Approximately two-thirds of the 15,000 Jewish refugees who survived the war in Shanghai have been resettled in permanent homes in the United States and other countries, Paul A. Bissinger, of San Francisco, chairman of the Western States Lay Advisory Committee of United Service for New Americans, reported here today.
Most of the Shanghai Jews have been resettled in this country, Bissinger declared. Six thousand of them were afforded shelter and emergency welfare aid by the U.S.N.A. office in San Francisco. Last month, he disclosed, 211 Jews from Shanghai were resettled in 36 cities in 23 states.
Bissinger said that greater progress has been achieved in “clearing up the Shanghai situation than in any other of the areas of distress and homelessness which were left in the wake of the war.” He said that the U.N.A., working in conjunction with the J.D.C. overseas, had set up a “pilot plant, demonstrating how the still larger problems of displaced persons in Europe and elsewhere can be handled in a humane and constructive way.”
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