A report on the reintegration of surviving Jews, including repatriates from camps and the Soviet Union, into the economic life of Poland was given here today at a conference of the resettlement department of the Central Jewish Committee.
It was reported that twenty cooperatives have been established in Jewish communities, and that in Lower Silesia Jews are employed in industry, handicrafts, and coal mining. Over 1,000 Jews were engaged in harvesting on 65 farms covering more than 2,500 acres, and several hundred of them are remaining on the farms for spring planting, the report said.
Pointing out that Jewish farms were the first to deliver their prescribed quotas of produce to the authorities, the report also stated that the Polish Government has allocated an additional 3,500 to 4,000 acres to Jewish repatriates from Russia. The conference, which was attended by representatives of the Joint Distribution Committee and the ORT, made plans for the further economic rehabilitation of the repatriates.
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