Forty Jeshivah students, formerly of the Talmudical Seminary in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, who have been interned in Canada, are being released to continue their studies in Montreal and Toronto Yeshivoth, it was announced here today.
The British and Canadian authorities have, after prolonged negotiations carried on by the United Jewish Refugees and War Relief Agencies, consented to release the interned Yeshivah students on condition that they continue their studies and that they do not become a burden on the community. Both conditions are being met.
The Yeshivah students, all citizens of an enemy country, were brought to Canada in the summer of 1940 after the wholesale round-up of enemy aliens in Great Britain. Of the more than 2,000 Jewish refugees who were then brought to this country for internment, over a thousand have since returned to the United Kingdom, many of them to join the Pioneer Corps and others to join the Chalutz training farms. A number of students have been released in Canada under a sponsor plan and nearly a hundred are being absorbed in Canada’s war industries. It is also expected that a number of internees with agricultural training will be placed on private farms owing to the shortage of farm labor.
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