More than $745,000 was allocated this year for the care of Jewish children and youth who are victims of Nazi persecution, by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, it was announced today. Last year, the Conference allocated $617,696 for these purposes providing a total of $1,362,000 for the two year period.
It is estimated, that more than 1,800 beneficiaries, living mainly in the former Nazioccupied lands of Europe, are receiving institutional care in a Jewish atmosphere and other assistance with the aid of these funds. Over one half, 920 beneficiaries, make their homes in France. The remaining survivors of the 5,000 homeless Jewish children in that country are mostly orphans and half orphans who survived the war. Beneficiaries in other lands include children in Yugoslavia, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Brazil, Uruguay and Australia. The American Joint distribution Committee and Jewish communal and central welfare organizations in these lands are sharing in the cost of many of the programs.
In addition, 4,000 underprivileged children in Austria, Belgium, France and Sweden were provided this year with summer vacations with the aid of Conference funds. A third of these allocations are being utilized for the establishment, expansion. equipment and repair of homes for children and youth and of kindergartens.
An allocation of $51,000 has enabled the Aide aux Israelites Victims de la Guerre of Brussels, Belgium. to consolidate the two temporary Children’s Homes it maintained at widely separated points, by acquiring a new building and grounds and achieving thereby a substantial reduction in maintenance expenditures. Conference funds also provided for the establishment of the first Jewish Youth Center in Paris, the renovation and equipment of a Youth Home at Neuilly, a Student Hostel at Paris, the repair of Children’s Homes in France and Italy, and the establishment, equipment or repair of kindergartens in Germany, Sweden, and Yugoslavia.
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