Plans to aid 45,000 orphaned Jewish children of Europe, many of whom are still in convents or living with Christian families, were formulated here at the first post-war international conference of the OSE, Jewish health society.
Stressing the fact that the several thousand surviving Jewish children in Poland are threatened by tuberculosis, Dr. S. Herszenhorn, vice chairman of the Central Committee for Polish Jews, who arrived here from Warsaw to represent the TOZ, an affiliate of the OSE, said that 80,000,000 zlotys – about $800,000 – will be required within the next six months by the TOZ to carry out its functions. He emphasized that the TOZ is responsible not only for the health of the surviving Jews from camps and ghettos, but also for the care of 16,000 demobilized Jewish soldiers.
“Relief organizations abroad,” he said, “must realize that old clothing will not save the doomed Jewish survivors in Poland. The TOZ needs cash on the spot, which will enable it to buy food and other necessities.”
Jews in many of the displaced persons’ camps in Germany lack warm clothing, resulting in an accelerated death rate from tuberculosis, Dr. Joseph well, a director of the OSE, told the conference. He said that it was not too late to set up sanatoria to care for the many sick among the Jewish refugees.
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