A schedule for the liquidation of Jewish communal organizations and their activities in line with the rapidly decreasing number of displaced Jews remaining in the American zone of Germany was drawn up here at a two-day conference of the Council of Liberated Jews.
At the parley, attended by Harry Greenstein, newly-appointed advisor on Jewish affairs to the U.S. high command in Europe, an agreement was reached with the Joint Distribution Committee whereby the relief agency will take over any functions of the Jewish Central Committee which must be carried out after a subsidiary arm of the committee is dissolved. The J.D.C., in effect, agreed to maintain its services in the U.S. zone as long as the DP’s and the Central Committee need them. Thus, it is hoped, no service vacuum will develop during the closing down period.
The schedule of institutional liquidation was drafted in cooperation with the local office of the Jewish Agency, the J.D.C., ORT, Central Committee and Greenstein’s office. No deadline has been set for the dissolution of specific bodies, but the following groups, all affiliated with the Central Committee, will be liquidated shortly: several Associations of Jewish Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers, Writers and Journalists; several Federations of Jews from Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Rumania; and the Jewish College at Munich.
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