A Colorado farmer has sent the War Refugee Board a donation of $100 “to help finance your program” and an offer to take in five Jewish refugee families “when the opportunity arrives,” it was revealed here.
In a letter to John W. Pehle, the Board’s executive director, Harry C. Rogers of Dove Creek, Colorado, expressed his own and his neighbors’ gratification over the establishment of the Board and its “humane undertaking” of rescuing the Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution.
“I have been talking to some of my neighbors about the rehabilitation of the Jews as a personal responsibility and am finding fast response,” he wrote. “Our bible teaches us ‘we are our brother’s keeper,’ and this call from the persecuted Jews of Europe is the clearest and most appealing to Christianity that has been heard in 2,000 years.
“Enclosed is my check for $100 to help finance your program. I want to offer you my personal assistance when the opportunity arrives and homes are sought for these people. I will take five families on my own farm and will see that they are sheltered under the principles of the four freedoms and tutored to love our constitutional government.”
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