The half-way mark in the German Relief Campaign is in sight, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise stated yesterday as he announced that contributions had mounted to $924,000. The sum of $2,000,000 is set as the goal of the campaign.
He declared that there need be no fear a single penny of the contributions will be lost or diverted from the purpose for which they are made. “We are in receipt of an authentic message,” Rabbi Wise said, “informing us with respect to the stories of the blocking of certain Jewish welfare funds in Germany that four of the five accounts blocked are now released; that only the Wirtschaftshilfe account, connected with the Physicians’ Committee is still blocked. but that the matter is expected to clear shortly. These are all accounts of German organizations and this does not in any way affect the Joint Distribution Committee.
“The German Central Committee of Relief and Reconstruction is daily receiving reports from the provincial Jewish communities that the incomes required to cover the budgets of their local institutions are rapidly dwindling, that deficits are accumulating and that prospects of the near future are disastrous.”
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