New Allocations Made
for Victims of Nazism

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Dr. Goldmann paid tribute
to the Danish people and the
Government for their heroic
rescue of their Jewish fellow-
citizens during the Nazi occu-
pation. He recalled that, of
the 7,000 Jews residing in
Denmark at the time, only 475
fell into Nazi hands.
In an accounting of individual
restitution payments to date, he
said "indemnification payments
under present F e d e r al law
reached $2,598,000,000 on Dec.
1, 1961. In addition the West
German states paid out $173,-
938,000 before the Federal law
was enacted in 1953 to reach a
grand total of some $2,-
722,000,000. Of the total sum
about $556,000,000 came in 1961,
preliminary figures indicate."
He said that the record
"makes impressive reading but
it must be weighed against the
cost of the entire indemnifica-
tion program, to run to $4,-
300,000,000, as West German
authorities estimated. Should
the figure prove correct, only
60 per cent have been paid to
date."
Moses Leavitt, treasurer of
the Claims Conference, reported
that of the sum received in 1961,
$7,795,000 went for relief and
rehabilitation of needy Nazi vic-
tims; $1,904,000 was spent for
cultural and educational recon-
struction; and $408,000 for vari-
ous special projects.
In the field of community re-
construction, Leavitt listed the
following projects made possible
in 1961 through Claims Confer-
ence funds: six homes for the
aged in Belgium, Italy, Uruguay
and Australia; eight community
centers in Belgium, France and
Italy; repair reconstruction of
synagogues in Copenhagen, Am-
sterdam, Bologna and Naples.
In addition, he reported, capital
grants have been made to Jew-
ish s c ho ols throughout the
world.
Leavitt pointed out that "1961
was a year of upheaval and dis-
placement in Jewish life. Jew-
ish refugee migration," he said,
"reached a momentum the like

of which has not been seen for
a decade or longer. Besides our
continuing welfare allocations,
our funds played a life giving
role in aiding thousands of Nazi
victims, refugees from Eastern
Europe and many from Cuba, in
finding new countries of abode
and starting life afresh."
The distribution of $10,075,000
in 1962, for • the benefit of
170,000 Jewish victims of Nazism
in 25 countries, was approved
by the board of directors of the
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims against Germany.
Jacob Blaustein, senior vice-
president of the Claims Confer-
ence, made the budget presenta-
tion to the 37-board members
present representing 23 Jewish
world organizations. This year's
allocation brings to $90,000,000
the sum the Claims Conference
has allocated for Nazi victims
outside of Israel since the origi-
nal reparations agreement was
reached with the Bonn govern-
ment in 1952.
"Requests for aid are continu-
ing to run well beyond our re-
sources," Blaustein said.
Distribution of this year's
funds were calculated by Blau-
stein as follows: Relief and re-
habilitation, $7,836,409, of which
$7,000,000 are going for the con-
tinent of Europe, Australia and
to other programs for Nazi vic-
tims; cultural and educational
reconstruction, $1,863,776; ad-
ministration relay of expendi-
tures and contributions for the
Israel Purchasing Mission,
$375,000.
An increase of the Claims
Conference grant to United Hias
S e r vic e Jewish Immigration
Agency from $375,000 in 1961 to
$450,000 this year was voted by
the board. During the past year
United Hias has helped move
2,100 Jews from Cuba, of whom
more than one-third were Nazi
victims. In addition it helped
nearly 3,000 Nazi victims to mi-
grate from Europe.
Since the initiation of the
Conference, there has been a
steady rise in the budget Cul-
tural and Educational Recon-
struction. rising to a new high

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in 1962, reaching 23 per cent of
the total budget. Blaustein said
in 1954 European' countries re-
ceived $200,000 under this cate-
gory. This jumped to $500,000
by 19 5 5 , $640,000 in 1957,
$720,00 in 1959, $796,000 in 1961
and $856,000 this year.
A check for $10,000 was pre-
sented to King Frederick IX by
senior officers of the Conference
on Jewish Mat erial Claims
Against Germany at a private
audience. The check was pre-
sented to the King "as a token
of the gratitude of the Jews of
the world for the exceptional
events of the Danes during the
Nazi occupation to save the lives
of their Jewish fellow citizens,
with a recommendation that it
be used for scholarships to chil-
dren of the heroic resistance
fighters."
Participants in the audience
at Amaligenborg Palace in-
cluded Dr. Goldmann, Blaustein
and Leavitt. They were accom-
panied by Otto Levison, presi-
dent of the Copenhagen Jewish
community and were presented
to the King by United States
Ambassador William MacBlair,
Jr.
The future of Algerian
Jewry, consequent upon the
Franco - Algerian agreement,
and the present position of
the Jews in the Soviet Union
were the principal topics dis-
cussed at a meeting of the ad-
ministrative committee of the
World Jewish Congress. Dr.
Goldmann, president of the
WJC, presided.
Other points on the agenda
included a survey of the posi-
tion of Jews in South America;
a report on the recent confer-
ence of Central American and
Caribbean leaders of the Con-
gress; and the WJC policy with
regard to the Jewish memoran-
dum to the Vatican on the sub-
ject of Christian anti-Semitism.
The discussions were held in
camera. Present at the meeting
were Samuel Bronfman and Is-
raeli IL Sieff, WJC vice-presi-
dents, respectively, for North
American and Europe; Dr. Ar-
yeh Tartakower, chairman of
the Israel section of WJC; and
principal officers and depart-
ment heads from the four
branches of the WJC world ex-
ecutive in North America, Smith
America, Europe and Israel.
Delegates from five conti-
nents to the World Confer-
ence of Jewish Organizations
issued a "most earnest ap-
peal" Tuesday to the Soviet
Union to reverse a reported
ban on the baking of matzohs
for Russian Jews this year.
The statement said the or-
ganizations represented at the
meeting were "deeply disturbed
and saddened by the recently
reported denial to Jews in the
Soviet Union of facilities hith-
erto accorded for the baking of
matzohs which are indispensa-
ble for the observance of Pass-
over."
The statement called the re-
ported ban an administrative
act which was not only "a vio-
lation of the rights of religious
freedom" embodied in United
Nations instruments and poli-
cies, but that it was also "in
contradiction with the oft re-
peated claims of Soviet authori-
ties that religious groups enjoy
the right to free practice of re-
ligion under the Soviet consti-
tution."
The delegates added that in
a country where all production
facilities "are state operated"
the denial of such facilities for
purposes of religious observance
"amounts to restriction of reli-
gious freedom." The delegates
expressed "the earnest hope
that the Soivet authorities will
enable Jews abroad to send mat-
zohs for distribution to their co-
religionists in the Soviet Union
for the coming Passover."

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