Funeral services for George Rooby, 55, UNRRA official and former overseas representative of the Joint Distribution Committee, who died in Miami, Fla., on Sunday, will be hold here tomorrow. Mr. Rooby, who returned from France last month after serving with UNRRA for over a year, was vacationing in Florida when he was stricken.
Mr. Rooby served with the JDC from 1919 to 1924, working in Poland during the post-World War I conflict between Poland and Russia. He was active in aiding Jews to emigrate from Germany after the rise of Hitler and later did refugee work in France. He joined the overseas staff of UNRRA in 1944 and was assigned to Paris, where he was leaned to the JDC.
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