Designation of Edwin Rosenberg as chairman of the National Council of United HIAS Service, the Jewish international migration agency, was announced today by Ben Touster, president. At the same time, Mr. Touster announced that Daniel G. Ross will act as vice chairman of the National Council, which will have a membership of some 1,500 Jewish leaders of all sizeable communities in the United States.
Mr. Rosenberg served as the first president of United Service for New Americans, in 1946; as a member of the executive committee of the United Jewish Appeal, and the New York State DP Commission. He was chairman of the committee which negotiated the recent consolidation of United Service for New Americans, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the migration services of the Joint Distribution Committee into a single unified agency now known as United HIAS Service. Mr. Ross, a New York attorney, has served as a member of the board of directors of HIAS since 1944.
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