Source : H. Stahl, Gemeindeblatt der Juedischen Gemeinde zu Berlin , No. 40, 30. Sept. 1936
The Reich's delegate for the German people's Winter Aid has ordered that collections for the Winter Aid campaign, as well as welfare in Jewish circles, is to be conducted by the Jews themselves - as was the case last year. The Jewish Welfare Centre in Germany is assigned management in the Reich as a whole; in Berlin, the Jewish community will run the 1936/37 campaign. While the need to organise Jewish Winter Aid in a short time confronted us with completely new responsibilities last year, this time we are drawing on our experiences of 1935/36 and will commence our work on a sound basis. We regard it as an honourable duty to thank all those organisations and individuals who helped to carry out this great work, as well as the donors who made funds available to us! We also hope to encounter the same enthusiasm for helping and the warm love of giving in our new Winter Aid campaign. We must help our needy, whose numbers have increased considerably, through the hardships of the coming winter. Artists have done their best to spiritually support those in need. Once again the artists are asked to earn the gratitude of those whom they have helped. The rules for the Jewish Winter Aid set forth by the Reich's delegate are more or less the same as those of the previous year; we will publish them in the next edition of the Gemeindeblatt . They include compulsory contributions; but we call upon the members of our community to donate more than is their duty and to think of the fact that misery has considerably increased in our community. Numerous Jewish families in our community live without their bread-winner, who has already emigrated in order to find work in a new homeland or to make a new life abroad. The size of the tasks we face demands the exertion of all our energies. Many of last year's volunteers have left the country. To replace them must be the duty of every Jew who has free time. We have to unite to bring the Jewish Winter Aid campaign up to what it was last year: An expression of real Jewish communal spirit through the help for brothers and sisters.
