The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will receive an award from the United Jewish Appeal tomorrow for his “distinguished humanitarian service to victims of Nazi tyranny.”
The award will be presented by a delegation of UJA leaders. William Rosenwald, UJA general chairman, will act as spokesman. The presentation commemorates the 10th anniversary of the allied victory in Europe.
A two-day national UJA conference will open here on Saturday evening with more than 1,200 community leaders from all parts of the country attending. The conference will mark the half-way point in this year’s nationwide campaign for funds, with measures to be taken by the delegates for concentrated activity during the summer months and fall. The delegates will also focus on the Appeal’s need for cash and will assess the first results of a special 60-day drive for dollars that got under way on May 1.
The community leaders will take part in a colorful ceremony as the United Jewish Appeal commemorates the 10th anniversary of European Jewry’s liberation from Nazi tyranny and presents Awards for Humanitarian Service to Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New York, to five of the nation’s top military figures of the last decade and to the six men who served as advisers on Jewish affairs to the American military commanders in occupied Germany and Austria.
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