The World ORT Union disclosed today it had started a program among Jewish deaf-mute children in the North African ghettoes to give them a primary education and vocational training.
M. A. Braude, director general of the world organization, said that more than 100 such children would benefit from the program designed to free them from their “cage of silence.” The boys and girls taking part in the program in Casablanca are all under 14, he reported.
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