To alleviate the immediate needs of some of the Jewish institutions in Poland, Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the European Director of the Joint Distribution Committee has, after a consultation here with Senator Raphael Szereczewski, Dr. Englemann, and Dr. Joffe, representing Jewish institutions in Poland, assigned a sum of 15,500 dollars towards the work of the Jewish orphanages in Poland for the next three months, and a sum of 8,500 dollars for the work of the Jewish Health Organisation, “Toz”, of Poland.
These are extraordinary grants made by the Joint Distribution Committee in addition to the following amounts already allocated by it for the year 1931 — 83,400 dollars for child welfare-work, professional training and summer holiday camps for children; 36,000 dollars for medical activities through the medium of the Toz; 83,000 dollars for loan and credit banks (about 50% of this amount represents repaid credit-loans being utilised for further credit-loan advances) and 27,000 dollars for various other constructive activities, so that the Joint Distribution Committee has this year, apart from the funds allocated by the Joint-Ica Foundation, contributed a total of 253,400 dollars for productive relief work in Poland.
The need of obtaining immediate financial assistance for the Jewish orphanages in Poland to save 10,000 orphans maintained there from starvation, was the subject of an emergency meeting of officials of the Federation of Jewish Orphanages convened in Warsaw by Senator Szereszewski, the President of the Federation, last week.
Polish Jewry, with the assistance of the Government, it was pointed out, has managed till now to maintain the orphanages at an annual expenditure of 6,000,000 zlotys, but a cut in the Government subsidy of more than sixty percent, and the reduced income from voluntary contributors has now put the orphanages in a precarious position, It was in order to obtain aid for the Jewish orphanages from the Joint Distribution Committee that Senator Szereszewski and his colleagues proceeded to Berlin to consult Dr. Bernhard Kahn.
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