Rabbis and communal officials who were permanently employed by congregations in the Free State of Danzig will in the future be entitled to pension payments on the same basis as their colleagues from Germany proper, according to a ruling of the Bonn Ministry of the Interior.
All assets of the Danzig Jewish Community were taken over by Nazi Germany, so that the pensions, to which rabbis and communal officials would normally have been entitled, could not be paid until now. The German Government will advance pension payments amounting to 80 percent of the last salary for the rabbi or communal official concerned, 48 percent for his widow and 20 percent for full orphans under the age of 18.
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