A call to rabbis, religious Jews throughout the country and Landsmanshaften to come to the rescue of 200 rabbis and yeshivah students stranded in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, although permitted by the Soviet authorities to emigrate, was issued here today by Rabbi Eliezer Silver, president of Agudath Israel, following receipt of a cable from the Jewish relief committee in Yokohama, Japan.
The cable said: “Transit visas through Japan are available, provided you deposit immediately in New York with a steamship company the fare for 200 rabbis and Yeshivah student. Otherwise the visas will be can celled.”
The call was issued by Rabbi Silver in behalf of a number of orthodox rabbis in America who compose the Emergency Committee for War-Torn Yeshivoth in Europe. It urges all interested groups and individuals to get into immediate contact with any of the yeshivah offices in the United States, or with the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York, known as the Vaad Haazolah.
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