The Exodus Jews in the Poppendorf and Am Stau camps were busy this week-end washing and scrubbing their clothes and their barracks in preparation for the New Year. Two barracks have been converted into make-shift synagogues and cantors who will officiate at services will be drawn from among the refugees themselves as well as from the Belsen DP camp.
Joint Distribution Committee supplies–including cigarettes, soap, toilet articles, cheese, sardines and all the necessary religious materials for observance of the High Holy Days–were distributed today. Although at first the refugees refused to accept them on the grounds that they did not wish to see the burden of the British authorities eased at this time and because they felt that Jewish relief groups should in no way cooperate with the British, they changed their minds later and took the supplies when assured that the aid was designed only for the period of the holidays.
British officials bar all newspapers and magazines from reaching the Jews and correspondents visiting the Am Stau camp, where the Empire Rival Jews are housed, must be accompanied by a British official at all times.
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