The Joint Distribution Committee today announced that fifty tons of food and clothing, valued at $250,000, are being shipped from its stockpiles in Teheran to the Jewish Relief Committee in Lublin for distribution to needy Jews in liberated Poland. The J.D.C. has appropriated another $250,000 for the purchase in the United States and elsewhere of additional commodities.
The action follows an exchange of cables with Dr. Emil Somerstein, head of the Jewish Relief Committee in Lublin, and climaxes the efforts of the J.D.C. to return to a major scene of its relief activities prior to the outbreak of World War II.
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