Three trucks from a Hungarian hospital across the Austrian border drew up before the Jewish community building in this city and began loading a large quantity of medical supplies purchased and collected by the Jewish community for relief of the wounded in Hungary.
Joint Distribution Committee headquarters here reported today that so far no Hungarian Jewish refugees had applied for assistance. JDC director M. Ziegellaub, who has been touring the Austro-Hungarian border looking for Jewish refugees, said today that he was completely mystified by the failure of any of the refugees to admit to being Jews. Some of them, he said, had names usually associated with Jewish families.
The JDC has no contacts in Budapest, and the only contact for Jews in Budapest is the Israel Legation. The JDC organization was dissolved in Hungary a number of years ago by order of the Hungarian Government.
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