All the religious and other objects of value which the Paris Jewish Consistory placed in storage in 1940 in a chateau in western France are intact and can be restored to their former sites as soon as transportation is available, Grand Rabbi Josef Cohen of Bordeaux said today. Rabbi Cohen added that he had just forwarded to the Paris Consistory an inventory of the property they had sent to be stored.
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