The known death toll in the sinking of the refugee ship Patria on Nov. 25 reached 32 today with the announcement that seven more bodies had been recovered by divers from the submerged ship in Haifa harbor.
The bodies were those of Rudi Kolb, five-year-old son of the previously identified Bertha Kolb; Max Loterstein, Ignatz Schiller, 56; three unidentified women and one man.
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