A 28‐year‐old American woman held in a Pakistani prison for two months until she was freed last week by Bengali rebels returned to the United States last night for a reunion with her husband and parents.

Mrs. Ellen Connett, of Dumont, N.J., arrived on an Air India flight from Calcutta shortly before 11:30 P.M. at Kennedy Airport.

“I've gone through very little compared to the suffering, to the immense suffering, of the people of Bangla Desh,” Mrs. Connett said.

Mrs. Connett, who worked for a relief organization known as Omega, was arrested in small village in East Pakistan early in October for illegally crossing the border with relief supplies for Bengali natives.

She said she was taken to a prison in Jessore where she shared a small cell with 20 others and was only given rice and lentils for food.

Mrs. Connett was freed when Indian troops captured Jessore last week.