The sum of 250,000 Swiss francs will be spent by the ORT in Switzerland during 1943 on various projects to aid Jewish refugees, it was announced here today by A. Syngalowski, a member of the executive committee of the World Ort Union.
Mr. Syngalowski reported that the ORT now maintains a number of workshops in Switzerland where clothing and shoes are repaired for 2,500 Jewish refugees. Ninety Jewish refugee boys have been apprenticed to Swiss masters who are paid by the Ort. Six new workshops are being opened by the Ort in camps where the Jewish refugees are held, and two workshops exist in the homes for refugee children. In addition, the Ort is training a number of Jewish refugee children for agricultural work and is supplying material aid to former instructors and students of Ort establishments in Nazi-held countries who are now in Switzerland as refugees.
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