Plans to evacuate about 600 German-Jewish children under 16 to Palestine and the United States during the present year were announced today by the Reichsvertretung, representative body of Jews in Germany.
The organization disclosed that during 1936, a total of 604 German-Jewish children were settled in Palestine and 237 in the United States.
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