One hundred and one Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, comprising 30 family units and 13 single individuals, arrived at Kennedy Airport last evening on an Alitalia flight from Rome, it was reported by United Hias Service, the world-wide Jewish migration agency, which assisted all of the newcomers in their emigration. Many of the new arrivals were met at the airport by relatives in a joyous and tearful reunion. Some had never met each other before.
Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive vice-president of United Hias Service, stated that the group was the largest to arrive on one flight during the current year. Their admission, he said, was facilitated by Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson’s action of July 30 invoking his parole authority in behalf of 800 Soviet Jews awaiting American visas in Rome. The flight brought to 300 the number of Jews from the Soviet Union who have emigrated to the United States since Mr. Richardson’s announcement.
The new arrivals will be assisted in their resettlement by the local Jewish Family and Children’s Services. The New York Association for New Americans provides necessary aid for those immigrants resettling in Greater New York. Among the newcomers were a surgeon, a psychiatrist, an economist, a statistician, a violinist, a ballet dancer, a music teacher, a nurse, research workers, engineers and technicians. The arrivals came from Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Odessa, Vilna, Kiev, Riga, Lvov, Pinsk and Kalnik.
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