Reunions of Jewish children with parents from whom they had been separated for five years or more by Nazi persecution have taken place in New York and other cities following the arrival in the past few days of two ships from England bringing 206 refugees, it was disclosed today by the National Refugee Service.
Seventeen of the passengers were children who had been rescued from Axis countries and brought to England before the war. Their parents had subsequently immigrated to the United States, but legal complications and lack of transportation delayed the reunions until now. Among the other passengers there were also many grown sons and daughters restored to parents whom they had not seen since they were boys and girls and brothers reunited with sisters.
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