In the immediate post-war years Aris worked to rebuild what remained of the Jewish community and in 1953 he became a member of the Central Saxony Community Leadership council in succession to Leon Löwenkopf , the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime ( VVN ) founder who had been imprisoned since 1950 ( following a denunciation ) and fled to the west in 1953 . Aris was also elected to leadership of the Dresden Community Leadership in succession to Hans Ogrodek who had fled East Germany . It was reported that following the vast scale of the state mandated killings and deportations there were only 5,000 Jews remaining in what was becoming East Germany , of whom perhaps 10 % were active in the communities
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Helmut Aris