A 1,000,000 peso ($250,000) campaign to raise funds for the relief and rehabilitation of Jews in liberated European territories was proclaimed here today by the Council for Jewish Aid to War Victims. Announcing the drive, Simon Mirelman, president of the Council, said that all funds will be expended through the Joint Distribution Committee with which the council has entered into a cooperative working program of overseas aid.
“This fund-raising effort is real evidence of the sympathetic concern of Jewish communities in South America for their victimized co-religionists in devastated Europe,” Mr. Mirelman stated. He pointed out that the major interest of the council, which, he said, consists of a cross-section of all Jewish forces in Argentina, “is to speed funds for relief and reconstruction to the liberated areas, where, in most instances, the JDC has been the first on the scene.”
The council, he pointed out, was among the first Latin American agencies to extend direct assistance to Jews in liberated Poland – through JDC machinery – and it has been instrumental in the last few months, in the rescue of hundreds of Jewish refugees from the Balkans area to Palestine, utilizing funds contributed by the Jewish communities of Argentina, and the facilities of the JDC. Mr. Mirelman expressed the hope that similar campaigns will be launched in other South American countries.
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