After waiting six years for their American visas in Bremen, Germany, a group of 65 Jewish immigrants arrived Monday in this country. Most of them were women and children who are coming to their husbands and parents, as well as elderly people who are coming to stay with their children.
On the arrival in Ellis Island these immigrants had many remarkable stories to tell of their experiences during the years that they had to wait for their American visas. Six years ago they arrived in Bremen ready to board steamers for America. Just then, however, the new quota law went into effect and they were compelled to remain in a strange country, without friends or relatives. Many of them endured great hardships in Bremen until they got their American visas which allowed them to enter this country.
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