The United Has Service helped in 1959 more than 12,000 Jewish men, women and children, of whom close to 5,000 were enabled to establish new homes in the United States. Latin America. Australia, Canada and elsewhere, it was reported here today at the 7th annual meeting of the organization. The immigrants aided during the past year came from Eastern and Western Europe, Egypt, North Africa and the Far and Middle East.
The United Has services in 1959, the report stated, included migration, resettlement, location of friends and relatives who had lost contact with each other, legal aid and assistance for alien registration.
Speakers at the meeting included Marcus Daly, director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European immigration; Carlos L. Israelis, president of the United Has Service; James Rice, executive director of the organization and Mrs. Morris Berger, president of the Women’s Division of Has.
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