Mrs. Felix M. Warburg predicted today that “immense” sums of money would be needed “for many years to come” to aid stricken Jews in European countries. She addressed 700 persons at a luncheon in her honor given by the Joint Distribution Committee at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
Mrs. Warburg, who recently returned from a trip to Europe, said that the J.D.C. was spending $500,000 of its funds in the United States for placement of refugee children, professionals and others.
George Backer, chairman of the New York campaign of the J.D.C., appealed for assistance for the Jews in European countries through the J.D.C. Other speakers were Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron and Mrs. David E. Goldfarb. Mrs. Leo Sulzberger presented Mrs. Warburg with a commission to have her portrait painted by Fritz Werner, who is donating his fee to the J.D.C. The portrait will be hung in the Y.W.H.A. building.
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