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IV. JEWISH EMIGRATION FROM
GERMANY
The emigration of the Jews from the East to
Middle and Western Europe and from Europe overseas to the United States of
America is a phenomenon which has been observed for decades. Many Jews
emigrated from Germany, mainly between 1840 and 1870, after this, however, this
emigration all but ceased due to the new economic possibilities of the Reich.
Instead the Germans began to emigrate. The Jewish emigration from Germany after
1933, to a certain extent a continuation of the interrupted emigration of 1870,
attracted the attention of the entire civilized world, particularly of the
Jewish-governed democracies. Attempts were made by various groups using
different methods to classify this emigration numerically and structurally,
however, no consistent results were obtained. The statistics on German
emigration, the figures of the Reich Jewish Union in Germany and of the Jewish
Religious Centers in Prague and Vienna, foreign statistics, calculations and
estimates, the statistics on international Jewry and the figures of scientific
studies exhibit a great variation. Prof. Zielenziger of Amsterdam calculated an
emigration of 135 000 between the seizure of power and the end of 1937 wheras
[sic] the Reich Jewish Union lists the figure 203 000. This emigration
increased considerably after 1938 but ceased almost completely (with a few
exceptions per month) with the prohibition of Jewish emigration in the autumn
of 1941. The Reich Jewish Union and the Jewish Religious Centers of Prague and
Vienna list the following high emigration figures (including
duplications):
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Time Period |
| Altreich with Sudetenland |
352 534 |
(Jan. 30, '33 Jan. 1, '43) |
| Ostmark |
149 124 |
(Mar. l, '38 Jan. 1, '43) |
| Protektorat |
26 009 |
(Feb. l5,' 39 Jan. l, '43) |
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precludes the possibility of obtaining exact figures. Also, the countries
listed as destinations insofar as concerns European countries, can be
considered as a temporary stopover in most cases. Of the emigrants from the
Altreich approximately 144 000 went to ether European countries, 57 000 to
U.S.A., 54 000 to South America, 30 000 to Middle America, 53 000 to Palestine,
15 000 to Africa (mainly South Africa), 16 000 to Asia (China) and 4 000 to
Australia. Of the 344 000 who emigrated to ether European countries ever 32 000
went to England, 39 000 to Poland or the General Government, 18 000 to France,
8 000 to Italy, 7 500 to the Netherlands and 6 000 to Belgium. It is to be
assumed that most of these emigrants went on to emigrate overseas. The
following figures are listed for the Jewish emigrants from Ostmark: 65 500 to
other European countries, 50 000 to America, 20 000 to Asia, 9 000 to
Palestine, 2 000 to Australia and 2 600 to Africa. |
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