During the twelve years of the Hitler regime, the Jewish home land in Palestine served as the primary haven of refuge for Jews fleeing from Nazi-inspired persecution, it was reported today by Rabbi James G. Heller, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, who declared that with the aid of American Jews some 355,000 Jews from Germany and other European lands found a permanent home in Palestine since 1933.
Rabbi Heller stated that the bulk of the refugees who reached Palestine entered during the period from 1933 to the cutbreak of World War II, and that more than 60,000 arrived in Palestine with the help of the United Palestine Appeal during the war years from Allied, neutral, occupied and liberated territories.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine, the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund, he said, spent a total of more than $90,000,000 during the period for immigration, agricultural settlement, the acquisition of land, the development of industry and the advancement of economic and cultural activities to enable Palestine to fulfill its role of haven and homeland for the large number of Jews made destitute and homeless as a result of the sweep of Nazi aggression and persecution on the European continent.
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