The first old-age home for Christians persecuted by the Nazis because of their Jewish descent was established here today. In the home, set up by the Lutheran Provost of Berlin, are some 20 elderly people who were treated as Jews by the Nazis because they or their antecedents were Jews before becoming Christians.
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