The Federal Ministry of the Interior has notified the Central Council of Jews in Germany here that former officials of Jewish communities in Germany will receive “direct aid” regardless of the final indemnification and rehabilitation program. A special grant will be made available for this purpose from Federal sources.
This decision, it was said here, was the direct result of repeated interventions by the council in behalf of former officials of Jewish communities whose pensions have not been paid since the war.
Police investigations today failed to uncover any clue to the identity of a band of vandals responsible for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Stuttgart for the third time within three months. Many stones were overturned and a child’s grave in the Ban Cannastaat Jewish cemetery was disturbed. No clue was found to the perpetrators of the first two acts of vandalism either.
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