Global memorial services dedicated to the 60,000 Jews who perished under the Nazi regime in Austria, will be held by Jewish congregations throughout the free world over this week-end which marks the 17th anniversary of the Nazi Anschluss, it was reported today by the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria.
The memorial will be observed against the background of growing demands in this country and abroad for just compensation by the present Government of Austria for the scattered survivors of Austrian Jewry all over the world.
The Committee announced that the rabbinates of Great Britain, France, Austria, Israel and the Union of South Africa, as well as Latin American Jewry, will join 2,300 American rabbis in marking the occasion. In the United States, the Synagogue Council of America, representing Orthodox, Conservative and Reform congregations, called upon its members to devote their sermons over the week-end to the fate of Austrian Jewry and to the plight of some 100,000 survivors, many of them destitute, now living in America, Europe, Israel and elsewhere.
The surviving Jews of Austria, the Committee pointed out, are for the most part beyond middle age, include many who are ill or maimed as a direct result of their concentration camp experiences and forced wandering, but are still awaiting just compensation because Austria has not yet made acceptable proposals.
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