Officials of the Joint Distribution Committee revealed today, following announcement of the lifting of the Berlin blockade, that during the entire ten months the blockade was in effect, the J.D.C. "successfully continued the shipment of urgently-needed food, clothing and other relief supplies to the Jewish refugee population of the city."
This was possible, the officials said, "as a result of arrangements with top-level authorities of both the Western and Russian occupying powers, which made it possible for Berlin’s 7,215 Jews to receive more than 140 tons of needed relief supplies. Most of the supplies were trucked into Berlin from J.D.C. warehouses in Hanau, in the U.S. zone of Germany," it was added.
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