Mr. Speaker. as sponsor of the project "Shatter the Silence. Vigil 1979" I come before you today to add the names of Solomon Inditsky and his family to our list of Soviet Jews who have been denied permission to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. Solomon Inditsky. his wife. Khana. and daughter. Isabella Novikova. and her 13yearold son. Mark. applied for permission to emigrate to Israel in 1971. During the last 6 years they have received five refusals for a variety of reasons including secrecy. although there was nothing classified about the work Solomon Inditsky was involved in as an electrical engineer. Other reasons for refusal have ranged from technical excuses to: "Youll be here a long time to come." Because the family applied for exit visas. family members lost their jobs and have since been unable to work despite the fact that they possess skills which are valuable assets to the labor force: Khana is a pediatrician and Isabella is an electrical engineer. Last October. young Mark was to become a bar mitzvah in Moscow. Soviet authorities would not allow him to be called to the Torah in the synagogue because he is a "refusenik"-one who has applied to emigrate and has been refused. Marks bar mitzvah had to be held in secrecy. in a private apartment. The Inditsky family has committed no crime.
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