The Joint Distribution Committee announced today that its SOS (Supplies for Overseas Survivors) Collection has been terminated because the J.D.C.’s task of assistance to Europe’s Jews has "shifted from relief to reconstruction and emigration." The announcement was made at a J.D.C. meeting at the Hotel commodore here, attended by 200 community SOS leaders from all parts of the country.
In the more than three years of its existence–from January, 1946, to April, 1949–the SOS Collection raised approximately 26,000,000 pounds of relief supplies fiver and above American Jewry’s contributions to the United Jewish Appeal. In a message to the conference, Edward M.MC Warburg, J.D.C. chairman, declared that the "generous gifts of the American people to the SOS will make the SOS campaigns long and well remembered in the history of aid to Europe’s 1,500,000 surviving Jews." Speakers who raised SOS volunteers and contributors in 1,000 American communities included Rabbi ?onah B. Wise, J.D.O. vice-chairman; Moses A. Leavitt, J.D.C, executive vice-chairman; Moses A. Leavitt, J.D.C. executive vice-chairman; ?oses W. Beckleman, vice-chairman of J.D.C.’s European executive council; and Mrs.### Gilman and Albert M, Kahn, S.O.S. national co-chairmen.
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