Dismissal of 326 Jewish officials from the Algerian Postal Service was officially announced here today. The action was taken under the terms of the French anti-Jewish statute, which has been extended to Algeria.
The Official Journal publishes a list of 21 Jewish enterprises expropriated by the authorities in the occupied zone. The list includes the Mutual Credit Bank of Paris, the only such Jewish institution in the former French capital.
Meanwhile, official circles intimated today that a census of Jews in unoccupied France would be launched soon, while a communique gave the first results of the census in the German-occupied zone.
According to this count there are 63,003 Jewish families in the Paris region. They include 17,066 of French origin, 11,785 naturalized families and 34,152 of foreign origin.
The total number of foreign Jews over 15 years of age in this region is estimated at 53,898. Russian refugees are the majority, with 7,031. Next come the “Heimatlose” (without homelands), with 4,295.
Foreign Jewish families are taken as having an average of one child each and French Jewish families are counted as having two children.
The majority of the Jews are traders and artisans, but a few are industrial workers, according to the census. There are 741 Jewish physicians, who represent about 12 per cent of the total physicians in the Paris region.
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