Over 21,000 Jewish survivors of Nazism have come to the United States since May 20, 1946, when the first shipload of displaced persons from Bremerhaven arrived, it was reported today by Edwin Rosenberg, president of United Service for New Americans.
Immigration from the American zones in Europe, amounting to some 7,000 quota and non-quota immigrants, has been barely one-third of all Jewish arrivals during the past 11 months, Mr. Rosenberg revealed. “Approximately 12,500 quota and non-quota immigrants and persons on non-immigrant visas came to the United States during that period from Sweden, Great Britain, France, other parts of Europe outside the American-occupied zones, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere,” he said. From Shanghai came 2,132 more Jews, including quota and non-quota immigrants, persons on temporary visas, and transients.
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