Dr. David Lvovitch, vice-chairman of the World ORT Union, denied today that he had stated on his arrival here that the French Government would permit 15,000 Jewish illegal immigrants to settle in the ORT colony near Bordeaux, as reported in the Yiddish press. Only a handful of Jews have been settled in the colony, Dr. Lvovitch said. The inaccurate quotation had caused surprise when the Yiddish papers arrived in Paris. (JTA NEWS DEC. 30).
Dr. Lvovitch furnished a copy of the statement he had made on his arrival here. The reference to France in this statement was:
“ORT has established courses in France for German and Austrian refugees where about 800 adults are being trained — men in tailoring, radio-making, mechanics, and women in dressmaking, hats, corsets, artificial flowers. ORT is expanding these courses outside of Paris where the refugees are concentrated in temporary barracks. ORT also is actively expanding its agricultural settlement program for German refugees in southern France. This project shows not only a good deal of stability but also very good results and serves to answer the widespread prejudice that German-Jewish refugees are not adaptable to agriculture. There is much free land in southern France for thousands of farmers, and the French Government has assisted German-Jewish refugees to settle on the land by granting permanent visas to those who formerly had temporary ones.”
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