A project for organized colonization of German-Jewish families in Costa Rica, Central America, has been completed by the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland, central Jewish relief body, it was announced today.
The aid of the Council for German Jewry, of which Sir Herbert Samuel and Felix M. Warburg are joint chairmen, as well as Jewish relief organizations in America and elsewhere, will be enlisted.
The Costa Rica undertaking was decided upon after a study of all problems involved, it was stated.
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