Several hundred Jews of the 1,500 Jewist survivors in this Transylvanian capital participated in a parade yesterday on the occasion of the return of Northern Transylvania to Rumania.
Jewish leaders from Bucharest, including Chief Rabbi Shafran, arrived here to address the celebration in which tens of thousands participated. The Jewish marchers carried placards reading “Everything Must Be Done to Bring Back our Jewish Deportees.” They were saluted by King Michael and the Soviet representative, Andrei Vishinsky, who reviewed the parade.
The 1,500 Jews in Cluj are only a fraction of the 70,000 Jews who lived in the city before the deportation of the Jewish population by the pro-Nazi Hungarian regime. The correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who arrived here from Bucharest to study the Jewish situation, was told today by community leaders that they believe that about 10,000 of the Jews deported from Cluj are among the Jewish internees from the notorious Oswicoim camp who were liberated by the Russian troops in Poland.
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