A party of 54 Jewish youths who escaped from Zbonszyn, on the former Polish-German frontier, to Wilno after the outbreak of the war are leaving shortly for Palestine with the aid of the HIAS-ICA Emigration Association. According to information here, about 200 others of the refugees who had been marooned at Zbonszyn after being expelled from Germany remained in German-occupied Poland, being sheltered in Centos homes.
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