Gersh Zonis, a Soviet Jew, was reunited with his younger brother of NYC, at Kennedy Airport today, after a separation of 15 years, Gaynor Jacobson, executive vice-president of United Hias Service re ported today.
Zonis, a civil engineer arrived on a Pan Am flight from Rome with his wife Dina, a teacher, and their daughter Isabela, who is also a civil engineer Isabela, who will be 23 next Wednesday, entered this country under the parole authority of the U.S. Attorney General. The family resided in Czernowitch in the Soviet Union. United Hias Service assisted the family In its migration. The new arrivals will be helped in their resettlement by the NY Association for New Americans.
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