More than 1,600 Jews from Rumania, Czechoelovakia, Hungary and Poland who entered Switzerland from the German concentration camp at Bergen -Belsen and from Theresienstadt prior to the capitulation of Germany will have to leave in the very near future for an UNRRA refugee camp in Southern Italy, it was announced here today.
The announcement was made by the Swiss authorities on the basis of an agreement which is reported to have been concluded between Switserland and the Allied powers prior to the admittance of the refugees. The Journal de Geneve, a Swiss daily, denands that the refugees be permitted to remain in Switzerland until the time when they are able to emigrate to Palestine, or to return to their native lands.
A small group of Jews liberated from the Buchenwald camp arrived in Switzerland today. All of them formerly resided in the Polish city of Bendzin. They will be interned in the refugees camp at St. Margrethen.
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