Harry D. Biele, well-known social worker, has been appointed secretary of the Latin American committee of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, it was announced today by Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the organization. Mr. Biele succeeds Robert Pilpel, who is now a member of the J.D.C.’s overseas staff stationed in Lisbon.
Mr. Biele comes to the J.D.C. after four-and-a-half years as secretary to the National Refugee Service’s National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians. He was also executive secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists.
In announcing Mr. Biele’s appointment, Mr. Hyman emphasized the importance of the J.D.C.’s work in Latin America, where 125,000 Jewish refugees have found havens in the last ten years. “The initial period of adjustment for most of these refugees is now over,” he said, “and the J.D.C. is turning from problems of immediate relief to helping the local committees build up such long-term rehabilitation projects as child care and old-age homes, community centers, loan funds and credit cooperatives. Two J.D.C. representatives are stationed in South America to render advice and guidance on these projects.”
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