More than 650 Jewish community leaders attended the advance gifts dinner which opened officially the 1957 United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh campaign and pledged their support by contributing $1, 286, 000.
The gifts to the combined regular campaign and the Emergency Fescue Fund of the United Jewish Appeal were stimulated by the plea of Robert Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland to “never forget the loss of six million people under Nazism and to help remove Jews now from Egypt, Africa, and places behind the Iron Curtain.” Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh also spoke.
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