Jewish boys are fleeing from monasteries where they were given shelter during the German occupation, and are appealing to Jewish organizations to return them to Judaism, it was asserted today by Richard Cohen, a former head of the Palestine Office in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who arrived here last week aboard the Spanish steamer Plus Ultra.
Cohen told reporters that shortly before he left Switzerland a group of Jewish girl refugees, between the ages of 17 and 19, none of whom had any living relatives, were baptized.
(In London, Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz protested yesterday against the “spiritual kidnapping” of Jewish orphans. In a letter to the London Times he demanded that the Allied governments issue a proclamation stating that Jewish children in Europe will not become “the property” of those who saved them from the Germans and cannot be deprived of their Jewish heritage.)
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