[Marduk]

"These were people who were not hallakally jewish, meaning they would not be able to move to israel. "

Most of these were half-jews. If their mothers were Jews they would qualify as "Jews" according to Israel's law of return.

Jews also served in the Nazi police and security forces as ghetto police and concentration camp guards, which were known as Kapos.

[jonatron]

Most of these were half-jews. If their mothers were Jews they would qualify as "Jews" according to Israel's law of return.

Yes, that's what I said, but people with jewish mothers would be jewish to jews and raised as jews - therfore these Mischlinge people are paternally jewish, which means they could not, as Larry suggested make Aliyah. If their mothers or mothers' mothers were jewish, they would be jewish according to Halakha, and not Mischlinge.

[Fabozz]

"If their mothers were Jews they would qualify as 'Jews' according to Israel's law of return."

It's not quite that simple: You don't have to be a practicing Jew, but you can't be a practicing anything else. Yes, if your mother was Jewish then you're Jewish by halakha, but if you were raised Catholic and attend Mass every Sunday, you're not Jewish by Israeli civil law and are thus ineligible for the Law of Return.