Following approval by the American State Department of a collective visa for a group of 100 refugee children, representatives of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and of the OSE, Jewish health society, have completed selection of the children for emigration to the United States.
Difficulties in finding steamship accommodations will delay the departure of the children. The American Committee for the Care of European Children is working on the solution of this problem, it was stated here.
In view of the miserable state of Rivesaltes, the children’s concentration camp, where more than 3,000 children, 1,000 of them Jewish, are held, the OSE is seeking to obtain transfer of these children since such a large concentration of children leads to a spread of epidemic diseases. The chief obstacle is the resistance of prefects of various districts to the entry of new refugees.
To date the OSE has succeeded in transferring from the camps to its children’s colonies a total of 240 children. In addition, 40 children were transferred to the colonies of the Swiss Aid Society.
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