United Jewish Appeal Ad from 1947 Raising Funds for Displaced Jews in Europe

1947

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what are you going to tell her?
She speaks for 5,000 other homeless Jews who will sleep tonight in a cemetery. It is a Jewish cemetery, thousands of years old, in a land that was once part of the Babylonian Empire. Here living men, women, and children have found a temporary haven - a makeshift resting place as they wait. She asks: "How many more nights will we sleep here on the tombstones of our fathers?" She asks: "Will we be rescued and taken to Israel while there is still time - before exit doors shut?" She asks you these questions, for the help she and the others need must come through you, through the 1951 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL.
What are you going to tell her?
Last year the Jews of Yemen asked the same question. The year before the Jews of the DP Camps asked it. Each time your asnwer came quickly, decisively. In less than three years the funds you contributed to the United Jewish Appeal brought 500,000 homeless men, women, and children from lands of despair to freedom in Israel. Surely your answer to those who ask for help now will come with equal speed. Surely your answer now must be that you will give all you can - today - while the world situation still permits the rescue of these 5,000 Jews in the cemetery - and of 200,000 others who wait for deliverance from danger zones of Eastern Europe and Arab lands. Rescue is just one of the huge and urgent tasks the United Jewish Appeal must undertake this year. That is why you are asked to give immediately...to give generously...to give more than ever before.
In 1951 -- before time runs out -- the United Jewish Appeal must:
Save 200,000 homeless Jews by bringing them to Israel from danger in Eastern Europe and the Arab lands
Help the people of Israel make their country a hallmark of democracy -- by aiding them establish 120 new agricultural settlements, build housing units for 40,000, care for 50,000 immigrants in reception centers plus 15,000 children and 5,000 aged and handicapped
Supply relief, care, and rehabilitation assistance to 400,000 distressed Jews in Europe and Arab countries, 90,000 of them children
Resettle in this country and in other western democracies a total of 25,000 displaced Jews from Europe
United Jewish Appeal on behalf of Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, United Service for New Americans, 165 West 46th Street, New York 19, N.Y.
TO SAVE LIVES - TO STRENGTHEN THE FREE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL - TO AID DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE