Food is being provided daily for more than 500,000 Jews in Warsaw and provinces in German-controlled Poland through resources of the Joint Distribution Committee, one of the three constituent agencies of the United Jewish Appeal, the U.J.A. announced today.
More than 100,000 are receiving meals from 103 kitchens established in Warsaw, while 400,000 others are being fed in the provinces. According to Morris C. Troper, European director of the J.D.C, the spirit of Polish Jewry has not been broken by the extreme suffering it has endured since the outbreak of the war.
The greatest emphasis is placed on the need for immediate emigration assistance for Jews in Greater Germany in order to save them from possible expulsion to Lublin or other parts of Poland where Jews have been placed in concentration camps and reduce to helplessness by the lack of food, shelter and clothing.
A total of 8,000 Jews have been helped to leave Germany since the beginning of the European conflict with funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal. Of this number 3,000 were settled in Palestine through the assistance of the United Palestine Appeal and 5,000 went to North and South American countries, through the aid of the National Refugee Service, which provided for those who entered the United States, and the J.D.C.
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