More than $17,500,000 has been spent by the ###nt Distribution Committee since V-E Day for relief, reconstruction and resettle ##nt of the estimated 100,000 Jewish survivors in Poland, according to a report issued the United Jewish Appeal, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto, rising which is being observed tomorrow.
At the beginning of 1947, nearly, 65,000 Polish Jews depended upon the Joint distribution Committee for all types of relief aid. Today, according to J.D.C. ##aiers, only one-third of the country’s Jews, consisting of the sick, invalids, the ##ed. and other persons unable to work, are primarily dependent upon the agency’s assistance program. Among them are 16,000 children, many of whom receive care in ##me 100 J.D.C. supported homes, J.D.C. also maintains 85 dispensaries, hospitals, eternity centers and sanatoria in Poland.
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