A transport of 520 Jewish orphans who were found in Transnistria when that territory was liberated by the Russian Army and who have been living in Bucharest for about six months, today left for Odessa where they will be raised in special children’s homes.
At a farewell party given to the children, General Sergei Vinogradov, chief of the Russian Armistice Commission, delivered a speech in which he discussed the tragedy of the children whose parents were massacred by the Germans and by the pro-Nazi Romanian administration in Transnistria. “I can assure you that the children will be free and happy citizens in our country and that they will grow to become scholars, workers and fighters of the Soviet Union,” he said.
The Communist newspaper Rumania Libre today carries an article attacking the government’s failure to take practical steps to restore to Jews the rights which were guaranteed them in the armistice signed with the Allies. As yet, goods seized from Jews by the previous regime have not been restored, the paper says, and ousted Jewish employees have not been reinstated. Expropriated Jewish businesses are still in the hands of persons to whom they were given or sold by the Antonescu Government, the article also points out.
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