Six more bodies have been recovered from the submerged S.S. Patria in Haifa harbor, making a total of 137 known dead. Only one of the six was immediately identified, Ignatz Neufeld, 62, of Hungary.
The seven previously buried have now been identified as Ruth Effenberger, 31, of Berlin; Pinchas Moscovitz, 24, of Munkacs, Hungary; Wilma Lurje, 11, and Rosa Gottfried, 30, of Austria; Marie Lederer, 60, Rivka Itzkowitz, 23, and Dr. Walter Cahn, 48, all of Prague.
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