The Joint Distribution Committee is maintaining constant touch with its overseas headquarters in Geneva on the developments in Agadir and is sending aid to the survivors.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, sent a message of sympathy to King Mohammed of Morocco on the Agadir disaster. He also dispatched a $1,000 gift on behalf of the WJC to the Moroccan Red Crescent. The American Council for Judaism Philanthropic Fund gave the Moroccan Consulate in New York $1,000 for the victims of the disaster.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York received information from Casablanca that 70 pupils of the Lubavitcher school in Agadir had been killed in the disaster and ten others critically injured. The school, which had an enrollment of 100 boys, is completely destroyed.
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