The two daughters of Prof. Moses Schorr, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw, announced today receipt of a telegram directly from their father in Lwow, Soviet Poland. Rabbi Schorr, who had originally been reported killed in Warsaw, recently was released from arrest by the Soviet authorities.
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