Two hundred and fifty Rumanian Jews who registered for immigration to the United States before the war broke out have addressed a ##int appeal to the American mission here, the State Department and Mrs. Eleanor ?osevelt asking that they be given priority in the allocation of visas. Many of them are former inmates of concentration camps or were deportees.
Large numbers of Jews from all parts of Transylvania this week attended the reopening of the Jewish synagogue in the town of Careii Mari, on the Rumanian-Hungarian order. The newly-appointed rabbi, Solomon Gross, is well known among former concentration camp prisoners because in the capacity of assistant cook in one of the major camps he regularly sneaked out large quantities of food to the undernourished Jewish ?mates. The town’s pre-war population of 2,500 has shrunk to 500.
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