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800 Polish Jews Reach Iran from Russia, Hope to Be Admitted to Palestine

April 23, 1942
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About 800 Jews are among the several thousand Polish refugees who arrived in Iran from Soviet Russia, according to reliable information reaching Jewish organizations here today. More Polish Jews continue to arrive in Teheran daily from Soviet territory, hoping to be admitted eventually into Palestine, the report says.

The Agudas Israel office here has succeeded in establishing contact with Senator Jacob Trockenheim of Warsaw who is now reported safe “Somewhere in Nazi-occupied territory.” Efforts will be made to facilitate his emigration.

It was originally thought that Senator Trockenheim had been interned in Soviet Russia, since he was seen in Vilna shortly before the outbreak of the German-Russian war. Soviet officials, however, assured the Polish embassy in Kuibyshev last January that he was not imprisoned anywhere on Soviet soil and that the Soviet authorities believe that he is not in Russia.

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