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The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of America announces in New York the opening of a campaign for a million dollars to mitigate the suffering of Jewish pogrom victims.

50 years ago Sept. 13, 1946

In Paris, over French, Russian and Slav objections, a peace conference commission adopted a Romanian treaty clause designed to protect Jews and other minorities from future discrimination.