United Hias Service received an award from the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, last night, “for helping so many Jewish survivors of Nazism to resettle in countries of freedom and security.” The gift, an engraved world globe, symbolic of the world-wide migration services provided to Jewish refugees by United Hias Service, was accepted by Murray L. Gurfein, UHS President at a dinner at the Biltmore Hotel.
In accepting the award from the WAGRO leaders, Jack Eisner, Al Kooper and Benjamin Meed, Mr. Gurfein said: “What happened in the Warsaw Ghetto was literally heard around the world. Accounts of the heroic resistance to the Nazis, have become a source of admiration and inspiration to people everywhere. The world must never forget the great depths to which it sank during the Nazi reign of terror. We are honored that since World War II, United Hias Service was able to assist more than 330,000 Jewish men, women and children to resettle in the United States and other Western countries. Many of these people were heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto or inmates of German death camps.”
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