Dr. Bernhard Kahn, honorary European chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, said in a statement today on the death of Mrs. Marie Schmolka that “the passing away of this great Jewess will be a great loss for all Jewish organizations.”
Mrs. Schmolka first became active in Jewish work in 1933, he said, and devoted her life to the cause. Becoming head of the Central Czechoslovakian Committee for Refugees, she represented her country on the first advisory committee of the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She gave her time and advice to general Jewish activities, helping to reorganize child care and training work in Sub-Carpathia on behalf of the J.D.C. She frequently went to Germany to get first-hand information useful to Jewish organizations and the High Commissioner in organizing refugee assistance.
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