Restoration to a life of security and dignity for Europe’s homeless and destitute Jewish survivors must be the world’s first step toward just compensation for the agonies suffered by the first victims of Nazism, Senator Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia declared today before delegates representing 35 communities at the extraordinary Northern New Jersey conference of the United Jewish Appeal.
An unprecedented goal of $3,500,000 to be raised by Northern New Jersey Jewish communities for vital relief and rehabilitation of Jewish survivors in Europe was voted by 200 delegates, meeting in the Alexander Hamilton Hotel, as their share in the nationwide campaign of the United Jewish Appeal to raise $100,000,000 in 1946.
Senator Kilgore, and other speakers who brought first-hand reports from Europe, stressed the fact that the Jews of America constitute the barrier between life and death for the Jewish survivors in Europe, who are now suffering from the scars of “mass starvation, disease and exposure they endured in the inferno that Hitler made of Europe.” The speakers included Lt. Col, Judah Nadich, former special Adviser to General Eisenhower on Jewish affairs in Europe; Dr. Renzo Levi, president of the Jewish Relief Organization of Rome; Moses Leavitt, secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee; and Harry Seeve, administrative assistant of the United Palestine Appeal.
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