Passover Broadcasts Emphasize American Jewry’s Responsibility to Aid Refugees

Declaring that the refugees of Central Europe are the victims of “an unnatural disaster bitterer than war,” Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, declared this afternoon that a new type of war is being “lawlessly waged against the refugees” in which they suffer “all of war’s hardship and hurt without even the poor glory of self-defense.” He stressed American Jewry’s responsibility to aid refugees. Dr. Wise, together with I. Edwin Goldwasser, treasurer of the Appeal, participated in a Passover eve program over a National Broadcasting Company network.

In another Passover program broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System this afternoon Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El declared the lesson of the supreme value of individual liberty and freedom which the Jews drew from their experience in bondage in ancient Egypt was particularly important at this time “when brute force is fast becoming the sole arbiter and tribal notions predicated upon fictitious racial differences are determining human conduct.” The program was sponsored by the Joint Distribution Committee.