Some 2,000 displaced Jews now living in fairly adequate quarters in the Ohestrasse camp within Hanover have been ordered by UNRRA authorities to move from the city to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, it was reported here. The Jews have been given eight days within which to move or face a cut in rations to the lower German civilian standards.
Jewish leaders and organizations have protested the order, pointing out that this would mean a serious blow to the physical and moral well-being of the Hanover Jews and would create a new group of DP’s. They assert that it would be more logical to use the available space at Bergen-Belsen for newly-arriving “infiltrates” from Poland. The protests, however, were not heeded by UNRRA officials.
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