Yielding to Communist pressure, the remaining Jews in East Berlin and in the Soviet zone of Germany have reconstituted the “Association of Jewish Communities in the German Democratic Republic,” which had ceased to function when practically all Jewish communal leaders fled to the West in January.
President of the association is Hermann Baden. An 68-year-old textile wholesaler and new chairman of the Jewish Community at Halle, where 45 Jews now live. Secretary-General will bandit, an employee of the Communist Trade Union League and chairman of the executive board of the East Berlin Jewish Community that was set up when the unified community, which had embraced all of Berlin, was split in January. Chairman of the association’s advisory council is 72-year-old Ernst Gold. Friend, of a textile merchant who assumed the direction of the community in Leipzig with its remnant of 175 Jews, after its chairman and deputy chairman escaped to West Berlin.
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