The Rumanian Ministry of Labor today announced that it has completed the draft of a bill to provide pensions for disabled Jews and other victims of fascist atrocities and for widows and orphaned dependents of Jews killed by pro-Nazis. The bill will give equal consideration to all victims of “anti-democratic racial and religious persecution.”
The Rumanian Red Cross today revealed that the first group of 100 Jewish slave laborers captured on the Eastern front during the war will shortly arrive here from the Soviet Union. The Jews had been forcibly recruited into slave labor units attached to the Hungarian army. Medical and other care will be provided by the World Jewish Congress.
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