With the number of displaced Jews in Italy continuing to diminish daily, the ORT vocational training courses established in this country for Jewish refugees are ending as soon as specific seminars are completed. The class set up for masons has already disbanded, as has the course established for leather workers, while other courses are scheduled to terminate within a few days.
During the past eight months, more than 100,000 Jewish refugees en route to Israel have sailed from Italian ports, it was revealed here. At the end of June of last year the percentage of Jewish DP’s under International Refugee Organization supervision was 74 percent, while the percentage as of Jan. 31 of this year decreased to 39 percent.
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