The work of the ORT in both Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be maintained wherever possible, it was stated yesterday by George Backer, president of the American ORT Federation, at a conference of the ORT Council of Organizations held here. Jewish refugees and war victims will continue to be rehabilitated through industrial and agricultural training, Mr. Backer said.
“ORT institutions everywhere will, I am convinced,” Mr. Backer declared, “continue to function under the local leadership developed through more than sixty years of experience. For ORT is the expression of the will and determination of the Jews to survive in the face of oppression.
“In the countries of our Allies – the British Commonwealth and other lands in Switzerland, in unoccupied France, in Asia and South America, the American ORT Federation will continue the task, already so well begun, not only of rehabilitating the refugees but enabling them to acquire the tools of self-support so they will not be a burden to the community.”
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