Hailing the imminent burning of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which is scheduled to be destroyed by British troops on May 21, as a symbol of the eradication of the forces of evil, Sir Simon Marks, prominent lionist and refugee aid leader, today appealed for the temporary admission into England of survivors of horror camps pending their eventual emigration to Palestine. Sir Simon, speaking at a meeting in Grosvenor House launching a 1,000,000 Palestine Appeal drive, said that “our people will never have any real freedom until Palestine is rebuilt as a Jewish Commonwealth.”
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told the meeting that Zionists must take the initiative both in rescuing the surviving Jews in Europe and in settling them in Palestine. Asserting that no immigration certificates remain under the White Paper quota, he said that the problem of immigration can only be solved by creation of a Jewish State in Palestine and immediate control of immigration by the Jewish Agency.
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