A group of thirty Jewish children whose parents were deported from France to Nazi-occupied territory in Eastern Europe today sailed from Lisbon for the United States. The children reached Portugal by crossing from France into Spain.
The group is being escorted by members of the staff of American welfare organizations who were recently sent to Europe following the decision by the Governments of the United States and Canada to admit hundreds of Jewish children from France whose parents had been sent to Poland and occupied Russia. The Vichy authorities are reported to have agreed to permit these children to leave France but these efforts were frustrated by the Nazi authorities after the occupation of the unoccupied part of France.
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