The tragic plight of Jews in Germany was further stressed today in a statistical report published by the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question, which showed a sharp falling off of Jewish emigration in 1937.
From February 1, 1933, the day after Chancellor Adolf Hitler took power, to March 31, 1936, nearly 100,000 Jews left Germany at the rate of 33,000 annually. In 1937 only 15,000 Jews emigrated to foreign shores, the report said.
During the first three years, 15,000 Jews left for Palestine. Last year some 4,000 were admitted to the Holy Land.
The institute concluded that at the present rate of emigration it would take 30 years to evacuate the entire Jewish population from Germany. Prior to the Nazi regime, the Jewish population in Germany was put at about 600,000.
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