Wandering Jews

> Not a Jew is left in Memel and Danzig.

> The number of Jews in Greater Germany has dropped from 760,000 to about 250,000 since the Nazis came to power.

> Warsaw's ghetto had more than ten times as many deaths (4,290) as births (396) last June. In all Poland Jewish deaths since the start of World War II have been five times the normal rate--300,000 in two years.

These were high lights of a 151-page report, Jews in Nazi Europe, released last week by Manhattan's Institute of Jewish Affairs. The volume covers 8,500,000 Jews in 16 countries, tots up the first full balance sheet on what remains of Jewish life on the Continent. Excerpts:

> Since Italy passed its racial laws in 1938, some 4,500 of its 57,000 Jews have become Christians "due to a desire to place children in Catholic schools and circumvent the economic restrictions imposed on Jews . . . also [in] the hope of emigration to Latin America, where many countries admit proselytes while barring Jews."

> Rumania's five-day Jewish pogrom last January was featured by "kosher butchery," a monstrous parody of the Jewish ritual for killing animals by throat-slitting. "All Jewish men from 18 to 50 years of age have been drafted for forced labor. Their daily food ration is one-eighth of that provided for a Rumanian soldier."

> Czecho-Slovakia had "no Jewish problem . . . prior to Munich." Afterwards the Nazis "Aryanized" an estimated $1,000,000,000 worth of Jewish property.

> "The Nazis boast that some 20,000 Jewish enterprises are already under Aryan control" in The Netherlands. The Dutch people do not support the anti-Semitic decrees forced on them by Germany.

> Before Hitler "half of the lawyers and one-fourth of the physicians of Berlin were Jewish" and in Vienna the 165,000 Jews (8.6% of the city) had "62% of the lawyers, 62.7% of the dentists, 47.2% of all physicians, 28.6% of the professors." In 1930 it is estimated that the Jews' share of the German income and aggregate wealth "was four times that of the Jewish population ratio. . . . Today there are no Jewish business enterprises in Germany, no Jewish lawyers, craftsmen, actors or musicians. . . . With the exception of the manual labor which they perform upon a virtually slave basis, the Jews have been completely eliminated from the economic life of greater Germany."

Equally frank and detailed is the Institute's report on the Jewish refugee problem. Nearly a million European Jews had to flee their homes between 1933 and 1940. Principal havens: 330,000 to Russia (300,000 from the Nazi part of Poland at the start of World War I), 150,000 to England, France, Belgium and The Netherlands (Nazis have caught up with them again in the last three), 135,000 to the U.S., 116,000 to Latin America, 110,000 to Palestine.

"Today," says the Institute, "opportunities for resettlement are choked off. . . . In the last analysis [refugee] rehabilitation rests on Palestine and the U.S. and, to a lesser degree, on certain South American countries. . . . Other likely countries are either closed to newcomers, or apply their laws exclusively against the Jews, directly or indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years 1881-1941 is now at an end. Apparently no country is willing to receive immigrants of this category in any sizable number."

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