October 19, 1903 an advocate for the Jews was born, Laura Margolis, it wouldn’t be until the 1930’s when she started working with different Jewish organizations that she would get to prove just how big an advocate she was. Coming to the United States in 1908 to Cleveland, Ohio where she lived and went to School, she got her bachelors of science in 1926 and a professional degree in social work the following year. In 1939 Laura was to become the first female overseas representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee or JDC. Laura went to Cuba to help assist about five thousand Jews taking refuge there, hoping to get in to the US. She worked tiredly with US consular officials in Cuba on behalf of the Jews taking refugee there.
