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Information Issued by The- Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain VOL. XX No. 1 January, 1965 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE- ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS. FINCHLEY RO. (corn*r Falrtax Rd,), London. N.W.S Olfict and Coiaulting Houn: Tolophont : MAIda Vala 9096/7 (Conoral OAct and Wolfar* tor tht Aiotf). Monday to Thurtday Wa.m.—fp.m. 3—6p.i MAIda Vala 4449 (Employmtnt AsanCT, annually llctnttd by tha L.CC., and Social Sorvicas Dtpt.) Friday lOa.m.—l p.m. C. Kapralik its attention to problems of compensation and restitution, and helped to create the U.R.O. (United Restitution Organisation), the J.R.S.O. (the Jewish Restitution Succes­ JUBILEE OF "JOINT" sor Organisation for the U.S.A. Zone of Germany), the J.T.C. (the Jewish Trust Cor­ .The American Joint Distribution Com- Then in 1933, the Nazis came to power, poration for the British and French Zones), niittee (AJDC) was 50 years old a few and the " Joint" immediately went into and later on the Claims Conference. Weeks ago, and the grateful thanks and action again. There is no room to give While the improvement in Europe ^est wishes of the Association of Jewish details of the help extended to Jews enabled the " Joint" to withdraw from a Kofij^egs and the Nazi victims in the United in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and number of countries, its attention in the •^mgdom go out to that unique organisa­ in the countries of immigration, both in last ten years has been focused on the tion. Europe and overseas ; it is within the living plight of Jewry in North Africa and other The AJDC was formed on 27th Novem­ memory of most of the readers of this countries where Jews have been living in ber, 1914^ on the incentive of the late paper. Suffice it to say that in 1939 the abject poverty. The mass emigration from Henry Morgenthau, then U.S. Ambassador " Joint " was again spending $8,448,000 on North Africa, in particular from Algeria, I'l Constantinople, with the immediate help to Nazi victims. to Metropolitan France, has also created objective to help 70,000 Jewish colonists But the great, exciting, and—if I may problems of catastrophic dimensions. The in Palestine, who were facing starvation. call it so—romantic period began after the task the " Joint" set itself is by no means Its first chairman was Felix M. Warburg, Nazi hordes had overrun Europe, when finished—will it ever be ? father of the present chairman, Edward M. Dr. Joseph Schwartz directed from Lisbon An organisation is only as strong as the Warburg. the rescue work with diplomacy, under­ human factor driving it. It is the quality The end of World War I confronted the ground tactics, but above all with imagina­ of the people in charge of operations which AJDC with the necessity to mount its first tion and personal courage. Over 80,000 made the greatness of the " Joint". Dr. large scale operation. Such was its impact Jews were helped to emigrate from Central Joseph Schwartz was followed in 1950 by on Jewish life that the AJDC became a Europe after the outbreak of hostilities. Moses Beckelman, who literally gave his T^gend in its early years. Those were the Until the U.S.A. entered the war, the life in the service of the cause. When in ^ays when English was not yet the lingua " Joint " was able to continue desperately December, 1955, Beckelman succumbed to franca of the world, when the man in the needed relief work in Poland ; an escape a heart attack, another man of outstanding "treet in Warsaw, Odessa or Vienna, faced line was also established through Russia ability, Charles Jordan, was appointed *ith the organisation's long name, was and Manchuria to China, especially Director-General. unable to understand what it meant. There Shanghai, Japan and Iran. There has never been anything paro­ Was one short word in the name, " Joint," chial, narrow-minded or sectarian about the never mind that it was an adjective Gigantic Post-War Operations " Joint", or the men directing its opera­ intended to make it clear that the Com­ tions. Emblematical of the spirit and mittee was a joint efiort of several Ameri­ When the Allies broke into Europe, the standing of the organisation is the fact can bodies. The word "Joint" stuck, " Joint" workers went in the wake of the that the present Director-General is also necoming a noun in its own right, a magic armies, first into Italy, then France, where President of the International Council of Word spelling hope to the needy and suffer- Dr. Schwartz transferred his headquarters Voluntary Agencies in Geneva, and Chair­ [ig. a name by which the organisation soon after the liberation, and then, in 1945, man of the Expert Advisory Committee for pecame known to millions of poor Jews into the camps in Germany. Operations the Freedom from Hunger Campaign ^ Europe soon after the end of the First of gigantic proportions were set into attached to the U.N. Food and Agriculture World War when the