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500 Refugees Sail for Palestine from Greek Port

October 11, 1940
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A ship carrying 500 Jewish refugees has sailed from Piraeus, Greece, for Palestine after leaving a Rumanian Danube port a few days before the arrival of German troops there, the New Zionist Organization reported today. The refugees had been stranded for months in Yugoslavian and Rumanian ports and was held for some time at Rustuk, Bulgaria.

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