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Article: JEWISH AGENCY LENDS HAND TO NEEDY POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS A PART OF COMMUNITY.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 14, 1996
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Paula Rozner is a grandmother now, but the memory of coming to this country from a displaced persons camp in Austria 45 years ago has not dimmed.
She was 3; her brother 2. They came with their mother, first to New York, then by train to Seattle. They knew no one, had nothing.
An agency called Jewish Family Service arranged for a hotel, then helped them rent an apartment and begin a new life, something the organization has done for thousands of refugees since it was founded more than a century ago.
But the agency also has reached out to a largely unnoticed segment of the Jewish population, those in financial and family crisis.
Last year ...