Sixty-nine of 374 Jews recently reported to be in refugee camps near Karaganda, in the Kazakh Soviet Republic in Central Asia, have been repatriated to Germany, the European tracing office of the World Jewish Congress disclosed today.
The tracing office has also received unconfirmed reports that an additional 270 men, women and children have arrived from Karaganda at Kishinev from where they will be repatriated to Austria. The 69 who arrived in Berlin are all German Jews and include two infants born in the camps.
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