The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-12

Funds raised in America for tue stricken Jews in Germany have swelled to $7O8,000, it was an- nounccd yesterday by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairman of the
 S2,OOO,OOO drive of the German Relief Campaign of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Commit tee. Reports, he said, have come
 to national headquarters at Hanover street, that two hundred and fourteen communities through aut the country have already con- ducted fund raising efforts for re- lief of the Jews in Germany. Ad-
 ditional drives, he said, are now
 under way in another one hundred and four communities and VIII De completed by July 30th.
 Rabbi Wise announced that of the $7O8,O00 that have been se-
 cured $375,OO0 have been sub
 scribed by the Jews of New York who are now in the midst of a drive to raise $1,000,000' as this city's share of the national fund. under the leadership of Dudley ID.
 Sicher, chairman, and Allie 5.
 Freed, associate chairman. The
 balance has come from two hum dred and thirteen communities Tn forty states of the Union and also from Canada and from the Repub- lie of Panama. NAmong the cities which have sent in substantial sums arc San Francisco, Calf; Denver, Colo; Washington, D. e.; Savannah, Ga; Des Moines, Iowa.; Baltimore, Md; Boston, Mass; St Paul, Minn; Kansas City and St Louis, Mo; Newark, N. J.; Albany, Buffalo, Mt Vernon, Rochester ana Syracuse, N. Y.; Greensboro, N. C:; Cleveland, Ohio; Tusa, Okla; Phii- adelphia and Scranton, Pa; Provi- dence, R. l.; Dallas, Texas; ana Seattle, Washington.
 New York leads with the nuni- Der of drives, Rabbi Wise stated, having held twenty individuaF cam
 paigns; Pennsylvania second with eighteen; Michigan third with fif-. teen; Texas fourth with thirteen:
 Ohio fifth with twelve; Mississippi sixth with eleven; South Carolina,
 Florida, and New Jersey seventh with seven each. Seven states have held six campaigns each and they
 are Alabama, California, Iowa,
 Missouri, North Carolina, Okla
 homa and West Virginia.
 Rabbi Wise further added that
 of the total sum raised to date,
 many contributions were received
 from non-Jews, not only in New
 York City, but in different com
 munities throughout, the country.
 He stated that the sum raised Tn
 New York Is made up of four
 thousand seven hundred sixty eight contributors.
 The money that Is being raised in America for the Jews In Ger many, Rabbi Wise emphasized. IS being sent aboard to be adminis- tered by 0 special committee 9of prominent German Jews Tor the 6OO.O0O Jews in that country, in Jewish Joint Distribution Com mittee, which latter organization. he pointed out, now enjoys a status similar to that of the American Red Cross as a non-political. inter national organization for relief and
 reconstruction work. The com mittee in Germony, he. added, IS known as the Zentralla usschuss fucr Hilfe und Albau and is head ed by Rabbi Leo Baeck. The funds that are being sent
 abroad, he said, arc used for rive major purposes: One - to enapie Ia large number of Jews in Ger many who will have to remain In that country to rebuild their lives, their work and occupations; two to house. feed and clothes thous- ands of business men, employees , working men and others who are without any means of support at | the present moment; three = to help maintain Jewish institutions l of welfare from which government subyentions have been withdrawn; | four - to provide an adequate sys- tenn of schooling for Jewish youth who are now without an opportun- lity of obtaining education; five - | to provide aid for the thousands of Jews who are forced to migrate
 from that country.
 American Jcwry is making q splendid response to the appeal which has been issued by the Joint Distribution Committee. and hun drcds of communities come reports of additional committees beinS organized to make substantial ad.
 ditions to the sum already raised, Rabbi Wise said. But fast as the fund grows, and fast as similar | funds are being raised in other lands, the area of human devasta- tion grows even more rapidly
 '"The official texts have been re- ceived here of q number of de- crecs directly aimed by the Ser
 man government against Jewish lcitizens of the Reich. They show n. relentless determination to de- prive all non-Aryans of every Dos-- lsiblc means of subsistence. Framed twith tliabollcai cunning, they strike out in every direction, into every