Medical and other relief sent by the International Red Cross and by the Swiss section of OSE, the Jewish health society, to Jews in occupied Poland is reaching thirty-four Jewish labor camps, and Jews employed in German workshops, it was learned from a report reaching Jewish organizations here today.
The supplies are being distributed by a central Jewish relief body in Cracow, headed by Dr. Michael Weichart, noted Polish-Jewish leader, the report discloses. This relief agency, known as the Juedische Unterstuetzungsstelle, was liquidated some time ago by the German authorities, but was permitted to resume its activities in May, 1943.
During eleven months since the resumption of its relief work, the agency has received from the International Red Cross and the Swiss Ose, 649 shipments of drugs and nutritive products, including 91 transports sent by the Ose from Geneva in March, 1944. It has also received from Portugal several transports of “luxury products” such as tea, coffee, sardines, which, although they could not be distributed among the Jews in the labor camps, were exchanged for flour. The Cracow Jewish relief agency is especially in need of clothing, linen and food supplies for the Jewish labor camps, the report said.
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