In addition to the ransom which Jews in Transnistria must pay for being released from labor camps and repatriated to Rumania, Jewish communities must also supply clothes for them prior to their return, the Rumanian authorities stipulated.
“This condition has been made because the rags which the Jews wear at present are so deplorable that they are bound to create a bad impression at home,” the Budapest correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports.
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