THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE REICHSVERTRETUNG DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND CANNOT MAINTAIN ITS WORK ON BEHALF OF THE GERMAN JEWS WITHOUT THE COOPERATION OF LARGE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS, THE EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE OF THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE DECLARED TODAY IN A REPORT COVERING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GERMAN JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE BODY FROM JAN. I TO JUNE 30.
THE REPORT STATES THAT THE JEWISH POPULATION OF GERMANY TOTALLED 392,350 AT THE END OF 1936 AS COMPARED WITH 408,965 AT THE END OF 1935 AND 499,628 ON JUNE 16, 1933. SMALL COMMUNITIES WERE MOST AFFECTED BY THE EMIGRATION, THE REPORT SAYS, DROPPING IN JEWISH POPULATION FROM 60,555 TO 25,216 IN THE TERRITORY COVERED BY THE PRUSSIAN UNION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES, WHILE BERLIN’S JEWISH POPULATION DECREASED ONLY FROM 165,564 TO 145,000.
DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1937 IT HAS BEEN POSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE JEWS WITHIN GERMANY FOR RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION WORK DESPITE THE STEADILY INCREASING IMPOVERISHMENT AND CONSTANTLY DECREASING NUMBERS, DECLARES THE REPORT. DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1937, 3,641 JEWS EMIGRATED FROM GERMANY, INCLUDING 1,363 TO PALESTINE, 1,870 TO OTHER OVERSEAS COUNTRIES, 69 TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND 339 FOREIGN NATIONALS REPATRIATED TO THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN.
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