Judge Otto A. Rosalsky has been appointed honorary chairman of the Manhattan division of the $2,000,000 National. Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine.
Judge Rosalsky will head the Palestine drive together with Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein, chairman of the Manhattan division. His appointment was announced by Nathan Straus, Jr., chairman of the Greater New York Palestine Campaign. In a statement marking his acceptance of the post, Judge Rosalsky said:
BURDEN ON JEWS HERE
“The tragedy that has engulfed the Jews in Germany under the Hitler regime places a heavy responsibility upon the Jews in the United States. American Jewry has always responded readily and generously to the calls for aid from our oppressed brethren across the Atlantic. In the present instance, the situation of the Jews in Germany has been rendered so completely hopeless by disfranchisement, by exclusion from the professions and business, and by every conceivable form of restriction, that their only avenue of escape is through emigration to other countries.
“In this crisis in Jewish life the Jews are fortunate in having Palestine; for it is a country that can absorb thousands of German Jewish families without in any way disturbing its economic equilibrium. The movement to settle German Jews in Palestine contains the key to a most effective solution of the problem.”
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