This case is an especially illuminating one. Dr. Lapidus. who worked in Moscows automobile industrys research institute. applied for an exit visa to Israel and was granted permission to leave upon payment of approximately $30.000. He was told that he would not have to pay the ransom fee if he left the U.S.S.R. within 10 days. He and his wife then quit their jobs. his 11yearold daughter withdrew from school and his 19yearold daughter and her husband were expelled from the university. The Lapidus family was then evicted from their apartment and. after payment of some 900 rubles for an exit visa for each member of the family. they were told that it had all been a mistake and that they would not be permitted to leave. The family today is living in a crowded apartment rented by Dr. Lapidus mother in Moscow and is existing on that womans pension. To this day no explanation has been offered to Dr. Lapidus and his family and no hope has been given to him that he will ever be permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union. despite the fact that he no longer has a place in Soviet society. The second case was brought to my attention by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Greater Hollywood. Fla.
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