More than 1,500 Polish Jews have reached Teheran en route from Soviet Russia to Palestine, according to a registration of Polish-Jewish refugees completed here today. The Polish Jews are part of large contingents of Polish citizens permitted to leave Soviet territory for countries in the Near East.
Groups of Polish Jews continue to arrive here from Russia almost every day. They are given temporary shelter in barracks and tents in the suburbs of Teheran and will be permitted to remain in Iran until they have secured their Palestine visas. In view of the fact that Jewish immigration to Palestine from other parts of the world is now practically impossible, it is expected that the Jewish Agency for Palestine will assign all available immigration certificates, under the present and coming labor schedules, to Polish Jews now reaching Iran.
Among the Polish Jews now reaching Teheran are many who joined the Polish armed forces in Russia. They are considered a part of the Polish army which is being transported through Iran to various destinations in the Near East, including Palestine and Syria. They will have to remain in the Polish army and serve under the Polish flag whether in Palestine or on any of the fronts in the Near and Middle East to which they may be sent.
Rabbi Bromberg, chaplain of the Polish forces in Soviet Russia, is now compiling further lists of Polish Jews in Russia who have applied for emigration through Iran to Palestine. Copies of these lists are being sent by the Polish embassy in Kuibyshev to the Polish Government in London, it was stated here today by Polish officials.
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