Austria is the first free nation in the West in which Jewish emigres can stop. It is at the end of a tortuous. uncertain 38hour journey aboard the Chopin Express. The refugees. alone and frightened. are subject to rigorous inspections at every border and checkpoint. Looming ahead of them has been the beacon of freedom symbolized by the Schoenau processing center. There they have been able to take a brief respite from their travelsto be welcomed by their fellow Jewsto see. some for the first time. the Bible. books describing Israel and other information that has been denied to them in the Soviet Union.
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