A sanitorium for Jewish refugees was opened yesterday by the Joint Distribution Committee in the former summer residence of Herman Goering, near Rome. The modern building is equipped with forty beds, solariums, and hydrotherapy apparatus. Special diets to rebuild the health of the patients, who will remain at the institution for two weeks, have been introduced. The chief of the UNRRA mission in Italy and a representative of American Relief for Italy were present at the opening.
Two memorial plaques, commemorating 71 Italian Jews massacred at the Argentine slaves, near Rome, in reprisal for an explosion, which killed 32 S.S. men, and the 6,000,000 European Jews exterminated by the Nazis, were unveiled here yesterday. They are affixed to the front of the Great Synagogue.
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