<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> On 6 February 1972 fourteen Jews addressed a letter to US President Nixon. Bearing in mind his impending visit to Moscow, they asked him to use his good offices to obtain permission to emigrate to Israel for Esther Markish, the 60-year-old widow of the well-known poet Perets Markish, who … Continue reading Jewish Movement to Move to Israel, March 1972 (24.8)
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Believers Persecuted in Lithuania, Jan 1972 (23.8)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> [1] JUOZAS ZDEBSKIS The trial of the priest Juozas Zdebskis [1], arrested on 26 August in Prienai, took place on 11 November 1971 in the people’s court of the Kaunas district. Zdebskis had been brutally beaten while in police custody. Until the trial he was held in Lukiski Prison … Continue reading Believers Persecuted in Lithuania, Jan 1972 (23.8)
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