The condition of some 25,000 surviving Dutch ?s in Holland was described here today by Arthur U.J. Cohen, director of the Hebrew ?dgrant Aid Society office in Rotterdam, who is now in the United States to arrange ? the settlement in the Netherlands of a number of Jewish youth presently living in camps in Germany.
Cohen, a former partisan leader during the occupation of his country and one-? secretary of the Rotterdam Jewish Community, declared that the problem of anti-Semitism is relatively unimportant in Holland despite the existence of some anti-Semitism sentiment as a result of the five-year occupation of the land by the Nazis. ? surviving Jews are chiefly concentrated in the large cities, he said, adding that ?re are 10,000 Jews in Amsterdam alone.
Most of the Jews would like to remain in Holland, he asserted, but pointed out ?t some would like to leave because of the bitter memories that they have of the ?ntry during the occupation. Others fear for the safety of Holland if a large-?le war should break cut in Europe, Cohen said, and they would prefer to leave too. ?while, he stressed, the government’s attitude toward the Jews is “distinctly ?orable” and every effort is being made to assist in their economic and social habilitation.
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