Senator Jacob K. Javits told 3,000 members of Jewish fraternal organizations today that the accomplishments of the United Jewish Appeal represent “the most effective and direct efforts of American Jews to support the great humanitarian work of Israel,” The occasion was dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews killed under the Nazi regime. He spoke at the 23rd annual conference of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
“There are no parallels for the extraordinary achievement of UJA in saving human lives and resettling the homeless and despoiled Jews of Europe, Africa and the Near East,” he said. He praised Israel’s “progress in the peaceful use of atomic energy” and “extension of technical assistance to newly emerging African and Asian countries.”
Dr. ChaimShoskes, an author, described a recent trip to Poland and the Soviet Union. Speaking in Yiddish, he said that the Soviet Union was “completely silencing the martyrdom of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the role Jews played in fighting the Nazis, both in the underground and among the partisans.”
A memorial candle was lit by a survivor from each of six localities where Nazi atrocities were carried out–Treblinka, Maidanek, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Sachaenhausen and the Warsaw Ghetto.
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