According to a report just received by the Peoples ORT Federation, American Branch of the World ORT, from the Central Executive, the ORT Verband, the organization in 1932 was able not only to maintain the institutions already established but to establish new ones. A good deal of the work at present is centered around the German Jewish situation, it was announced, with ORT able to render valuable relief to refugees in countries contiguous to Germany.
A total of 236 German Jews in Berlin alone have completed ORT courses, qualifying them to obtain employment as chauffeurs, tractor drivers and painters, it was declared. In the last few weeks new courses have been opened for chemical workers, iron workers, weavers and other trades. All the ORT committees in the various countries of Eastern and Central Europe have opened special departments to assist German Jewish refugees in becoming industrialized.
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