More than 300 cablegrams have been received by Jews here in the past week from relatives in Germany urging that they be rescued because they are threatened with removal to the projected Jewish “reservation” in Nazi Poland.
The cables request steamship tickets and affidavits permitting them to immigrate to Bolivia. The affidavits can be obtained easily, but the poorer Jews find it impossible to pay for steamship passage, which has risen greatly since the outbreak of the war.
Several hundred Polish Jews in La Paz have obtained permission for their relatives to enter Bolivia, but have no addresses to which to send the documents. News has reached here that some relatives of Polish Jews here who were interned in France since the outbreak of war have left for Bolivia.
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