Reports that the Joint Distribution Committee had sent ten tons of matzohs to the Jews of Poland were denied here by Charles Jordan, JDC director general.
The JDC contribution to Polish Jewry’s Passover celebration this year, Mr. Jordan revealed, was matzoh baking machinery which was used by a group of Jewish bakers in Wroclaw. They baked matzohs, under the seal of Warsaw Chief Rabbi M. Berkowitz, for the entire Jewish religious community of Poland. In addition, Mr. Jordan pointed out, the JDC provided funds to the religious community to pay for matzohs for Jewish families who could not afford to buy them.
“We have shipped 163, 000 pounds of matzohs and 39, 000 pounds of kosher fat to Jewish communities in 11 countries, ” Mr. Jordan said. “Poland, however, was not one of them. We decided that providing the means for Polish Jews to bake their own matzohs was preferable and should also help the organized Jewish communities.
Of the other JDC Passover work, Mr. Jordan disclosed: 22, 000 pounds of kosher fat had been sent to Australia, as well as 2, 000 bottles of Passover wine and 500 pounds of special flour for ultra-Orthodox Jews who bake their own smatzohs;wine’was also shipped to Italy at West Germany.
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