A group of resolutions passed at an extraordinary conference of Polish Jewish leaders here, stressing the grave plight of Jews in this country and importuning increased help from abroad were before the Jews of the world today.
The dangerous economic situation threatens the physical existence of Polish Jewry, which is now living through the most fatal epoch in its history, the first resolution declares.
Polish Jewry is forced now, more than ever before, to appeal to Jews in other countries for brotherly help, which will stimulate the organization of its own powers, it was pointed out.
AID CALLED INADEQUATE
Sums granted to Polish Jewry last year from drives in other countries not only were inadequate to meet the needs occasioned by its plight but also were not in proportion to the total amount raised by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s campaign for European relief, the group decided.
Another resolution states that every form of large-scale social aid work ever created here by Jews is now on the brink of collapse, and that orphanages, professional schools, educational institutions and medical services are unable to carry on, in the light of Polish Jewry’s dire poverty, unless assistance is given from outside.
PLEA FOR SUCCOR
“We regret to state that in recent years the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has failed almost entirely to assist the free loan societies toward their important work in supporting the existences of tens of thousands of Jews, and therefore this assembly turns to Jewry abroad with a plea for brotherly aid to pauperized Polish Jewry, to enable it to maintain its economic position by assisting it in proportion with the requirements of the Polish Jewish community, which numbers 3,500,000 persons,” the concluding resolution declares.
Rabbi Dr. M. Schorr presided at the conference, which heard the appeals of numerous Polish Jewish leaders.
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