The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-12
German Relief E Fund
 Is Now At $7O8,OOO
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, National Chairman, Reports
 Sum Raised in 2l4 Communities

avenue of occupation in which Jews may have sought livelihoods prior to April 1st of this year. 'Reichsgesetz blatt' No. AZ, issued April 25; defining the law concern ing the admission of physicians to the National Health Insurance provides that the work of those of must cease and that further admis- sions of such physicians in this practice Is forbidden. since many of the older Jewish physicians and nearly all of the younger ones earned nine-tenths of their income non-Aryan decent in this field from this practice, the devastating effect of this decree becomes ap- parent. This decree contains the proviso, that the association or panel doctors must on July 1st declare finished the professional work of all physicians who can not qualify according to the new rules. One of these rules Is that no physician of non-Aryan de- scent shall. be deemed as having taken part in the World War, and therefore, as exempt from the prohibiting law, unless they can prove either that they fought at the front or rendered services in a fever hospital at the front. Even the "saving clause that persons in the public service since 1914 may remain at their posts, has been changed, in an order recently issued by the Ministery of the 1n- terior, to apply only if they nave been in office interruptedly since distinction?' The new edition or that date, and have served with the. German Who's Who will in- dicate the 'Aryan' or "non-Aryan' of these named therein.
 "It is decrees, rules and inter- pretations such as these, each or Q minor character in itself Wnicn in the aggregate constitute the strongest instrumentality of the "cold program against which the Jews of Germany are so utterly helpless. and which will destroy them unless We act with the ut most promptness in relieving the distress into which they have been plunged. It is, therefore, my earn est hope that generous as has been the response thus far, there VIII pc even greater sacrifices by the Jews of the United tSates and Of this city to swell the total of the Ger- man Relief Fund.
 The American Jewish Joint Dis tribution committee, 1t was stated, has since its inception in 1914 dis bursed more than $80,0O0,0O0 to assist Jews in many. lands. Or- ganized immediately after the war to bring relief, to Jewish popula-. ,tions of the war-torn European lands, it has attained the status of a recognized international re- lief body. It has maintained hos pitals, vocational and religious schools, operated loan societies Tn many lands of Eastern and Cen tral Europe, repatriated refugees in addition to providing food, clothing, shelter and medical care for millions of Jewish sufferers from war, pogrom and economic catastrophe.
 It's officers are: Felix M. War burg, honorary chairman; Paul Baerwald. chairman: Gov Her bert H. Lehman aptt James N. Rosenberg, vice choirmen; Marco F. Hellman, associate treasurer; H. B. l.. Goldstein, comptroller; pr Jonah B. Wise, national chairman of the fund raising committee, Dudley D. Sicher, New York city chairman and Joseph c. Hyman, aacrafory ,'.