The Jews of Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Carpatho-Russia look to Jewish groups in the United States for urgently needed assistance, M. Saratianu, president of the Rumanian section of the Hias-Ica Emigration Association and vice-president of the Union of Rumanian Jews, said today in an interview with the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Pointing out that the Jewish community of Bucharest is now the largest in Europe, Mr. Saratianu said that it has received appeals for aid from many liberated Jewish communities. He declared that 10,000 Jews will shortly be arriving from Transnistria from which they are being repatriated by the Soviet authorities and all of them require help. In addition delegations from Budapest and liberated sections of Yugoslavia have arrived here seeking clothes, medicines and food.
He appealed to the Joint Distribution Committee, and through it to American Jewry, for expansion of relief activities in Rumania and also urged the Union of Rumanian Jews in America to intensify its efforts in behalf of the Jews here.
Mr. Saratianu said that immigration has been hampered by the war, but many Jews are awaiting the end of hostilities to emigrate to Palestine or other overseas countries, “Many of them have American affidavits and certificates,” he continued, “and are expecting the Hias-Ica and the Jewish Agency to organize emigration when circumstances permit.”
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