A demand that the West German Government pay pensions to rabbis who lost their posts as a result of Nazi persecutions and now live outside Germany was voiced at a press conference here by the Organization of Rabbis Who Survived the Nazi Holocaust. According to the rabbis, surviving rabbis living in Germany do receive pensions, but those who are in this country or in other lands are being discriminated against under the West German indemnification laws.
Many of the rabbi-survivors, the leaders of the organization said, were too old or weak, as a result of Nazi persecutions, to continue holding their rabbinical posts, it was stated at the conference. It was emphasized that these survivors are “clearly entitled to pensions as victims of Nazism.”
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