Over 4,000 Jews in Bohemia and Moravia, representing more than one-fourth of the Jewish population of those provinces, have applied to the Palestine Office here for immigration to Palestine, M. Friedl, head of the Office, told a JTA correspondent today. Friedl added that the number of applications being filed was increasing steadily.
Akiba Neufeld, a leader of the Hechalutz movement in Bratislava, has estimated that 8,000 Slovakian Jews wish to emigrate to Palestine. He also said that the Hechalutz was operating nine children’s homes and seven training units where some 500 Jewish youths, half of them orphans, were being prepared for emigration.
Chaim Barlas, director of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency, who is visiting here, expressed great hope for the immigration of Jews to Palestine, and pointed out that the Agency was especially interested in the plight of the Jews in Carpatho-Russia. Barlas, who is scheduled to proceed to Budapest and Vienna, said that his mission was to smooth out difficulties being encountered in countries where new Palestine immigration offices have recently been opened.
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