Thousands of Jewish children will be barred from the German public schools when the new term begins April 1, declared Rabbi Jonah B. Wise in a report to the national council of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
In the secondary schools, according to the report, “Jewish children are hereafter to be admitted only to the extent of one and-a-half per cent, exclusive of exceptions in favor of children of ‘front’ soldiers, pre-war officials and the like, but since that percentage has already been reached in most districts, practically no more Jewish children will be accepted.”
The report is based on the findings of Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the committee, who was recently in Germany, and Morris C. Troper, auditor of the organization.
“The fate and future of the vast majority of the Jewish youths in Germany will have to be determined in that country,” Rabbi Wise continued. “Recognizing this fundamental task and realizing the problem of a rising generation of Jewish youth, untrained for self-support, the Joint Distribution Committee is appealing to the Jews of America to support its program of reconstructive aid to the stricken Jews in the Reich.”
ON PALESTINE MISSION
Mrs. William Prince, president of the Woman’s League for Palestine, is en route to Palestine on the S.S. Vulcania to make a survey of conditions there, for the purpose of establishing a nursery and hostelry for German Jewish refugees in Tel Aviv.
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