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J.D.C. Aids 50,000 in Unoccupied France

February 27, 1941
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Approximately 50,000 Jews in unoccupied France are receiving assistance from the Joint Distribution Committee, a survey today disclosed. This constitutes about 35 per cent of the entire Jewish population presently in unoccupied France.

It is estimated that there are in unoccupied France about 175,000 Jews, including some 30,000 internees, 40,000 foreign Jews evacuated from the occupied zone and 30,000 foreign Jewish residents of the free zone, the remainder being French and Alsatian Jews evacuated from occupied France. This nearly every fourth Jew in unoccupied France is dependent upon relief from the J.D.C. through subsidized local relief bodies.

With the constant influx of Jewish refugees from the occupied zone and the gradual pauperization of the hither to well-to-do refugees, pressure on J.D.C. funds is bound to increase, while local contributions are far from adequate to meet the increasing distress because of the almost total ruin of the Jewish wealth in France.

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