Together with the decrease in numbers, there is also a steadily growing impoverishment of the Jewish population. Fifty-five thousand of the 176,000 Jews of Vienna are registered with the Welfare Department of the Jewish Community as receiving relief. The majority of them are heads of families.
Only a week ago the official organ of the Union of Austrian Jews estimated that there were still 300,000 Jews living in Austria. These figures are now considered invalid as disclosed by the official census data.
The distress among the Jews in Austria is growing more intense every day as a result of the anti-Jewish agitation which is striving to eject them from the liberal professions, from economic life and from all means of earning a livelihood.
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