Over 30,000 declassed Ukrainian Jews have been settled on the land by the Ozet, society for settling the Jews on the land, according to a report published in the Charkov “Shtern” on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Ukrainian Ozet. The report shows that more than 8,000 Jewish families have been settled in the Ukrainian Jewish colonies and nearly 18,000 families have received land in the vicinity of the villages where they previously lived, thus making it unnecessary for them to emigrate.
Over 10,000 families have been settled in Crimea and in Bira Bidjan. The report showed too that while in 1926 the Ukrainian Ozet had a membership of 36,539, including a thousand non-Jews who formed three percent of the total, now on the fifth anniversary the membership is 175,000 with 53,000 non-Jews or 34 percent of the total.
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