The Joint Distribution Committee aided 3,482 men, women and children in Europe and the Far East to emigrate and start a new life in countries of resettlement in 1953, Moses W. Beckelman, director of the JDC in Europe, reported here today. Over half this total went to the United States, he said.
Although the JDC is not primarily an emigration agency, Mr. Beckelman said, since 1945 it has assisted 625,000 people to find new homes. He called this “the largest number ever moved by a voluntary, non-governmental agency.”
About 300,000 persons are still receiving some kind of aid from the JDC and there are more than 30,000 still needing emigration assistance, Mr. Beckelman said.
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