Fifty Jewish families evacuated from the Crimea and Bessarabia were added today to the Jewish agricultural settlement “Naj Leben” (New Life) which occupies 450 hectares of land near Kuibyshev.
“We are only too happy to give shelter in our collective settlement to more Jewish land workers,” David Schupak, a former Yeshivah student in Wolkowysk during the Czarist regime who is chairman of the settlement, declared in welcoming the new-comers.
The colony Naj Leben has about 150 members in its collective. It maintains a milk farm, produces honey and engages in sheep breeding, in addition to farming. It has its own power plant equipped with six generators. It has established friendly relations with the non-Jewish colonies in the neighborhood. “Our work has aroused great respect for Jewish workers among the peasants here who never saw a Jew work the land,” Schupak told this correspondent who visited the colony, today to witness the arrival of the evacuated Jewish families.
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