Letter Submitted to President Harry S. Truman by Select Members of Congress

December 10, 1945 The President The White House Dear Mr. President: An impartial survey substantiated by United States and British authorities, brings again to the foreground the panicky condition of 100,000 Jews who are utterly homeless and are "living" in ill-equipped concentration camps in Italy, Austria and Germany. Dr. Lee Srole, Welfare Officer of Team 311 of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, declared on December 5, 1945: "I am resigning against my will as the only means of effective protest on the eve of a disastrous epidemic expected to strike here at any hour. Such an epidemic will almost certainly decimate this physically broken, tiny remnant of the millions of Europe's prewar Jews." These afflicted souls dread the return to their former homes among hostile people who are already playing an encore to the Nazi plan of extermination as in the case of a handful of despaired Jews who returned to Poland'. Facts of their massacre are a matter of public record. Mr. President, time is the most important element in the constantly ebbing lives of the 100,000 Jews. We fear very much that the winter will increase their death toll. It is truly a race against time. Laxity on our part will never be condoned by history, by our generation of Americans or by the generations to come. The inmates of the concentration camps do not read the Con- ARE gressional Record, wherein is registered our lofty speeches