Fifty Jewish families, who emigrated from Izmir, Turkey, when the Turkish government passed a law depriving Jews of the right to be artisans, reached this port today.
The new arrivals, who are destitute, were housed temporarily by the Salonica Jewish community in a synagogue and are being fed through community funds.
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