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30,000 Jewish War Orphans Find Refuge in Soviet Russia, 3,500 Settled in Birobidjan

June 3, 1945
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Thirty thousand Jewish war orphans who essaped from Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other neighboring countries invaded by the Nazis have found refuge in Soviet Russia, according to information received today from the USSR by the American Birobidjan Committee in New York and announced by J. M. Budish, chairman of the administrative committee of the organization. The committee has under taken to arrange for the settlement in Birobijan of those Jewish war orphans, 3,500 of whom have already been settled there.

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