A Haven At Last
The happiness of a home in New Zealand has come at last to this elderly European couple after surviving German concentration camps followed by 18 years in an Italian refugee camp. They are an example of the increasing number of refugees, not only from among young and able families, whose desperate plight is being relieved by the New Zealand Government in collaboration with the World Council of Churches. Mr and Mrs Leonid Reikovsky (above) have recently been found a place in the Nansen Home in Wellington. Although Mrs Reikovsky is blind, as a result of Nazi ill-treatment, both she and her husband are delighted with their new life in New Zealand, accord-
ing to the associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches in New Zealand (the Rev. D. M. Taylor). Mrs Reikovsky had already started to go blind when the pair met and married in a refugee camp in Italy 13 years ago. It was then that Mr Reikovsky sacrificed his personal chance of emigrating to stay to care for his wife.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 2
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178A Haven At Last Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 2
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