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World Jewish Congress Executive Maps out Plans for Raising $10,000,000 Fund

December 21, 1944
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The executive committee of the World Jewish Congress, at a meeting today, mapped out its plans for campaigns in various countries in order to raise the $10,000,000 fund for rehabilitation and reconstruction work in Europe, voted at the War Emergency Conference held recently by the Congress at Atlantic City.

A statement issued by the executive committee declared that the fund will be known as the “Jewish Rehabilitation Fund of the World Jewish Congress” and will be administered by a governing council in which representatives of various Jewish communities affiliated with the congress will participate. The statement also announced the election of Dr. Nahum Goldmann as chairman of the executive committee of the Congress.

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