The Association of German Immigrants in Palestine today announced it would organize big demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Saturday to stress the solidarity between Palestine Jews and those in Germany and to ask that German Jews be permitted to enter Palestine outside the regular quota. Saturday will be called “yellow patch” day, recalling the distinctive mark worn by Jews in the Middle Ages.
The 6,000 German Jews in Palestine appealed to the Palestine Government to save their 10,000 parents in the Reich by permitting them to emigrate to the Holy Land. A petition prepared by the association for presentation to Eric Mills, head of the Immigration Department, declared that if money were sent to the Reich for support of the parents, them the Nazis would never release them.
The aged cannot affect the equilibrium of Palestine’s population, the petition said, and they would not take jobs. Even the pre-war Turkish regime in the Holy Land permitted old Jews to come to Palestine to die, the appeal declared, adding that if all countries modified their immigration laws to aid refugees, why could not Palestine also do so. The petition also renewed the plea for admission of 10,000 German Jewish children.
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