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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?