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Jews in Nazi-held Areas Aided Without Benefit to Reich Economy

August 12, 1940
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Emergency assistance is being extended to large sections of 2,900,000 Jews in Nazi-held areas without benefiting the German economy, it was announced today by the United Jewish Appeal.

Through a financial clearance arrangement, no American dollars have ever been sent into German territory by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a participant in the U.J.A. Funds are made available in marks or zlotys to relief committees for the J.D.C. program in Germany and Poland, by Jews emigrating to other parts of the world. In turn, the J.D.C. pays transportation fees for these refugees to steamship companies outside of Germany.

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