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First Ort School for Vocational and Technical Training Opened in Athens

February 8, 1949
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The first ORT vocational and technical training school was opened here over the week-end with a large number of Greek Jewish leaders in attendance. A religious ceremony marked the formal dedication of the CRT installation which is taking over the rehabilitation and vocational retraining program; stated by the Joint Distribution Committee.

Asher Moissis, chairman of the Central Committee for Vocational Retraining here in an address at the school’s opening ceremonies, emphasized the “generous and constructive work performed by the ORT in Greece.”

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