A budget of more than $5,000,000 for the year 1946 has been approved by the executive committee of the World Ort Union, meeting here at its first post-war session, the organization announced today.
At least $750,000 has been earmarked specifically for Ort work among the displaced Jews in Germany where an additional 96 workshops are to be established by the organization in the American, British, and French zones of occupation. The necessity for training about 170,000 youths between the ages of 14 and 19, and the need for supplying machines for 200,000 Jewish families in Europe, was emphasized.
The ORT Union spent $2,500,000 in Europe during the war years of 1940-1945, Aaron Syngalowski, vice-president of the World Ort, reported. He said that Ort activity was carried out in almost all European countries throughout the war. Reports on organizational progress in America and France were made by Dr. David Lvovitch, leader of the World Ort, and Judge Leon Meiss, president of the French ORT.
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