With Austria annexed by Germany and application of the Nuremberg Laws imminent, a problem they thought solved today again faced a large number of Jews who had fled the Nazi Reich and found sanctuary in Vienna.
Of some 200,000 Jews in Austria, about 1,500 are estimated (according to figures supplied by the Joint Distribution Committee) to have emigrated from Germany between the Nazi accession to power in 1933 and the end of 1937.
According to statistics of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Polish Jews in Austria, all but about 1,500 of whom are naturalized citizens. The majority of them came from Poland starting in 1914. Very few are recent immigrants, the Federation declares.
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