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Patria Toll Reaches 60

December 12, 1940
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The death toll in the explosion and sinking of the refugee ship Patria on Nov. 25 reached 60 today when two more bodies were recovered and two of the survivors died.

The bodies were those of Dr. Egon Bondi, 35, of Prague and a 30-year-old unidentified women. The new deaths were Herman Langsam, 3-year-old child, and Henry Gerstel, 60, who succumbed to typhoid in the Athlit internment camp.

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