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Delegation of Jewish Children Submits Petition to White House Asking Rescue of Jews

December 13, 1944
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Forty Jewish school children from New York called at the White House and the Capital today to “beg of our President, our Congress, and our fellow citizens to help us, in line with the glorious American tradition of carrying freedom to all the oppressed, in the salvation of our defenseless brethren and their rehabilitation as a free and independent people.”

The youngsters, ranging in age from 10 to 14, presented a petition signed by more than 40,000 Jewish children of America first to Vice-President Henry A. Wallace at the Capitol, and then to Jonathan Daniels, acting in behalf of President Roosevelt, at the White House.

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