A three-day world conference of Ose, Jewish health organization, opened here today, attended by delegates from all parts of the world with the exception of countries behind the Iron Curtain. The conference will deal with financial problems of the organization as well as with the problem of training new personnel for work in Israel and other countries.
The importance of the Ort and the Ose as a “living link” between Jewish communities the world over was stressed here today at a reception tendered in honor of South African delegates attending the Ose conference here.
Judge Leon Meiss, who presided, spoke also of the important part played by the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center of Paris in preparing evidence for war criminal trials, particularly those conducted at Nuremberg. I. Schneesohn, founder and head of the Center, suggested that the institution’s publications be translated into English and Yiddish and urged Jews abroad to support the institution’s work.
Mrs. A. Feldmann, chairman of the South African ORT-OSE women’s committee, Abel Shaban, president of the South African ORT, and Dr. H. Sonnabend, of the World ORT Union, paid tribute to the work of the Documentation Center and endorsed its request for financial support from abroad.
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