Two hundred thousand Jews are faced with the necessity of leaving Germany as an alternative to sheer starvation, Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told 350 Jewish residents of Schenectady at a mass meeting here opening a week’s intensive drive to raise funds for removing refugees to Palestine.
A large sum of money was donated during the session and Hyman J. Sacharoff, chairman of the drive, announced every Jewish home in the city would be visited.
“There is no prospect of any improvement in the situation of the German Jews taking place in the near future,” Mr. Rothenberg said. “On the contrary, well informed opinion holds that the gravity of the situation is likely to be intensified.”
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