Note from Killinger to the Foreign Office Regarding the Treatment of Hungarian Jewish Refugees in Romania, reprinted on p. 317, .

II/K213561-563

German Embassy

BucharestBucharest, July 14, 1944

No: 1217SECRET

RE: Flight of Hungarian Jews to RomaniaForeign Office

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The facts found at the Consulate General of Klausenburg [Cluj] have been verified, namely that the Hungarian Jews who flee to Romania are being treated like political refugees and they are being allowed by the Romanian government to emigrate to Palestine.

I am attaching the copy and the translation of a letter written by the Deputy President of the Council of Ministers, Mihai Antonescu, to the Jew Zissu of Bucharest on June 17, 1944 asking him to acknowledge it. Zissu is a Zionist and has been put in charge on the Jewish side of the emigration of Jews from Romania. In this letter, at paragraph d), Mihai Antonescu states that the Romanian government has approved in principle the departure of the CRAT Company's steamer currently at anchor in the port of Constantza, however on condition that not only the Jewish orphans from Transnistria depart on it but that the Jewish political refugees who came from other countries and who cannot remain in Romania be also taken along on it.

To the Foreign Office in Berlin. K213561 H322943 E421789

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