The Youth Council of this city is planning to set up summer vacation camps in Southern France so that German youth might be involved in the rehabilitation of the graves of Jews and other victim of the Nazis deported from the Province of Baden to concentration camps in France where they were subsequently murdered.
The Youth Council decision is part of a plan which the Jewish community of Karlsruhe together with members of the municipal government and Mayor H. Klotz of this city are working out. The Mayor and representatives of the Jewish community visited the site of camps at Gurs, Noe, Portet-Saint Simeon and Recebedou.
The graves are in a dilapidated condition and rent is due on them under a French law which calls for the payment of rental fees after a 15-year moratorium. Some of the remains may be exhumed and reinterred elsewhere, if the Conference of German Rabbis grants permission.
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