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Polish Government Asked to Facilitate Emigration to Palestine of 600 Jews in USSR

February 19, 1946
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The Jewish Agency has appealed to the Polish Government to facilitate the emigration to Palestine of 600 Polish Jews now in the Soviet Union, to whom immigration certificates were allotted in 1941 and 1942. The visas were never used because of wartime transportation difficulties.

The appeal, which was sent through the Polish charge d’affaires in Teheran to the Polish Embassy here, for forwarding to Warsaw, asks whether in view of the changed conditions and the Government’s expressed willingness to allow legal emigration to Palestine, it would facilitate the transfer of these 600 Jews. It points out that the certificates will be wasted if the Jews to whom they were assigned cannot use them. The Agency said that it would assume transportation and other costs.

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