After many months of wandering with their livestock and agricultural machinery, several thousand members of the Jewish collective settlements in Crimea are reported today to have reached Krasnoyarsk, Siberia where they will settle on land allotted to them in the Krasnoyarsk district.
The Jewish colonists, the report says, were evacuated from the Nazi-occupied part of Crimea in sufficient time to be able to take along with them all of their cattle and farming implements. Before leaving their colonies, they set their crop on fire to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis.
The local population in the Krasnoyarsk district where the Jewish settlers are to start their life anew in safety have given the Jewish newcomers a hearty welcome, the report states Local authorities have received special instructions to give the newcomers the maximum possible aid. The instructions emphasize that the Jewish settlers “have saved immense amounts of national property.”
A number of Jewish colonists from the Nazi-occupied Ukraine are now settled in the Saratov district on the Volga river where they have been enabled by the Soviet authorities to establish collective settlements. Some of these new Jewish settlements are on land held by German settlers prior to the outbreak of the war with Germany.
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