Alfred M. Cohen, international president of B’nai B’rith, has appealed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull for American intercession on behalf of the hundreds of Jews evicted from B’nai B’rith children’s homes, homes for the aged and sanatoria in Germany, it was announced today.
Similar pleas were lodged with Secretary Hull by Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee.
The lodges in Germany have for years been spending millions of marks annually for charitable purposes, according to Mr. Cohen. The German B’nai B’rith is 55 years old. It comprises 103 men’s lodges and 75 women’s lodges.
Mr. Cohen cited typical model charitable institutions now closed by the Nazis: a vacation colony in Hirschberg which provided vacations for poor city children, a children’s home in the Black Forest, the Toynbee halls for cultural activities of Jewish working youths, the Ahlem Agricultural School, the training schools for nurses in Berlin, Frankfort and Munich, the technical schools for instruction of Jewish boys in trades and mechanical handicrafts, employment bureaus, a sanatorium for the poor at Taunus and a similar one for children at Bad Nauheim, a children’s home at Dietz and asylums and schools for backward children.
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