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Our 50th Annirernury
• Fifty years of conservative, constructive banking.
• A pioneer in the promotion of thrift in Georgia.
• Highest interest, consistent with good banking,
paid on deposits.
• $4,120,134.38 interest paid to depositors in our
50 years.
• A substantial factor in the development of this
section.
• Over thirty thousand home owners financed.
GEORGIA SAVINGS It.Wk
& TRUST COMPANY
74 PEACHTREE STREET, N. W. Phone WAInut 1240
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wherever You Drive ....
you're never far from the blue-and-white
Standard Oil Sign that's your guide-post to
dependable products and friendly,
helpful service.
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY
INCORPORATED IN KENTUCKY
in many ways to rekindle the flame
of Jewish tradition almost extin
guished during the Nazi era. Dur
ing the year, 448 communal insti
tutions were supported by J.D.C.,
enabling the survivors abroad to
observe the faith of their fathers.
Jewish school p r og r a m s were
strenghened, particularly in
France. J.D.C. aid also made possi
ble the publication of numerous
necessary books, of newspapers,
and of important Jewish historical
data.
Meanwhile during the year a new
and pressing responsibility was
brought into focus — the need for
help for Jews in Moslem lands.
In the countries of the Near East
— Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt
and Yemen, and in the North Afri
can lands of Algiers, Morocco,
Tunisia and Libya live some 900,-
000 Jews, tens of thousands of
them in abject squalor and poverty.
The misery of Jews in these areas
is age-old. But 5709 saw anti-Jew-
ish outbreaks and Arab violence in
many of these areas inspired by the
historic events connected with the
birth of the state of Israel. One re
sult of Arab hostility was to touch
off a spontaneous emigration on the
part of thousands of Jews in Mos
lem areas to Israel.
In the independent countries of
the Near East Jewish emigration
was, and is, banned. But from the
North African areas of Morocco,
Tunisia and Libya, large numbers
of Jews set forth on their own for
Marseille and Bari, the great emi
gration ports for Israel, hoping for
transportation aid.
To Marseille, North Africa's Jews
come at the rate of 2,500 monthly.
Physical examinations revealed
that hundreds had trachoma, tuber
culosis, favus — diseases prevalent
in their native lands. In Marseille,
waiting for J.D.C. doctors to cure
them, the Jews from North Africa
depended upon the J.D.C. for food,
shelter and other emergency aid.
This flight served to highlight the
urgent needs of Jewry’s unhappy
segment and caused the J.D.C. to
increase its traditional aid to Jews
in Arab-Moslem areas.
In North Afraican countries, en
larged J.D.C. assistance programs
were established, particularly for
the children. These programs di
vide into two parts: emergency aid
for emigrants, and constructive
help to aid those — particularly the
children — who will remain where
they are, at least for the present.
For the men, women and chil
dren trekking into North Africa’s
chief port city of Algiers, seeking
to reach Israel, the J.D.C. opened
three transient centers. In them,
3,000 Jews at a time were given
shelter, food, clothing, and physi
cal examinations designed to screen
out the sick from the well. Treat
ment was inaugurated for those too
ill to be transported to the Prom
ised Land.
For the more permanent part of
the Jewish population of North
Africa, the J.D.C. increased its ef
forts to relieve hardships and build
a better life. Medical activities and
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243 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
DECATUR, GA.
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