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B’nai B’rith to Have Lodge in Frankfurt; Second in Postwar Germany

February 24, 1961
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B’nai B’rith announced today it had chartered its second postwar lodge in West Germany, to be opened in March in Frankfurt, following several visits by Maurice Bisgyer, executive vice-president of the organization. B’nai B’rith is also considering activating lodges in Munich, Stuttgart, and Hamburg.

“This is in accordance with B’nai B’rith traditional policy of organizing abroad as a part of the indigenous Jewish communal structure,” Mr. Bisgyer said. In 1937 the Nazis outlawed B’nai B’rith in Germany. Lodges had existed there since the 1880’s.

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