The headquarters of the ORT organization in Switzerland has trained 80 instructors for various ORT institutions abroad, the organization has announced here. In addition other instructors in watchmaking, electrical mechanics dental mechanics, machine repair, and knitting have been hired in camps in Germany.
The Swiss ORT has established a school for orthodox Jewish toolmakers and a needle work school for girls at Engelberg to train young Jewish men and women released from the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Other courses for electro-technicians, radio technicians, and corset and hat makers have been opened in a camp near Montreaux.
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