The Netherlands government here today announced that the 86 Jewish refugees on the steamer Cabo de Hornos have landed at Curacao, Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela.
Among the passengers who have spent several weeks living under appalling conditions aboard the vessel are eighteen refugees from Poland, seven from Belgium, twenty-six from Czechoslovakia, seven from France, seventeen from Rumania, one from Switzerland, nine from Germany, and one from Italy.
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