!7.1 .0C Reports Aiding 300;000 in 1970

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 2, 19971-7

SIDNEY 1 BLATNIKOFF

Two million Jews have been up- 1969, Haber said the old age center of JDC funds for Western
rooted from their homes in the 25 in Beersheba was one of the first Europe.
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years since the end of World War facilities to be established under
In Eastern Europe the bulk of
II, it was reported by Samuel L. the association's auspices.
the JDC program for 1790 was con-
Associate General Agent
aber, executive vice chairman of
JDC aided over 164,000 needy centrated in Romania, Haber re-
_ ne Joint Distribution Committee. Jews in Europe in 19'70, ported. There, JDC assisted 17,000
272-3470
n an annual report covering the Haber reproted. JDC expendi- needy Jews. Of these, 5,800 re-
American United Life Insurance Company 1
rograms of the American welfare tures in Western Europe amount- ceived monthly cash grants, food
'agency for 1970, Haber noted that ed to almost $3,000,000, of which packages, special winter and Pass-
• LIFE • HEALTH • GROUP • ANNUITIES • PENSIONS
"many age-old Jewish communities over one-third went for care and over assistance and a clothing dis-
no longer exist."
maintenance of transmigrants. tribution. Another 5,700 received
In 1970 JDC health, welfare and Aside from aid to transmigrants, similar help except for the monthly
ehabilitation programs aided over France received the largest share cash grants. About 1,700 elderly
In Michigan He 's Called The
300,000 Jews in 25 countries at a
needy Jews received hot meals
cost of over $23,000,000, and since
daily in nine kosher canteens which
is inception in 1914, the JDC has
the JDC helped to establish. Some
spent almost $939,00,000 aiding
430,000 pounds of matzo and other
Jews overseas, Haber reported.
Passover supplies and 23,000 bottles
Th-e bulk of JDC funds are provid-
of wine were sent in for the Pass-
- the campaigns of the United
over holiday.
400 NEW '71s IN STOCK
e,,vish Appeal, the major benefici-
In Yugoslavia, JDC programs
As
predicted
by
his
biographer
ary of the Allied Jewish Campaign.
50 NEW '71 OPELS
aided about 900 needy Jews of a
In an introduCtory message, in Detroit two months ago, the total Jewish population of about
20
'71 BUICK DEMOS.
name
of
Sigmund
Freud
has
been
Louis Broido, JDC chairman, noted
7,000.
that "the year 1970 brought no rehabilitated in Vienna: Freud's
JDC continued to function in
abatement in the demands made office and study at No. 19 Berg- Morocco, Tunisia and Iran where
gasse
have
been
formally
opened
on JDC by our fellow Jews in areas
some 43,000 needy Jews were as-
Why Wait for Yours?
as a museum.
of distress around the world."
sisted during the year, Haber re-
When
Irving
Stone
was
here
to
- The tensions in the Middle East
The Price Is Always Right
ported. A major part of the JDC
have added to the responsibilities promote his biographical novel. expenditures in those three coun-
Deal With the Man Who Can Deliver
"Passions
of
the
Mind,"
he
said
of JDC in Israel and in other
tries was allocated to the education
the Austrian chancellor had prom- and care of children and young
countries, he said.
In another message in the annual ised him the Freud apartment people. JDC also subsidized welfare
report, which was sent to about would at last be recognized as a and medical services, care of the
10,000 members of the national landmark. Until now, Vienna had aged and summer camps and
council throughout the U.S. and never acknowledged the contribu- youth activities.
anada, Jack D. Weiler, chairman tions of Freud. (The University of
The continued movement of Jews
of the JDC national council, stress- Vienna, his alma mater, still out of Morocdo and Tunisia has
d the significance of the JDC pro- f r owns upon psychoanalysis) deprived the communities of sub-
gram in 1970 in "strengthening the Freud left Vienna in 1938, when stantial income and as a result,
state of Israel by aiding in the Hitler took Austria, and he died Haber said, '`..`.JDC has had to as-
TELEGRAPH just SOUTH of 12 MILE RD.
solution of human problems and a year later, in England.
sume an increasing share of the
ACROSS FROM TEL-TWELVE MALL
On July 27, a world congress of financial cost of essential services
353-1300
needs in Israel by assisting in the
rescue, relief and rehabilitation psychoanalysts will be held for to those who remain."
f distressed Jews in other coun- the first time in Vienna. Anna r
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Freud, Sigmund's daughter and
tries . . ."
disciple,
has
announced
that
she
- Haber noted that JDC activities
were concentrated mainly in will go to Vienna for the congress.
Miss Freud cooperated in the
Israel, Europe and the Moslem
re-equipping of her father's
countries, which accounted for
waiting room with the original
about 90 per cent of JDC's ex-
furniture. She also sent Paula
penditures for the year.
About 38 per cent of the JDC Fichtl, housemaid of the Freud
budget was allocated for JDC pro- family since 1929, as her per-
grams in Israel, benefiting, in all, sonal representative to the dedi-
some 95,000 persons, Haber re- cation of the museum. Miss
ported. JDC's Malben services for Fichtl brought a hand-written
the aged, ill and handicaped ac- letter selected by Miss Freud, as
' counted for $6,200,000. Another well as Freud's hat and walking
$880,000 went for support of re- stick, for display in the museum.
ligious institutions and cultural
The room where Freud received
-activities and over $1,000,000 was patients and his study both serve
used to subsidize the ORT voca- as the museum, and personal docu-
tional program in Israel.
ments crowd the walls and book-
Most important of Malben direct shelves. Among them are his
services is its group of nine old age revolutionary research works, in-
homes and a 100-bed geriatric cluding "Moses and Monotheism."
hospital, the report disclosed.
* Low rolling resistance . •
Prof. Friedrich Hacker, presi-
* Up to 100% more mile-
These facilities cared for an aver- dent of the new Sigmund Freud
saves gas
age
than
bias
ply
tires
age of 2,400 elderly men and wo- Society, formed in Vienna with
• men per month. More than half official backing,' said the museum
* Big-foot traction . . .
* Maximum road contact
of them were infirm or nursing room --has been a succession of
improved starts and stops
. . . less tread squirm
atients.
occupants over the years. After
- Reflecting the growing need for Freud left, the apartment was
* Extra protection against
* Wide-stance stability . .
services for elderly people who live used to house many Jewish
bruises and punctures
improved
cornering
at home, Malben has expanded its families until the Nazis took over.
extramural program, Haber noted. In 1945, the homeless of many
* Lean, strong sidewalls
* Open-groove skid control
This includes subsidized or rent- nationalities were housed there,
. . . less heat build-up
...on wet and dry roads
free housing, health insurance, and finally the Freud apartment
houskeeping help and day care was converted into two separate
programs in JDC Malben old age flats given to Austrian nationals
homes for some 3,000 aged men
30,000-Mile Guarantee
Not shown in the museum is an
and women.
exchange of letters between Freud
against Wear Out,
Reporting on the Association for and the Austrian Finance Ministry,
Guarantee
Life-Time
the Planning and Development of which expressed surprise about
against
ices for the Aged which JDC's Freud's meager income tax decla-
A—iben helped to established in ration.
Defects, Workmanship
"Everyone knows that your rep-
utation goes far beyond the bor-
ders of Austria," the letter said,
Freud replied: "It is the first time
that the government has taken
for $ 3.95
Alignment
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