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 | | As a result of efforts made by Jewish leaders in Bucharest, especially Dr. Wilhelm Filderman and Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran, the deportation was halted, the Jews having obtained an assurance from the deputy prime minister, Mihai Antonescu, that the Chernovtsy Jews required for the economy would be permitted to stay there. |
 | | Ion Antonescu, the Romanian dictator, agreed to allow 10,000 Jews to stay, but in fact the number of Jews who remained in Chernovtsy for the rest of the war was 16,000, with several hundred refugees from Poland included in that figure. |
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