Some 500 people attended a meeting here last night to mark the 26th anniversary of the murder in Moscow of 24 leading Jewish writers and poets and to condemn the recent trials and jailings of Soviet Jewish activists. The meeting was sponsored by the Argentine Committee for the Defense of Jews in the Soviet Union in cooperation with DAIA, the Zionist Organization and Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina.
Alfredo Concepcion, Commerce Minister in the administration of former President Frondizi, and Marco Denevi, a leading writer, both non-Jews, and Nehemias Resnizky, president of DAIA, denounced Soviet violations of human rights. Jacobo Denker, a Jewish actor, read excerpts from the Jewish “samizdat” (underground newspaper) in the Soviet Union.
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