Jews in 14 European countries will receive some 481,000 pounds of matzoh and other supplies from the Joint Distribution Committee to help celebrate the coming Passover holiday, JDC’s European headquarters here announced today.
Special provision has been mede for 600 Jewish refugees aboard two vessels, one bound for Canada and the other for Australia, to observe Passover on shipboard, A total of 3,250 pounds of matzohs and 1,300 pounds of matzoh meal were placed aboard the ships before they left European ports late last week. For many of the children this will be the first seder they ever participated in and for a good many of the adults this will be their first taste of matzohs in years.
The largest share of JDC food will go to Hungarian refugees still in transit camps and hastily-rented lodgings in Vienna and other parts of Austria. Thirty thousand pounds of matzohs, 7,000 pounds of meal, 3,500 bottles of Passover wine and 5,000 pounds of kosher fat has been sent to the Hungarian Jewish refugees. For the Orthodox who prefer to bake their own matzohs, JDC sent 1,000 pounds of shmura flour. Large quantities of food were also diverted to France where an influx of Egyptian Jewish textiles are being resettled.
(Of the 18,000 Hungarian Jews who fled across the border in recent months, only 4,400 remain in Austria, the JDC and United Hias Service revealed in Vienna today. A total of 1,675 of the refugees made their way to Israel.)
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