Summary
The American Jewish relief organisation which, in the Anglo-American Committee’s account, had representatives in the Jewish displaced-persons centres in Europe and provided specialists for health, welfare, Kosher food, clothes and material for spiritual and educational life (Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, lines 678-680).
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The Committee records that voluntary agencies specially concerned with Jewish persons were invited by the military authorities and UNRRA to give assistance, and that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad now have representatives in the centres (Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, lines 678-680).
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In Appendix II of the Anglo-American Committee Report, the Committee is allowed by the American Army authorities to collect Jews in Hungary and organize their arrival in groups in Vienna, supplies food parcels of about 400 calories a day to migrants in Austria, largely supplies the relief needed by some 40,000 Jews in France in February 1946, and assists the 50 per cent of Rumanian Jews who in November 1945 were unable to make a living (Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, lines 2099-2111, 2145, 2180).
Related pages
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, UNRRA, Jewish Agency