THOUSANDS WILLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 13

THOUSANDS WILLING.

MIGRATION TO DOMINION. PERSECUTED GERMAN JEWS. Vivid impressions of the plight of the Jews in Oermany were given by Dr. I. H. Van der Hope, of Melbourne, who in returning to Australia by the Aorangi after 18 months of post-graduate study on the Continent. Thousands of persecuted Hermans would welcome an opportunity of migrating to New Zealand, he said. While lie was in one Herman city his telephone rnng incessantly with inquiries from would-be immigrants. Able to spenk the language, Dr. Van <ler Hope, wlio was born in Austria, but who is now a naturalised British subject, said he could perhaps l>ett-cr than most understand wnat tne people were suffering. In Italy and Germany there was dissatisfaction with low standards of living.

The peat barrier which prevented most people from leaving the country wm luck of funds, and he was sorry to see that the clasa of people who would lie of the utmost value to the country did not have the chance of 'coming either to New Zealand or Australia. Because of his British nationality, lie was widely envied, he said.

A further party of 115 Jews, propos in# to settle in Australia or New Zen land, was indued among the Aorangi's passengers. Most of them were of the professional class, including doctors and dentists. Only a few left the vessel at Auckland.