David J. Schweitzer, European vice-chairman and financial adviser of the Joint Distribution Committee, will be 50 years old tomorrow. The anniversary will find him at his desk in the J.D.C.’s Paris office, submerged in the work of helping to cope with the unprecedented problem of Jewish distress.
Mr. Schweitzer, who immigrated to the United States from Russia at the age of 15, is a naturalized American citizen. Before joining the European staff of the J.D.C. in 1920, he was active in New York social and philanthropic work. He had attended the College of the City of New York, Columbia University and the New York School of Philanthropy. In 1937, he was appointed a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in what, he told the J.T.A., was “an expression of the French Government’s appreciation of the activities of the Joint Distribution Committee in France and elsewhere.”
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