<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> Minsk (Belorussia) On 6 March 1977 about 200 people took part in the traditional yearly meeting in memory of the 5,000 Jews shot in Minsk by the Hitlerites. Retired colonel Lev Petrovich OVSISHCHER gave a short speech. There was a minute of silence; a poem in Yiddish with a … Continue reading The Jewish Movement, May 1977 (45.16)
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Jewish Movement to Move to Israel, March 1972 (24.8)
<<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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