The problem of supplying 2,000,000 Jews in Nazi-held territories with matzoth for the approaching Passover holiday is being discussed by central Jewish relief organizations here. Consideration of the problem, which has become acute since the conquest of Poland, followed an appeal by the Vienna Jewish Community urging world Jewry to secure timely delivery of the unleavened bread in Nazi areas.
With Passover near and with the difficulties which Jews in Nazi territories face in obtaining even ordinary rationed bread, Jewish communities in Germany and Austria feel that unless Passover food is sent in from abroad all the Jews under the Nazi regime will for the first time in their history be without matzoth on the holiday.
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