milestones in NYANA history
1949	NYANA was organized, starting with a staff of 590, which it took over from its predecessor, the United Service for New Americans, USNA
1949-53	Resettlement of Displaced Persons. Between July 1949 and April 1951, NYANA resettled 45,000 Jewish victims of Nazi persecution
1955-56	Resettlement of Greek Jewish refugees
1956-58	In 1957, NYANA's Hungarian refugee resettlement program is implemented on an emergency basis. During the first two months, NYANA helped as many refugees as had been expected for the entire year
1956-60	Resettlement of Egyptian Jewish refugees
1961-63	Resettlement of Rumanian Jewish refugees
1961-67	NYANA helped 1,700 Jewish refugees from Cuba; 144 were unaccompanied children. This was the second uprooting for half of these 1,700, since many had fled from the Nazis
1968-69	Resettlement of Czechoslovakian Jewish refugees. The Soviet Union's suppression of a liberal regime resulted in the flight of Jews from Czechoslovakia
1968-72	Resettlement of Polish Jews. In 1969, refugees from Poland constituted more than half of NYANA's caseload
1969	Since 1969, NYANA has resettled over 250,000 Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union
1972	Resettlement of Ugandans. For the first time since World War II, NYANA assisted refugees of faiths other than Judaism
1975-90	Resettlment of Vietnamese, Southeast Asian and Haitian refugee "boat people", Ethiopian and Iranian Jewish refugees
1994	Establishment of "cluster site" for resettlement of Tibetan immigrants to New York, in cooperation with Tibetan U.S. Resettlement Project
1995	Rescue and resettlement of 4,000 Syrian Jews, many of whom would subsequently immigrate to Israel
1996-2001	In addition to serving refugees, NYANA initiates the development of new and innovative services for the general immigrant population