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lam Mat leader mad the founder ef Wadsssah, who bad beta re-ffl to Hadaasah Untorsitv OB Meant Scopus since ftMaialiii, died oa February 18 at the age of S4.
Miss flaaU was f woman of charm. Her hair was abon-a*d gray, Her eyes dark and i. She
was always char -by poise, sincerity and aad had ban described hrffliant Jewish wo-She engaged in literary and translat-aad was exceptionally wtih Hebrew. Quietly, <mt a long; period �f years,
la* pattentj of Jewish pro-a Palestine.
in stature n**^ feminine Henrietta Saold and capacity
feerfc. She! rarely rested, al-ising at 8 a. m. and going at late boon after fall dayi Even in her late seven-
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it* fear-boor trip from Jerusalem - to Haift to aMetaD boata of rata-Brovght young Jewish
twenties, she found the opportunity to do eo in aiding the Jew*, who began to come in greater numbers to the United States, fleaing from Russia.
Her life was aacb that her eightieth birthday wae that of a "prophetess in Israel", marked by, celebrations in Palestine and throughout the United States, President and Mrs. Roosevelt signed their names ia a huge: birthday book which contained 94,000 signatures, aad BOO birthday gatheringj took place in forty-six States. A
ia tissse emigrants,. :ac-jatem to tiMir jetfle-
te �ew eoadfeioaa of life, born on Dec. 81, 1800, Her metier was r, and her fatter,
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birthday 'gift of S26.000 for the protection of the welfare of the people of Palestine during the war was cabled to Miss Ssoid as a tribute to the veteran Zionist leader. In an editorial, "A Pioneer at 80," The Times again praised her outstanding qualities as a social worker:
"Her beautiful spirit has known no religious, racial or political frontiers. She has earned an untold wealth in love and admiration. May she long enjoy it"
-WAon a nation-wide movement was launched to celebrate Miss SioldV seventy-fifth birthday, the foremost Jewish woman of contemporary tiawT was on the high seas from Palestine to America. The celebration ^"vfrifr the auspices of Hadaasah lasted thirty saws and coincided with ChandkahTthe Feast of Ughm. For her social work she was made a dtisen of Tel Aviv, and York^Bmes j�MeditoriaHy that
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Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
MONTREAL FEBRUARY 23. IMS
No. 21
Survivors Eager To Go To Palestine^ Zionist Official Says
Eliahu Dobkln, bead of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency |or Palestine, estimated in an interview with Julian Louis Meltaer, of the New York Times, that 1,200,000 Jews auryiv-ed of the 8,000^00 who had been under German rule during the war, and that most of them were eager to come to Palestine.
Of these survivors 300,000 are still under German domination, 900,000 are in liberated areas or in countries of refuge like Russia and neutral lands to which they
Only half remain of the 3*0,000 Jews who lived in France in 1689* About a third survive of the 900,-000 Jewish inhabitant* of Eu-mania, including Transylvania. Less than 10 per cent remain of the 3,500,000 Polish Jews, of whom 50,000 are in liberated areas of Poland and 200,000 are in Russia.
Mr. Dobldn added that 45,000 Jews live in Bulgaria. 10,000 In Greece, 18,000 in Belgium and 30,000 in freed sections of Italy. Twenty-seven thousand lefugeas are in Switzerland, 18,000 are in Sweden und sppr^T^nnitTly 100.000 survive in Hungary.
The Jews lost during the war twenty-five times more kfltod than the entire fatal casualties on war fronts or at home through enemy aerial action throughout the British Commonwealth, Mr. Dobkin declared.
"Those who emerged from this holocaust of annihilaiion coafroat bleak realities and a�o lessarmt
future," Mr. Dobkin said. "Six months ago; in the first flush of liberation, it was believed that the nations among whom Jewish remnants survived would tolerate them. But now it transpires that even those few do not have sound prospects of a normal erlstsace. There are even less possibilities than there were for the larger number of Jewish inhabitants who lived in those countries before the Nad liquidation measures begs*."
Adolf Hitler's- method* of pottti-eel indoctrination left the former vassal populations with a firm conviction that Jews constituted a superfluous element, Mr. Dobldn stressed. He 'said reports from various liberated countries supported this iiaHitiuii.
Ia a broadcast over the official Lublin radio, Gen. Wladyslaw Za-vabyk, deputy commander in chief of the Polish Army, said, "there is open anti-Semitism, � Mvd a hostile attitude to the vestiges of the Jewish community remaining in Poland."
A survey made by the Unkm of
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and dweUfaigs are not being turned to Jews there.
A report from Greece said that only one bookshop in flaimiflfa hsji been- restored to its fonssr Jewish owner. It assarted ttat Jewa returning from the UBs, where they aid during the Mast could not gat their
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She lived aad worked in ine after the Jewish Home was founded there ia ��-She made Jewsaamt her home and eame back to America only oa short visits, when she Moded more help for the charity work she was directing ia Palestine.
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era and the translation into English of T�*"y fmeign works. Some of the translations were made by Miss Saold henetf, who also edited with Cyras A�w, *"**�*. .�* Dropeie CoOege, at Philsdstptna. the Amerkaa Jewish Year Book. Her aame was waD kaosro � tae world of Jewish Utssatam, aad she was �i aMch assiataace to
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cone troe with the creation in PaketiB* ef a Jewish National Hosne. Although almost sixty years old, she did not hesitate in dedtim* that the Jews of Palestine would aeesl her in those difficult firvt years of readjastiner.t and orginiislsan.
She ten New York in February, 1920, to make her home in Jerusalem f>Tt4 to take personal super*
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