The sum of $100,000 was cabled today to Jerusalem by Hadassah to provide emergency feeding and to start a long-range program of education for 600 Polish-Jewish refugee children, who, after three years of wandering, and four months of enforced waiting in camps outside of Teheran, Iran, are now on their way to Palestine where they will be permanently settled. Hadassah announced that the Polish Government-in-Exile has agreed to pay part of the maintenance costs for this group, once they reach Palestine.
The children are part of a larger group of almost 1,000 Polish-Jewish boys and girls for whom certificates of entry into Palestine were granted by the British Government. A cable received by Hadassah yesterday indicates that they are journeying by way of Awaz in Iran, to a seaport on the coast of the Persian Gulf, from which they will go around the Arabian Peninsula and up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal. From that point they will be taken overland to Palestine. Because of Iraq’s refusal to permit them transit, their route has been increased fivefold.
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