The United Hias Service Office here reported today that 928 Czechs have registered for migration aid since the Soviet occupation of their country on Aug. 21. Ninety-three of the registrants arrived here within two days.
According to Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive vice president of Hias, the agency has already assisted 230 Czech Jews to resettle in more than a half dozen Western countries, including the United States and Australia, and is also assisting 450 Jewish refugees from Poland who wish to emigrate, mostly to the U.S. He said the Hias offices were working “around the clock” to expedite the emigration of the Polish and Czech refugees.
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