Governor Herbert H. Lehman will be guest of honor at a dinner opening the Brooklyn campaign of the United Jewish Appeal at the Hotel St. George Thursday, June 21, according to an announcement yesterday by Aaron William Levy and Albert D. Schanzer, chairmen of the Brooklyn division of the campaign.
Felix M. Warburg, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, announced that the committee in charge of the function will consist of Ralph Jonas, Judge Edward Lazansky, Judge Harry E. Lewis, Israel Metz. Judge Mitchell May, Benjamin H. Namm, Walter N. Rothschild and Hugh Grant Straus.
“Knowing the splendid part that Brooklyn Jewry has played in the past in coping with all problems of human need and suffering,” the Brooklyn chairmen declared in a statement, “we are certain that the dinner on June 21 will be truly indicative of the sympathy which we feel for the Jews of Germany, who are undergoing hardships and persecution unknown for centuries.”
REPORT ON REFUGEES
National headquarters of the United Jewish Appeal, which is seeking $3,000,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of German Jews and for the settlement of Jews in Palestine, yesterday made public a report on the number of German Jews and refugees aided during 1933 and on the manner in which the support was given.
A budget of £250,000 for colonization in Palestine has been adopted for the year ending April 1, 1935, by the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine, the report stated. Of this sum, £80,000 will be used for purchasing land, from £60.000 to £70,000 for agricultural settlement, £50,000 for urban settlement, and £40,000 for the training of young people in agriculture and the crafts and for the erection of necessary housing accommodations. The balance will be used for temporary housing and maintenance of immigration during the first weeks after their arrival.
WORK FOR CHILDREN
Referring to the work for German Jewish children in Palestine, the report declared:
“Avery large part of the funds to be allocated to the American Palestine Campaign will be applied to the settlement of German Jewish children and youth in Palestine, particularly those between fifteen and eighteen years of age. These children are placed in agricultural or occupational training schools or integrated into the educational system of the country.”
Aid to Jews in Germany through funds raised by the Joint Distribution Committee and spent in consultation with the Central committee of German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction was extended as follows:
1,000 ENTER PALESTINE
Sixty thousand individuals received advice on immigration during the year 1933, of countries other than Palestine.
More than 30,000 were advised concerning emigration to Palestine and 11,000 actually entered the country.
More than 6,000 Jewish youths were enabled to change their vocations. Of these, 2,300 received agricultural and trades training.
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