Outlining the significance of the work of the United Palestine Appeal and describing the current needs of the Joint Distribution Committee in the reconstruction of shattered Jewish communal life in Europe, Harry Greenstein, former Deputy Director of the Welfare Division of the UNRRA who recently returned from Europe. and Palestine, emphasized that the surviving Jews in liberated Europe do not feel secure.
Speaking before 300 division leaders of the United Jewish Appeal campaign in New York, Greenstein said: “The Jews of Europe have been liberated, but they have no sense of freedom and no sense of security. They want to go to Palestine because it is the one country where they can find a new life. Whatever our ideological differences and whatever developments may occur in the days to come, it is the responsibility of the Jews of the United States to see to it that the doors of Palestine remain open.”
Herman L. Weisman, prominent New York attorney, and chairman of the board of directors of the Palestine Foundation Fund, was named, yesterday, acting chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, to direct the activities of the organization in the absence of Rabbi James G. Heller, its national chairman, who is now visiting Palestine.
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