Hungarian and Cuban Jews escaping Communist rule and to assist Jews forced to leave Arab countries following the SixDay War. After 1968. HIAS turned its attention to the Soviet Union as that countrystemporarilyliberalized emigration laws brought massive waves of Jews to the West. Between 1968 and 1982. more than 100.000 such emigres were helped by HIAS to restart their lives in the West. In 1972. HIAS began a new chapter and at the request of the U.S. Government. offered its humanitarian services to Ugandans and later to the Indochinese refugees fleeing conflicts in Southeast Asia. Again in 1980. the Government called on HIAS to assist in resettling 3.000 Cuban refugees. Today. HIAS continues to offer the same highly specialized migration and resettlement aid to refugees from the Soviet Union. Iran. Syria.
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emigration refugees