Felix M. Warburg has accepted the chairmanship of the 1936 campaign for $3,500,000 of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, it was announced today, and has appointed a committee of 40 leaders in all parts of the country to guide and supervise the conduct of the Campaign.
A meeting of this committee, known as the National Committee on Plan and Scope of the Joint Distribution Campaign for 1936, will be convened in the near future in some city to be announced later. At that time the campaign officers will be chosen and the quotas for various communities allotted.
The committee is to map plans to sustain 450,000 Jews threatened with destruction in Germany; for three million Jews starving or on the verge of starvation in Poland; for refugees in many lands, and for large masses of the Jewish population in extreme want in Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Sub-Carpathia and other parts of Eastern Europe.
The Juedische Heimspeisung soup Kitchens maintained in Berlin for the feeding of needy Jews, served 71,361 free meals during the year 1935, according to a report made by that organization to the J.D.C. The report also shows that 15,024 food packages were supplied to needy families.
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