More than 1,000 delegates, representatives of Jewish organizations in Manhattan, meeting at the Free Synagogue this afternoon. unanimously adopted a resolution calling upon the national session of the American Jewish Congress to be held in Washington next week-end, to make the principal it of its agenda the task of preparing immediately for the ultimate restoration of the rights of Jews after the end of the present hostilities in Europe and to do what it can to alleviate and limit the extent of Jewish suffering.
The resolution was adopted after the session had heard personal reports on the conditions of oppression under which millions of Jews now live in Europe by leaders of European Jewry. Principal speakers at the meeting, which was the annual conference of the Manhattan Council of the American Jewish Congress, were Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress, and the Rev. Maurice L. Perlzweig, head of its British section. They told the delegates that of the 3,000,000 Jews in Europe, 7,000,000 were living under conditions of oppression which outrival the torture of the Middle Ages. One million of these, they stated, are doomed to die in the coming year if this oppression is not ended, while the remainder will be living in the atmosphere of a huge concentration camp.
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