More than 3,000 delegates from all over the United States will attend the three day annual national conference of the United Jewish Appeal. It will open here Friday, Dec. 12, and run through Sunday, Dec. 14. Among the national and international figures participating will be Abba Eban Foreign Minister of Israel; Edward Ginsberg, general chairman of the UJA; Max M. Fisher, chairman of the United Israel Appeal; Leon Dulzin, treasurer of the Jewish Agency; and Louis Broido, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.
On Friday, the conference will be devoted to five separate and concurrent seminars on immigration and resettlement in Israel; absorption in Israel; Eastern Europe; North Africa and Asia; and education. The highlight of the Saturday sessions will be “The Righteous Among the Nations,” a special program honoring four non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from torture and death at Nazi hands in occupied Europe during World War II. The program will be presented by the UJA Women’s Division as part of its 25th anniversary program.
It will honor Father Andre of Belgium, who sheltered scores of Jews from the Gestapo at his vicarage; Herman Graebe, an anti-Nazi German who saved Jews working in his construction company from deportation; Dr. Adelaide Hautval, a French psychiatrist who protected Jews from medical experiments during her incarceration at Auschwitz; and Dr. William Sandberg, of Amsterdam, who distributed thousands of forged identification cards to Jews enabling many of them to escape the Nazi dragnet in occupied Holland.
A Special art exhibit depicting Israel as seen through the eyes of children around the world will be a feature of the United Jewish Appeal’s national conference. The exhibit, called, “Children of the World Paint Israel,” will be located on the second floor lobby of the New York Hilton. One part of the exhibit will be comprised of paintings and drawings by school children living in the Beisan Valley, scene of nightly terrorist attacks. The second part will be composed of the collection of paintings by children of 12 countries which was shown in the children’s wing of the Israel museum of Jerusalem.
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