More than 3,000 displaced Jews in 17 DP camps in the American zone of Germany are attending ORT training courses, the New York office of the organization announced today. In addition the ORT is offering five courses in camps in the French zone and plans to open a school at Neustadt, in the British zone, where 2,000 Jewish DP’s are now living.
The organization will also open a new training farm for young displaced Jewish boys and German Jewish families at the former Jewish agricultural school at Ahlem, nean Hanover. The school belonged to the Jewish community of Hanover and until 1943 was supported by the Berlin ORT, after which the Nazis turned it into a concentration camp. Recently it was used by British authorities to house non-Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe.
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