Canada is second only to Israel in accepting displaced persons from Europe as immigrants, Mandel Kraicer, director in the British zone of Germany for HIAS, reported here today at a press conference. He returned to this country after a three-year stay in Germany and will shortly resume his post as director of the central region of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Toronto.
Since the end of the war, Kraicer said, Canada absorbed 100,000 displaced persons, including 14,000 Jews. Of the 40,000 Jews who were in the British zone of Germany in 1946, he reported, 30,000 went to Israel. As a result of the influx of displaced Jews from other parts of the continent, the British zone has a Jewish population of some 14,000. Half of these are in DP camp, 2,000 others are classified as DP’s while 5,000 are German Jews living in urban areas.
Kraicer voiced the belief that all of the Jewish DP camps in the British zone will be closed down this year, with half of the area’s Jewish population moving out-Three thousand Jews in the British zone are eligible for immigration to the United States, he added.
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