A total of 25,000 Jews have emigrated from Vienna since Austro-German Anschluss last March. This emigration rate, in addition to the excess of deaths over births — 5,000 in the first nine months of 1938 — bids fair to make Vienna “judenrein” (free of Jews) within four years, as demanded by Field Marshal Hermann Goering, according to an article by Prof. Norman Bentwich in the Manchester Guardian, based on the Vienna Jewish Community’s report for the period.
The report states that 20,000 Jews were fed by the community’s soup kitchens, 10,000 received financial assistance and 5,000 expelled from other Austrian districts received aid from the community. A total of 10,000 were being retrained for emigration. Expenditures for social service activities were nearly 500,000 marks monthly. A million marks was contributed by out-side Jewish bodies, particularly the British Council for German Jewry, and the Joint Distribution Committee spent $500,000 in the nine months.
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