Delegates from various Jewish communities assembled here at a conference of the Rumanian section of the World Jewish Congress today adopted a resolution demanding that the Rumanian Government take practical measures to restore full rights to Jews. The resolution also asked for “moral and material reparations to the Jews of Rumania for damages suffered.” The Government, at the same time, was urged to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Rumania to Palestine.
The conference sent messages of greetings to King Michael of Rumania, Marshal Joseph Stalin. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. The messages contained an appeal for action to keep the gates of Palestine open to Jewish immigration. During the last three days more than 700 Jews left Rumania by training for Palestine, it was announced at the conference.
Other resolutions adopted asked for the abrogation of the British White Paper and for a Jewish State in an undivided Palestine. Representation for Jews at international peace parleys and in the tribunals trying war criminals was also demanded.
One of the resolutions asked that Jews be recognized by the United Nations as co-belligerents and that Germany be made to pay reparations to Jews for all life and property destroyed. The reparations received from Germany should be used to build a Jewish State in Palestine, the resolution recommended.
Dr. Freudiger, a leader of Hungarian Jews, addressing the conference said he has received a report from reliable sources that 200,000 Jews have been deported from Budapest to German-held Poland. He appealed to Jewish organizations in England and American to take steps to rescue them.
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