David J. Schweitzer, European vice-director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, left Paris yesterday to sail from Genoa on the Italian liner Rex for New York, where he will report to J.D.C. leaders on the extent to which the war has affected the system of Jewish credit cooperatives built up in Poland, Lithuania and other European countries.
Mr. Schweitzer, who is the first American Jewish relief worker to return to New York since the outbreak of the war, is also expected to review for American Jewish leaders the Jewish situation in general. In addition, he will discuss the development, with J.D.C. and Jewish Colonization Association funds, of a large credit cooperative system for Jewish immigrants in Latin American countries to aid in economic adjustment of refugees arriving in these countries.
The major part of the activities of the credit cooperative system established by the J.D.C. and the American Jewish Joint Reconstruction Foundation, of which Schweitzer is one of the directors, were in Poland. After the occupation of Poland the kassas (loan societies) in the Soviet area continued to operate, while in Nazi Poland it is taken for granted they have been liquidated.
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