Declaring that the plight of European Jewry is in many respects worse now than it was on the day of liberation two years ago tomorrow, the five chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York called upon the people of New York City to help “make liberation come true for the first and greatest victims of fascism” in a special statement issued on the second anniversary of V-E Day.
The statement, signed by Mrs. David M. Levy, Barney Balaban, Samuel Hausman, Herbort H. Lehman and Edward M.M. Warburg, pointed out that although much was accomplished for European Jewry through the agencies of the Appeal, the outlook remains ##bleat and disheartening for most of these “tragically unfortunate people.”
Maintaining that “V-E Day has no significance if it does not help achieve the four freedoms for the peoples of the earth,” the five chairmen indicated that liberation was but a false dawn for the Jews of Europe. They said: “Each succeeding day further dims its once bright hope. It is true that Jews no longer need dread the crematorium, the gas chamber, or the cruelty of bestial Mazi guards. But it is just as true that they are still homeless, still uprooted, still unwelcome in many lands and still forsaken by the great nations.”
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