Refugee circles here today challenged a statement by Chief Rabbi Nathan Rubners of the Polish Corps in Italy that 16,000 Jewish refugees arrived in this country during the last few months. The rabbi’s statement appeared in an Associated Press dispatch appearing yesterday in the English-language Rome American.
According to refugee leaders here, about 3,000 Jews arrived in Italy during March and April and since then there has been virtually no immigration. In all of Italy, they said, there are only about 15,000 Jewish refugees.
Jewish organizations also denied a report in the same newspaper that a vessel bearing illegal immigrants to Palestine sailed from Sicily this week.
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