{span}###spent $73,000,000 in 1947, Annual Report Discloses; Aided 30,000 Jews to Emigrate{/span}

Appropriations totalling $73,341,500 for relief, instruction and resettlement operations in behalf of nearly 1,000,000 Jews over## were made during 1947 by the Joint Distribution Committee, according to its an## report released here today.

It was the largest aid program ever undertaken in a single year by any volunteer agency, and brings to nearly $300,000,000 the sum expended by J.D.C. for over### aid since its establishment in 1914. Of this sum, approximately half was spent #### V-E Day.

Declaring that at the end of the war in Europe in May, 1945, Jewish survivors ###he continent “were barely hanging on to life,” Edward M.M, Warburg, chairman of ###J.D.C., stated in the report that American Jewry’s support through the. J.D.C. ####ght the surviving Jews “to the turning point on the road of revival.”Moses A. Leavitt, J.D.C. executive Vice-chairman, reported that the J.D.C. ###ided relief, medical care, child welfare aid, employment opportunities and other ###ices to Jews in 20 European countries, as well as in North Africa, the Near East ### Shanghai. More than 100,000 Jews were enabled by the agency to secure full or ###ial employment during the past year, Leavitt said in the report.

The annual report noted that some 30,000 Jews were aided in emigrating from ####pe during the past year, with 12,000 going to Palestine, 8,000 to the United ####es, 5,000 to Latin America and the remainder to other countries, Nearly 750,000 ### received food supplies from the J.D.C. in 1947, the report stated, with ###000,000 pounds of foodstuffs originating in the U.S. alone. Extensive care to ###,000 of the 182,000 Jewish children in Europe was provided by the J.D.C. during ### past year, with an educational program supported by the agency enabling 85,000 ###ths to attend schools and universities, the survey said.