At least 200,000 Jews in Rumania will need assistance as a result of recent anti-Jewish developments, David J. Schweitzer, vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, said today, arriving from Paris on the Aquitania to report to the J.D.C Executive Committee on the situation in Europe.
The J.D.C.’S European head charters in Paris are receiving appeals from the Rumanian Jews for assistance, for organization of free kitchens and other forms of immediate aid, Mr. Schweizer declared. Many Jews have left villages where their families tilled the soil for generations and are flocking to neighboring towns seeking food and shelter, he said.
He expressed the belief, however, that the present Jewish crisis in Rumania and Poland would pass. Declaring it was only a question of enabling the suffering Jews to live through the critical period, Dr. Schweitzer urged American Jews to give political and economic assistance to the Jews in Europe.
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