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Cabinet Decides to Resume Settlement of Jews from Ukraine in Birobidjan

July 10, 1947
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The Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union has ?ructed the Ukrainian Government to make provisions to facilitate the sending of ## Jewish families to Birobidjan, Jewish autonomous region, the American Birobidjan committee reported today.

Temporary housing has already been established to receive the new families ?il permanent homes can be found by the industries in which they will be employed, ## report said. It added that some 500 families, mostly evacuees from areas over## by the Nazis, have arrived in Birobidjan during recent weeks.

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