Some 100 Polish Jewish refugees who have come to Italy since the beginning of the war are being subjected to special police supervision which is aimed at forcing them to leave Italy, it was learned today. Nearly all of them entered this country on transit visas and are awaiting immigration permits for Palestine, the United States or other countries.
Approximately 400 other refugees who entered as Polish war refugees have already re-emigrated. Most of the remaining refugees are concentrated in the port of Trieste, where the offices of the Jewish Agency for Palestine are located. Virtually all of them have received threats of expulsion, with ultimatums to leave the city within 20 days.
One case of a refugee who was expelled across the German border is reported. He is Moses Wirmin, who had arrived from Warsaw four weeks earlier. This expulsion believed to be the first confirmed case of such action, was intended as a warning to the others. Its effect has been to throw terror into the Polish-Jewish refugee colony in. Trieste. It is believed that more than half of them will be able to emigrate within a short time. They represent, for the most part, the wealthier Jewish class of Warsaw and none is dependent on charity.
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