In accordance with a decision of the Soviet Emigration Department, 100 Jewish families from the Ukraine will shortly be sent to the autonomous Jewish region of Biro-Bidjan in Siberia to strengthen local Jewish collective farms. It is reported that new houses have already been built for them in the best collective farms of the region.
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