Nathan Katz, New York lawyer, has been appointed to the European executive staff of the Joint Distribution Committee in Paris, it was announced today. He is sailing on the Normandic tomorrow to take up his duties.
“Mr. Katz’s office was created because of the increasingly aggravated position of the Jews in a number of European lands and the necessity for expanding the Joint Distribution Committee’s staff to carry out its program of reconstructive assistance and emergency relief,” the J.D.C. said.
“Since 1935 the work of the Committee has grown four-fold and current conditions in Poland, Germany and other East and Central European countries have created tremendous pressure on the European staff of the Joint Distribution Committee. It was felt that Mr. Katz, because of his previous experience, could be of vital assistance to the J.D.C. in helping Jews overseas to surmount this period of crisis.”
Mr. Katz will be associated with Dr. Bernhard Kahn and David J. Schweitzer, J.D.C. director and vice-director respectively in Europe. He has attended a number of conferences on the continent on behalf of the J.D.C. and before his new appointment was attached to the New York offices for two months. He is 32 years old.
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