Fellowships and scholarships totalling $139,185 have been awarded out of German reparations funds to 146 outstanding refugee scholars and students as part of a world-wide program for the cultural rehabilitation of Nazi victims, it was announced today by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The awards are in two categories: 1. Fellowships, in the amount of $78,822 for “independent research and creative work” have been awarded to 52 persons in the fields of writing, art, music, social studies and Jewish thought as a means of helping them to undertake special projects and to resume careers that were interrupted by the Nazi conquest of Europe, The fellowships will be awarded to selected individuals annually during the next ten years; 2. Ninety-four scholarships for graduate and undergraduate studies, totalling $60, 363, have been awarded to outstanding refugee students whose education was interrupted or prevented by the war.
These awards represent the first grants to individuals to be made out of the $900,000 in reparations payments allotted by the Conference in 1954 for cultural projects throughout the world. In announcing the awards, Dr, Goldmann declared that while “the physical needs of Nazi victims today are greater than all of the funds available to the Conference, a portion of the funds must be used to restore and invigorate the Jewish values and traditions the Nazis sought to destroy as relentlessly as they did our people.” The Conference, he said, “is fulfilling in the cultural sphere a unique and historic function.”
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