A four man delegation from the Zeilsheim Camp for displaced Jews, near Frankfurt, conferred today with representatives of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, the voluntary agencies and UNRRA, strongly protesting the Army’s alleged plan to move the Jewish DP’s out of Zeilsheim to make room for Germans to be employed by the Anglo-American bi-zonal headquarters which are to be set up in Frankfurt.
The delegation said that the report had created turmoil in the camp, which houses 3,500 persons, and warmed, in blunt language that if the report should be true, the displaced Jews will not move any place except Palestine. “We have lived in Zeilsheim for the two years since liberation and built schools, synagogues and communal kitchens,” a spokesman said. “We have more than 600 children who were born during the past two years and nobody is going to move any place until we are finally saved out of Germany completely.”
The Army’s DP headquarters at Frankfurt and the office of Rabbi Philip Bernstein, adviser on Jewish affairs to Gen. Clay, denied any knowledge of the projected transfer of the DP’s. Other informed sources said, however, that Military Government headquarters in Berlin may have by-passed both Bornatein’s office and the DP headquarters. Still another report said that the Army plans to break the news on Monday when it is expected to confer with UNRRA officials and camp leaders.
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