With the special authorization of the Foreign Exchange Minister, the Union of Jewish Communities has shipped to Vienna Jews gift packages of Passover food.
An estimated 1,500 refugees participated in seders (Passover eve feasts) in Rome, Genoa, Milan, and Trieste, where the participants included 500 newly arrived refugees from Poland.
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