The official emigration bureau today issued a statement on possibilities of emigration to the autonomous Soviet Jewish territory of Birobidjan, pointing out that a large number of foreign emigrants in 1936 would come from Poland and Lithuania, but that Western Europe has also been granted a small quota.
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