Invited by Princeton University to deliver a series of lectures, Prof. Heinrich Neumann, world-famous Viennese ear specialist who has treated the Duke of Windsor and other royal personages, sailed for the United States today on the liner Aquitania. Prof. Neumann received permission to leave Vienna on condition that he return within six months. He has been treated with respect by the Nazis.
Besides lecturing at Princeton, Prof. Neumann will confer with American relief leaders on methods of furthering emigration of Jews from Austria. A total of 88,000 have emigrated since Anschluss but another 84,000 are still being cared for by the Jewish community. These last represent the entire Viennese Jewry, only a few of whom are able to exist without recourse to charity.
“I cannot leave Austrian Jewry alone and helpless,” Prof. Neumann told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency before he sailed, “therefore I intend definitely to return to Vienna.”
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