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Ion Talks with So American Countries

July 31, 1953
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“Resettlement opportunities will soon become ### of Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe for new ### was predicted here today by Louis D. Horwitz, Joint ### ation director in Europe.

### for South America to explore the possibility of Jewish ### id he was extremely hopeful of an increase in the num### th American countries during the coming months. He ### Uruguay and other lands. On his mission Mr. Hor. ### lius Lomnitz, JDC’s permanent representative in ###.

### ntries of South America will open their gates again ### laced persons who–eight years after V-E Day–are ### place of their own in a Europe which they feel they ### ared.

### that JDC. through its cooperating committees in ###ag special efforts to convince these governments that ### icy is to their own advantage as well as a humanita### JDC’s various emigration offices in Europe now con###?000 applicants who have registered for resettlement ### it this figure is taken from the active, current file ### emigration aid.”

SH REFUGEES TO LEAVE EUROPE LAST YEAR

{SPAN}###{/SPAN} emigration opportunities, including expiration of the {SPAN}###{/SPAN} last year helped only 5.200 Jewish refuges to leave {SPAN}###{/SPAN} his total, while accounting for three-fourths of all {SPAN}###{/SPAN} tinent, was the lowest since the end of World War II, {SPAN}###{/SPAN} ther JDC aided an average of more than 15,000 {SPAN}###{/SPAN} rom Europe to countries other than Israel. The great {SPAN}###{/SPAN} mmittee helped resettle more than 25,000 persons.

###JDC is the situation in Camp Foehrenwald, where ### vivors of Nazi persecution still live, Mr. Horwitz ### ately”to emigrate, he adde, but many families in the ### barred from normal resettlement channels because ### ed “hard core” group accounts for alarge number ### this grim and cheerless DP center, Mr. Horwitz said###.

### efforts on finding a permanent solution to the plight ### ough special emigration and other projects, Mr.### his program are special resettlement schemes under ### nts with specific countries to accept “hard core” ###nt.

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