A program of Jewish cultural, sports and recreational activities is now in progress for the younger element among the Polish Jewish transmigrates waiting in Rome for their emigration papers, according to a report by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. The program, geared to the 16-to-30 year age group of whom there are an estimated 400 among the 1,400 Polish and other East European transmigrates now in Rome. It aims to give the younger Polish refugees a chance to learn more about Jewish history, thought and culture, and to discuss questions of Jewish identification which have been raised by the young people themselves. “The young refugees are even more sensitive than their parents to the traumatic experience of being uprooted from their homes under unusually difficult circumstances and the uncertainties of being suspended in a kind of limbo during the months they had to wait for resettlement,” the report stated. The program is a cooperative effort. The Rome Jewish community put at the disposal of the program the premises of the Kadima Club, located in a synagogue in the center of the city and the Central British Fund has contributed money for sporting goods and other equipment. The project, under the direction of Izi Azgad, an Israeli youth worker assigned by the Jewish Agency, is considered as a model for programs for other groups of refugees in the future.
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