More than 65,000 orphaned, homeless and destitute Jewish children in Europe are learning to lead normal lives for the first time under the relief and rehabilitation programs of the Joint Distribution Committee, Moses A. Leavitt, J.D.C. secretary revealed here last night.
Speaking at a Cincinnati-Dayton-Louisville zone meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee, attended by over 400 Jewish leaders from Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky, Mr. Leavitt disclosed that about a third of the J.D.C. expenditures of $28,675,475 during 1945 were devoted directly and indirectly to the needs of Europe’s surviving Jewish children. The J.D.C. provides specialized care in orphanages and schools and assists families with supplementary food, clothing and medical care, he said. Mr. Leavitt urged full support of the $100,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.
William Shroder of Cincinnati, and J.D.C. national vice-chairmen, presided at the general session of the conference, which was held in the Natherland Plaza Hotel. Jewish leaders from Cincinnati, Dayton, Middletown, Springfield and Hamilton, Ohio, and Louisville, Lexington, Covington and Newport, Kentucky, attended the meeting.
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