Bronislaw Teichholtz, president of the International Refugee Organization of Vienna since 1945, has announced that he will shortly be migrating to Israel.
It is estimated that during the five years of Mr. Teichholtz’ leadership of the organization some 200,000 refugee Jews were serviced by it. For the manner in which he handled this difficult post Mr. Teichholtz’ name has been entered in the Jewish National Fund Golden Book by his associates.
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