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We Were There
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 20, 1947:
By Albert Hutler
The barbed wire of displaced persons' camps still starkly and realistically bars
the freedom of thousands of displaced persons. They have been liberated and yet
they are not free.
They are free from the fear of a gas chamber, a crematory or a machine gun but
they are still faced with the fear of hunger and with the despair of those who
are not wanted.
When we were there, it was a simple question of feeding, of clothing and of
sheltering. Today, these bodies have been fed, they have been clothed and they
have been sheltered. This is all on the surface and yet, inside there is
little warmth. Their only hope is that we in America will help to solve
their problems. Material things are no longer important. The three R's,
reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement, make up the necessary
ingredients to give our people a new hope and a new life. One hundred
fifty thousand children wandering on the roads, playing in the dirt of a
displaced persons' camp, ragged and almost untouchable, are waiting for the
answer. These children were once loved by someone and if they could be brought
to your home today, they would be loved by you. American Jewry has pledged
$170,000,000 that will be used to give these children and others like them a new
life. Why not do your part in San Diego's share of $350,000?