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2,300 Sulina Refugees Depart for Palestine

February 2, 1940
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It was reliably reported here tonight that 2,300 refugees marooned at Sulina, Rumania, have departed for Palestine. The refugees’ journey on river boats and barges had been interrupted when the Danube froze over. During the several weeks they had been marooned, they suffered from inadequate food and shelter. There were several deaths among the refugees, who came from Germany, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia.

(An Associated Press dispatch dated Sulina said the refugees sailed aboard the Turkish freighter Vakaria although they lacked Palestine entry permits.)

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