A small orthodox synagogue was completely demolished when it suffered a direct bomb hit in a recent London raid, it was learned today.
Forty blind Jewish refugees who had been placed in a provincial center under the care of the Jewish Blind Society maintained admirable calm when they had to be evacuated to a nearby church hall in a recent air raid.
The matron of the home said her wards did not show any panic when they told they would have to be evacuated. They dressed quietly and walked to the church, where they are now sheltered. All of them are refugees from Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia, most of them elderly. The blind women among them have kept busy knitting socks for soldiers.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews sent a message to the Very Rev. W. R. Matthews Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, expressing regrets over the damage inflicted to the famous edifice by Nazi airmen.
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