Proposals designed to expedite the implementation of compensation and restitution laws have been submitted to the Hamburg Senate by the Jewish community here. A memorandum containing the proposals states that the pre-war Jewish community of Hamburg totalled 25,000 persons as compared with the present population of 1,100.
Of these 1,100, the note says, 60 percent live on pensions or welfare grants, 38 percent are employed and ten percent are in business. Only 50 Jews in Hamburg today are below the age of 18, while only two Jewish children were born here last year.
The memorandum calls on the Hamburg Senate to appropriate funds for the Jewish community here for social and cultural work and also recommends that the authorities assume responsibility for seven Jewish cemeteries that are no longer in use. The memorandum also urged a total ban on all neo-Nazi organizations and the barring of former Nazis from taking an active part in the political life of the country.
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