Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of the European Executive Council of the Joint Distribution Committee, will fly to Europe tomorrow accompanied by Louis H. Sobel, assistant secretary of the J.D.C., who will help administer the agency’s European relief and rehabilitation program during the next two months.
Dr. Schwartz, after a three-week visit to the United States, is returning overseas to resume his duties. He flew to this country late in August to confer with J.D.C. officials regarding the tragic conditions of the Jews in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Hungary and Rumania, which countries he visited during the summer months.
The Joint Distribution Committee has just voted the largest appropriations ever made in any single month of its 31-year history by allocating $9,631,000 for the relief of destitute Jews overseas in September, it was announced today by Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman, who disclosed that J.D.C. appropriations for the first nine months of 1946 total $47,771,000.
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