THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, hmuary 1975--11
Dr. Schwartz, of JDC War Relief, Dead at 75
NEW YORK — Joseph J. New York, delivered messag- statesmen of the Middle East University — in New York.
He received his PhD at .
With the approval of the Yale University at the age of
efforts and the rescue of hun- ing Premier Yitzhak Rabin,
dreds of thousands of Jews Deputy Premier Yigal Mon United States War Refugee 28. The next year he was
in Europe during World War and Simha Dinitz, Israeli Board at the height of teaching at the American Uni-
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'II, died Jan. 1 in New York Ambassador to the U.S., ex- World War II, he negotiated versity in Cairo. His father
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tolling Dr. Schwartz's work successfully through neutral was a well known Orthodox
at age 75.
Jewish leaders throughout in rescuing European Jews emissaries for the rescue of rabbi in Baltimore.
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Dr. • Schwartz was popular
the world expressed grief and and helping to create the tens of thousands of Jews
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in the United States and also
shock over his death.. More state of Israel. R,abbi Joseph
very popular in Israel and
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than 300 people, representing H. Lookstein of Kehillath Je-
among Jewish leaders in
a cross-section of Jewish com- shurun led the service, and
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affinity between him and
abroad, attended funeral serv- Baltimore, • nephew of Dr.
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David Ben-.Gurion, G o 1 d a
ices at the Riverside Memor- Schwartz, delivered a eulogy.
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As director general of the
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A graduate prograni for
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Committee, Dr. Schwartz su-
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training senior personnel of
pervised urgent relief and
Black, Brown and White
,community centers in Israel,
welfare programs in 30 coun-
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for helping refugees.
'Mine remaining on a leave
of absence from the JDC after
"the war, Dr. Schwartz was
asked to direct the United
Jewish Appeal as executive
vice chairman. Later he be-
JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ
came executive vice presi-
from Nazi Germany and oc- dent of the Israel Bond Or-
cupied Europe.
ganization. During his years
In 1945, immediately follow- of service, the Bond, cam-
ing the war's end in 'Europe, paign reached unprecedented
President Truman named Dr. heights.
Schwartz to accompany Earl
Among the leaders expres-
G. Harrison'ou a survey tour sing grief over Dr. Schwartz's
of the then newly established death were Pinhas Sapir,
displaced persons camps in chairman of the World Zion-
the American Zones of Occu- ist Organization and Jewish
pation. Their report was the Agency Executives; M r s.
first comprehensive presenta- Charlotte Jacobson, chairman
tion to the American people of the WZO-American Section;
describing the plight of Isadore Hamlin, executive
Europe's displaced persons.
vice chairman of the Section;
Later, Dr. Schwartz testi- Jack D. Weiler, chairman and
fied before the Anglo-Ameri- Samuel Haber, executive
can Committee of Inquiry on vice chairman of the JDC;
Palestine, where he urged the Frederick P. Rose and San-
establishment in the Holy ford Solender of the Federa-
Land of a permanent haven tion of Jewish Philanthropies
for homeless and displaced of Greater New York.
Also, Samuel Rothberg, gen-
Jews.
After the war, Dr. eral chairman of the Israel
Schwartz, as the overseas Bond Organization, Michael
chief of the JDC, directed the Arnon, president, and Ira
transfer to Israel of more Guilden, chairman of the
than 500,000 Jews from dis- board; Lawrence A. Tisch,
tressed areas in Europe, Morris L. Levinson and Ern-
North Africa and the Middle est W. Michel of the United
East. At the same time, he Jewish Appeal of Greater
helped more than 100,000 New York; Frank R. Lauten-
Jewish displaced persons mi. berg, Paul Zuckerman and
grate to the United States, Irving Bernstein of the United
Canada and Latin America. Jewish Appeal.
Also Max M. Fisher and
Boris Smolar, editor emeri-
tus of the Jewish Telegraphic Moshe Rivlin, of the Jewish
A g e n c y, remembers Dr. Agency and Carl Glick, Har-
Schwartz as a humanitarian old Friedman and Gaynor L.
with deep Jewish feelings who Jacobson of the United BIAS
threw himself into carrying Service.
Dr. Schwartz was lauded as
out his mission. He worked
literally day _and night seek- a leader with deep compas-
ing ways of reaching the sion for fellow Jews endanger-
trapped Jews with relief and ed or in need, who would be
helping those who: escaped long revered by the thousands -
the Nazis to find their way to of Jews whose lives were re-
stored as a result of his many
life in safety.
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