Palestine Chief Rabbis May Go to Rome to Confer with Pope on Fate of Hungarian Jews

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July 9, 1944

JERUSALEM (Jul. 7)

The two Chief Rabbis of Palestine, Rabbi Isaac Herzog and Rabbi Ben-Zion Uziel, may go to the Vatican to see the Pope and seek his intervention for the remnants of the Jews in Hungary and the rest of occupied Europe, it was learned here today.

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