Ragged contingents of some 500 Polish and Hungarian Jews are arriving here daily, following the recent anti-Semitic excesses in Poland. The majority, which remain here briefly in terribly overcrowded quarters, are enroute to the American zone.
A total of 7,640 Jews arrived from the east in the course of June but since then the number has jumped enormously. American military authorities and UNRRA officials are doing their best to provide shelter and food, but the facilities available are far from sufficient to restore these exhausted arrivals to anything approaching normalcy.
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