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tims in 32 countries were granted
by the board of directors of the
Conference at the close of the
meeting. Jacob Blaustein of Bal-
timore, senior. vice-president of
the Conference, presented the
budget for 1963. The allocations
will raise to $100,000,000, in all,
the sums granted by the Confer-
ence since 1954.
Blaustein presented the major
components in the budget as fol-
lows: $7,757,637 for relief, re-
habilitation and resettlement, of
which $7,000,000 is ear-marked
for programs in Europe and Aus-
tralia; $1,917,757 for cultural
and educational reconstruction;
and $384,250 for other expendi-
tures. The allocation for Europe
and Australia will be adminis-
tered by the American Joint Dis-
tribution • Committee which will
supplement this sum by $2,290,-
000 received from other sources,
and bring to $9,290,000 t h e
funds expended for these pro-
grams.
Blaustein called special at-
tention to the 1963 allocations
for France which will reach
some $4,700,000, the greatest
granted for any single country
in Conference history. "Over
150,000 refugees have entered
the country in the past three
years, the great majority in
1962," Blaustein said. "With
their coming, the Jewish popu-
lation swelled by some 40 per
cent. The newcomers came
from North African lands, in
the great majority, but thou-
sands also stemmed from East-
ern Europe.. Their arrival gave
rise to such staggering prob-
lems in the fields of individ-
ual and communal rehabilita-
tion and Jewish education that
no major program in France
aided by Conference funds
over the years could fail to
escape the financial impact."
The allocations granted for
1983 formed but a fraCtion of
the sums requested by appli-
cants, Blaustein pointed o u t.
"Some 450 applicants, calling for
nearly $25,000,000, have come to
us from 34 countries inhabited
by Nazi victims. The task of scal-
ing down those huge demands to
the $10,000,000 we expect to re-
ceive this year is more difficult
than ever before."
The allocation of $1,917,757
for cultural and educational re-
•construction includes grants of
$1,118,583 for Jewish education
on the primary, secondary, sup-
plementary, higher and adult
levels, making up the most far-
reaching program in this area.
"These allocations have grown
more than twofold since our op-
erations began, and for 1963 they
will set a 10-year record. The
magnitude of the expansion testi-
fies to the great importance at-
tached by the Conference to that
field of activity," Blaustein said.
The rebuilding of the Jew-
ish communities that suffered
at Nazi hands is one of the
major responsibilities the Con-
ference has undertaken. Its
allocations for capital projects
are playing a. life-renewing
role in that task, Blaustein

pointed out. The 1963 grants,
cutting across programs for
relief and rehabilitation and
cultural and educational recon-
struction, readied a record
sum, $1,860,000. Over 40 per
cent of the funds are ear-
marked for projects in France
and most of the rest is going
to other countries which fell
under Nazi occupation.
"Some 144 institutions will
benefit from the capital grants,"
Blaustein noted, "and even the
briefest statistical enumeration
makes impressive reading: 73
JeWish schools; 28 community
and youth centers; 13 homes for
the aged; 13 religious institu-
tions; eight summer camps; four
medical institutions and a num-
ber of c h i l d r e n's and youth
homes and related undertak-
ings."
Capital allocations granted over
the years, including those for
1963, tally up to some $11,350,-
000 all told. Three categories—
schools, community centers and
homes for the aged—have held
the focus of Conference interest,
and absorbed over 75 per cent
of all capital allocations. The
great bulk of the funds are aid-
ing in the reconstruction of the
Jewish communities in Europe,
and a limited share has been
going to overseas lands shelter-
ing many Nazi victims.
In actual fact, these funds
are meeting only the smaller
part of the cost, Blaustein said.
"It • is notable," he declared,
"that Jewish communities, or-
ganizations and other local
sources are shouldering the
major share. But many capital
projects which were under-
taken and carried to comple-
tion would never have prog- .
ressed beyond the blueprint
stage without the stimulus pro-
vided by Conference aid?'
The Conference distributed
$10,092,885 in 1962, bringing the
total spent since allocations be-
gan in 1954 to some $90,000,000,
it was reported by Moses A.
Leavitt, treasurer of the Claims
Conference: Of the 1962 alloca-
tions, $7,836,000 went for the
relief and rehabilitation of 170,-
000 needy Nazi victims, $1,871,-
000 for cultural and educational
reconstruction, and $385,000 for
other purposes.
Leavitt pointed to the pro-
gram for the rebuilding of Jew-
ish communities which suffered
at Nazi hands as one which rank-
ed high among Conference ob-
jectives. Allocations of $9,500,-
000 have been granted over the
years for the construction, ex-
pansion, equipment and repair
of hundreds of institutions serv-
ing the needs of Nazi victims:
homes for the aged, children's
and youth homes, hospitals and
clinics, Jewish schools and semi-
naries, community and youth
centers, religious institutions,
summer camps and the like. The
great bulk was concentrated in
15 European countries, while a
limited share went to overseas
lands sheltering many Nazi
victims. A substantial number
of projects were completed in
1962.

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awaiting adjudication at the close
of 1962. A new approach is
needed "so as to deal justly with
the claims of Nazi victims who
have suffered injuries to health
from the effects of imprison-
ment, mistreatment and torture,"
Dr. Goldmann said.
"No group is more deserving
among those currently excluded,"
Dr. Goldmann said, "than Nazi
victims who were not able to
leave eastern Europe before Oct.
1, 1953." The law, which entered
into effect on that date, ex-
chided from eligibility Nazi vic-
tims who left the country of
their origin subsequently. Some
20,000 Nazi victims fled to cen-
tral and western • Europe in
1956-57, in the wake of the Hun-
garian uprising, and many' thou-
sands of others came from east-
ern Europe in subsequent years.
"Their moral claims for indem-
nification are just as strong as
those of claimants who were elig-
ible to file under the Law," Dr.
Goldmann said.
Dr. Goldmann expressed
gratification that deliveries of
goods, materials and services,
under the terms of the Bonn-
Israel reparations pact of 1952,
to which the Conference is a
party, have moved at a pace so
swift that nearly 90 percent
of the deliveries have already
reached Israel. IA all, over
$741,000,000 in capital goods,
materials and services were
delivered to Israel • from Ger-
many since payments started
on June 30, 1953. Of that sum,
$67,500,000 in goods and serv-
ices were provided in 1962.
"The German authorities have
been carrying Out the terms
of the pact, in letter and in
spirit, from the first to the
very last," Dr. Goldniami said.
Allocations of $10,059,644 for
programs aiding 170,000 Nazi vic-

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