The first direct report from the Jewish community in Amsterdam reached here today disclosing that since the Nazi occupation of Holland approximately three hundred Jews have been able to emigrate from the country.
Emigration of Jews from Holland is now meeting with more and more difficulties due to the complicated procedure of securing exit permits from the occupation authorities and also because of the closing of consulates of overseas countries in the Netherlands, the report states.
Disclosing that there are still about 6,000 Jewish refugees from Germany in Holland, the report states that their maintenance during six months has cost the newly-formed Jewish Council of Amsterdam about 900,000 Dutch florns. Of these refugees, about 2,000 are in Amsterdam and about 1,000 in the Westbrook camp, the remainder living in the provinces.
The growing impoverishment of the Jewish community in Holland is reflected in the Council’s budget for relief and emigration work, which totalled approximately 2,400,000 florins for the year ending July 31. A voluntary tax has been imposed by the Jewish community on the local Jews to cope with the ever-increasing demand for assistance.
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