 This act and its 1950 revision allowed 11,000 Estonians into the United States between 1948 and 1952.Some of these refugees and their descendants started returning to Estonia at the end of the 1980s.Conductor Neeme Järvi was the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, as well as the international Gothenburg Symphony, and Het Residentie Orkest of The Hague.