The German Government’s financial arrangements for the 1,300 remaining Jewish DP’s in Foehrenwald Camp, which is being liquidated, are not satisfactory, the Foehrenwald camp committee charged today at a press conference here.
The committee demanded that the cash immigration grants of the equivalent of $475 which the Bonn Government has offered to pay to immigrants after they get to their country of settlement be paid to the emigrants before they leave Germany.
It also demanded that those who remain in Germany, either through choice or because they cannot find a country which will admit them, not be barred from receiving this immigration bonus in the event they emigrate at a later date. Under the present arrangement the German Government would pay them a grant to integrate themselves in the German community and then end its obligation to them. Finally, the camp committee said that those who remain in Germany will not accept “segregated housing” in German cities.
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