The program of ORT in Germany–where during the past four years more than 35,000 displaced persons received vocational retraining–was reviewed on Tuesday in Munich at a reception tendered in honor of Dr. David Lvovitch, founder of the ORT in Germany and vice-president of the World ORT Union, it was announced here today by George Backer, president of the American ORT Federation.
Dr. Lvovitch declared at the reception that the “ORT adapted its vocational training program to the needs of modern industrial society. ORT was determined to equip the displaced and homeless victims of Nazism with the one essential thing which would guarantee their chance to migrate and become self-supporting and independent citizens of the civilized community–the acquisition of a trade,” he added.
Meanwhile, the American ORT Federation announced that Dr. Aron Syngalowski, chairman of the executive committee of the World ORT Union, and a number of delegates elected by the executive committee of the World ORT, will arrive here tomorrow from Paris to participate in conjunction with the American ORT in negotiations with the Joint Distribution Committee regarding fund allocations in 1950.
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