The American Red Cross today announced that it is in a position to establish contact with Jews in Hungary, Rumania and Therezinstadt, and is prepared to accept messages for Jews there from their relatives in the United States.
At the same time, the announcement emphasized that communication with Jews in occupied Poland is impossible, Messages from Jewish deportees confined in the fortress town of Therezinstadt, in Czechoslovakia, are already reaching relatives in America with fair regularity, the announcement said.
The exchange of messages between Jews in Therezinstadt, Hungary and Rumania and their relatives in the United States is arranged by the American Red Cross through the cooperation of the International Red Cross. The average time elapsed between the acceptance of a message by a Red Cross office here and its arrival at its destination is about four months. Messages from occupied countries to the United States take about the same length of time to arrive.
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