The appointment of Irwin Rosen, former assistant to the executive vice-president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, as director of Joint Distribution Committee emigration services overseas was announced yesterday by Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the J.D.C. Mr. Rosen has been in Europe for the past several months, where he has supervised the extensive resettlement activities of the J.D.C. A native and resident of New York, Mr. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities. From 1939 to 1941 he was director of the J.D.C.’s Transmigration Bureau, which assisted the migration of several thousand Jewish refugees.
The J.D.C. yesterday announced additional allocations during November of $2,945,000 for relief, reconstruction and resettlement activities in behalf of Jewish survivors abroad, including the doubling of the monthly appropriations for Jews detained in Cyprus, who are receiving supplementary food and medical, clothing and educational assistance. The latest appropriations bring to $53,309,220 the sum allocated by the J.D.C. so far this year for overseas aid.
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