More than 7,000 Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Egypt, who resettled in Brazil during the past decade, have made a successful readjustment with the aid of the United Hias Service working closely with local Sao Paulo Jewish organizations. This was reported here today by Mrs. Susanna Frank, a prominent member of the Sao Paulo Jewish community, who was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Women’s Division of United Hias.
Mrs. Frank said that recent Jewish immigrants who, because of age, illness and lack of skill, can not secure employment, are employed by the local Sheltered Workshop, which was recently opened in Sao Paulo as a joint project of Hias, the local Council of Jewish Women and the Polyclinic.
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