During that period the wives have not been permitted to see the prisoners and only one letter has been received by each of the two families. No mail is permitted to be sent by the wives to the imprisoned men. The wives believe that their husbands were arrested because they hand copied and photographed Jewish and Hebrew translations of text books as well as having stated their wish to emigrate to Israel. The wives said that they and their husbands were not antiSoviet but wished to go to Israel where they could live as Jews without fear or prejudice. It was clear they had thrown caution to the winds in seeing me but they know that only world opinionaroused and maintainedwill cause the Soviet Union to relent and free these men and perhaps even permit their immigration to Israel. They said so eloquently with their eyes and with their words. "Help us." I must confess that all of us found it difficult to restrain tears. Somehow in the 45 minutes we were together. even the silences were as moving as the conversation.
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