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5709, the J.D.C. provided loans
which helped some 50,000 business
men and artisans achieve self-suffi
ciency, supported producers’ co
operatives which enabled 8,000 to
earn their livelihood, and assisted
vocational training programs which
provided new skills for 37,000 men
and women in centers operated by
ORT, or by local organizations.
The year 5709 also saw a slow
but steady decrease in J.D.C. relief
rolls in Europe and the general
reduction of the number of able-
bodied Jewish men and women
who depend on the agency for
food, clothing and other essentials
of life. Improving economic con
ditions, the J.D.C. reconstruction
efforts, and emigration all contri
buted to this welcome decrease.
In the battle for health, crucial
in building a future for Jews over
seas, substantial gains were also
recorded during the year. Since
last Rosh Hashanah an average of
100,000 Jews monthly received
medical care in 520 J.D.C.-sup
ported hospitals, clinics and con
valescent homes.
The largest single medical pro
gram was carried out in the camps
and centers of Germany, Austria
and Italy where the J.D.C. in co
operation with the I.R.O. gave
physical examinations to 65,000
DP’s, issuing certificates of good
health to the hale and hearty, and
arranging for special medical care
for those who were discovered to
be ill.
Since immigration opportunities
depend to a large extent on health,
the J.D.C. devoted much of its
medical program in the DP areas
to rehabilitative medical care. In
three centers, J.D.C. doctors, nurses
and specialists literally rebuilt life
for chronically ill DP’s by curing
conditions that might prevent emi
gration, and by utilizing the con
valescent period to provide the
cured patients new skills in super
vised ORT-J.D.C. training classes.
Side by side with J.D.C.’s health
building activities during last year
went protection and special care
for Europe’s Jewish children. As
this is being written some 40,000
children, most of them orphans,
are in more than 300 J.D.C.-sup
ported institutions. Here they are
leceiving the type of training and
physical care that will enable them
to take their places in their native
comumnities, Israel or in other
lands.
The J.D.C.’s child care program
in the year just past was marked
by two highly dramatic episodes —
to one a happy ending was written;
the other is still in narration.
The first episode concerns 500
orphans from Rumania and the DP
camps, who were brought to a
model children’s village near Apel-
doorn, in the Netherlands. Here,
as guests of the J.D.C. they were
given nourishing food, education,
medical care and vocational train
ing in preparation for a new life
in Israel. After eleven months
among the friendly Dutch
burghers, a boat came, and today
these little ones are growing up
strong and robust in a children’s
kibbutz in Israel.
The second episode concerns 200
children from the mellahs (ghet
tos) of North Africa, who are re
ceiving special care in a children’s
home in Norway. Brought out of
Morroco these undernourished po
tential victims of tuberculosis are
being built up and prepared for
life in Israel. This great humani
tarian effort was made possible by
the Norwegian European Relief
Society, which in cooperation with
the J.D.C., is providing a chance
for boys and girls who never had
one before.
The year of destiny for Jews
overseas also saw progress in many
countries in the rebuilding of Jew
ish community life — through sup
port to schools, synagogues and
other cultural and religious insti
tutions. In 5709, the J.D.C. helped
— Joint Distribution Committee Photo
SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL REGENERATION is the promise of the
New Year 5710 to these Italian Jewish orphans. They are among the
40,000 of the 180,000 Jewish children who survived Hitler’s terror and
still under JEC care.
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