The Joint Distribution Committee will “increase con##ably” its food and clothing aid to displaced Jews in Germany starting next week, it was announced today by Charles Passman, JDC co-director in the American zone.
He revealed that the entire JDC distribution system is being reorganized, in order to provide increased assistance necessitated by the continued decrease in quantity and quality of the aid supplied by the International Refugee Organization, whose ##ted financial resources are insufficient to meet the needs of the DP’s. Passman ## that the new set-up will bring relief to a greater number of DP’s.
According to the JDC plan some 85,000 Jews who are known to need aid at this ## will be classified in one or another of 25 categories, including various types of workers, students, young children, invalids, pregnant and nursing mothers. Others ## are not classified immediately in one of these categories may apply for and re## assistance if they can prove need. Persons receiving supplies from the JDC will be issued a ration card on which will be noted the amount of food and clothing ##earer is to receive.
The new distribution system will be operated through the established channels at the Central Jewish Committee and will be subject to regular inspection by the JDC. ##man, an American who has lived in Palestine for many years, is returning there after serving in the U.S. zone for the past ten months.
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