Major Jewish Groups in France Hold Beckelman Memorial Meeting

A memorial service for the late Moses Beckelman, director general of the Joint Distribution Committee, was held here last night under the sponsorship of the major organizations of French Jewry. Among the speakers who paid tribute to Mr. Beckelman’s life of service to Jews in all parts of the world were French Chief Rabbi Jacob-Kaplan, Baren Guy-de Rothschild and Rene Cassin, president of the Council of State. France’s upper legislative house.

Mr. Beckelma died in New York last month, three days after he had arrived in the United States. He had come to New York to address the annual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and a special conference of the United Jewish Appeal.