Some 400 Jewish refugees are living in miserable conditions in this Black Sea port at the mouth of the Danube, waiting for emigration possibilities, a J.T.A. correspondent found on a visit to Varna today.
The refugees depend for their food on gifts from Bulgarian Jews. The Jewish Consistory of Sofia is unable to aid them as much as it would like. The Jewish Community of Varna entirely lacks funds for their assistance.
Most of the refugees sleep on the bare floor-boards of the local Jewish communal house. Three hundred are Bulgarian Jews of Turkish nationality. The others are Hungarian, with a scattering of Spanish Jews. They have been hoping to emigrate to Palestine.
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