Certificates for youths under the present Palestine immigration schedule will be used for emigration of young Jewish refugees from Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium as soon as negotiations with the German authorities regarding exit permits have been concluded, it was learned today.
The present schedule includes 1,200 certificates for youths between the ages of 15 and 17 and 400 for children from 10 to 14. Although these certificates will be issued in three installments, the Youth Aliyah headquarters have been informed they can use these certificates for 270 children now in Denmark who would have had first claim on the allocation as well as for children in Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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