At the present time the largest Jewish minority suffering from state persecution live in the Soviet Union. The cry of that oppressed people is "Let those of us who wish to live in Israel leave and to treat equally with every other nationality living within the U.S.S.R.s borders those of us who remain." At the demonstrations held yesterday in Dag Hammerskjold Plaza I met two more Soviet Jews whose lives had touched mine. One was Serafinma Kaminskaya. wife of Lassal Kaminsky. now a prisoner in a Soviet prison camp and Boris Kochubiyevsky. one of the first Soviet Jews to speak out against the U.S.S.R.s oppression of its Jewish minority and to ask leave to emigrate to Israel. The Soviet Governments response to his protest and request was to send him to prison. I first met Serafinma Kaminskaya In Leningrad in April. 1971 when I went to the U.S.S.R. for the express purpose of talking with the families of Soviet Jews then in prison and awaiting trial.
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