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Biography
Ann S. Petluck was a lawyer and social work administrator specializing in immigration and refugee work.

Born about 1908, she graduated from New York University in 1928, and from Columbia University with a master's degree in social work in 1942. Petluck was married to Meyer Poses.

She joined the immigrant aid organization United Service for New Americans (USNA) around the time it was formed in 1946, working in the Migration Department, where she eventually became head of that department. In September 1950 Petluck was promoted to the position of Assistant Executive Director of USNA, and was succeeded as head of the Migration Department by her associate Ann Rabinowitz.

In 1954 USNA merged with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the Migration Department of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), where Petluck became the Director of U.S. Operations for the new organization, United HIAS Service (UHS). One of her responsibilities at United HIAS Service was as chairman of the United States resettlement program for the Technical Committee of American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, which was affiliated with the United States Displaced Persons Commission. She remained Director of UHS until leaving in 1964 to become the deputy representative at the United Nations for the High Commissioner for Refugees.