More than 3,000 Jewish families have lost their livelihood in Algeria as a result of the recent anti-Jewish laws introduced there by the Vichy government, according to an appeal which reached the office of the Joint Distribution Committee here from the Jewish community in Algiers.
The families affected depend entirely upon charity. The Jewish community in Algiers, which has hitherto been taking care of several hundred interned foreign Jews, supplying them with additional food and clothing, is no longer in a position to continue its relief work for the foreign Jews since it must take care of the Algerian Jews hit by the anti-Jewish laws. A monthly appropriation for assistance to the interned refugees and also for the destitute native Jews has therefore been decided upon by the JDC, according to an announcement made by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice-Chairman of the European Executive Council.
Baron van Harinxma, delegate of the London Committee of the Dutch Red Cross Society, has written to the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee here expressing the appreciation of the Dutch authorities for the financial assistance given by the JDC in the emigration of Dutch refugees from Lisbon to South Africa and the Dutch East Indies.
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