Mass emigration of Jews from Western Europe, with the exception of 30,000-40,000 Jews who hope to settle in the Western Hemisphere, has ended, Zacharias Shuster, head of the American Jewish Committee’s European office, said at a press conference here today. The 500,000 Jews who wish to remain in Western Europe countries, he said, are in the same situation as their non-Jewish fellow citizens and have full political rights.
Jewish life in the satellite countries behind the Iron Curtain is being liquidated, he said, and the estimated 500,000 Jews there are isolated. Of Germany, he said the chief question was not how to obtain reparations from that country but how to make Germany a democratic country that would not again menace the Jews.
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