Rabbi Philip Bernstein, chairman of the American Zionist Committee of Public Affairs, began a four and one-half month tour of Joint Distribution Committee installations and refugee centers in Europe and Israel in connection with the United Jewish Appeal’s emergency refugee rescue campaign. He will gather material on the Egyptian, North African, Hungarian and other European relief situation and will study the conditions of the surviving Jewish communities in Austria and Germany.
After a special JDC conference in Paris, where Rabbi Bernstein renewed acquaintance with people he worked with in 1946-47, when he was the Advisor on Jewish Affairs to the U.S. Military Commanders in Europe, he left for the ports of Marseille and Genoa, where he will see ships bringing Jews forced out of Egypt and North Africa, and visit the camps for refugees there. Also on Rabbi Bernstein’s itinerary are visits to Austria and Germany where he will see the program for resettling the homeless, including the Malben operation of JDC.
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