But it was too late. As soon as Antonescu had made his offer. Adolf Eichmann and the German Foreign Office insisted that the Jews not be released. The Mufti of Jerusalem. a Nazi sympathizer. also protested to Hitler that the Jews not be allowed to enter Palestine. So Antonescu reneged. The Rumanian Jews remained interned in Transnistria. where 100.000 had already died. until 1943. when Antonescu had a change of heart and allowed them to emigrate. Mr. President. although interned in terrible conditions. these 70.000 Jews were the lucky ones. compared to the 6 million Jews who perished in concentration camps.
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