The Jewish Agency is making strenuous efforts to arrange for immigration of large numbers of Jews from Rumania to Palestine, the United Palestine Appeal announced today. (The New York Times reported from Jerusalem the Agency had chartered a ship to bring 900 from Constanza to Palestine.) During the first month of the Antonescu regime 1,500 Rumanian Jews were brought to Palestine.
The Agency has also been negotiating with the British authorities asking that the British consulate in Moscow distribute immigration certificates to Palestine for Jewish refugees in Soviet territory. It is estimated that there are 500,000 refugees in Soviet Poland alone.
With more than 7,000 immigration certificates distributed among Jewish refugees, it is expected that approximately 12,000 will reach Palestine by the end of June, 1941. Special immigration representatives of the Jewish Agency are operating in almost every corner of Europe in a desperate effort to effect the escape of a maximum number of refugees.
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