts."
Rabbi Hannanel is a promi-
nent figure of Bulgaria. He was
active in the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, and, the author of
many works, including a compre-
hensive history of Bulgarian
Jewry. He visited Israel last year
and, at that time, hailed the Bul- -
gerian attitude toward the Jews
in that country.
Fort Worth Federation
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ORT Women's Convention Hears
ATTENTION
Estimate on Algerian Exodus
Servi ces in Israel
Pay Tribute to Danes
for Rescuing Jeivs
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Special serv-
ices Tuesday night atop Mount
Zion marked the anniversary of
October, 1943 — honoring the
king of Denmark and the Danish
people for their rescue of the
Jews of Denmark when the latter
were threatened by the Nazis
with deportation to death camps.
Under the leadership of their
king, the people of Denmark
undertook a vast rescue opera-
tion in . October, 1943, after
Danish authorities learned that
the German Army was planning
to start, deporting Jews.
By night, Danes mobilized
fleets of ships and boats and
ferried the Jews to neutral
Sweden. Nearly the entire Jew-
ish population of Denmark was
saved through this dramatic op-
eration.
The services on Mount Zion
recalled the Danish king's action
and his people's support of the
large scale anti-Nazi operation.
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Poles Are Profoundly
Impressed by Russian's
Poem Against Bigotry
LONDON, (JTA) — "Babi
Yar," the poem by Soviet. poet
Yevgeni Yevtushenko denounc-
ing anti-Semitism, has been
published in Poland in six
different _translations, Ida
Kaminska, head of the Polish
State Yiddish Theater, reported
here.
The Jewish actress from
Poland, who arrived here with
her actor husband, Marian Mel-
man, and other members of
her Yiddish troupe for a series
of perforMances, said that four
of the translations of "Babi
Yar" were in Polish and two in
Yiddish. She said the poem had
left a profound impression in
her country.
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