202:(NCJW). She became president of the Miami chapter of the NCJW in 1960 and served two years before being elected in 1963 to the national board. From the end of the war until the early 1950s, she worked as chair of the NCJW's Good Neighbor Committee, trying to assist newly arriving Jewish settlers in refugee camps. As a linguist, she was able to assist them in learning English and acclimatizing to life in the United States.
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