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(HOLOCAUST) - Report of the Vienna Jewish Community, May-June, 1939. Text entirely in English. Each chapter preceded by full-page illustrated tab. pp. (42). Original printed stiff wrappers. Lg. 4to. (Vienna: 1939) Report issued by the Vienna Kultusgemeinde for the American Joint Distribution Committee. Divided into five chapter-categories: Emigration, Retraining, Foreign Currencies, Social Care, Financial Treatment.===Between 1938 and 1941, expenditures of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for swift Austrian-Jewish emigration amounted to close to $2 million. The funds were administrated via the official Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG) – the only Jewish organization permitted by the Nazis to function following the Anschluss. This most professionally produced report was prepared for the Joint, providing important economic and human statistics.=== >