Friday, *arch 13, $10,640,800 Allocated for Operations in 1964 by Claims Conference BRUSSELS, (JTA) — Alloca- tions totaling $10,640,800, to be given in 1964 to Jewish com- munities and institutions around the world, serving about 250,000 Jewish victims of Naz- ism in 32 countries, were made here at the concluding session of a two-day parley held by the Conference on Jewish Mat- erial Claims Against Germany. By major categories, the 1964 funds will include $7,550,000 to the Joint Distribution Commit- tee for relief resettlement acti- vities in Europe and Australia; $2,449,447 for cultural and ed- ucational reconstruction; and $330,000 for the Israel Purchas- ing Mission in West Germany plus Conference administrative expenses. The conference, organized by major Jewish organizations in the Western world to represent victims of Nazism outside Israel, participated in the 1952 negotiations which resulted in agreements with the West Ger- man Government to pay repara- tions, restitutions and indemni- fiction to Jewish victims of Nazism. The conference is form- ally recognized by the Federal Republic of Germany as the of- ficial spokesman for those Jews throughout the world who are entitled to individual restitu- tion under the existing laws drawn up by the Bonn Govern- ment and the governments of the West German states. Dr. Nahum Goldman, presi- dent of the conference, ad- dressed the parley's opening session Saturday night, con- trasting, in his report, the manner in which the govern- ment of Germany has "meti- culously" met its reparations commitments to Israel and to the conference, with what he called "the gap" in imple- menting restitution and inde- mnification laws for individ- ual victims of Nazism. Illustr- ating that "gap," he pointed out that the claims of more than 450,000 Jewish people eligible to payments under the existing laws are still pending. He noted that tens of thous- ands of legitimate Nazi victims are still barred from filing claims because they had come from countries behind the Iron Curtain after Oct. 1, 1953. That date had been fixed as the cut- off period for individual claim- ants eligible for German com- pensation under the 1952 agree- ment. Reporting on the individual restitution payments made by the Germans to Jewish victims of Nazism to date. Dr. Gold- mann told the conference that the total indemnification pay- ments under the existing Ger- man laws reached $3,700,000,000 by Dec. 31, 1963. In addition, he said, the German states had paid out $3,873,938,000. However, Dr. Goldmann said, negotiations between the conference and the Bonn gov- ernment to improve the exist- ing laws, and to enact new legislation that would cover those Jewish victims of Naz- ism who had not qualified for claims by the cut-off date of Oct. 1, 1953, have not yet borne fruit. Among the victims of Nazism now ineligible under the Ger- man laws, he said, are persons who did not succeed in leaving' the countries behind the Iron Curtain up to the 1953 dead- line. The laws exclude those persons as well as others who are stateless, he said The post- 1953 groups,, he said, include Jews who fled from Hungary after the uprising there in 1956 and 1957. as well as "thousands of others who arrived from East European lands i n recent years." Dr. Goldmann also hailed the "good will and speed" with which the West German Gov- ernment has met its obligations under the Israeli-German Rep- arations Agreement, a pact made in 1952 at the same time Germany made its agreement with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims. Under the Israeli-German agreement, he said, goods, materials and services arriv- ing in Israel from Germany have totaled $772,559,000 since deliveries started arriv- ing in Israel in 1953. Over 90 per cent of the goods and services due to Israel under the 1952 pact have already been delivered, Dr. Gold- amm.Namm ■ mi. mann reported. As for the Claims Conference, GRACE YOUR it received $10,039,148 in 1963, bringing its total, spent since FESTIVE TABLE its program got under way in 1954, to $99,560,189. These fig- , WITH ures were reported to the par- ley by Moses A. Leavitt, con- gfi. Bast 9, tom Ovrazt ference treasurer. He said that, in 1963, the conference spen( $1,246,360 for relief and rehab-1 ilitation of Jewish victims of Nazism; $1,246,330 for cultural tat eicety g-,and Irtoductd and gotaid and educational reconstruction; and $328,778 for various spec- in gainzd eRilfion-Lt-Y ion ial projects. The organization, he said, committed but did not' A LARGE distribute an additional $870,- VARIETY OF 000 in 1963. Leavitt called special atten- WINES ttion to the grants the confer- and ence has given to the Jewish CHAMPAGNES communities in France where the present Jewish population TO SUIT of 500,000 now forms 75 per EVERY TASTE cent of the total Jewish pop- ulation in Western, continent- al Europe. CONCORD and MALAGA also in The report on allocations GALLONS AND was presented by the senior HALF GALLONS vice-president of the Confer- 1•1•11 ••••0 •••••0 • 0•••11• 11 ■ 11 •••••( ence. He pointed out that the nearly $100,000,000 has been The Gift of Gifts spent thus far by the confer- 11•11•M 4,011•1•11•1•1••11•••• •=11•41• ence. The new allocation will Certified strictly bring the total to $110,000,000. Kosher by the Chief HOwever, he noted, the 1964 Rabbinate of Israel allocation of $7,550,000 to the Available Now in JDC will not meet that organ- Your Favorite Market ization's requirements for ser- vices in Europe and Australia, estimated at $11,596,000. MICHIGAN DISTRIBUTOR That $4,046,000 excess of esti- National Wholesale mated JDC requirements over Grocers Co. conference allocations, he said, "is by far the greatest ever For Information: TR 1-0606 recorded since the working Out-of-Town Orders Promptly Filled partnership has begun between 111111111111•1111111111111111111111111111111•1111111111111111 the Conference and the JDC." North African Jews into France. 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