The creation of an exchange program between the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the West German Government, whereby each will send youth leaders and human rights experts to learn about problems and practices of democracy, was announced here today at the executive committee meeting of the ADL.
The announcement was made by Label A. Katz, president of B’nai B’rith and Henry Edward Schultz, national president of the ADL. The program, according to the two leaders, “involves an exchange of trained Jewish community relations leaders and B’nai B’rith youth workers concerned not only with education itself but with all aspects of civil affairs, citizenship and democratic attitudes.”
The first group of Americans, numbering ten leaders representing the ADL. will undertake its studies in Germany July 25, Benjamin R. Epstein, national director of the ADL, reported. They will attend seminars and meetings in West Germany, meeting with government and civic officials, youth leaders and community leaders in Bonn, Berlin and Dusseldorf. At a later date, a group of German communal and youth leaders will come to the United States as part of the exchange program.
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