The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

GO eIlaDle more CIlal1 D II1lltIOl Jewish brethren suffering from the ravishes of European dictators to at least sustain their lives and hopes. Waterbury Jews should be proud of their contribution to this cause. The money raised by all communities in the United States will be distributed directoly to 30 institutional adn agency benefit ciarieS. .
 Formal Statement
 The complete statement of this committee is as follows:
 Because of the brutal inhuman forces that are rampant throughout Europe and Asia an extraordinarily heavy burden has been placed upon the Jews of this country supply the 5,0O00 of their Jewish brethren funds necessary to enable almost to at least sustain their lives and hopes.
 Faced with this problem Ameri- can Jewry in the characteristic spirit. of American kindness and generosity, determined to meet this great and grave problem, and as consequence, undertook to raise enormous sums of money to be used for such purposes as relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation.
 Accordingly, quotas were assign ed to hundreds of communities throughout the land.
 Waterbury was asked to raise $16,000 as special fund to deal with the suffering caused by Hit Ter and his ilk. Some of this fund to be used in Palestine and the rest to alleviate as much misery as the available resources and legal restrictions would permit.
 Inasmuch as the Jewish people of this city have always recognized and met their responsibilities towards the support of numerous non-local institutions and funds carrying on work of an education, theological and charitable nature such as uni versailles, Seminaries, hospitals anc homes for aged and asylums for or phans, it has in past years frequent ly neceSsitated the conducting ol several fund raising efforts in z single year. This multiplicity O. campaigns taxed the energies ant efforts of those engaged in thi1 work. As result in 1889 it was de cided to merge all fund raisinl campaigns for national and over seas purposes into one single effort To accomplish this purpose the Jew ish Federated Appeal of Waterbur, was organized and met with grea success. Although the goal in 193! was $20,OO0, the sum of $23, 500 wa raised in cash.
 eos Contributors
 In 1940, according to the repor just issued, a total of $26,709 wa! raised in cash. These funds wert contributed by eos persons and wa! distributed directly to 80 institution al and agency benefciaries. Harry Liebeskind, who served a! chairman during the past 2 years stated the following in 8 forewore contained in the report: "The stor! of 1940 is now passed into history the history of mankind and especial ly of the Jew. A terrible plight in deed for them wherein only tn western hemisphere is considered safe in all the world.
 We Jewish citizens of Waterbur. pledged ourselves early in the yea to a greater contribution towart some alleviation of the misery o our Jewish brethren in this war tori world. We have accomplished great and fine task with an excel lent spirit and an open purse. Yo' good people of Waterbury are to b congratulated in that you appreci ated what was needed and cam through to finish the job.
 At this point want to particu larly thank my colleagues of tn executive council for their fine sup port and diligent effort in makinI this year the most successful on in local history.
 In this my last message to you, a your chairman, may I ask that vol pledge yourselves to do even a bet