Approximately 2,000 Jewish refugees are entering France monthly and pose “vast new problems” to Joint Distribution Committee assistance efforts, it was reported today by Laura Margolis, J.D.C. Director for France, who has just returned to the United States.
“The refugees enter France from Eastern Europe and the DE areas, dependent on J.D.C. for basic necessities — food, clothing, and medicines, “Miss Margolis declared. “J.D.G. provides all of this, and also maintains a chain of 18 hotels to shelter the newcomers.” As a result, she said, one-third of all J.D.C. appropriations in France are going to this refugee group.
According to the J.D.C. official, most of the newcomers will be unable to emigrate from France within the near future and need continued large-scale assistance, until they can become self-supporting. She disclosed that the refugees enter under the guarantee of the J.D.C. that they will not become public charges.
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