The liberation of Rome by the Anglo-American armies – in which many Palestine Jews are serving – was hailed today at a huge Jewish mass-meeting here marking the end of a day of fast and prayers for the Jews in Nazi countries. The meeting, addressed by Chief Rabbi Herzog and other Jewish leaders, directed a manifesto to the democratic world appealing for “the resoue of Jews immediately and without delay.”
The meeting also issued an appeal to Jews all over the world to do their utmost to rescue Jews in Nazi lands. It was announced that $12,000,000 have been allocated during the last 15 months by the War Needs Fund in Palestine for the rescue of Jews from Europe. It was emphasized, however, that this sum has proven insufficient to meet all needs. Jews in other countries were called upon for greater financial support.
Speakers at the mass-meeting included Jews who succeeded in escaping recently from Rumania and Hungary. They told of their horrible experiences, revealing that the Jews in Rumania were massacred as brutally as those in occupied Poland. Prof. Joseph Fatai, a spiritual leader of Hungarian Jewry who was one of the speakers, appealed to the leaders of the Church in Hungary “to continue their noble tradition in opposing the extermination of Jews and to help in the saving of Hungarian Jewry.” Chief Rabbi Herzog appealed to the democratic people of the world “to do for the Jews the same as you would do if your sons and daughters were in the same situation.”
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