Inspector Florescu, General-Secretary to the Ministry of the Interior, who was appointed by the Ministry jointly with M. Saratzeanu, the Secretary-General of the Union of Roumanian Jews, following the intervention of its President, Dr. Filderman, to act as investigator into the situation at Wiznitz, where the Jewish inhabitants of the refugee barracks were being evicted by order of the Prefect, has issued an order, the J.T.A. representative here is informed by the Union of Roumanian Jews, to stop the further demolition of the refugee barracks until the spring.
When the demolition of the barracks is resumed in the spring, the order says, the barracks may be removed only as new provision is made for the evicted inhabitants. The municipal budget, it is further provided, is to include allocations for the maintenance of the inhabitants of the barracks. Those who had been living in the one barrack which has already been demolished, have been placed, some in private houses, with the Municipality paying rent for them for the next three or six months, and the remainder in those barracks which are still left.
Deputy Dr. Max Diamant, one of the members of the Jewish Party, writing in the “Czernowitz Morgenblatt”, claims that an order suspending the evictions was already issued on October 8th. by the Sanitary Inspector of Czernowitz, acting on instructions from the Ministry of Health, following intervention made by Deputy Diamant.
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