With the exception of 500,000 Marks earmarked for emigrants to Palestine, the 3,000,000-Mark Altreu fund for financing emigration of poor Jews has been exhausted. The final allotments were granted yesterday. About 2,500 Jews have been enabled to emigrate by the Altreu arrangement with the German Government permitting the purchase of 1,500,000 Marks in foreign exchange for 3,000,000 Marks collected. The Altreu is hoping for permission to reopen its transfer operations with a further allotment of foreign exchange.
It was reported from Vienna that Herman Oppenheim, former president of the Union of Austrian Jews, and Dr. Oskar Gruenbaum, Austrian Zionist leader, have been released from the Dachau concentration camp where they had been interned for several months.
While the Great Synagogue at Nuremberg is being demolished, it was revealed that a similar fate awaits the synagogue at Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate because the municipal authorities allegedly do not consider “the oriental type of architecture” appropriate to the surroundings.
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