The New York Supreme Court had under consideration today an application by the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company to use the income from a $50,000 trust fund set up in 1923 by the late Ludwig Vogelstein for relief of refugees from Germany.
The fund, established in memory of Mr. Vogelstein’s parents, Heinemann and Rosa Vogelstein, was to be used for philanthropic purposes inside Germany “without any distinction as to nationality, political party and religion.” The bank’s petition is accompanied by a letter signed by the four surviving trustees of the Vogelstein Foundation and the heirs of the grantor, explaining that it was impossible for a Jewish charity to assist Christians in Germany now without “unpleasantness” to the recipient, or to administer the trust in the spirit in which it was founded.
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