The German Hechalutz has increased its membership from under 500 to 14,000 in the six months from May to November, 1933, the German Hechalutz Central Committee reports.
In April there were hardly any Hachsharah centres, most of them being lost in the April weeks following the assumption of power by the Hitler regime. Today there are 2,400 chalutzim doing Hachsharah, the report says. They exist not only in Germany, but in eleven other countries, and the Berlin Hechalutz is the largest in the world.
The German Hechalutz, the report proceeds, is at present the largest Jewish youth movement of Germany, and the central committee intends to extend it so that it will become an organization of all who wish to go to Palestine to live there by labor.
It is the intention of the central committee, it is further said, to see that the German Hechalutz should not be narrowed down to any one group or party organization. It includes also a group of traditionally orthodox Jews.
Seven hundred of the German Hechalutz went to Palestine in 1933, and have all been absorbed, the report says, and this chalutz immigration from Germany has found appreciation among all sections of the Yishub, whereas other German immigrants in Palestine are the subject of complaints. Work has also been done in the direction of placing members in other countries abroad, and it has been particularly successful in France and Jugoslavia, where about 250 German Chalutzim are now doing their Hachsharah.
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