Twenty-two Jewish emigrants, constituting six family units from the Soviet Union and one individual from Rumania, arrived yesterday at Kennedy Airport from Rome, it was announced by Gaynor 1. Jacobson, executive vice-president of United Hias Service, which aided the newcomers in their migration to the United States. All of the new arrivals were reunited with relatives in the Greater New York area, Jacobson stated. Nineteen of the Soviet Jews entered this country through the parole authority of the U.S. Attorney General. which he has agreed to exercise whenever necessary in behalf of Jews who are able to leave the Soviet Union.
Among the arrivals was a widowed mother and grandmother, accompanied by a daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Mrs. Pola Tokra, 77. was taken out of the customs area in a wheel chair. She wept with joy as she was greeted by her daughter, Mrs, Irving Leight. Mrs. Tokra, whose husband and a son were killed while fighting with the Red Army during World War II, had lived all her life in a small town in Bessarabia.
The newcomers will be aided in their resettlement by the New York Association for New. Americans, the local cooperating agency of United Hias Service. The United Hias Service is a beneficiary of the United Jewish Appeal.
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