JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Poor Jews'Temporary Shelter -England #general
Colin Plen
In England there was an establishment of Jews who had been there for many
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years. As they saw what the Germans called the Ostjuden, the poor Jews from the East, coming into the country they decided that numbers of this class of Jew coming into England would lower them in the eyes of the English gentiles. So they set up the refuge in order to care for the poor Jews and get them out of the country as soon as possible. They were sent on to America, South Africa, Australia, so as not to embarass themselves. The Shelter was indeed a shelter and a tzedakah was performed but it was done to hurry the embarassments out of the country. Colin Plen Jewish Genealogical Society Johannesburg
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