Soviet authorities have traced the grave of Prof. Moses Schorr, chief rabbi of Poland, to the prison camp cemetery in Pisty, Uzbekistan, according to information received here today by the Polish government -in-exile. Prof. Schorr, who was arrested and interned by the Soviet authorities when they occupied Eastern Poland in 1939, died in the prison camp at Pisty on July 8, 1941.
The Polish government is expected to intervene soon with the Soviet authorities to secure exit visas for Polish Jews for whom immigration certificates to Palestine have been granted by the Palestine administration.
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