The Italian Government and the International Refugee Organization have made special arrangements to turn over an entire DP camp to the ORT for the training of some 900 displaced Jews from 30 schools now scattered over northern Italy, it was disclosed here today.
The arrangements were made following submission of an ORT memorandum to both the government and the IRO, pointing out that the government’s proposed transfer of some 8,000 DP’s from camps in northern Italy to centers in the southern section of the country threatened to disrupt the ORT training program.
The memorandum stated that the ORT had obtained satisfactory quarters and rebuilt others for training purposes only after surmounting great difficulties, that the same problem would be faced in southern Italy and that many of its highly skilled instructors lived in cities in northern Italy and would not be available to the schools in the south. The government and the IRO agreed with the ORT and turned the Rivoli camp over to it for use as a large school, incorporating all the facilities of the organization’s workshops in northern Italy.
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