Eleven thousand Jews have left Poland in the last two years, following the inception of an anti-Semitic policy there, according to Harold Friedman, president of United Hias Service, the international resettlement organization. Reporting to Hias’s 86th annual meeting today, Mr. Friedman told some 1000 delegates that 8000 of that total emigrated to Vienna, and that more than half of those sought Hias aid in locating relatives. Some 4500 of them, he said, have been resettled in the United States, Canada, Australia, Latin America and other areas.
Executive vice president Gaynor I. Jacobson, indicated that in 1969, U.H.S. helped in the resettlement of 6400 persons around the globe, including 2465 in the U.S. He predicted a comparable total this year, including 3400 Poles and 450 Mid easterners. Treasurer Carl Glick reported that U.H.S. had gone some half-million dollars over budget, largely because of the Polish operation. The membership approved resolutions urging the Soviet Union to permit Jewish emigration and calling for worldwide emigration assistance to Jews in Arab countries. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller was presented with this year’s Liberty Award. Gov. Rockefeller’ lauded Hias’s resettlement of nearly 4,000,000 persons since 1884.
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