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| Title | Soviet "anti-semitism": the big lie |
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| Publisher | Jewish Life |
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| Date | 1949 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 31 pages: illustrations; 20 cm |
| Original Item Location | DS146.R9M54 1949 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321003~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | Morning Freiheit, which printed it on December 12, 1948 and printed an English translation in Jewish Life, February, 1949. This is Dr. Nover's letter. "I am driven to write because my conscience is troubled by the Forward interview with Shimen Haar. I propose to tell the whole story and to fill in the gaps left by Haar. At the outset I want to make clear that I have been a Zionist for almost 30 years. In speech and writing I have fought against the Soviet Union as an enemy of Zionist ideology. Consequently no one can accuse me of subjectivity or of being an advocate of the Soviet Union. I write here in the name of justice and human dignity, which require an honest person to present the facts as they actually occurred "Herr Haar, did you see the terrifying spectacle of tremendous masses of Jews pouring across the Russian border? Did you not wonder that the Soviet power should allow countless hordes of Jewish refugees to cross its borders from Poland—that country which for many years carried on open anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda ? What did you feel, friend Haar, when you crossed the Russian border? "I shall tell you how we felt. When the Russian border guard gave us the sign to enter, my family and I and friends from our city sobbed and cried and fell upon each other's necks and kissed each other with indescribable joy. Very soon the Russian militia came up to us and, spesJcing Yiddish, comforted us and told us to calm ourselves. They assured us that we were out of danger, for we were now under the protection of the Russian power. How new and wonderful for us—these expressions of understanding and sympathy by militia and police. "When I think what a long journey every one of us retfngees had to travel to come to America from the Amer- ioana zone in Germany, it seems impossible to understand hsw the Soviet Union allowed thousands of refugees over its borders without conditions or obstacles. Among these 20 |