At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (Hias), held yesterday, with Abraham Herman, the president, in the chair, it was unanimously decided to launch immediately a Hias Emergency Campaign for funds in aid of the Jewish refugees from Germany.
This decision was arrived at as a result of the cable dispatches which the Society received from Dr. James Bernstein, its European commissioner, who stated that the Hias offices in Paris and in other European countries were crowded with Jewish refugees who were in terrible straits, requiring immediate assistance. Funds for this purpose, Dr. Bernstein reported, were being raised in Europe and relief was already being given. But in view of the situation, thousands of Jewish refugees being involved, the American Society was called upon to collect moneys at once.
The Hias offices in Europe have made all arrangements to receive and provide for the needs of the refugees and everything is being done to help them.
A mass meeting in support of the Hias Emergency Campaign will be held Sunday morning, April 16, at the Society’s headquarters, 425 Lafayette Street, and similar meetings will take place in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle, where the Hias has branches in this country.
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