Former “legal residents” of Foehrenwald, last Jewish DP camp in Germany, are now receiving emigration grants from the German Government if they left for other countries after October, 1953.
At that time, the formal promise of the equivalent of $475 per adult and $120 for each child was made so as to speed the emptying of Foehrenwald, but until now the scheme has been blocked by bureaucratic obstacles. In the meantime, some 170 former Foehrenwald residents have departed from Germany, among them 26 tubercular or post-tubercular “hard-core cases, ” as well as 40 of their dependents, all of whom were accepted by Sweden more than a year ago, in a humanitarian gesture undertaken with the aid of the Joint Distribution Committee.
For these 170 ex-Foehrenwalders, Germany has appropriated $60, 000. Payments are made through German consulates in the countries of destination. To ensure that emigration plans are carried out, the same method will be followed in the case of future emigrants from among the 1, 200 “legal residents” still in Foehrenwald.
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