Dayan Rabinov of Antwerp arrived here today after what he described as a “nightmare journey” on foot from Antwerp to Dunkirk, where he succeeded in gaining passage across the channel.
The fate of Chief Rabbi Rottenberg of Antwerp as well as that of a number of Antwerp Jews who were last known to be at Calais is not known.
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