Rabbi Samuel Brot, one of the leaders of the Mizrachi world movement who for eight years served as a member of the Polish parliament, was one of the 134 haggard, undernourished Jewish refugees who yesterday landed in New York on the Portuguese liner Colonial after being confined in concentration camps in Germany and in ghettos in Belgium.
Rabbi Brot, a member of the Zionist Actions Committee, was confined in a ghetto in Limbourg for several months, prior to his leaving for the United States. Some 263 passengers on the Colonial disembarked in Havana where the steamer stopped on her way to New York.
Many of the passengers were loud in their praise of the Joint Distribution Committee for its help in getting them visas, and in saving them from ticket scalpers in arranging their passage, Some of the scores of elderly refugees had been held in German concentration camps for years, and later had been confined in other European camps.
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