Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 46

— 46 — listed by the Juedische Jugendhilfe, and chosen and approved by it, yet came on their parents' certificates. It is also to be noted that in both Ahawah and Ben Shemen free places or places at a reduced monthly fee are set aside for "social" cases from within Palestine. A report almost perforce is analytic in form. Item follows item as dry bones are assembled. Only a literary artist who has seen the Youth Groups in their Palestinian training homes, has been present at their anniversary celebrations, has viewed their exhibitions, has read their journals, has conducted a Sihah with them, has had to enter into the discussion of their group and individual problems and reach a decision with and for them, has observed them grow into sturdy young adulthood—only such a one can clothe the dry bones with muscle threaded with sinews and reproduce the spirit and soul that shine from their eyes and quicken their stride and energise their work; only such a one can convey what the Youth Immigration Movement means to a tortured Diaspora and for the rehabilitation of a people on its historic soil. Such a one also has a vision of the thousands of our youth praying to be redeemed from sterility, standing ready to grasp the first chance to turn their backs upon frustration and embrace opportunity. After the 19th Zionist Congress, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kinder- und Jugendalijah held a conference at Amsterdam, at which reports on the propaganda in favour of Youth Immigration were submitted by or on behalf of the Committees operating in a number of European and overseas countries. The discussion at the Conference proved a valuable stimulus in the collection of funds. At present the contributing countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Holland, Hungary, India, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. In England, the Women's Appeal Committee continues its activity on behalf of Youth Immigration in the same form and to the same degree as during the last three years. In the other countries enumerated, special ad hoc committees function under the direct influence and guidance of the propagandists sent out by the Arbeits-