Joint moved into motion ; thousands of tons of food were Organisation. Two months ago he was *-entral and Eastern Europe. shipped for distribution in Europe, awarded the Nansen Ring by the Inter­ With the energy and acumen which medical, nursing, social and educational national Sovereign Committee Fridtjof cnaracterised its operations from earliest services were established to help the Nansen—only nine persons have so far ^ays, the organisation addressed itself not survivors ; reconstruction of Jewish Com­ received this ring. only to relief for thousands of starving munities on the Continent of Europe was actively assisted, and local leadership Still, what was achieved was due not Jews in Poland, the Ukraine and the only to the men at the very top; the Vienna of 1919, but also to the problem which emerged after the war, helped to bring into life communal services destroyed services of the Assistant Directors-General ot rehabilitation. Medical units were sent Herbert Katzki and Sam Haber, both po Poland, care of children was organised, by the Nazi regime. The scope of the work is perhaps most impressively illus­ veritable towers of strength, must not be ont most important was the economic left unmentioned. ^f^onstruction work by way of hundreds trated by the amounts spent—$53,988,000. fl loan kassas " and credit co-operatives, $69,080,000, $63,248,000 in the years 1946, We cannot pay here individual tribute to 1947 and 1948 respectively. the country directors, the departmental in the U.S.S.R. the "Joint" formed the heads in Geneva, and the men and women ft^ro-Joint. created Jewish agricultural In 1948 the State of Israel was born, and serving the AJDC in many countrier ,51. enients and many Jewish co-operatives, the gates opened to mass emigration. From They brought to their task utmost until it was forced to end its activities in the very first moment, the " Joint " was on efficiency coupled with compassion, love of meera of Stalinism. the spot and brought into life that magnifi­ their fellow creatures, and the readiness Ine end of the 'twenties was the time cent organisation, " Malben," which took to work endless hours under trying circum­ wnen the worst misery of the aftermath of care of many thousands of old and infirm people who came to Israel from the D.P. stances, to sacrifice their private and their tK T^^ seemed to be overcome and when camps. Malben established for them Old family lives in the interest of the great ine leadership of the " Joint " thought of Age Homes, hospitals, sheltered workshops. aims inspiring them. To all of them we gradual reduction of the work with a And let us not forget the operation pay homage as a body. lew to closing down completely. The " Magic Carpet" when in 1949 a fleet of No real history of the " Joint" has yet nnual expenditure which ran at a figure aircraft, chartered by the "Joint," trans­ been written ; when it is written, the recital 01 Sl 1.607.000 in 1919. fell to $3,856,000 ferred nearly the entire Yemeni Jewry of events, facts and figures will reveal " 1924. and to $1,646,000 five years later from Aden to Israel. one of the most thrilling chapters of Jewish »,.1929: in 1932 it reached a low of At the same time, the "Jomt" turned history and of humanitarian endeavour. ^'^41,000, Page 2 AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 From the German Scene EXHIBITION IN PAULSKIRCHE Concentration Camp Documents BUNDESRUECKERSTATTUNGSGESETZ CHARGE OF NEONAZISM REFUTED An exhibition of documents referring to IN BERLIN VERKUENDET Nazi concentration and extermination camps A spokesman of the Ministry of the Interior was held in the Frankfurt Paulskirche. It Im Anschluss an die fruehere Mitteilung stated in Bonn that charges that the West comprises photos, statistics, minutes and in AJR Information (November, 1964) wird German Federal Republic was the centre of graphic displays and is in the first place meant mitgeteilt, dass das Dritte Aenderungsgesetz an interaational neo-Nazi movement were to serve educational purposes. The exhibition zum Bundesrueckerstattungsgesetz inzwischen unjustified. Commenting on a report sub­ has been visited by many groups of school­ auch im Lande Berlin verkuendet worden ist. mitted to the conference of International children and factory employees. It was Union of Resistance Fighters and Deportees arranged by Mr. Carl Tesch, director of the CLAIMS OF REFUGEE RABBIS held in Belgium, the spokesman said that no Frankfurt "Bund fuer Volksbildung", and neo-Nazi was sitting in Parliament, while the designed by the Frankfurt architect, Wolfgang A delegation of refugee rabbis now living Italian Right-wing party, supported by the neo- Dohmen, The exhibition will also be shown in the United States and Europe, representing fascists, had a strong faction in the Chamber in other German cities and in Vienna, some 300 refugee rabbis from Eastem Europe, of Deputies, and the Austrian Freedom Party, have had talks with officials in Bonn.
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