The Central Inquiry Bureau of the Soviet Red Cross and the Red Croscent Societies today announced that it has located thousands of Jews throughout the USSR at the request of relatives from the United States and other countries.
The bureau’s announcement said that 20,000 such requests have come from the United States, Great Britain, Palestine, Cuba and other countries. The World Jewish Congress and Palestine agencies are cooperating with it, the bureau said. Many individual Jews have also written to the bureau for information, from Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and hundreds of other cities.
The inquiry agency, which is located at “Klimentovsky Pereulok #1” in Moscow, works in cooperation with the repatriation representatives of the Council of Peoples Comissars, the USSR Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes and the Central Evacuation Bureau.
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