Sixty four Jewish families totalling 171 men, women and children — the largest number of United Hias assisted migrants and refugees ever to arrive by air in one day — landed at Kennedy Airport in two chartered jet planes from Rome and from Vienna via Paris. The newcomers, from Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, include a Cuban family who came here via Western Europe with United Hias aid.
All the refugees will be resettled in this country in 14 states from coast to coast and the District of Columbia. Many of the refugees will find new homes in New York City with the help of the New York Association for New Americans. Others will be resettled in Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Jersey City, Miami, Lakewood, N.J., Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Newark, Oakland, Paterson, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, Syracuse, Washington, D.C. and Wilmington. Local Jewish resettlement agencies will assist in the integration of the newcomers.
Among the trades and professions represented by the refugees are auto mechanic, baker, bookkeeper, carpenter, chemist, cosmetician, dye worker, economist, engineer, hairdresser, machinist, pharmacist, physician, rabbi, salesman, schochet, singer, tailor, and typographer, according to James P. Rice, United Hias executive director.
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