An Advisory Council on European Jewish Affairs, comprising representatives of countries taken over by the Axis who are now in the United States, will be formed at a two-day conference summoned by the World Jewish Congress, to be held at the Commodore Hotel, beginning Saturday, June 6, it was announced here today.
The Council, when formed, will include the designated spokesmen of newly established committees from the various countries opposing the Axis, such as Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Latvia-Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia.
The week-end conference has as its objective the establishment of a united front on the part of representatives of European Jewish communities with respect to common problems relating to the efforts to win the war, win the peace, and bring about the post-war reconstruction of Jewish life at the end of the war. The conference will develop plans looking towards participation of the various groups in the common struggle for the maintenance of democracy, and in the promotion of better understanding on the part of non-Jewish groups of their respective nationalities with respect to the position of the Jews.
It will also discuss a plan for such assistance to the Jewish communities still in the countries of Axis domination, in accordance with the limitations imposed by the United Nations.
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