A great number of international inquiries to find lost families, were received during the past year, according to the report of Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn of New York City. National Chairman of the Department of Immigrant Aid. Requests have been received from Jewish families in China. Lost relatives were traced in Canada and the United States for refugees who were stranded in Europe, and financial assistance was obtained from their more prosperous kin in America. Approximately 1,000 disunited families received the department’s aid.
“We found the Jewish refugees in Cuba in a deplorable and tragic situation,” stated Mrs. Rosensohn. “They lacked opportunities to earn a livelihood, and the climate was one to which they were unaccustomed. Our survey stirred American Jewry to launch a special appeal of $500,000 for the Jewish refugees in Havana. We have instituted classes in Spanish to enable these refugees to gain a knowledge of the Cuban tongue.
“During the coming year we shall devote ourselves to the work of naturalizing every foreign born Jewess in the United States, and prepare her for effective citizenship.”
Mrs. Henry J. Sporborg of Albany. N. Y., national chairman of the committee on work among Jewish women on farms, announced that a plan of cooperation with the Federal Department of Agriculture is now in process of development, to reach all farmers of the Jewish faith in all agricultural States of the Union.
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