400,000 Needy Aided by JDC in '73;
Total Spent in 60 Years: $1 Billion
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Joint Distribution Committee
helped during 1973—its 60th
year — about 396,000 needy
Jews "from a handful in
China to 114,000 in Israel and
260,000 in Western and
Eastern Europe and the
Arab and Moslem coun-
tries."
Samuel Haber, JDC execu-
tive vice chairman, also said
JDC expenditures for 1973
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total $29,624,000. The largest
single item was $8,600,000
for Israel, an increase of
$1,000,000 over outlays in Is-
rael during 1972. Expendi-
tures for North Africa were
$4,117,000, and for Europe,
$5,422,300.
Ed w a rd Ginsberg, JDC
chairman, reported, in a his-
torical perspective, that dur-
ing its 60 years, the JDC had
distributed more than $1,000,-
000,000 in aid. The historical
review is contained in a
booklet, "Sixty Years of
Service."
From 1951 to the present,
Ginsberg said, the JDC spent
$572,000,000 rebuilding the
Jewish communities of Eu-
rope, organizing vast health
and welfare programs in
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`Israelis Must Learik to Identify With Holocaust'
GENEVA (JTA) — A
Hebrew University historian
said here that Israelis must
be taught to identify them-
selves with the victims of
the Holocaust, not just the
resistance fighters.
Prof. Simon Herman, pro-
fessor of modern Jewish his-
tory at Hebrew University,
said that Israeli educators
have been stressing the as-
pects of resistance during
World War II.
He said this was a partial
approach and Israeli chil-
dren should be brought up
to identify themselves totally
with the Jewish past in the
Diaspora.
Speaking at a symposium
on the Holocaust during the
annual meeting of the board
of trustees of the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Cul-
ture, Herman declared: "It
is immoral, and will be even
more immoral as time goes
on, to ask the question,
whether the martyrs of the
Holocaust could have done
more in active resistance.
This attitude could well make
children hate the victim
rather than the persecutor."
However, he noted that
since 1967 this attitude has
changed and the Holocaust
is much more pronounced in
the consciousness and be-
havior of Israelis.
Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Arad,
director of Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem and a former
partisan fighter against the
Nazis, stressed that it was
not always appreciated that
it sometimes took more cour-
age to stay with one's fam-
ily and try to protect and
feed them than to leave the
town and join the partisans.
He said many Jews who tried
to join partisan units were
not permitted to join.
Dr. Yehuda Bauer, head of
the Institute of Contempor-
ary Jewry at Hebrew Uni-
versity, said the only way
to prevent another holo-
caust is for Jews and non-
Jews to be aware of what
happened.
Bauer said, "Because Is-
rael is there, another holo-
caust becomes very remote,
in fact unlikely."
Prof. Irving Greenberg
of the City College of New
York, in dealing with the re-
ligious aspect of the Holo-
caust, said that as far as he
was concerned, the reality
of God was greater than
ever, the rebirth of Israel
was the redemption of his
faith and the line between
secular and religious Jews
was no longer credible.
"After all, the rehabilita-
tion of Jews is a much more
important religious precept
than prayer," he said.
Moslem countries and crea-
ting a comprehensive social
service system for newcom-
ers to Israel.
Over 45,000 people were
assisted in 1973 by both
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Haber reported. JDC pro-
vided financial subsidies to
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Over 44,000 Israelis were
enrolled in ORT vocational
training programs during the
year, subsidized by the JDC.
The total unduplicated num-
ber aided by JDC in Israel
in 1973 was about 114,000,
Haber said.
The growing strength and
stability of Jewish communi-
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ties in Western Europe made
possible a gradually dimin-
ishing role by JDC, Haber
reported. France alone of the
Western European countries
requires continued aid, main-
ly because of the large num-
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not yet been fully integrated.
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migrants, about 1,500 in the
course of the year. Most of
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financial burden was eased
by the U. S. government,
which, has provided funds for
the care and maintenance of
the Russian transmigrants.
In Romania, JDC subsi-
dizes a network of services
aiding about 16,000 of the
country's 90,000 Jews. Ex-
penditures totaled $2,200,000
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vided material assistance to
approximately 138,000 needy
Jews who had no access to
regular JDC country pro-
grams. The Relief-in-Transit
program amounted to almost
15 per cent of JDC's global
budget, $4,350,000 in 1973.
"This sum is in addition to
expenditures of $5,422,300 in
Europe in 1973," Haber
noted.
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