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Refugee Jews Welcomed to Sweden; German Jews There Reject All Ties with Reich

May 18, 1945
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A greeting to the thousands of Jewish refugees who have arrived in Sweden from German concentration camps within the last week was broadcast today by the Swedish radio. The broadcast originated in the orthodox synagogue here.

The son of Jean Musy, former Swiss federal councillor who negotiated the release of several thousand Jews from Nazi camps before the German collapse, arrived here today in connection with rescue activities of the Jewish relief committee in Montreux, Switzerland and the Vaad Hahatzala in New York.

At a press conference here, Hans Megrauer, a spokesman for the newly formed Actions Committee of German Anti-Nazi Organizations in Sweden, said that 2,700 of the German refugees here are Jews and that they are uninterested in Germany’s political future and do not wish to return there.

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