Not a single Jew will remain alive in the Nazi-held countries if Europe is not liberated from the Nazis within the next eighteen months, Mr. George Backer, president of the American Ort organization, declared yesterday addressing a gathering of 1,500 women members of the Ort.
Speaking at the Astor Hotel, Mr. Backer, who participated in the recent Bermuda Conference as a U.S. Government expert, said that Jews, however, need not despair. “The end of Nazism is not distant,” he stated, “and Jews must now start to plan for the future. Many Jewish communities will be destroyed in Europe, but we shall still find individual Jews there after the war with whom we shall rebuild Jewish life in liberated Europe.” Mr. Backer announced that three Ort schools for technical training were established in Algeria a day after the country was liberated by the Allied armies. Other speakers at the gathering included Prof. Max Lerner and Margaret Bondfield, former Minister of Labor in England.
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