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British Troops Evacuate Jewish Community Building in West Berlin

March 5, 1953
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British troops now occupying a former Jewish old age home in West Berlin will evacuate the building this summer and return it to the Jewish community, it was revealed here today. The valuable piece of property has some 200 rooms and would be able to accommodate many refugees.

At the request of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Hesse provincial government has returned the famed Darmstadt Haggadah to the provincial state library here where it will once again be available to students for research purposes. During the Nazi regime the Haggadah, one of the oldest in existence, was removed from Darmstadt and placed in a leather museum in Offenbach.

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