The Joint Distribution Committee has charterd the Spanish steamer Lima to transport 300 fermer inmates of German concentration camps to Palestine, it was announced today.
The vessel, which is scheduled to leave here about August 2, will carry persons freed from the Terezin and Bergen-Belsen camps who are now in Switzerland.
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