High praise for the role of the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm and for the Swedish Government in helping to rescue Jews in Nazi-dominated countries was voiced at a press conference here today by Hillel Storch, president of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress.
Mr. Storch revealed that the late President Roosevelt, through the representative of the War Refugee Board, placed $1,000,000 at his disposal in 1944 for the purpose of bringing to Sweden 4,000 Jews from the Bergen-Belsen camp and 8,000 Jews from the Baltic countries, which were at that time under Nazi occupation. “This,” he said, was indirectly instrumental in easing, in various ways, the situation of Jews in the German concentration camps.”
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