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?.j.a. Aided 145,000 Dp Jews to Find New Homes Since V-e Day, Morgenthau Reports

May 10, 1948
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Funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal enabled 45,000 displaced Jews from Europe to find new homes in Palestine, the United States and other lands, it was announced here during the week-end by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury and general chairman of the U.J.A, $250,000,000 deprive.

He reported that since V-E Day, May, 8, 1945, more than 70,000 Jewish refugees were settled in Palestine, nearly 50,000 entered the United States and approximately 25,000 were admitted to other countries in North and South America, Australia, South Africa and elsewhere. Morgenthau stressed that the year 1948 was one “of the most crucial years for large-scale emigration activity.”

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