Jews in Czernowitz, Kishinev and Zhitomir, seeking permission to emigrate to join families in Israel and elsewhere, are being treated by local bureaucrats in a most offensive manner, reliable observers returning from recent visits to those Russian cities have reported here.
The observers said that in many cases the Soviet officials were refusing to accept both the application forms and documents testifying that the applicants were members of families broken up during the war period. In other cases, applications and documents are accepted but the applicants are given to understand that there is no reason for them to hope that the applications will be considered and the requests for permission to emigrate granted.
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