It is all too well known. Some months ago I invited my colleagues to a luncheon at which Dr. Esther Aisenstadt described the labor camps. the deadly uranium mines and the mental institutions to which innocent Soviet citizenswhose only crime is a desire to emigrate to Israelare systematically sent. We heard. at that time. from a young girl who. along with her fiance. had applied for an exit visa to go to Israel where they could live in dignity as Jews and raise a family openly based on their Jewish cultural identity. This young girla mere 18 years oldwas granted her visa a week after her marriage while her husband of 1 week was denied the freedom to emigrate to Israel. In this cruel manner a brave youngster. mature beyond her years. was forced to choose between her husband and her freedom. There will be those in this country who will accept the repeated assurances of representatives of the Soviet Government that no antiSemitism is officially sanctioned in the Soviet Union today.
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