American Army authorities in Vienna are converting a six-acre estate outside the Austrian capital into a rest camp for a group of 240 Jewish war orphans who have arrived there from Poland and Hungary, en route to Palestine, it was announced today by the Joint Distribution Committee, which will administer the camp and provide the children with supplementary food rations.
At the same time, J.D.C. made known that it had purchased 500,000 cans of kosher meat in South America for shipment to Jewish communities in Europe. Valued at $185,000, the meat will be distributed at the rate of 100,000 cans monthly for five months, the biggest share being earmarked for Jews in Poland.
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