The authorities today began registration of refugees from Poland desiring to return to the German-occupied region, with Jews generally declaring they would be unable to return because of racial persecution in the Nazi-held area.
Meanwhile, three organizations have joined to establish a fund providing constructive relief and emigration possibilities for refugees. They are the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which has allocated 100,000 lits to the fund, the Polish Relief Fund of England, 50,000 lits, and a local relief organization, 50,000 lits.
With British money, a boarding school housing 300 Jewish children will be established in Wilno. It will be named in memory of the Anglo-Jewish philanthropist Mordecai Schalit.
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