Mr. Speaker. I rise once again to bring to my colleagues attention the plight of another Soviet Jewish family. who is being denied their right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Simone Katz lives in Moscow with his wife Vera and their two children. Simone first filed emigration documents in March 1979. so that he could reunite with family members. who he has been separated from since World War II. The Katz family presently have relatives living in the United States and Israel. Simones visa request was virtually ignored by the Government. However. they have responded to his request with increased harassment and antiSemitic behavior. Two months after applying he was beaten so severely that he has been receiving hospital treatment ever since. Simone is a wellknown physicist and mathematician and at the time of his application to emigrate he worked as a senior researcher. earning 400 rubles a month. After he applied for a visa. he was demoted to a minor researcher with a reduced monthly salary of 150200 rubles. Although Simone is still working in his field. he can no longer publish scientific papersbefore his application he published over 30 research articlesuse a computer. or carry out any experiments. which are means so necessary to advance his research. Dr.
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