One hundred and eighty-five Jews in the north Bavarian town of Nuemburg Vorm Wald facing an economic boycott by the German population have rejected an unofficial suggestion from the military government authorities that they move from the town.
The Jews maintain that to leave now would be a sign of weakness and an admission that the military government has failed to smash Nazi activity. The German boycott, which extends even to refusing to sell food to the Jews, resulted from the exhumation and reburial last week of the bodies of 29 Jews murdered in the Flossenburg concentration camp. When several of the local Nazis refused to exhume the bodies, they were beaten by some soldiers and several Jews.
It was learned today that Col. George Seithers of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed liaison officer between the military government and the recently-recognized Jewish Central Committee of Germany. Col. Seithers is expected to arrive here this week to open his office.
In an attempt to forestall strikes by displaced Jews similar to the one which occurred at the Babenhausen camp last week when 2,000 Jews refused to enter the center because its physical conditions were poor, the Army has conducted representatives of voluntary relief agencies and the Jewish Central Committee on a tour of two sites where camps are being erected for infiltrees who formerly were housed in tent centers. The new camps are situated north of Frankfurt in the Kassel area. One of the tent centers at Cham has been closed and the second one at landshut will be evacuated this week.
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