Three Jewish leaders from the Soviet zone of Germany attended the annual plenary meeting here of the Central Council of Jews in Germany at which associations of Jewish communities in the various parts of Germany were represented by 24 voting delegates.
The delegates from the Soviet part of Germany claimed to represent about 700 Jews living in the cities of Leipzig, Dresden, Erfurt, Magdeburg, Halle, Schwerin and Chemitz The Jewish community of East Berlin abstained from the meeting. A Social Democratic member of the Bundestag, Mrs. Jeanette Wolff, and a Dusseldorf attorney, Dr. Adolf Weinberg, were elected co-chairmen of the Council.
In resolutions adopted at the closing session, the Central Council expressed its grave concern over various disturbing events in German public life, whose similarity with events preceding the Nazi seizure of power was noted. The Jewish communities are no longer viable by themselves, the Council indicated in an appeal for greater consideration from governmental quarters. With regard to the indemnification of individual Nazi victims the present state of affairs ten years after the collapse of Nazism was described as intolerable. The Council urged an increase in the staffs processing the applications of Nazi victims. It also demanded that, in addition to the present financial arrangements, compensation for bodily injury should be paid to those victims of Nazi medical experiments who were sterilized or who suffered the loss of a limb, an eye, etc.
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