Leader of Canadian Jewish Congress Leaves on J.D.C. Mission to South America

H.M. Caiserman, general secretary of the Canadian Jewish Congress, has departed by air for South America, where he will make an extended tour to present to Jewish communities there a first-hand account of the situation now confronting Europe’s Jewish survivors and of relief and rehabilitation activities in their behalf by the Joint Distribution Committee.

Mr. Caiserman, a leader of the United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies of Canada, an affiliate of the J.D.C., recently returned from a tour of Poland, where he studied the living conditions of the Jewish survivors and met the first of the Jewish repatriates who have returned to Poland from Russia. His trip was undertaken at the invitation of the Polish Government and took nearly three months. He will spend three to four months in South America and will address Jewish communities in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.