Reuben B. Resnik, director of the Joint Distribution Committee’s program in Italy, has been decorated in Rome with the Order of the town of Italy by Alcide di Gasperi, Italian Foreign Minister, in recognition of his “meriterious and distinguished service” while carrying out the relief agency’s activities, it was announced here today.
In presenting the decoration, Senor di Gasperi praised the work of the Joint distribution Committee prior to and after the liberation of Italy. Mr. Resnik was the first representative of a voluntary relief agency to enter Bologna and other North Italian cities after their liberation. He directed the distribution of emergency relief and helped to establish a broad rehabilitation program for the surviving Jews in these war-devastated areas in Italy.
Twenty-five carloads of clothing, shoes, tools and raw materials are being unloaded at a railway station near Milan, Italy, for distribution to homeless and dispressed Jews in Italy and Austria, it was revealed by Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the JDC. The shipment, which is valued at 100,000,000 lire ($1,000,000) was made available to the J.D.C. by military officials after lengthy negotiations.
At least forty percent of the supplies will be sent to J.D.C. warehouses in Grata, Austria, and will be distributed in former concentration camps now being used as centers for displaced persons in the British and American zones of occupation. Italian Jewish communities and their institutions will receive the remainder of the shipment.
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