Menu JTA Search  Jews’ Plight Dark, Eyewitness Avows  The
desperate plight of Europe’s Jews was described here by Henry
Silver, B’nai B’rith treasurer and business executive, who has
just returned from a visit to France, Switzerland, Austria,
Czechoslovakia and Poland.  “In Vienna I learned on the highest
authority that the Jewish community was forced to pay $40,000 to
the Heimwehr upon threat of violence,” he related.  “In France
there are 40,000 Jewish refugees from the Hitler regime, half of
whom France is now trying to deport because there is no work for
these pitiful people without a country.”  Polish Jews, Silver
said, “are taxed to death,” but the government is not anti-
Semitic. In Austria they can be found in the breadlines by the
thousands, he declared.