The problem of the Jewish displaced persons camps in Austria and the Fohrenwald camp in Western, Germany will be raised in a memorandum to be submitted tomorrow by the Agudas Israel to the High Commissioner’s Advisory Committee on Refugees in Geneva.
The memorandum points out that several thousand Jewish refugees, most of them from Eastern Europe, are presently living in these camps “under miserable conditions.” The majority of these displaced persons wish to proceed to the United States, Canada and Australia, while others de6ire to go to England and Eire. The Agudah memorandum asks that the High Commissioner’s office give “urgent consideration to these cases, which require a humanitarian approach outside normal immigration regulations.”
The United Nations Human Rights Commission has notified the Agudas Israel executive here that the Federal German Government, as of September 1, 1952, had made payments of 350,000 marks to 108 applicants who demanded compensation for being forced to serve as “human guinea pigs” for 6p-called “scientific experiments” in Nazi concentration camps.
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