Brooklyn Jewish leaders last night appealed to the Jewish population of Flatbush to give its whole-hearted support to the local campaign for the settlement of German Jewish refugees in Palestine. A plea to “extricate our German Jewish brethren from the inferno of oppression and intolerance in Hitlerized Germany,” was made by both Aaron W. Levy, Brooklyn chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, and Mrs. Harry H. Tracey, chairman of the women’s division of the drive. Mrs. Tracey emphasized the urgent need for saving the German Jewish children.
A special dinner will take place Saturday evening, at the Capitol Club, at 1260 Ocean avenue, to inaugurate the opening of the campaign.
AMONG THE SPEAKERS
Charles Edward Russell, noted American writer and President of the Pro-Palestine Federation of America, will officially launch the campaign, and others, who will speak, will be Justice Mitchell May, honorary chairman of the Brooklyn campaign; Aaron W. Levy, Mrs. Harry H. Tracey, and Assemblyman Albert D. Schanzer, honorary chairman of the Flatbush division.
Stressing the gravity of the situation of the Jews in Germany where, he said, there has been no abatement in the persecutions and restrictions against them, Mr. Levy declared that “the Jews of the United States had a unique opportunity to bring immediate practical and concrete relief to German Jewry through settlement in Palestine.”
“While the German Jewish refugees can obtain little more than a precarious refuge on the continent where economic uncertainty militates against their absorption,” he continued, “those German Jews who have been settled in Palestine have already become fully integrated in the economic structure of a country that has given them a permanent home.
“More than ten thousand Jews have already been absorbed in Palestine and many additional thousands can be settled there without injury to its economic equilibrium, if sufficient funds are available. It is our first duty as Jews to exert all our energies and all our resources in behalf of the German Jews, for they are doomed to a living death of ostracism, degradation and disfranchisement, unless we provide the means for establishing them in Palestine.”
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