The extraordinary conference called by Jewish leaders in Poland yesterday to appeal to the Jews of the world, and especially to the Joint Distribution Committee of America, for wider assistance must be considered by American Jewry an S O S call for urgent relief.
The three and a half million Jews in Poland who are now on the verge of starvation, with a million of them actually degraded to beggary, deserve more attention from world Jewry than given to them hitherto. Especially in America, where there are thousands of Polish Jews who are in the best position to know of the sufferings which their relatives in Poland are undergoing.
J. D. C. CALLED TO THE RESCUE
The S O S now coming from Jewish leaders in Poland must be taken very seriously by the leading Jewish organizations as well as by individual Jews. American Jewry, which came to the rescue of the Jews in Poland after the war through the Joint Distribution Committee, must not stand aside now, when the privation suffered by the Jews in Poland are perhaps greater than during the first years after the war.
The extraordinary conference called by such leaders as Dr. Joshua Thon the leading Jewish parliamentarian, Rafael Szereszewsky, one of the leading figures in Jewish life, and Dr. Schorr, the leading conservative rabbi of Warsaw, shows that all in Poland see no other rescue for Polish Jewry than immediate Jewish relief from abroad.
POLISH JEWRY IN DANGER
The Jewish misery in Poland has reached a stage where only people without a heart can oppose any extended relief activities for Polish Jewry on the part of the Joint Distribution Committee or of any other Jewish relief organization. Here in America any such opposition must be combatted by every thinking Jew.
Jews in the United States ought to take the lead in stimulating public opinion in the United States, through all ways and channels, to the plight of Polish Jewry. The sufferings of the Jews in Poland must be brought out fully into the light and that the maximum relief must be secured.
3,500,000 JEWS AT STAKE
What is taking place in Poland now amounts to an economic war against the Jews. They are not only ousted from economic life, but a burden of heavy taxation is doing the rest to ruin their existence.
In this war against the Polish Jews, it is touching to see how Polish Jewry stands alone and isolated and how little it gets from the Jews of other countries.
The existing Jewish political organizations, such as the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress on the one hand and the Joint Distribution Committee as a relief organization on the other, must take the work of alleviating the position of Polish Jewry into their hands. Three and a half million Jews are at stake. Are the rest of the Jews going to remain silent?
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