Indications that poverty among the Jews of Berlin is rapidly reaching catastrophic proportions is seen from the fact that former well-to-do Jewish residents of Berlin’s West Side, the residential area of the prosperous business men, are now compelled to seek financial assistance from the Berlin Jewish community. This condition was discussed today at a press conference of the community.
It was revealed at the conference that many former wealthy bank officials and merchants who were once generous donors to philanthropy are now so impoverished that they are impelled to seek employment. Many one time well-to-do Jewish professional men are in the same condition. To help these people out the Jewish community has established a special employment bureau for them in the Kurfuerstendam district of the city.
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