Sixteen Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union and Romania arrived here today. In the group was a 19-year-old girl from Lithuania. Luba Gussaita, who survived the Nazi occupation by being secreted in a convent where she had been placed by her grandmother and an aunt. The girl’s two relatives are now in Kibbutz Affikim, where Luba was reunited with them.
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