COUPLE UNITED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 9

COUPLE UNITED.

GERMAN AND CZECH.

HE IS JEWISH REFUGEE. SCOTLAND YARD HELPED. I (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, January 18. Scotland Yard intervened and brought together a German Jewish refugee, who had escaped out of (.Jermany as a stowaway, and his Czech sweetheart. The reunion took place at GrimsTiy, and

the couple are now hoping to settle in Australia.

To Jda Neumann, a 20-year-old Czech girl working in London arid waiting for ne we of Jakob Fefer, her 19-year-old Herman Jewish sweetheart, with whom slie had lost touch, came a man from Scotland Yard.

When he asked: "Do you know Jakob FeferY" .she feared bad news that Jakob was in a concentration camp or in some way had become a Nazi victim. But the Yard officer told her: "He's in (jriinsbv."

Jakob, who is a painter and decorator, determined to join his sweetheart, had -muggled himself in a «hip sailing from Hamburg. He was brought up in {(iriin«li,v Police Court as an alien landling without permission.

Business men befriended him and obtained a permit for him to stay in England for six month*, though he will not be allowed to work for his living.