The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry plans to open store-front activities centers on behalf of Russian Jews soon throughout New York City, 1,600 persons were told here at a rally. Jacob Birnbaum, the organization’s national coordinator, made the announcement at a “freedom rally” for Russian Jews held at the Statue of Liberty. The meeting was held today, which is the 29th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Russian Jews at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev.
The event at the statue will be an annual event as Yom Kippur nears, Mr. Birnbaum said. A newly formed Babi Yar memorial council, he said, will ask a world-famous sculptor to prepare a memorial for the Babi Yar site to be offered to Soviet authorities, who have refused to mark the place of the mass murders. The council will seek to establish every Sept. 29 as a yahrzeit for the slaughtered Jews. Speakers at today’s rally linked the efforts of Russian Jews and intelligentsia, Polish Jews and the Czechoslovak people to gain freedom from Russian oppression.
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