Following presentation of reports from various countries, the congress of the World ORT Union, meeting here, today heard an address by Dr. Aaron Syngalowsky, chairman of the executive committee, on the tasks facing the organization in the future. He stressed the importance of “returning as soon as possible to normal vocational training” and accelerating the “retraining of displaced persons in Germany” who are on route to Israel.
Dr. Syngalowsky also pointed up the difficulties which ORT faces in trying to accord vocational training to physically disabled refugees. He asserted that training procedures must be adapted to conditions prevalent in the various countries where the ORT maintains its programs. Earlier, Prof. Rene Cassin, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, greeted the more than 100 delegates from 23 countries attending the congress and lauded the ORT’s programs in North Africa.
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