“Resettlement opportunities will soon become ### of Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe for new ### was predicted here today by Louis D. Horwitz, Joint ### ation director in Europe.
### for South America to explore the possibility of Jewish ### id he was extremely hopeful of an increase in the num### th American countries during the coming months. He ### Uruguay and other lands. On his mission Mr. Hor. ### lius Lomnitz, JDC’s permanent representative in ###.
### ntries of South America will open their gates again ### laced persons who–eight years after V-E Day–are ### place of their own in a Europe which they feel they ### ared.
### that JDC. through its cooperating committees in ###ag special efforts to convince these governments that ### icy is to their own advantage as well as a humanita### JDC’s various emigration offices in Europe now con###?000 applicants who have registered for resettlement ### it this figure is taken from the active, current file ### emigration aid.”
SH REFUGEES TO LEAVE EUROPE LAST YEAR
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###JDC is the situation in Camp Foehrenwald, where ### vivors of Nazi persecution still live, Mr. Horwitz ### ately”to emigrate, he adde, but many families in the ### barred from normal resettlement channels because ### ed “hard core” group accounts for alarge number ### this grim and cheerless DP center, Mr. Horwitz said###.
### efforts on finding a permanent solution to the plight ### ough special emigration and other projects, Mr.### his program are special resettlement schemes under ### nts with specific countries to accept “hard core” ###nt.
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